Antiquia, Guatemela
Don Alvarado conquered Guatemala and established what is now Antiquia as the capitol. At the time Guatemala was all of Central America except for belize and Panama.
Cortes had sent him. Don Alavardo was not a nice man but a good soldier.
Cortes trusted him for the bravery he had shown during the near destruction of cortez’s expedition in Mexico in what later came to be known as Noche Triste or sad night.
Documents from the period record how he would order the execution of the natives by not just the normal hanging but also burning and throwing the indigenous people to the dogs.
When he died in the 1541 his wife Dona Beatriz mourned deeply. She painted the national palace black and replaced the red velvet curtains with black ones. The skys above also turned dark and a long cold wet rain begain.
The people and the church were mortified by such a flagrant disbelief in heaven and pointed to the unnatural thunderstorm as evidence of god’s displeasure.
As the days passed by the people of Antiquia grew more and more scared and whispered how they were all being punished for her disregard for god.
In the volcano that towers above Antiquia a lagoon was filling up in the crater as the Emperess and the skies wept. Finally an earthquake hit and the lake became mudwalls, drowing many in its path.
Dona Beatriz stopped her weeping to remember god. She fled for the shrine to Jesus at the once forgotten part of the national palace.
She died as she hung on to the crucifix. Her short few months of power were over