HUMBERTO GUARÍN GÓMEZ - Barranquilla, Colombia
Since they tell me they are crazy about the history, I should clarify them that their speaker is not a historian but HISTORICIDA. And don't go to the dictionary for that that word doesn't figure in any part.
Neither they will count the father Isaías Ardila, him yes historian that to their history on The Source (Santander) he missed the reference the names of most of their first residents, almost all names of Greek origin.
Why there the men Luis, Ambrosio, Pablo, Pedro, Simón or Rafael didn't call themselves? Neither the women Carmen, Luisa, Dolores, Irene or Sara? Did the men call themselves there Epaminondas, Aapito, Estanislao, Eustachian, Achilles, Mardoqueo, Polidoro, Patroclo…Y the women Eduviges, Naciancena, Dorotea, Chorota, Pentasilea, Estanislada, Praxedis or Carlota…Por what?
The historicidas thinks that when the father D. Of The Houses to the today's height Barrancabermeja looked toward where today is San Vicente and Betulia he told Alfinger, Federman and Martin Galeano, nanay cucas, I for those freeways don't enter, you follow clear solos…Y, he was the one that baptized with the Bible.
Of there from now on Mr. Martin Galeano tossed hand of the "Aeneid" and "The Iliada" of Virgilio and Homero to baptize the children, main obligation imposed by the king from Spain to the conquerors.
If the same situation was not given to its step by what today is San Vicente and Betulia it was for that the resistance of the Yariguíes was so ferocious that with them the watchword was extermination.
Of Zapatoca from now on, already territory of the Guanes, more peaceful and more industrious than the Yariguíes, they were softened the methods a little without they stopped to be disastrous for the culture guane. But with all the respect that owes to the father Ardila for their historical contribution, there are also other things historical that are not counted in the book.
Or at least questions that nobody has respondido…Por how so many human remains in the caves that surround the river are that the Guanes Saravita called? On the topic we publish in The Time in the suitable date the letter that is inserted:
The Time, March 2 1987
Mr. Director:
It counts the legend that one afternoon of half-filled of the century 19, the rural Pedro Rotates, "Tinajo", he found in the property from his father to three Englishmen digging in a cave. One spoke Spanish well and it is supposed it was Geo Von Lengerke, German that had with the State of Santander a contract for the construction of the road to the river Magdalena to the today's height Barrancabermeja.
Their partners would be two countrymen and the one that "Tinajo" he called them Englishmen he is due to that the native ones called English to everybody who he spoke tangled for them. The property of the Wheel was on the old Spanish road that took to Zapatoca and the place of Guane where they dug it was known as "The High of the Old one."
He adds the legend that in that place and the call "Cabuya of Pine", the Indian guanes corked the gigantic labyrinthine cave that served them as cemetery, of safe for their treasures, or of what was... and it counts the history, although I believe more in the legend that Martin Galeano shoed with gold their horses for lack of iron when it was able to conquer the resistance of the cacicazgo of Guane.
I pray that removed of the narigueras and our grandmothers' necklaces, trusted in that the true one "World Bank" of the Indians he was in the caves.
Alone that the Indians escaped to take refuge in them and they allowed to die from hunger before to leave to surrender to the invader. And anyone that has entered to those labyrinthine caverns full with stalactites and stalagmites at some time forming fantasmagóricas figures that scare to the most valiant, is explained that the men of Galeano preferred not to take a risk entering after the Indians...
What picked up the legend, and it is confirmed by the discovery of remains in all the caves of the route of Galeano, it is that these intercommunicated for tunnels and that at least one passed below the river Suarez; he had entrance mouths and ventilation in that of the "Saltpeter" in Zapatoca, the" High of the Old one", where Lengerke would have been digging, "The wall" in front of Gallant and covered by the same Indians he will know God why, and the one that the cacique used Macaregua in Barichara, of where he comes off a brunch that points toward Curití...
We will continue another day, if God wants…
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