Long live the Carnival
Carnival arrives at the Cervantes magazine full of color and very different ways of celebrating among those who participate in the "cervantil world".
They say that these festivals are of pagan origin or, "not Christian", a festival that comes from the Egyptian culture (5000 years BC) where Apis was celebrated and then moved to celebrate Baco (God of Wine). From Rome to Europe and from Europe to "The Americas"
Like many ancient popular festivities, it merged with the Christian world, defining in this way the date on which it arrives each year. 40 days before Easter, just after Ash Wednesday, the carnival arrives and from that day to the following Tuesday (Carnival Tuesday) around the world, either in a warm country like Brazil or cold like Spain, we all celebrate.
And what do we really celebrate? to know the roots of the carnival, many must go to wikipedia. It is not a religious or national celebration. For many anthropologists associate the carnival in Europe with "Saturnalia" (Winter Festival) and in Latin America with the ancient feasts of the native people who worshiped the sun. Basically the human being needs its community in the harsh winter and in the summer needs to harvest and prepare the land.
Already in the current era, it has become a festival among all those who are almost meaningless. But, in general, the carnival has a tradition rooted in each region, based on what was previously celebrated in its place.
In Latin America, in the Andean region, we can find "el carnavalillo", with its own style of dress and music where the devil is buried. In Belgium, in the city of Binche, this celebration has been going on since the 16th century and is characterized by its color and because on Carnival Tuesday there are people called "gilles", dressed in traditional costumes and throwing red oranges at the crowd. The celebration of the Binche Carnival was proclaimed in 2003 as "A Masterpiece of the oral and intangible heritage of Humanity" by UNESCO, later in 2008 it became part of the "Representative List of the Intangible Heritage of Humanity".
We have also heard about the carnival of Rio or the carnivals of Gran Canaria. But everyone in our neighborhood, town, province or country can observe and enjoy this party and we can also try to find in it some original aspects of our region.
There are also those who don’t find anything, like the Chileans, since the carnival was banned in that country in 1816. Today, the authentic Chilean carnivals are the "nortinos" of Arica, Tarapacá and Antofagasta.
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The Carnival is a costume party, or at least that’s how i know it for.
In my country, Spain, we celebrate it by disguising as all kinds of things, from the most typical, like animals, police, firefighter, doctor, nurse, to the opposite sex, men usually do this. And, it's very funny to see men with beards disguised as women.
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This week’s theme is the carnival, who dares to tell us how carnival is celebrated in their town? What is the carnival that you remember the most? Do you have wonderful photos?
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Carnival is a fun time of the year, it is always very cold in my city in the north of Spain, but that doesn’t stop people from taking to the streets to have fun for a while, without risk of others looking at them like they’re crazy. I don’t know if this tradition is so widespread in Latin America and I await your stories about it.
Let's laugh for a while with the movie and television costumes that can be found on the Internet…
Because of its eclectic conception, Latin America is an exotic product, not to say unintelligible to those who look at it from afar, because from a distance we have come from other customs that are adapted or modified, such is the case of the carnival, how does Gabriel García Márquez represent it in his work?
Frufrúes, tin tines, silks, bells, necklaces of laughter, happy squeals. Who is it? Come in! It's me ... Carnival!
(Delmira Agustini)
Let us be happy and live our own Carnival, we create our own traditions, our own look, our own being based on everything we admire or want to be as children. Let's disguise ourselves and look in the mirror to enjoy life.
Thank you for joining us in our carnival
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