to see photos of the "offering" or altar (or whatever you want to call it!) for the Día de Muertos. I set it up on the fireplace, sorry they're so dark.
Thanks ! Piper: that's margipan, or marzipan,fruit in the front. The whole set up stays, usually, til Nov.3rd, but I know a lot of people like to keep it for a whole week. dinglewolves: let me see if I can get some decent information for you, in the meantime, try doing a search, there sould be something out there! Basically, this tradition started with the Aztecs, before the spaniards arrvied. They had a "thing" with the dead, but after the spaniards enforced their catholic religion on them, they sort of fused these traditions together and now we have this. As I said, let me see if I can get more inf for you. My DD studied this in uni, I'll ask her.
Thats interesting Ana, the margipam would not last with me as I would eat it LOL I enjoy watching documentaries about the Atecs and the Spaniards, the Spaniards were very cruel to them in the name of religion, there was one Spaniard who was notorious for torturing whole villages in the name of the Catholic Church, his supperiors were not happy with his methods as it turned the indigenous people against catholics.
LOL:::Piper, I don't think you'd want to eat the ones I have, they're from last year! sadly, you're right about the way the Catholic religion was imposed on the native population. Of course, that would be another discussion, thanks for your comments!
Not as much as our Kim though dingle, I watch doccies about most anything I can, i love learning about thr real world rather than watching soaps, I record doccies on my dvd and can sit and watch them for hours, the more the better. Yes Ana perhaps this is not the best place to discuss religous politics, although very interesting.
they were great photo's, I love learning about different religions now - shame i didn't as a school kid, R.E lessons were dreaded by everyone!! i blame the scary old teacher we had
yes I find the past facinating, I said to Mrs P if I could build a time machine I would go back to the time of the dinosaurs, that would be just amazing. Think I like the past as thier appeared to be more morals than in the modern world, in fact just going back to when I was a kid even the world was a more pleasant place to live in.
i'd flippin love a time machine! even watching life on mars makes me feel all fuzzy and life on the home front during the war, ancient egypt/rome, henry the 8th's time... you name it -i'd go there!!
yes it would be exciting to see just how life was during these times, maybe in the future as I beleive there is a paralell universe where we can go back in time, but then again most people think Im crazy at the best of times LOL
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and life on the home front during the war, ancient egypt/rome, henry the 8th's time... you name it -i'd go there!!
