ot make sense, because Medea was not an actual, living person. She is a figure in a myth, and therefore she did not have reasons for her actions, but the creators of the myth had reasons for making her act as she did. Every myth has a truth embedded in its bowels, a lesson or insight for its listeners. As Pomeroy states, "Myths are not lies, but rather man's attempt to impose a symbolic order on his universe (1)." Because of the truthful nature of myths, we often find the same myth in many different cultures. These "common myths" are very important because they signal that the underlying purpose of the myth is an idea that crosses all cultural boundaries, and tells us something fundamental about human life.
             The story of Medea is a common myth. We can find the same story, known as La Llorona, or "the weeping woman" in Hispanic cultures today. This myth traces back to an actual historical figure, La Malinche, of the Aztecs. La Malinche was a girl born of a noble Aztec family in 1505. In 1519 she was given as a slave to the foreigner Hernan Cortes, and quickly learned
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