They brew potions and have little altars to Stevie Nicks.
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They thought it was gruesome to put bones on altars.
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Some altars have books, jewelry, music and clothes on display.
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It evoked some of the altars discussed in one of my favorite art books, Kay Turner's Beautiful Necessity: The Art and Meaning of Women's Altars, as well as the Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove in Nigeria.
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"Alter" was also a nod to altars in a religious context.
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Woods has been creating altars unintentionally since she was a child.
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One of her altars was adorned with pictures of her father.
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Such parallels charge us to treat bodies as sacred, like altars.
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Produced in conjunction with Self-Help Graphics, Grand Park's Noche de Ofrenda will kick off a weeklong Art + Altars exhibition, unveiling a series of artist-made altars, as well as a community altar by Ofelia Esparza.
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The bodies become altars through their tattoos (skulls, moons, names) and jewelry (bits of coral, gold, silver); while paintings of actual altars feature bark, necklaces, feathers, shells, and a nipple sticker, a sly reference to censorship.
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We decorated our own makeshift altars atop the mountains with the wooden santos.
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The sacrifice of great technology on the altars of marketing and self-promotion!
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At the climax of the rite, altars, stages and giant totems were set ablaze.
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Some of the original architecture remains, like stunning stained-glass windows and gilded altars.
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Bishop Barber had one at his home to select the best wine for church altars.
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We fail to realize that we are watching golf played upon its most sacred altars.
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This includes the city of Regina, where the blackened funeral doom band, Altars of Grief, resides.
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Besides the Virgin Mary, other icons and idols appear in their own sorts of faux altars.
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It's a great time to spruce up your altars—get fresh flowers and refill your offerings.
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I was amazed by the use of light on the altars, the legends, and black Christs.
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Calaveritas are for the most part edible, but people mainly use them to decorate their altars.
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About half the rooms are fitted with small altars and narrow platforms designed to hold coffins.
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But look on the bright side: At least the basement isn't full of skeletons and sacrificial altars.
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The temple has a golden roof, white stupas and altars adorned with sculptures made of yak butter.
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It was religious fanaticism that burned heretics and stripped altars and briefly raised up a Puritan theocracy.
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Leah Shirley and Matt Gliva mix nonelectronic mediums, combining paintings that evoke icons with offerings or altars.
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He even says that the Disney movie inspired some of his Mexican relatives to start creating altars.
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The spectacle of churches, mosques and sacrificial pagan altars, sometimes all in the same small village, is dizzying.
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It will deny its false gods, reverse their altars, and, on the pile it has made, reconstruct Olympus.
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His dramatic pieces resemble great altars of Carrara marble or prehistoric slabs of 500,000-year-old petrified wood.
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A 21973 documentary explores how Betye Saar's mythic altars illustrate the personal and political implications of Black identity.
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Ahead, we've rounded up some of our favorite Insta-altars, from the very simple to the high-key aesthetic.
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Edward's ministers set out to destroy idolatry in church, including saints' paintings, church silver, inappropriate altars and glitzy vestments.
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Some visitors laid flowers at the altars, each brimming with personal relics: stuffed animals, swim goggles, boxes of pasta.
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Originally constructed during the Ming Dynasty in 1420, the temple is a series of altars set in lush parklands.
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We build altars in our homes with framed photos of the departed next to candles, fruit, bread and candy.
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These altars are filled with the favorite food and drinks of dead relatives, and decorated with candles and flowers.
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"My altars remind me of my family and how I grew to be the person that I am," Ivory explains.
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We can see this unique melding of beliefs and symbols most clearly in the altars people build for the holiday.
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The gallery at the The Seligmann Center where it's on view isn't full of candlelit altars and voodoo dolls, though.
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Each year, there are large celebrations and altars for Día de los Muertos and performances from the campus ballet folkorico.
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The works are featured throughout the island's temples, altars, agoras, and some are blended with its topography and natural views.
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In a playful and ironic way, the pieces on view are modern-day altars to both the artist and the selfie.
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With his desktop altars, Rococo-styled rooms filled with sculptures, vintage furniture, and strange little displacements become animated sequences and videos.
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Within Hinduism, yoni vessels (often shallow, spouted containers) appear as part of rituals or altars meant to honor different female deities.
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Families typically build altars to deceased loved ones and decorate them with food, candles and ephemera dedicated to the deceased's memory.
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Behind these altars, a small choir stood on risers, accompanied by electronic music and a long loop of recorded singing bowls.
