Shrine exhibit, Day of the Dead 2011
It was pretty difficult to choose an icon for this post, maybe a dress up one will be OK!
While my uncle in Utah complains about this season being over there all about candy, here's a bit of the Mexican taste.
Here's another Catrina outside a shoe store.
Along the weekend we put the shrine at the Den and went to the Cementery (I haven't gone like in three weeks ^^;;), probably Mama Bear and Papa Bear will go en november 2nd, I don't know if I'll have to work that day yet. >>;;
We kept it pretty simple. There was a flower arrangement already and a Marigold cross on the lawn, somebody visited already, so we worked around that.
This in Mama Bear's family tomb, and probably the first time I showed Tohui's tomb. Hope he won't pull my feet at night for that. XD;;
And this is the shrine at the Den. This time I set it with Mama Bear. There are still most things missing like his favorite candy, as I haven't got my paycheck yet, I can't go shopping. ^^;;
But he has the basics: tamales, bread, cocoa and booze.
Today at work the Shrine Exhibit at the Palace was already settled:
Some had the reglamentary flower/palm archs.
Depnding the theme or region, the décor changes, as the religous images showcased.
This one has an indigenous theme, that's why there's no religious image, but a Mictlantecuhtli, or Lord of the Mictlan, the lowest section of the underworld.
The town of Naolinco dedicated this year the shrine to Blessed Ángel Darío Acosta, a martyr local priest who died on 1931 because the "Tejeda Law" [insert religious conflict here].
As Naolinco is famous for its egg bread, you can see a lot of it.
The University of the Gulf of Mexico set a fishermen/coast theme shrine.
Looks a bit dry, but you can see it features fish as the main dish.
ICATVER (is a mess to tell you what stands for XD;;) set a shrine dedicated to Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, and it had nun skeletons.
Inside the Palace, there was the shrine of the Town of Mata Obscura (a small town near Córdoba) and you had to walk all around it to see it.
J-Sempai, who did the guard yesterday, told me they spent all the suday setting it up.
Detail of the columns, and the flower archs.
It has a spanish Catrina as well.
While my uncle in Utah complains about this season being over there all about candy, here's a bit of the Mexican taste.
Here's another Catrina outside a shoe store.
Along the weekend we put the shrine at the Den and went to the Cementery (I haven't gone like in three weeks ^^;;), probably Mama Bear and Papa Bear will go en november 2nd, I don't know if I'll have to work that day yet. >>;;
We kept it pretty simple. There was a flower arrangement already and a Marigold cross on the lawn, somebody visited already, so we worked around that.
This in Mama Bear's family tomb, and probably the first time I showed Tohui's tomb. Hope he won't pull my feet at night for that. XD;;
And this is the shrine at the Den. This time I set it with Mama Bear. There are still most things missing like his favorite candy, as I haven't got my paycheck yet, I can't go shopping. ^^;;
But he has the basics: tamales, bread, cocoa and booze.
Today at work the Shrine Exhibit at the Palace was already settled:
Some had the reglamentary flower/palm archs.
Depnding the theme or region, the décor changes, as the religous images showcased.
This one has an indigenous theme, that's why there's no religious image, but a Mictlantecuhtli, or Lord of the Mictlan, the lowest section of the underworld.
The town of Naolinco dedicated this year the shrine to Blessed Ángel Darío Acosta, a martyr local priest who died on 1931 because the "Tejeda Law" [insert religious conflict here].
As Naolinco is famous for its egg bread, you can see a lot of it.
The University of the Gulf of Mexico set a fishermen/coast theme shrine.
Looks a bit dry, but you can see it features fish as the main dish.
ICATVER (is a mess to tell you what stands for XD;;) set a shrine dedicated to Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, and it had nun skeletons.
Inside the Palace, there was the shrine of the Town of Mata Obscura (a small town near Córdoba) and you had to walk all around it to see it.
J-Sempai, who did the guard yesterday, told me they spent all the suday setting it up.
Detail of the columns, and the flower archs.
It has a spanish Catrina as well.