Spanish explorers claimed to see: " Cities that glistened in white." " Great quantities of maize and oats." " A town of disproportionate size… " " and a chief with gold idols… and other riches" .
From time to time, I see their faces against the dark, flickering like the images of saints in old, foreign cathedrals in the light of the drafty candles.
He also adopted elements of Byzantine iconography, such as the double headed eagle, along with Byzantine rituals dating back to the old Roman emperor Diocletian.
The top of the refrigerator busy with holy candles, some lit, some not, red and green and blue, a plaster saint and a dusty Palm Sunday cross, and a picture of the voodoo hand taped to the wall.
But this is a very long festival in which the sacred icons of these deities were put into ritual boats and they were carried on the backs of people for almost, I want to say it's a mile, it's far.