Posts Tagged ‘muertos’

The dying person was cared for by their relatives at home. When he died it was the closest ones who performed the P'O'Keban at the wake.. They very carefully cleaned the body without touching the sexual areas with a damp cloth.. With that water, according to the economic means of the family, a chocolate was made, the wealthiest, and those with less resources a well

They, the dead, they were the first to arrive. On a street by the Ganges river, in the city of Varanasi, dozens of corpses awaited the arrival of the living. The bodies were covered in colored robes and adorned with flowers. It had not yet dawned. They were not in a hurry.

"Why should we do it?”, replied the owner of a hotel. "This is our country. We were before. We just want our rights. We silent centuries, enduring humiliation, but things are coming to a intolerable. They want us out but we will not go. Addition, Where do I go? This is my home and my business. It's my life ".

El Carmen I came to looking for a sacred tree of the indigenous, "El Algarrobo Gualichu". The chronicles speak of it dating 1833, when the strongman of Argentina, Rosas, carried out a campaign against the Indians. The only vintage image I found the town was one of a French traveler, Alcide D'Orbigny.