Anyone do the candle thing for this, is all a little creepy for me but I expect some of you older ones might have loved ones you might miss on this day and feel integrated enough to take part, anyone?
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The day of the dead, 1st Monday November?
I don't understand, how am I being creepy?
I am asking if expats take part in the lighting if candles and family get together to remember those close ones who have left this life. If you walk around the likes of la caleta, on this evening and see the candles in the windows of every house, people wandering around with candles visiting each others homes to visit each others dead you will see what I mean by creepy.
How have I become creepy?
Dude:
You should re-read a few of your own posts, you can easily scare every puta off Pedro Clisante on Halloween.
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not just Mexico .. but Catholic and Anglican
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but they took it from the pagans
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When I lived in Grenada (island, not Spain) everyone would go down to the graveyard during the day and clean it up with chlorox and white wash and then party out with the dead all night... quite a festival!
All Souls' Day - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
but they took it from the pagans
Halloween - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
When I lived in Grenada (island, not Spain) everyone would go down to the graveyard during the day and clean it up with chlorox and white wash and then party out with the dead all night... quite a festival!
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I know the song, but I've never seen that video before.....my, my, my.....if I ran into him in an alley somewhere in that get-up with the skull, etc., I'd have heart failure. :surprised:surprised
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Guy Fawkes is one thing, and Screaming Jay Hawkins (not to be confused with Steven) is another, but Anastacio brings creepy to a whole new level.
I guess that is to be admired at this time of year.
I guess that is to be admired at this time of year.
Lay off Anastacio, what's wrong with asking about Day of the Dead?
The main custom I've noticed is going to the cemetery to visit loved one's graves, give them a bit of a clean and leave flowers. None of the colourful paraphenalia you get in Mexico, unfortunately.
The main custom I've noticed is going to the cemetery to visit loved one's graves, give them a bit of a clean and leave flowers. None of the colourful paraphenalia you get in Mexico, unfortunately.
Put it into context, Chiri.
If you want to lay off Anastacio, feel free. As far as I'm concerned he's fair game.
If you want to lay off Anastacio, feel free. As far as I'm concerned he's fair game.
Creepy?lol, can you guys not come up with something a bit more fitting? I can think of several names people may feel they could associate with a few of my threads. Creepy? Nah, if you are going to put me out there as fair game, at least make sense in what you say otherwise you might come across as slightly ------.
I'll leave the blanks for those into name calling, not my bag thanks!
Thanks Chiri, it doesn't make sense or fit so isn't offensive at all, quite amusing the haters are so unimaginative actually.:cheeky:
I'll leave the blanks for those into name calling, not my bag thanks!
Thanks Chiri, it doesn't make sense or fit so isn't offensive at all, quite amusing the haters are so unimaginative actually.:cheeky:
i miss being in poland that day. 1st of november is a national holiday and everyone goes to the cemetery to light a candle on the grave of loved ones and on the graves of those who are forgotten. this lasts all day and late into the night and because it gets dark early the atmosphere is quite unique.
here are few fotos to illustrate that:
these are from my home city...
here are few fotos to illustrate that:
these are from my home city...
That's actually really pretty in a strange creepy way, really nice photo, maybe give some of those who obviously opened their mouths before thinking an idea of what I mean by creepy for me. Eiry, spooky whatever your interpretation is it looks like not many take part here.i miss being in poland that day. 1st of november is a national holiday and everyone goes to the cemetery to light a candle on the grave of loved ones and on the graves of those who are forgotten. this lasts all day and late into the night and because it gets dark early the atmosphere is quite unique.
here are few fotos to illustrate that:
these are from my home city...
Thanks for sharing the pic, nice!
people think that talking about death is creepy because it reminds them about their own, unavoidable passing. this is sad because it is death itself what makes life so unique and precious. we have a limited time here on earth and so often we forget to use it well...
dominicans, i have noticed, like death, if i can put it that way. they read news about deaths with most interest and they discuss deaths at great lengths: who, when, how, why. they talk about diseased friends and family members and they remember them lovingly. this is something seldom seen in a western world where death is a taboo.
but alas, no candles on the first of november. i really like our polish custom of bringing the light to all the graves, even the old and forgotten ones that are nothing but a small pile of earth with a crooked cross. this is a way of saying that we do remember the dead and that we do remember we will be one of them one day. or maybe, like a polish poet said once, the weight of flowers and candles is there to "break the underground chain of hands, embracing the earth"?
dominicans, i have noticed, like death, if i can put it that way. they read news about deaths with most interest and they discuss deaths at great lengths: who, when, how, why. they talk about diseased friends and family members and they remember them lovingly. this is something seldom seen in a western world where death is a taboo.
but alas, no candles on the first of november. i really like our polish custom of bringing the light to all the graves, even the old and forgotten ones that are nothing but a small pile of earth with a crooked cross. this is a way of saying that we do remember the dead and that we do remember we will be one of them one day. or maybe, like a polish poet said once, the weight of flowers and candles is there to "break the underground chain of hands, embracing the earth"?
For me the creepiness isn't in the idea of dying or others dying, I am quite happy to know that I will not be on this planet for eternity(that isn't meant to sound depressing, but who wants to live forever).
The creepiness is in the idea people talk to people who are dead, believe they are going to visit the house on thar special night. For me, death is death, once gone that's it, no afterlife, spirit to move on or guide us through our own lives etc. I respect everyone elses beliefs on this, infact I wish my true beliefs were different, I could often do with a chat with my old uncle or my grandparents.
Maybe creepy wasn't the correct word to use, but I can't think of a better one right now.
The creepiness is in the idea people talk to people who are dead, believe they are going to visit the house on thar special night. For me, death is death, once gone that's it, no afterlife, spirit to move on or guide us through our own lives etc. I respect everyone elses beliefs on this, infact I wish my true beliefs were different, I could often do with a chat with my old uncle or my grandparents.
Maybe creepy wasn't the correct word to use, but I can't think of a better one right now.