The mexican culture is the sincretism of two cultures indigenous (Mexica, Maya, Pur?pecha, N?huatl y totonaca) and spanish. It is consider the sincretism because in harmony two cultures do the same action and are join together. The party is to wellcome the souls of our deceased beloved ones. It is a day when they are allowed to come to visit us. It can be done in the cementery or in the house. To let know the soul where the party will be taken you use this elements that are indegenous: decorate in purple and orange (colors of mouring for indegenous), a path made of petals of cempasuchitl (called the 20 flowers), a copalero (a container of clay to burn resin), copal resin; paper cutted in forms to decorate and to represent the wind, the bread in form of skull or bones called "pan de muerto" [death's bread]. the bread represent the bones, the skulls and skeleton candies, the paper cutted with forms that represent the wind, the fire represented by candles taken by spanish. With the cempasuchitl petals you may do a path so the soul knows the way when arrives to earth and to arrive to earth you may light the resin so the smoke tells the soul where to come. The spanish elements are the water that means baptize, the salt represent the sacrament elements, the mirror is for the soul to see itself arriving to its party. In the altar you can have 1 step, or you can have 4 steps (represents the 4 elements and the for directions north, south, east and west) or 7 steps representing the 7 virtues and the 7 capital sins. There are different kind of "Altares" each one has its own symbols but all are made for the same reason.
The mexican culture is the sincretism of two cultures indigenous (Mexica, Maya, Pur?pecha, N?huatl y totonaca) and spanish. It is consider the sincretism because in harmony two cultures do the same action and are join together. The party is to wellcome the souls of our deceased beloved ones. It is a day when they are allowed to come to visit us. It can be done in the cementery or in the house. To let know the soul where the party will be taken you use this elements that are indegenous: decorate in purple and orange (colors of mouring for indegenous), a path made of petals of cempasuchitl (called the 20 flowers), a copalero (a container of clay to burn resin), copal resin; paper cutted in forms to decorate and to represent the wind, the bread in form of skull or bones called "pan de muerto" [death's bread]. the bread represent the bones, the skulls and skeleton candies, the paper cutted with forms that represent the wind, the fire represented by candles taken by spanish. With the cempasuchitl petals you may do a path so the soul knows the way when arrives to earth and to arrive to earth you may light the resin so the smoke tells the soul where to come. The spanish elements are the water that means baptize, the salt represent the sacrament elements, the mirror is for the soul to see itself arriving to its party. In the altar you can have 1 step, or you can have 4 steps (represents the 4 elements and the for directions north, south, east and west) or 7 steps representing the 7 virtues and the 7 capital sins. There are different kind of "Altares" each one has its own symbols but all are made for the same reason.
Hola Irocas ;) It is very interesting that your daughter teaches art. Mexico was described by surrealist like a place where the way of thinking was surrealist. I am sure it is what you can see in Frida's movie is a part of the magical way of thinking of Mexico. I like this state of mind is like a different dimension of reality. People who were wining in the ball game of course will receive the honor of dying. To go to higher dimension. [Of course I will lose the game if I had to play hahahaha]. Only the aztecs were taking the heart of people out while they were still alive. I did not know how did the Mayans killed the people. Killing was a ritual action. When you prepare achiote you must add acid orange juice. This oranges have not too much juice and are extremely acid almost like lemmons. It is a very particular taste. You can add orange juice mixed with lemmon juice to your achiote. This about the coming back home with the snow made me laugh because I know how hot is M?rida and just to think about the difference can create a big shock. Only the ones who have lived in the snow have an idea of what are you dealing with. Sorry for that ;)
Hola Irocas ;) It is very interesting that your daughter teaches art. Mexico was described by surrealist like a place where the way of thinking was surrealist. I am sure it is what you can see in Frida's movie is a part of the magical way of thinking of Mexico. I like this state of mind is like a different dimension of reality. People who were wining in the ball game of course will receive the honor of dying. To go to higher dimension. [Of course I will lose the game if I had to play hahahaha]. Only the aztecs were taking the heart of people out while they were still alive. I did not know how did the Mayans killed the people. Killing was a ritual action. When you prepare achiote you must add acid orange juice. This oranges have not too much juice and are extremely acid almost like lemmons. It is a very particular taste. You can add orange juice mixed with lemmon juice to your achiote. This about the coming back home with the snow made me laugh because I know how hot is M?rida and just to think about the difference can create a big shock. Only the ones who have lived in the snow have an idea of what are you dealing with. Sorry for that ;)
?En que te ofendo, cuando solo intento poner bellezas en mi entendimiento y no mi entendimiento en las bellezas? -Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz.
