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 Daily news from the Canaries and the islands' biggest English language newspaper on-line A Canarian love story Gara & Jonay The Canary Islands has its own tragic couple, evoking similar sentiments as Romeo and Juliet or Abelard and Heliose.  However, she gazed too long and the sun’s reflection blinded her temporarily. A wise man named Gerián told her that this meant that she needed to avoid all fire or it would consume her. Jonay was the son of the king of Adeje in Tenerife and was in Agulo to take part in the ceremonies. Jonay’s prowess in the games attracted the attention of Gara, and the two fell in love. Unfortunately, when the engagement was announced, Teide, visible from La Gomera, began to erupt as if in disapproval. This was interpreted as a bad sign and the couple’s respective parents broke the engagement. Jonay was made to return to Tenerife, but one night, he swam across the channel that separated the two islands and rejoined his beloved. Their respective fathers ordered that the two be found. The lovers were soon trapped on a mountain, where they decided to take their own lives. Neither of the two could find a way out of their situation. They took a lance made of laurel, sharpened at both ends and stabbed themselves in their chests, meeting death together, in each other’s embrace. This article appears in the print edition 610 of Island Connections
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