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The following is an incomplete list of festivals in Europe, with links to separate lists by country and region where applicable. This list includes festivals of diverse types, including regional festivals, religious festivals , commerce festivals, film festivals , folk festivals , carnivals , recurring festivals on holidays, and music festivals .
Paula Nicho Cumez (born 1955), is a Mayan-Guatemalan artist. Cumez is inspired by Mayan tradition and culture and focuses on expressing the context of native women’s experience in her artwork; additionally, Cumez is inspired by the Popol Vuh; Andrés Curruchich (1891–1969), Guatemalan painter of the Kaqchikel people
Maya households interred their dead underneath the floors, with offerings appropriate to the social status of the family. There the dead could act as protective ancestors. Maya lineages were patrilineal, so the worship of a prominent male ancestor would be emphasised, often with a household shrine.
Sandra Noble, executive director of the Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies, said, "For the ancient Maya, it was a huge celebration to make it to the end of a whole cycle," and, "The 2012 phenomenon is a complete fabrication and a chance for a lot of people to cash in." [10] "There will be another cycle," said E. Wyllys ...
The peoples and cultures which comprised the Maya civilization spanned more than 2,500 years of Mesoamerican history, in the Maya Region of southern Mesoamerica, which incorporates the present-day nations of Guatemala and Belize, much of Honduras and El Salvador, and the southeastern states of Mexico from the Isthmus of Tehuantepec eastwards, including the entire Yucatán Peninsula.
Feasts in Maya society were composed of three parts: 1) worshiping of an ancestor by presenting offerings, 2) the sacrificing of the offerings, and 3) the consumption of foods that were blessed by the gods. The Maya hosted feasts for various reasons such as to celebrate marriages, deaths, health, various life events, farming celebrations, and ...
When Alma Paz-San Miguel was living in Guadalajara, Jalisco, surrounded by her living family members, she didn't give celebrating Dia de los Muertos or Day of the Dead, much consideration. Twenty ...
The following is a list of notable people born, raised, or closely associated with the U.S. state of New Jersey This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.