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Episode 14

The girl of Weburi: A Rock Art Site story

Weburi is another very in- of red pigmented rock Art. is known under the name
teresting place situated This amazing site has some of Santa Cruz, a Spanish
South of Piedra Plat`s Prot- minor difficulties to find the Catholic name.
estant Church. Weburi, as entrance, however once
we are told stands for; boul- the entrance is located This is a story that was told
ders standing in the blow- and one has made it inside to me over 30 years ago,
ing wind. This pictograph the hollow rock bolder, the which took place when the
site can also be reached mystical drawings are all Calvinist Protestants de-
going North from out the over the interior wall and cided to establish their new
Hooiberg hill or Hay stack. can best observed. congregation. Piedra Plat were distracted by a cer- she was dispatched some
was the place of choice tain sound that appeared weeks earlier.
After some 500 steps you This area is part of some and this happened dur- to be sobbing of a child.
should look for some par- man-made rain water col- ing construction of the old She sailed out from Adi-
ticularly round boulders. In lecting dams and conjunc- church and the building of It was not long after that cora, Paraguaná State
one of them a cove has tions of rooi`s or dry river some houses. On an early everyone started to walk of Falcon in Venezuela to
formed due to erosion with beds. Weburi is also in the Wednesday morning, the about with the hope to Aruba. The story was that
a west-facing entrance vicinity of a once large Ca- lady recalling the story told find out from where the she was born on Aruba
and is the rock contain- quetian or island Amerin- by grandmother: the sun crying sound was coming but returned after a long
ing a fantastic collection dian settlement that now had not risen yet when they from. After a short search visit of almost 4 years to her
someone shouted, “Found grandparents on the main
her!” so everyone knew land. She claimed to have
immediately now that she had an Aruban Caquetian
was a girl. She looked very father and a mainland Ca-
badly nourished and dirty. quetian mother who was
No doubt that she was lost. the granddaughter of a
Maiti knew how to speak regional prince who had
some Spanish, Papiamento the of Judibana who ap-
and her Caquetian lan- peared to be a very beau-
guage. tiful woman. Judibana was
confirmed to had lived and
Now that a few weeks had was the wife of regional
past she was amazed that Chief with the name of Ju-
she looked way much bet- rijurebo and that drought
ter and very nice indeed. and famine provoked that
After a few more weeks they sent her back to Aru-
we could see that she felt ba where her parents had
secure enough to start to a small Cunucu together
tell a more consistent story with a cousin she called un-
and why she was hiding cle. She was always proud
in fear and from whom or but serene and self-con-
from what was she running scious. In her town on the
from and hiding in the rock mainland everyone knew
formation. All happened that she would become a
when she arrived at West- beautiful young woman
punt and found out from that looked exactly like
her step-uncle that her dudu Judi or grand ma Ju-
mother and her two siblings dibana.
had passed away about
two weeks ago one after Maitirima was her name
another from food poison- and was composed of the
ing and that her father took two words, Mai, meant wa-
way broken-hearted on a ter spring or an eye of wa-
sail ship. So there she was ter and Tirima which meant
with her step-uncle who, blue celeste, all that to-
resulted to be a bad per- gether it meant Blue- Wa-
son able to use brutal force ter- Spring, who must have
in trying to get his way with been of an age between
her. Luckily she had gotten 9 and 12-years-old at the
away. But with difficulties time. She became a hard-
on the main land and her working, smart and beauti-
family gone, she only knew ful woman and got married
to run and escaped all abu- into the Croes family of Pie-
sive intentions. For 5 days dra Plat and was the great-
she wandered around and grandmother of many
on the second night she generations of Protestant
slept in the cove with the Native Arubans.
drawings. You must imag-
ine the conditions which Source; Island Insight column
she was in since she did not by Etnia Nativa.
eat or drink enough since