A Woman Clothed with the Sun: Medea and the Virgin

Abstract

We will discuss in this article two opposite and complementary myths: the filicida and the mother of the Virgin-Mother, from observation of the primacy of rewritten reclaimers of the myth of Medea in Brazilian literature and popular and literary taste by the biblical myth of the Virgin-Mother. Paradoxes in itself, both in the masculine world show myths, the absurdity of American female, namely, figure that that generates and kills and one that generates nothing in order to generate a short circuit. The Virgin-mother is "Lady of these people so suffered small and Patron/oppressed". Medea, as mother, see the nuisance that are the children and eliminates them from its trajectory. In both approaches, the two protagonists appear in the imaginary mythical dressed in glorious sunshine to brighten, whiten, cause the lucidity and, at the same time, obfuscate and blind. Will be observed the Medea, by Euripides, and the Mayombe, A pequenina América e sua avó $ifrada de escrúpulos. Also we will make brief forays into Uma mulher vestida de Sol, by Ariano Suassuna, and the book of Revelations.