altar
Column: María Lionza – the Venezuelan Queen of Spirits
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Alan D.D. introduces TWH’s readers to the following of María Lionza, the Venezuelan Queen of Spirits.
Featured
Columna: María Lionza – La Reina Venezolana de los Espíritus
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A nuestros lectores, Alan D.D. nos presenta lo siguiente de María Lionza, la Reina Venezolana de los Espíritus.
ancestors
Column: El Silbón, a Venezuelan Legend About the Ancestors
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Alan D.D. recalls a Venezuelan legend of a banshee named El Silbón, “The Whistler,” and contemplates the relationship we have with our ancestors.
ancestors
Columna: El Silbón, una leyenda Venezolana sobre los Ancestros
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Alan D.D. recalls a Venezuelan legend of a banshee named El Silbón, “The Whistler,” and contemplates the relationship we have with our ancestors.
Paganism
Column: Death in the Family
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“Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them.”- G. Eliot
I’ve always felt that the dead have a complicated life in Latin America. Although the Day of the Dead enters modernity through Mexico, the conversations and intimacy with death are profoundly embedded in and throughout Latino/Hispanic culture. Nobel Laureate Octavio Paz once commented ““The word death is not pronounced in New York, in Paris, in London, because it burns the lips. The Mexican, in contrast, is familiar with death, jokes about it, caresses it, sleeps with it, celebrates it, it is one of his favorite toys and his most steadfast love.”