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I was introduced to Frida Kahlo while visiting my daughter. She teaches at an art college and we attended a lecture about her life and art. I did see the movie starring Salma Hayek.
I spent three days at Chichen Itza. They have a huge ballcourt there. Is it true that the losers were decapitated?
I actually brought some achiote back with me. It was in the form of a dense, deep red paste. I think it's available in the States now. My favorite dish in Merida was a chicken soup that had a distinct lemon flavor to it. I also enjoyed all of the free entertainment they had every evening.
It was a great vacation but when I returned home my car was covered with 8 feet of snow.
I was introduced to Frida Kahlo while visiting my daughter. She teaches at an art college and we attended a lecture about her life and art. I did see the movie starring Salma Hayek.
I spent three days at Chichen Itza. They have a huge ballcourt there. Is it true that the losers were decapitated?
I actually brought some achiote back with me. It was in the form of a dense, deep red paste. I think it's available in the States now. My favorite dish in Merida was a chicken soup that had a distinct lemon flavor to it. I also enjoyed all of the free entertainment they had every evening.
It was a great vacation but when I returned home my car was covered with 8 feet of snow.
Hello Irocas, Interesting you had an eye for the artists in Mexico. Diego Rivera ( his name was Diego Mar?a de la Concepci?n Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodr?guez )is one of the artists who started the revolucionary art movement in Mexico. He painted for John D. Rockefeller Jr. a mural in the RCA building in NY in the lobby a mural (this was denominated the Rockefeller center). It was about the most important people of capitalism but he included Lenin and Rockefeller felt like a personal insult and destroyed the mural. Frida was daughter of a mexican woman who was primarely indigenous descendant and spanish. Her father was german-hungarian, he was a photographer. Since very young Kahlo suffered illnesses and disasters. At the age of six she had polio. It seems she also had spina bifida. At the age of 18th she suffered an accident while she was travelling in the trolley car that was hit by a vehicule. She suffered serious injuries like broken spinal column, a broken pelvis, broken ribs, a broken collarbone, dislocated shoulder, eleven fractures in left leg, crushed and dislocated right foot. After this her life was a continous calvary or torment, always going to hospitals and doctors. In her paints she represents all this deep pains and all her broken dreams. Some of them show the eagerness to become a mother and the physical imposibility and the pain that brought to her soul. The skeletons are to represent that death was always around her, present at every moment of her life. One of the paints that represent many of her physical pains is "La columna rota" (The broken spinal column). The skeletons in Mexican culture are a symbol of death but we also use it like an icon to remind us that we must enjoy life. The party of the death is a mix between indegenous and nowaday people.You will find that there are many indigenous buildings (some pyramids) that contain the skeleton image.
About M?rida, I agree that is a paradaise. In M?rida everything is so beautiful and full of natural opulence. Natural people from there are very kind and gentle. Most of them are very short and many of them they have a small neck. My mother lived there for some years and she reminds this people like extremely kind, well manered and good hearted. The food is delicious they have a very special dish called "Puerquito pibil" (little pork pibil taste). This is preapred with special condiment called "Achiote" similiar to suffron. In the south of Mexico food is different from the one we have in the centre of the country, it usually contains banana in many dishes. In Merida are living most of the Mayan descendants, they still speak maya language. Which piramids did you visit?, there are a lot in that area. Where I live we only have a small one inside the city and other two small ones (with the balloon game) in the nort of the state.
