La Serrana de la Vera and The Myth of Creation through Sacrifice

SACRIFICE

LOVE

DEATH

unfulfilledfulfilled

La Serrana goes into a cave because she can not marry her

lover

Manole has a calling to buildsomething everlasting

Ana understands Manole's artistic ideal

La Serrana killes those men in revenge

REALISTIC IMAGINARY

THE MONASTERY THE MONASTERY REMAINED AS PROOF REMAINED AS PROOF OF MANOLE'S OF MANOLE'S SACRIFICESACRIFICE

THE STATUE REMAINED THE STATUE REMAINED AS PROOF OF AS PROOF OF SERRANA'S VENGEANCESERRANA'S VENGEANCE

LA SERRANA LA SERRANA MANOLE MANOLE

ANA ANA

similaritiessimilaritiesdifferencesdifferences

* poor people * poor people * sacrifice * sacrifice somethingsomething* they were in * they were in lovelove

* Manole and * Manole and Ana were Ana were humans humans * La Serrana * La Serrana was a was a centaurus centaurus