Melinche and Mocuana

While I was in Japan I met a man from San Diego, and we helped each other getting around, site seeing, finding the Korean consultant. His name was Issac and he was an American, but his family orginated from Nicaragua. After talking with him for awhile I asked him if the phrase 'Melinche' was still used in latin america. For those of you who don't know who Melinche is, she was a Mayan indian who betrayed the native inhabitants of Central America by helping the Spanish conquistidors. Her name today means one who betrays, betrayer. When I asked Issac he refered to a Nicaraguan story of a woman called Mocuana. The people of Nicaragua, the Mayans, had a large treasure hidden away from the Spanish and refused to tell or even suggest that there was a treasure to the Spanish. After awhile Mocuana fell in love with a handsome young Spaniard. Once the Spaniard had gained enough trust through time, energy, love and passion, she told him where the treasure was. He went and collected the treasure then left central america for Spain with the treasure never to return. Mocuana went mad and forever was unstable. She was hated by her people for unveiling the where abouts of the treasure and she endured much anguish from a broken heart that never healed. After she passed away supposedly she haunted the land unable to pass on to the afterlife, haunting those who had not endured the anguish that she did.