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Last November 1st and 2nd was "día de muertos" (1st for dead child, and 2nd for dead grown-ups) here in México, I really enjoy these festivities more than Christmas or any other one. Here it is how it works...
In my culture, my ancestors the Mexicas, had no concept of good ar evil, so there was no hell or heaven, but three places where the souls would rest:
1.- Tlalocan: as the name says, related to Tlaloc, god of the water, in this place the souls of drowned people, sacrified babies and child, and sick people would rest forever, and germinate like new seeds.
2.- Mictlán: place of people who died by natural causes, this is a very dark place, so when a man dided, he was buried with a dog, so it can lead him to the end. in this part babies had a special place, called Chichihuacuauhco in this place there's a tree with milk dripping.
3.- Omeyocán: place for the dead warriors, a place of the God hutichilopoztli, to die in war was the most honorous way of passing away, dead was always kind with the warrior.
So when the Conquerors came and replaced prehispanic religion with Christianism... the concepts of "all saints day" and prehispanic ones mixed. giving birth to "dia de muertos".
This is a very beautiful tradition here. Two days full of magic, colors, spiritual relief and lots fo yummy food hahaha.
Almost every family makes an "ofrenda" for they beloved departed ones. An "Ofrenda" is a mixture of a banquet, and resemblance of the lives of the departed. basically there are like 9 things an "ofrenda" must have: A photography of the departed one(no living people, just the departed), his/her favourite food, holy water, cempacúchitl flowers (marygolds), copal (sort of an incense), calaveritas (chocolate or sugar made skulls), veladoras (candles to light the dead's way), pan de muerto (a special bread with little bread-bones over it, and sprinkled sugar) and a lot of love (sometimes in the form of several rosaries, music, dance or family reunions). Once the feast is over, the dead will take away the essence of everything, taking it with them. Believe it or not, the food don't taste the same once the day is over, it tastes like it has less flavor or no flavor at all.
This is a joyful party, where living people celebrate with their departed ones, it remembers your place as an individual, who you are, where you come from and where are you going to.
I can't tell how much joy and peace feels once you share with your ancestors (in my case, my 4 grandparents, 2 uncles, 1 aunt, 2 cousins, and 2 friends.)I love them so much and these days let me share with them some of my life, to let them know how much I've grow, matured and achieved my goals, to know they're fine, and that dead isn't painful or horrible, just a natural step.
Corny, I know... but that's a part of my culture and how Mexican people embrace the dead, laugh and share with them.
*pictures of my "ofrenda" soon*
In my culture, my ancestors the Mexicas, had no concept of good ar evil, so there was no hell or heaven, but three places where the souls would rest:
1.- Tlalocan: as the name says, related to Tlaloc, god of the water, in this place the souls of drowned people, sacrified babies and child, and sick people would rest forever, and germinate like new seeds.
2.- Mictlán: place of people who died by natural causes, this is a very dark place, so when a man dided, he was buried with a dog, so it can lead him to the end. in this part babies had a special place, called Chichihuacuauhco in this place there's a tree with milk dripping.
3.- Omeyocán: place for the dead warriors, a place of the God hutichilopoztli, to die in war was the most honorous way of passing away, dead was always kind with the warrior.
So when the Conquerors came and replaced prehispanic religion with Christianism... the concepts of "all saints day" and prehispanic ones mixed. giving birth to "dia de muertos".
This is a very beautiful tradition here. Two days full of magic, colors, spiritual relief and lots fo yummy food hahaha.
Almost every family makes an "ofrenda" for they beloved departed ones. An "Ofrenda" is a mixture of a banquet, and resemblance of the lives of the departed. basically there are like 9 things an "ofrenda" must have: A photography of the departed one(no living people, just the departed), his/her favourite food, holy water, cempacúchitl flowers (marygolds), copal (sort of an incense), calaveritas (chocolate or sugar made skulls), veladoras (candles to light the dead's way), pan de muerto (a special bread with little bread-bones over it, and sprinkled sugar) and a lot of love (sometimes in the form of several rosaries, music, dance or family reunions). Once the feast is over, the dead will take away the essence of everything, taking it with them. Believe it or not, the food don't taste the same once the day is over, it tastes like it has less flavor or no flavor at all.
This is a joyful party, where living people celebrate with their departed ones, it remembers your place as an individual, who you are, where you come from and where are you going to.
I can't tell how much joy and peace feels once you share with your ancestors (in my case, my 4 grandparents, 2 uncles, 1 aunt, 2 cousins, and 2 friends.)I love them so much and these days let me share with them some of my life, to let them know how much I've grow, matured and achieved my goals, to know they're fine, and that dead isn't painful or horrible, just a natural step.
Corny, I know... but that's a part of my culture and how Mexican people embrace the dead, laugh and share with them.
*pictures of my "ofrenda" soon*
Just a void
Am I asking for too much?
I don't really know why I'm writing this stuff down, perhaps I just need to get it out of my chest, so here it goes.
I'm here... still. With not so much going on in my stupid life... work, home, school, work, home, school, work, home, school... there used to e some gym in the middle (which was the bollocks, but I had to make room for my masters... so no more gym).
And it's been really difficult for me to find a boyfriend.
All they guys my age are... well stupid, sex crazed or simply dull, like a head with a big void inside of it.
And the younger blokes... well they're just young, so I can't blame them.
The thin
It's been a long time
Since I wrote something here. I've been busy with school chores, and I've been pretty much grading stuff for my kiddos.
I´ve just finished some material for my classes, some sort fo gamecards for the guys and gals to remeber vocabulary and stuff.
Yes I'm still single, and getting even hunkier. (at least that's what my kiddos say) LOL
I don't know why, but everytime I have a crush on a gay guy, He simply doesn't want to be around me or something. I'ts somewhat awkward. Tough I'm not sure if I really want a boyfriend right now.
In the creative area, I have many ideas running through my head, but no time to materialize even one of them
AWESOME long weekend!!!
So, since I'm an english teacher, I'm supposed to teach my kids the culture of english speaking countries; that means halloween and all that stuff from these days.
So last week was really fun because I organized an autumn fair with my students, we made a caramel apples stand, we played bobbing for apples, we made a jack-o-lantern carving contest, we even had a small costume contest for the third graders.
It was fun, on friday I gave them candy corn, tootise rolls, butterfingers, and m&m's as prizes for the day.
Don't get me wrong, I like Halloween a lot, but I'm more into Dia de muertos.
I spent the Sunday night with my nephews and niece
Desitions made
It seems that everything is just fine right now.
First of all I had AWESOME easter vacations. I went to a beach with my family and we ended camping a whole week at an ecological reserve to help the turtles hatch and reach the sea, it was really great.
the next week we spent three day in vale's country house relaxing and for me was drawing in the hammock hahaha. and the last days of the vacations I was at my mother's ranch helping her with the cattle (vaccinating, cleaning, feeding and stuff) It was hard but fun.
When I returned to work, I had to apply 4th bimestral exams to my kids, they were hard to grade, because they kept changing the
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nice! i didnt made an ofrenada mymom did i did spiders for halloween XD but for the record i love dia de muertos and all that stuff mroe than anyother thing...thus christmas i hate...lol