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Since the summer solstice is associated with the element of fire, altars facing south, the direction ruled by fire, are ideal.
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The delicate little symmetries dance and gyrate, connect and disengage, suggesting insect specimens, jewels, orchids, masks, altars, ogres and ornate temples.
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The earliest Hispanic crafts were those in the religious arts, like santos (wooden saints) and leather altars with damask silk interiors.
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It is one of the world's largest constructions for worshipping God, and features separate altars for sacrifices to heaven and earth.
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Of course, the modern witches of Instagram go one step further with their altars and make them good to look at, too.
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They kick, fly through glass walls, and crash floating altars to sex crimes with abandon, driving the story forward with every frame.
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Their altars, also called mandaps or mandirs, take over a corner in their homes or, depending on the practice, a whole room.
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They take yak butter, color it, and create these exquisite sculptures of their deities that they would place on altars before prayer.
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In it, Orton showed up at an old house filled with not all that creepy dolls, hastily assembled altars, and flickering lights.
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Mr. Jois's photo still appears on some yoga studio altars; his name still adorns some websites as a stamp of professional standing.
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This Is a Sickness and Sickness Will End is out on March 123 via Anxious & Angry (USA) and Countless Altars (Canada/Europe).
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He fashions it beyond recognition, building it up into elaborate icons, altars, and ritual objects reminiscent of the church of his youth.
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In Mexico, families pack cemeteries to adorn graves with marigolds and candles, also erecting altars in their homes to welcome the dead.
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Despite the vast altars on which networks make gruesome sacrifices while cantillating to their gods, neither of these shows will last forever.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads For decades, Betye Saar has stunned viewers with her altars devoted to Black spiritualities and liberation.
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This phenomenon served a particular purpose in central Europe, where Protestant raids had systematically stripped Catholic altars of their iconography and relics.
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Living your life the way you want reminds them of the ways they have compromised, sacrificing themselves on altars of Christianity and mediocrity.
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Mexican families often create altars with photos and small gifts to make these souls from the afterlife feel at home among the living.
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My grandmother was a complete devotee of Shango, and my parents always had altars for the Orishas in different parts of our house.
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We live, breathe, and worship at the altars of our favorite YouTube vloggers and rack up Beauty Insider points like it's our job.
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There are truth serums disguised as cafecitos, herbs with magical powers, prayer altars and characters hailing from Ecuador, the Dominican Republic, and Argentina.
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Upon the triumphal arches, the altars, and the coins of Rome, SPQR stood for Senatus Populusque Romanus (the Senate and the Roman people).
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As Churchill put it, we "speak the same language, kneel at the same altars and, to a very large extent, pursue the same ideals".
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In addition to covering altars (ofrenda) with marigolds, toys, and candles, families and friends will gather to remember loved ones and visit their graves.
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Fini's iMac altars, tucked in along the way, allow for prayer and even gameplay, with one running the fully-functional Secret Paths CD-ROM .
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And in addition to Christian symbolism the Seattle church has altars dedicated to a dozen different religions, including Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism and paganism.
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Lang also told Trailblazers that during that time, he sought solace at Beijing's Temple of Heaven, a series of altars set in lush parklands.
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As an author and lover of books, bookshelves have always acted as kinds of altars for me, even as they serve a functional purpose.
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The ofrendas (offerings), as the altars are called, are carefully assembled using many traditional elements, but each of them is unique on its own.
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In ektor garcia's exhibition in Mexico City, sculptural assemblages that evoke altars, everyday tools, and sex toys blur conventional distinctions between types of artifacts.
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The interior decor is a sort of Buddhist-goth, with peaceful altars and sticks of incense interspersed with skulls and pig fetuses floating in jars.
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The vintage connoisseur has graduated from boxes and tins filled with tiny objects to altars bursting with crystals, shells, dried flowers and all things earth.
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Stars Over Sacred Mongolian Ovoo by Qiqige Zhao (Australia)Star trails sweep over colourful and extraordinary sacred altars, called Ovoo, in Mingantu in Inner Mongolia.
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For those who don't use personal altars, that term can summon up some pretty elaborate images, but creating one is actually a pretty simple process.
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Turning these urban springs of fresh water into tiny altars of awareness can make water access top of mind—and provide a better public service.
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The trio's sparsely titled second demo showcases an impossibly heavy, primal death sound dredged through the slimiest of caverns and most befouled altars of madness.
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But the sheer scale of so much of historic Catholic visual culture — altars, frescoes, and vestments alike — is as much due to necessity as theology.
