Bless Me Ultima #2

So i finished the book, I got to excited, and so i decided to reread it! I left of from my first blog, talking about the distinction between Tony's family; The Marez and The Lunas. These two families are very conflictive throughout the book, The Marez meaning ocean and Luna meaning moon, two very different things. In chapter one of the book Ultima comes to live with Tony and his family, she is a curandera, the best of her kind. She is living in an isolated pueblito known as Las Pasturas, Tony's mom and dad decide to let her stay at their home, honoring her with the name of "LA GRANDE", The Great one in english. Ultima and her owl play a major role throughout the book. Ultima helped Tony's mom with all of her child births, Tony's birth being special in that he was to become a Luna. One thing that I found really interesting from this second time in reading the book is that when Tony has a flashback about his birth, Both the Lunas and Marez are present, they argue whether Tony will be one of either of them, they then start talking about the blood from the after birth, the Marez wanted to burn them and let the wind take them because they feel man should not be tied to earth but freed from it. The Lunas on the other hand wanted to bury the remains of the afterbirth in their fields to renew their fertility and make him one of them.