Hello Irocas, Interesting you had an eye for the artists in Mexico. Diego Rivera ( his name was Diego Mar?a de la Concepci?n Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodr?guez )is one of the artists who started the revolucionary art movement in Mexico. He painted for John D. Rockefeller Jr. a mural in the RCA building in NY in the lobby a mural (this was denominated the Rockefeller center). It was about the most important people of capitalism but he included Lenin and Rockefeller felt like a personal insult and destroyed the mural. Frida was daughter of a mexican woman who was primarely indigenous descendant and spanish. Her father was german-hungarian, he was a photographer. Since very young Kahlo suffered illnesses and disasters. At the age of six she had polio. It seems she also had spina bifida. At the age of 18th she suffered an accident while she was travelling in the trolley car that was hit by a vehicule. She suffered serious injuries like broken spinal column, a broken pelvis, broken ribs, a broken collarbone, dislocated shoulder, eleven fractures in left leg, crushed and dislocated right foot. After this her life was a continous calvary or torment, always going to hospitals and doctors. In her paints she represents all this deep pains and all her broken dreams. Some of them show the eagerness to become a mother and the physical imposibility and the pain that brought to her soul. The skeletons are to represent that death was always around her, present at every moment of her life. One of the paints that represent many of her physical pains is "La columna rota" (The broken spinal column). The skeletons in Mexican culture are a symbol of death but we also use it like an icon to remind us that we must enjoy life. The party of the death is a mix between indegenous and nowaday people.You will find that there are many indigenous buildings (some pyramids) that contain the skeleton image.
About M?rida, I agree that is a paradaise. In M?rida everything is so beautiful and full of natural opulence. Natural people from there are very kind and gentle. Most of them are very short and many of them they have a small neck. My mother lived there for some years and she reminds this people like extremely kind, well manered and good hearted. The food is delicious they have a very special dish called "Puerquito pibil" (little pork pibil taste). This is preapred with special condiment called "Achiote" similiar to suffron. In the south of Mexico food is different from the one we have in the centre of the country, it usually contains banana in many dishes. In Merida are living most of the Mayan descendants, they still speak maya language. Which piramids did you visit?, there are a lot in that area. Where I live we only have a small one inside the city and other two small ones (with the balloon game) in the nort of the state.
One of my best vacations to Mexico City. Saw a great many of his murals... seems he often included his own likeness in them. I also saw quite a bit of his wife's paintings and she had skeletons in quite a few of them.... what's that all about. I enjoyed my time in Merida most of all, the people are very friendly and the food was out of this world.
One of my best vacations to Mexico City. Saw a great many of his murals... seems he often included his own likeness in them. I also saw quite a bit of his wife's paintings and she had skeletons in quite a few of them.... what's that all about. I enjoyed my time in Merida most of all, the people are very friendly and the food was out of this world.
La Catrina, The first Catrina was draw by Jos? Guadalupe Posadas, who made critics to government of his time through skeletons. After a while his drawings became popular and he invented "La Catrina" that was made to represent that poor or rich when we die we all look the same. This is image made me reflect about life, I feel is an invitation to live to the fullest and value your life.
La Catrina, The first Catrina was draw by Jos? Guadalupe Posadas, who made critics to government of his time through skeletons. After a while his drawings became popular and he invented "La Catrina" that was made to represent that poor or rich when we die we all look the same. This is image made me reflect about life, I feel is an invitation to live to the fullest and value your life.
Sweet skulls... In this sweet skulls usually somebody else put your name and give it to you like a gift. This is to remember you the futility of our actions that all will be death and to make sweet this moment. Mexican play with death, dance with it, drinks with it, laughs at it, and crys with it. It's a live element.
Sweet skulls... In this sweet skulls usually somebody else put your name and give it to you like a gift. This is to remember you the futility of our actions that all will be death and to make sweet this moment. Mexican play with death, dance with it, drinks with it, laughs at it, and crys with it. It's a live element.
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