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Oct 21, 2020 · La Catrina, the Skeleton Dame, is often confused by the unfamiliar with the Skeleton Saint, Santa Muerte, but they are very different figures. While the former issued from a satirical drawing, the ...
Oct 15, 2015 · Santa Muerte is a Mexican folk saint who personifies death in the form a female skeleton. Whether as a votive candle, gold medallion or statue, she is typically depicted as a Grim Reapress, wielding the same scythe and wearing a shroud similar to the Grim Reaper, her male twin. Folk saints, unlike official Catholic ones, are spirits of the dead ...
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Santa Muerte. Nuestra Señora de la Santa Muerte ( Spanish: [ˈnwestɾa seˈɲoɾa ðe la ˈsanta ˈmweɾte]; Spanish for Our Lady of Holy Death ), often shortened to Santa Muerte, is a new religious movement, female deity, narco-saint, [1] [2] and folk saint in Mexican folk Catholicism and Neopaganism. [3] [4] : 296–297 A personification of ...
Oct 7, 2022 · The deadly saint is sometimes depicted as a man, but in Mexico you will most likely find her as a female entity. A skeletal figure, Santa Muerte is not to be confused with the popular Mexican image of the Catrina – a personification of the indigenous Mexicans who wanted to adopt European styles, an image first drawn by Jose Guadalupe Posada.
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Catrina (2015/2015) by SLC Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Latino. Originally, as Catrina was a pre-Hispanic, indigenous representation of Mictecacíhuatl, or the woman from Mictlán, she made fun of those who denied their indigenous roots. As for her clothing, Catrina’s outfit is European, and she, aside from being a skeleton ...
Oct 8, 2022 · As the Catrina symbol grew in popularity, she began to appear in Día De Los Muertos festivities as well, along with a male version, Catrin. Another connection can be drawn between La Catrina and ancient Aztec traditions. The goddess of death Mictecacihuatl was the first female representation of death, and queen of the underworld Chicunamictlan.
Nov 2, 2020 · The story of La Catrina involves three of Mexico’s most famous artists across two generations and the power of art as a reflection of society. JOSE GUADALUPE POSADA, La Calavera Catrina, c. 1910, lithograph. La Catrina has become the “face” of the Dia de los Muertos holiday – but she was not the first! Mictēcacihuātl – the queen of ...
