Tuesday, March 2, 2010

FIESTAS

FIESTAS-OFTEN PROCESSIONS TO THE ACCOMPANY OF MULTIPLE BANDS,DANCING,SWIRLING PUPPETS AND LOUD FIREWORKS SEEMS TO HAPPEN ALL THE TIME THROUGHOUT MESOAMERICA. PATRON SAINT DAYS,BIRTHDAYS,DEATH ARE ALL CELEBRATED IN NOISY STYLE WITH COPOIUS COPAL SMOKE INCENSE,ALCOHOL,FOOD AND MACHISMO WITH A BIG CAPITAL M!!
SAN SEBASTIAN FEAST DAY SAN JEAN BAUTISTA NEAR OAXACA.TO THESE PROUD INDIGENES ST JOHN THE BAPTIST IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN JESUS WHO TAKES BACKSTAGE




FIREWORKS WERE BEING FIRED ALL ROUND AS PROCESSIONS OF VAROIS VILLAGERS SOME ON HORSEBACK CAME TO PAY HOMAGE IN THE CHURCH.THE SAINTS STATUES WERE RITUALLY TAKEN OUT OF THEIR CABINETS,BLESSED AND REDRESSED THE COPAL SMOKE INSIDE WAS OVERPOWERING AND PHOTOGRAPHY AGGRESSIVELY FORBIDDEN



HOMEMADE SKYROCKETS AND THEIR CRAZY LAUNCHER ONE RIPPED PAST MY HEAD MISSING ME BY CM'S AND NECESSITATING A CHECK OF THE CONTENTS OF MY UNDERPANTS!!




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