Parvati Roma
Guilherme Arantes (São Paulo, 28 de julho de 1953) é um cantor e compositor brasileiro. Começou sua carreira como tecladista e vocalista da banda Moto Perpétuo - grupo de rock progressivo dos anos 70. História "Sou um pouco de tudo", diz Guilherme Arantes, "e o que mais me inspira é o amor, de...
Russ Bennett Is this related to your new Facebook profile picture. What is the meaning or tradition of the masks?Saturday at 11:25pm ·- Russ Bennett Do you guys have halloween?
It is one Holiday where Amuricans can dress up as whatever character they wnat and not get hauled off to a mental institution.Saturday at 11:28pm ·
Parvati RomaSorry I've taken so long to reply, Russ - so much I'd like to say on both topics I could fill a book!
First, on Halloween - here it's All Souls, day of commemoration of the dead, especially own-family ones : the Italian tradition is for fami...lies to visit, clean and tend the graves of ancestors and relatives - huge bouquets of flowers especially chrysanthemums are placed in vases by/on the graves, the cemeteries are thronged with people, florists stalls and trucks selling flowers massed at the entrances - and there's also a tradition of making special biscuits/sweets somehow connected with/said to resemble bones. No big tradition of fearsome-evil-spooks wandering in the streets but there is a belief that on all souls' night one's own ancestral ghosts may pop in for a visit so in some places food gets left out for them. The American scary-ghosts custom is beginning to find some followers here (via movies etc) being treated as a fun-type excuse to dress up, carneval style - kiddies' fancy-dress parties being held in the afternoon, teenagers' ones at night in homes or clubs - downside being way too many made-in-China witches costumes and plastic pumkins for my taste plus I hope it won't distort the traditional custom's message of love-and-caring-through-the-generations extending across the Great Life-Death Divide! :/??
....See More46 minutes ago ·- Parvati RomaP.S. Some great music around for Halloween as Day of the Dead/Death! One of my FB friends - very-nice-intelligent-thoughtful variety - posted a link to a haunting American folksong, I replied with two songs I particularly like from the Ita...lian tradition, then "saved" the exchange on a blogpage so it's eay to find and share:
http://darkmirrortexts.blogspot.com/2010/10/alas-we-must-die-songs-for-halloween.htmlSee More45 minutes ago · - Parvati RomaInterestingly, it's the celtic world's Samhain tradition that explains why masks are worn on this date in the anglo-world.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samhain
The Latin world's mask-wearing traditions on display in Mardi Gras processions ar...e of different origin - not directly spook-connected, complex with fascinatingly deep and intertwined roots plus all kinds of metaphysical sleight-of-hand so IMHO they deserve a new thread to themselves - especially as Italy is the Mask-traditions capital of the Eurosphere just as China is that of the Sinosphere ... will be back! ;)See More
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