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Sometimes, I leave her on while I edit — if she can make the tough calls, then so can I. Writers need their totems, their altars.
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One room was left dark and glowing, illuminated with altars by artists Sierra Grace and Amanda Ortega, all plastic candles, glass kittens, and dead iPhones.
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Gibbering, I lay on the ground, my limbs flailing like dumb tentacles as I waited for the cultists to drag me towards their eldritch altars.
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The sculptural pieces have a reverent aspect — some by allusion, suggesting totems and altars; others literally, for instance a medicine bundle with sage and tobacco.
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Celebrated in Mexico and Central America, this holiday, the Day of the Dead, honors deceased ancestors with memorial altars and festive displays of molded-sugar skulls.
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People honoring Day of the Dead also visit the graves of their relatives and build ofrendas, or small altars with flowers and gifts, inside their homes.
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The Five run server clouds, app stores, ad networks and venture firms, altars to which the smaller guys must pay a sizable tax just for existing.
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Mr. Polendo described the setting as "a space of memory," along the lines of Dia de los Muertos altars, through which spirits communicate their deepest longings.
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Nevertheless, this type of pop Catholicism centers local and more personal practices — like Virgin Mary worship and home altars — that are more mutable, resilient, and personal.
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At shrines and altars back home, such works have context and meaning; in the clinical setting of the museum, they seemed diminished and out of place.
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"Prior to the Spanish invasion, people in Mexico used to make altars for the dead, and they used to put real skulls on them," Aguirre explains.
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Standing on either side of the fireplace are two head-high 17th-century candlesticks, which were traditionally placed by church altars and used on Christmas Eve.
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Retablos originally referred to paintings placed behind church altars, but by the 12th century, the term referred to any painted work associated with a sacred image.
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It's when we honor the memories of our deceased friends and relatives by visiting their cemeteries and sharing their favorite foods on altars for the occasion.
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God's eyes were originally made by the Huichol, the indigenous people of what's now western Mexico, and they appeared on everything from altars to large ceremonial shields.
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" Gundaker wrote that such yard shows, which can be found throughout the Deep South, "serve as rambling altars, places where spirits can be summoned and communed with.
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On the one hand, as Gibson notes, you had the "smashing of the icons, the stripping of the altars": Protestant attempts to counter the Catholic Church's excesses.
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People honoring the Day of the Dead also visit the graves of their relatives and build ofrendas, or small altars with flowers and gifts, inside their homes.
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Families celebrate life by building "ofrendas" — decorated altars — to honor their relatives, while in some cities, they host parades — like this one pictured above in Los Angeles.
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If 2016 teaches us anything, it's that the Democrats are at a disadvantage when they reflexively worship at the twin altars of identity politics and political correctness.
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People carefully build altars for the dead The colorful multi-level memorials are built in homes, schools and public places as a tribute to deceased loved ones.
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The hymns and various altars in the Catholic Church still give me a certain calm (I can't explain it), so I kneel and cry for a bit.
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During this time of the year, you will see piles of pan de muerto atop altars honoring grandparents, great-grandparents, lovers, and friends who have moved on.
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Related: Land Art Animations Piece Life Itself Together Cow Art Is the New Land Art Land Artist Makes Delicate Altars Designed to be Destroyed | City of the Seekers
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Nanette Diaz Barragán (D-Calif.) said she only learned about the tradition of setting up such altars after watching the Disney movie "Coco," which focuses on the holiday.
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Some years earlier, during the French Revolution, it had been rededicated to the cult of Reason and the goddess of Liberty displaced the Virgin Mary on its altars.
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Central to the festivities are the Maya girls, young women from the village who are adorned with flower crowns and staged at altars near the center of town.
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"On all sides, you could see nothing but altars and sacrifices, men and women decked in their holiday best and smiling," according to the first-century writer Philo.
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They are also important to humans, studded with small altars and temples that are thought to be homes to neak ta, landscape spirits in the local animist pantheon.
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Work comes immediately after, and on Xabran's Rock, you live and die by the luck of the eight goddesses, their altars spread throughout the maze of shops and streetwalkers.
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Work comes immediately after, and on Xabran's Rock, you live and die by the luck of the eight goddesses, their altars spread throughout the maze of shops and streetwalkers.
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A magnificent set of 16th-century Benin bronze plaques were among thousands of items ripped from shrines and altars by British troops in 1897, then auctioned, and auctioned again.
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Still, at their best, they aimed to use their powers for a cause larger than themselves — while Trump, Boris Johnson and Xi Jinping worship only at their own altars.
