Spanish for the Tenebrae service that represents the darkness and chaos following the Crucifixion of Christ. In the morada, a candelabra with thirteen candles is gradually extinguished, and prayers for the dead are recited, followed by three periods of deafening noise. See also Tenebrae."

also from the Spanish alabar, but referring to hymns of praise to the saints and the celebration of the Virgin Mary.

Virgin of Solitude, a grieving aspect of the Virgin Mary that shows her alone after the Crucifixion, closely related to Dolores.

Virgin of Succor, a popular devotion of Spain and the Americas.

Guadalupe, the beloved Indian Virgin of Mexico, patroness of the Americas, who is said to have appeared at Tepeyac, north of Mexico City in 1531.

the Virgin of Mount Carmel, an aspect of the Virgin with the Christ Child in her arm and scapularies in her hand, a devotion based in Spain, but popular in New Mexico and all of Latin America.

verses, the term used to refer to couplets, or octosyllabic quatrains with alternating assonance or vowel rhyme. See also coplas.

the Lady of Sorrows, the grieving aspect of the Virgin Mary at the crucifixion of Jesus.

"girl from Warsaw," the music and dance that celebrated the first Polish revolution, known in English as "Put your little foot" and mispronounced in Spanish as "Varceliana."

dueling songs of the troubadours that describe encounters of famous poets trying to outdo each other with their verbal virtuosity, a moribund form in New Mexico.