A WEEK IN LONDON

THE STORY OF A PICTURE

Last week I met after more than three years with two of my best friends from school, before we were always together, but when we went to college or some better schools we had to separate.

This year it coincided that we all came to live in Santiago, so we decided to get together to talk and eat. We met at a Shell on Matta Avenue and we sat on the sidewalk of the place to talk. We were there for more than three hours and when it was late we realized the building that was in front and as light to make each curtain stand out.

I decided to take a photo as a memory of that moment, because I know that I will not forget of this walk. In our conversation we began to imagine what the people living in each department would be like, each one telling a different story, just like us.

It was a very relaxed and beautiful afternoon, always when I feel happy as that day I take a picture to remember it.

INVUNCHE

In Chiloé are many myths and legends, one of them is the myth of the invunche. He is a boy that take care of the entrance of the cave of the sorcerers chilotes. The invunche only leaves the cave when this is dicovered or detroyed by the chilotes or when the sorcerers go to a meeting, in these routes the invunche screams and this alerts the chilotes that something bad will happen.

When the sorcerers need an invunche, they buy or steal the first born son and so that him doesn’t escape they broke his leg and join it to the back.

It’s said that if someone wants to enter the cave of sorcerers, the first person must pass and make a reverence and the second one must kiss him anus.

The conection to the reality is that sometimes when the kid of a family disappear, then the family had good luck, also many people believe in sorcerers and say they have heard the screams of the invunche before the tragedy.

This is my favorite chilote myth because unlike the others, this one causes me sadness and not fear, I was always sorry to think that a child was sold and deformed, it is like human trafficking.