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Staging excess as a means of examining commerce and celebrity, Baker worships at the twin altars of TMZ and MGM, so that new and old Hollywood clash like animal prints.
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Image: INAHTwo circular altars were also found at the site, in an orientation consistent with Aztec Xipe Tótec rituals, as per accounts recorded by Spanish conquistadors during the early 1500s.
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Allen's photographs include portraits of mediums, scenes from the festivals where worship involves a visual cacophony of dancing, food, music, and color, and intimate shots of the mediums' home altars.
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OFRENDAS Five- to ten-foot altars made by local artists celebrate the Mexican Day of the Dead, in a show organized in collaboration with Detroit's Mexican consulate. Oct. 227–Nov.
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Traditional celebrants pay homage to deceased relatives by visiting grave sites in cemeteries and by decorating altars in their homes with offerings of marigolds, sugar skulls and pictures of saints.
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Its roughness contrasts sharply with the smooth side altars made of white Kairuru marble, above which protrude detailed mosaics showing Mary, Chanel, Jesus, and St. Joseph with the baby Jesus.
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I come from a faith where it's 100 percent appropriate to include your elders in your shrines and altars, so this seems to make sense to me, though I'm not Christian.
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The gifs, pngs, and jpgs inevitably became spliced, remixed, broken, minced, enlarged, interlinked, and eroded, elaborately arranged in gif altars or parsed into animated rebuses by the site's semi-anonymous users.
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Although it may bear some resemblance to Duchamp's "Boîte en Valise" — the original "art box" filled with miniature versions of his works — it also recalls the baroque kitsch of Mexican altars.
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The fall equinox, or the Pagan sabbat known as Mabon, is fast-approaching, and people whose spirituality is grounded in nature are already assembling their altars to pay tribute to the season.
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Just as Stuart's work on paper both removes and records the materials from a given site, these altars supplement the later photographic work with tangible traces of the sites and subjects surveyed.
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His most recent exhibition, my name is my name iii at We Buy Gold, pushed this logic in new directions, creating full altars as sets and embedding rituals into his photographic practice.
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Not to mention her millions of devotees across the globe, and altars all over North and South America, and European cities including Paris, where she has a dedicated altar inside Notre-Dame.
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As I grew older, I learned that the fair-skinned, blue-eyed depiction of Jesus has for centuries adorned stained glass windows and altars in churches throughout the United States and Europe.
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The cultural holiday, which originated in Mexico, is observed with elaborate altars as well as sweets and costumes adorned with skull designs and bright colors to remember loved ones who have died.
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Related: A Digital Artist Creates Altars for Your Desktop A Short Animation Bends Dimensions in Its Depiction of Family Drama Sail Away to a Tropical VR Island in this Supernatural Music Video
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Rainbow school buses, virtual sculpture gardens, TV altars, trips to Mars, and a whole bunch of bedazzled faces: III Points 2016 was effectively a pop-up city, a Willy Wonka world of weird.
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Throughout the expansive warehouse space, surreal and almost horrifying photographs hang upon the walls, accompanied by a series of sculptural objects hoisted upon various pedestals, like altars to the collective's quasi-religious cult.
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"He didn't like the idea because he was afraid of the paintings and altars of the deity," said Temuulen's mother, Badamkhand Dambii, recounting her son's reaction the first time she broached the topic.
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The majority of the work is presented on the floor, stacked up or collaged according to unclear rubrics and ambiguous compositions that take the loose form of altars, everyday tools, and sex toys.
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So when Mr. Rubio genuflects at the altars of supply-side economics and hard money, he isn't telling ordinary Republicans what they want to hear — by and large the party's base couldn't care less.
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Makeshift altars adorned with fake flowers and electric candles are spread across the carpeted floor, while projectors cycle through snapshots from Mohammed's own family archive as well as found photographs, largely of quotidian scenes.
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Her clotted, sunburnt orange flowers are like the Aztec marigolds that dot household altars and her grinning skeletons could be brethren to the calaca masks and calavera sugar skulls that assist in commemorating the spiritual journey.
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No one bothered to close their doors in the daytime, and inside I saw elders playing mah-jongg in unlit parlors next to altars for deceased relatives, often watched over by faded portraits of Chairman Mao.
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The pungent scent and bright color of fresh marigold petals are meant to guide the spirits to their altars, and glasses of water are handy to quench the thirst of the dead after their long journey.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads You may know Genesis Breyer P-Orridge from their collages of tabloid articles, altars with stuffed bunnies, or project to surgically alter themselves to resemble their late partner, Lady Jaye.
