by holidayconnections · Published 2021-10-08 · Last modified 2021-10-17
Before Christianity, every culture in the world had some kind of celebration to remember their ancestors, usually combined with harvest and the change of seasons. The Celts and the Aztecs included. By the way neither the Celts nor the Aztecs...
by holidayconnections · Published 2021-10-03 · Last modified 2021-10-18
Day of the Dead Food – Mexico Thank God we still have the opportunity to enjoy thousand year old cuisine today! Specifically the Zapotec food that Abigail Mendoza has taken to the world. Abigail has become the best traditional chef...
by holidayconnections · Published 2021-10-02 · Last modified 2021-10-09
Day of the Dead Activities I have a confession to make, I never celebrated Halloween as a scary holiday, instead I tried to make it a time for honoring our ancestors, by talking about them, their stories, and how they...
by holidayconnections · Published 2021-10-01 · Last modified 2021-10-10
They are both pagan festivals to honor the ancestors, give thanks for the harvest, involve children, and bring the community together. All Hallow’s Eve, or Halloween, has its roots in an older, pagan tradition, called Nos Calan Gaeaf , Welsh for...
by holidayconnections · Published 2021-09-23
As described in an article By Devon Van Houten Maldonado17th August 2018. In the 1500s in Europe, Lapis lazuli was the only blue pigment used on paintings, majolica, tiles, textiles. It was incredibly expensive but also extremely laborious to make...
by holidayconnections · Published 2021-09-23 · Last modified 2021-09-25
The third-most valuable export from Mexico to Spain, after gold and silver was Cochinille [“cactus blood” in Nahuatl] It is one of the most expensive pigments in the world; made from an insect [nocheztli in Nahuatl] that grows on a...