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Orange Is The New Black - I Believe In Science (Original Post) ItsjustMe Mar 2022 OP
Kicking for the truth!! I_UndergroundPanther Mar 2022 #1
Did somebody say "machetes"? old as dirt Mar 2022 #2
Speaking of angelitos. old as dirt Mar 2022 #3
I agree. Hitchens was an asshole. old as dirt Mar 2022 #4
 

old as dirt

(1,972 posts)
2. Did somebody say "machetes"?
Sun Mar 13, 2022, 07:20 AM
Mar 2022

My wife has 3 machetes under the bed. She uses them for yardwork, especially in her flower garden.

Mi Machete - Grupo Niche



 

old as dirt

(1,972 posts)
3. Speaking of angelitos.
Sun Mar 13, 2022, 07:45 AM
Mar 2022

When I first met my wife, a quarter century ago, she told me two fundamental things about her religion (Roman Catholic).

One of them was about los Funerales del Angelitos.

When an infant or a small child dies (age 7 or younger), the child immediately becomes an angel, because the child has not had time to sin.

Funerales del Angelitos were still common when my wife lived there as a child.

The practice hasn't done for more than half a century. Here's a dramatization, courtesy of las Cantaoras del Patía, a musical group made up of professors from Patía.

My wife's religion part of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

RELIGIOSIDAD AFROPATIANA
Funerales de Angelitos: Arrullos


https://repository.javeriana.edu.co/bitstream/handle/10554/6623/tesis149.pdf




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