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Led by a priestess of Demeter, holding unknown sacred objects in a coffin, there would have been ritual bathing, much singing of songs and hymns and frequent stops at altars to pour libations and make sacrifices.
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The movie is set against the backdrop of Día de los Muertos (the Day of the Dead), the Mexican holiday when families gather to honor ancestors by building altars to them and decorating their grave sites.
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Attendance at Holy Week services at St. Mark's Cathedral in Alexandria soared after the bombing, clerics said, as worshipers defied their fears and crowded into a church whose pillars and altars were shrouded in black cloth.
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Rooftops that were once unoccupied, soulless concrete deserts, become transformed into food-producing, flower-rearing altars to the sun, where people gather, lean in, and reconnect with the world's natural wonder in the midst of a city.
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In these traditions, we don't push our deceased loved ones 'out of sight, out of mind,' we make altars for them adorned with their pictures and favorite items to honor their spirit and to keep them close.
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In an alluring installation designed by Sebastian Clough, the show moves through a spectrum of iron's traditional applications in Africa: to the making of elaborate portable altars; precision-tooled weapons; musical instruments, forms of currency, some colossal.
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Most significantly, the new law altars for the better several antiquated aspects of the pre-existing tax regime and directly addresses the substantial buildup of non- or low-taxed income in tax havens in a reasonable way.
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Or, as Mr. Owens designed them this time around, perhaps reminders of the selves we might be if we were part of a newfangled priesthood tending to the altars of the essential shared fabric(s) of life.
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Magnified by the show's temple-like exhibition design, the tiny altars and reliquaries along the walls will pull you in by their alarming ability to synthesize opulence, kitsch, and gore into an occult vessel for P-Orridge.
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In an a twist on the traditional dancing skeletons and marigold-adorned altars making their way down the capital's main thoroughfare, the parade also referenced Mexicans who emigrated as well as foreigners who settled in the capital.
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But its altars are everywhere, virtually invisible yet part of the warp and woof of everyday life: at one moment prayed to on Wall Street, at another configuring the most hidden desires and anxieties of everyone's emotional life.
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Though Mexico's Day of the Dead does involve some large scale public altars and a lot of skeletons — including chocolate ones — it is primarily an intimate celebration dominated by gatherings of families beside the graves of lost loved ones.
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No one that I saw at the "Sacrament to Hekate Triodia" was weeping uncontrollably, but more than a few people were wiping back tears as they gazed at the altars and considered how they wanted to change their lives.
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Day of the Dead, or Día de Muertos, is a holiday to celebrate the memory of the deceased with cemetery visits and memorial altars, which include offerings representative of the objects and activities that those honored enjoyed in life.
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From October 31 to November 2, people play music at cemeteries, dress in ornate, colorful costumes, and make flower-adorned altars to honour the souls of departed family members, whose spirits they believe return to Earth during this time.
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Leave some energy in your tank for the Gala of the Gone on Monday night at House of Yes, where seances, altars, libations, fruit offerings, tarot readings, and house music will help you commune with spirits of the past.
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The album's gorgeous purple-and-blue cover is what first caught my eye; it looks of like Oranssi Pazuzu's Valonielu crossed with 'Altars of Madness,' bathed in cold violet light (which is a reasonably accurate depiction of their overall sound, too).
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Where the previous generation had worshipped at the altars of tinnitus kingmakers AC/DC and KISS, Metallica provided an update that was sonically heavier yet just as gratifying whether played on a Discman's headphones or through the speakers at a stadium.
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It does appear sporadically: In the chapter on the Day of the Dead, she travels to Mexico with her friend Sarah to visit a mummy museum, as well as the altars families erect to honor the people they've lost that year.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Dancing devils, towering skeletons and altars festooned with marigolds made their way down Mexico City's main thoroughfare on Saturday to commemorate Day of the Dead in a country still mourning nearly 500 people killed in earthquakes last month.
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The church has denied it had anything to do with the assault that floored stone altars, broke stone carvings, and left offerings in disarray at the highland religious site surrounded by a pine forest in the central Mexican state of Hidalgo.
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This museum, however, will put its own spin on the festivities with altars that are dedicated not to human relatives but to extinct animal species, and with skulls that are plaster casts of the bones of the hominin species that preceded our own.
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The activities will also include more familiar traditions: designing Day of the Dead masks and mini-altars; learning the art of papel picado, or paper cutting; and enjoying performances of folk music and dance presented by Mano a Mano: Mexican Culture Without Borders.
