La Calabuiza
Tonacatepeque, El Salvador
Tonacatepeque, El Salvador
Town streets were filled Tonacatepeque mythological creatures, fire and pumpkins, some with their cries, others with their particular, given the ghostly touch to the city for one night receives forward and open arms to all these beings of the most famous Salvadoran legends.
Children and adults dressed Siguanaba, cadejos, Cipitío, the mourners, the noncustodial head and death were the main attraction of this unique parade.
Each of the characters were walking in the streets carrying a "Calabiuza" (pumpkin or squash developed nose, a term derived from pumpkin or squash as we know it in El Salvador) that was lit with candles.
The traditional feast is celebrated on All Saints Day. It is part of the rite or cult Mictlantecuhtli ("lord of death"), who watched squatting critically ill patients.
It is popular belief that on November 1, God gives permission to all the saints so that converted into angels, fall to the ground. These angels need to feed and find honey in the squash into a delicacy.
The village elders say that children are dressed and out by the angels homes to seek pumpkin (pumpkin) with honey in the light of a lamp made from a seed On this night in which the specter of death more than any other round the living.
This celebration has turned into assets for the locals also for all Salvadorans in general, since this holiday is visited of thousands of Salvadorans every year who want to see and participate in this very own celebration.
Children and adults dressed Siguanaba, cadejos, Cipitío, the mourners, the noncustodial head and death were the main attraction of this unique parade.
Each of the characters were walking in the streets carrying a "Calabiuza" (pumpkin or squash developed nose, a term derived from pumpkin or squash as we know it in El Salvador) that was lit with candles.
The traditional feast is celebrated on All Saints Day. It is part of the rite or cult Mictlantecuhtli ("lord of death"), who watched squatting critically ill patients.
It is popular belief that on November 1, God gives permission to all the saints so that converted into angels, fall to the ground. These angels need to feed and find honey in the squash into a delicacy.
The village elders say that children are dressed and out by the angels homes to seek pumpkin (pumpkin) with honey in the light of a lamp made from a seed On this night in which the specter of death more than any other round the living.
This celebration has turned into assets for the locals also for all Salvadorans in general, since this holiday is visited of thousands of Salvadorans every year who want to see and participate in this very own celebration.