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A tour of the Self Help Graphics exhibition Día de los Muertos: A Cultural Legacy — which features artwork and altars from four decades of celebrations at the community arts space — with artists Mari Cardenas and Milton Jurado will precede the discussion at 6pm.
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One of the most sought-after silversmiths of his time, the multiskilled Valadier oversaw a busy workshop that supplied popes, aristocrats and visiting royalty with objects and statues for high altars, private chapels and the most lavish of libraries and dinner tables.
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In many cities, especially those with large Chicano populations like Houston and Los Angeles, altars honoring deceased ancestors and loved ones with food and mementos have popped up on street corners and in shops in advance of the holiday on Nov. 2.
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Related: Mystical Amulets and Sea Caves Come Alive in 'Revenge of the Crystal' Group Show | City of the Seekers Land Artist Makes Delicate Altars Designed to be Destroyed | City of the Seekers The Hindu Belief of Samsara is Examined in Modern Paintings | City of the Seekers
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They've embroidered everything from Mexico City metro cars to Day of the Dead altars, and even displayed 52 giant woollen breasts (under the Spanish pun 'Lactejiendo'; 'Lac-knitting' unfortunately doesn't have quite the same ring to it in English) in the garden of Mexico City's Vasconcelos Library.
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And although the white stone itself will almost certainly outlive its current quarriers, as it outlived the ancient Romans and Michelangelo, most of it will no longer be in the Apuan Alps: It will be scattered in this worldwide diaspora — in sinks, tiles, altars, skyscraper lobbies, busts.
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White folk musicians play on the outdoor stage, strumming banjos — an iconic symbol of Americana — while Saar prepares to craft a different symbol of American identity and tradition through her now iconic assemblage creations: altars to diasporic Black identities healing from Jim Crow's physical and visual violence.
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At the end of a montage of her weighty work, we see Saar close her eyes after a heavy sigh; all of these visuals of racial violence and ancestral memories are inside of her, spinning through her head — an exhausting reality which she siphons into her altars.
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The Prime Minister invoked the British statesman on a number of occasions during her speech on Thursday, at one point quoting him: "As Churchill put it, we 'speak the same language, kneel at the same altars and, to a very large extent, pursue the same ideals,'" May said.
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As a former wedding writer, I spent many Saturday nights and Sunday afternoons — nearly 100 of them — watching couples make their way down so many aisles, and gaze at each other across altars or under chuppahs, and exchange vows in typical and truly odd locations, including a cemetery.
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A fresh start concerning issues at home and with your loved ones arrives on November 7, with the new moon in Scorpio—this is also an especially wonderful time to clean up your apartment, tend to your altars, and simply make time for yourself to walk down memory lane.
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Killed on one altar and skinned on the other A team from the National Institute of Anthropology and History also found two sacrificial altars, which would have been used as part of ceremonies in which priests skinned their victims before covering themselves in it as a sign of regeneration.
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There he also met Anita Brenner, a Mexican writer of Latvian Jewish descent, who was the fulcrum of a lively international community, and whose widely read 1929 book "Idols Behind Altars" — there's a copy on display — introduced North Americans to the history of Mexican culture, from pre-Columbian times forward.
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Best has re-created, at least in part, the outpouring of emotion that occurs at the festival by inviting Smithsonian visitors to write notes and testaments on small blocks of wood, which they can place into the intricate patterns that form altars and light fixtures and cover every inch of the room's walls.
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Our dinghy bumped against the dock and we filed off, followed A.K. up this new ghat, where fresh cords of wood awaited us, past a man squatting next to another shaving his whiskers, a cow before a restaurant nosing into the door, narrow streets with private altars of Shiva behind iron gates.
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I have no clear prescription for Western Christianity to offer in this column, but I do have an admonition: It is First Communion season in America, and when our children ascend in joy and safety to our altars, the children martyred in the churches of Sri Lanka should be ever in our thoughts.
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Noemí Castillo Tejero, the archaeologist who led the project, was not available for an interview, but the institute said that the excavation at the complex, called Ndachjian-Tehuacan, had also uncovered two altars nearby, in a layout that appeared to match Aztec accounts of rituals associated with the cult of Xipe Tótec.
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Oaxaca City, and its surrounding pueblos, is an area particularly known for its Dia de Muertos celebrations, which involve the cleaning and dressing of graves in fresh flowers, candles, and food; parades and band jams taking place in the streets; and ofrendas, the traditional altars that are erected temporarily in remembrance of specific loved ones.
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