April,13,2009 Today is pasquaetta, the day after Easter, everything was closed, not even busses running ! So, all I did was cook and eat.
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Hi!
Buon Giorno!
The pictures were just incredible and to think that it went on for 24 hours was really something! No wonder everyone took the next day off, they must have been fried!
I like all of your pictures! I hope you had a great time! Did you ever see or experience anything like that in your life?!!!
The food you made looks yummy also!
It looks like the Bishop of Trapani looking directly at you in the pic! Interesting also your observation the restuarant jacked up the price 10x for when the tourists come in.
Where does it seem like the tourists come from? Other parts of Italy? EU countries?
How do you feel after observing that 24 hours festival? Do you feel different ~ ? Also did you know they were going to have that festival when you went there?
My experience, when I was in similar circumstances in the past of devoting 24 hours or more nonstop to participating in religious festival is it makes you feel like you are in a different world.
The focus on everyday life ceases and is like time is suspended and is like you are living in an alternate universe or something.
It's interesting how much energy the people put into their festival. Where did all of the statues end up? And where did they come from?
Seems like I read all the books I had on hand on Italy. I feel like now I understand more the history of such a complex place.
I looked at textbook of World History. It's a huge textbook. But very very little of it covered Italy. Most of the section on European history focused on England and France.
So no wonder I was so ignorant about the history. I never learned about it before. This blog is great because it made me interest to learn about the history what I was seeing here.
Now I know that human beings for a long time have been through many many changes in this region. Yet through all the changes, some enduring things remain the same.
I hope you are having fun continuously learning new things and seeing new sights also.
Some of the pics you posted of the festival really tug at my heart. Seems like you could make a book just about the Misteri festival alone.
One pic you posted of two little girls in gold at first I thought, "Oh my someone took two angels down off one of the floats." Then OMG is real little girls.
Did you notice any blurring between reality and fantasy like that? Another example I noticed of the demarcation between the divine and this world blurred was the statues are very colorful and most the people entirely in black.
It made it seem like Japanese Bunrakyu Puppet show, where the puppeteers all dress in black and are on the stage with the lifesize puppets which are fantastically dressed in vivid colors.
This puts the focus on the play and the puppets, or in this case on the murtis [divine images] and the stations of the cross.
the tourists come from EU countries, mostly. I have never experienced anything like the procession for so many hours, after awhile I felt like it was a dream, I got mixed up as to what time it was,too.
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Hi!
Buon Giorno!
The pictures were just incredible and to think that it went on for 24 hours was really something! No wonder everyone took the next day off, they must have been fried!
I like all of your pictures! I hope you had a great time! Did you ever see or experience anything like that in your life?!!!
The food you made looks yummy also!
It looks like the Bishop of Trapani looking directly at you in the pic! Interesting also your observation the restuarant jacked up the price 10x for when the tourists come in.
Where does it seem like the tourists come from? Other parts of Italy? EU countries?
How do you feel after observing that 24 hours festival? Do you feel different ~ ? Also did you know they were going to have that festival when you went there?
My experience, when I was in similar circumstances in the past of devoting 24 hours or more nonstop to participating in religious festival is it makes you feel like you are in a different world.
The focus on everyday life ceases and is like time is suspended and is like you are living in an alternate universe or something.
It's interesting how much energy the people put into their festival. Where did all of the statues end up? And where did they come from?
Hope all is well...
Love
Hi!
Seems like I read all the books I had on hand on Italy. I feel like now I understand more the history of such a complex place.
I looked at textbook of World History. It's a huge textbook. But very very little of it covered Italy. Most of the section on European history focused on England and France.
So no wonder I was so ignorant about the history. I never learned about it before. This blog is great because it made me interest to learn about the history what I was seeing here.
Now I know that human beings for a long time have been through many many changes in this region. Yet through all the changes, some enduring things remain the same.
I hope you are having fun continuously learning new things and seeing new sights also.
Some of the pics you posted of the festival really tug at my heart. Seems like you could make a book just about the Misteri festival alone.
One pic you posted of two little girls in gold at first I thought, "Oh my someone took two angels down off one of the floats." Then OMG is real little girls.
Did you notice any blurring between reality and fantasy like that? Another example I noticed of the demarcation between the divine and this world blurred was the statues are very colorful and most the people entirely in black.
It made it seem like Japanese Bunrakyu Puppet show, where the puppeteers all dress in black and are on the stage with the lifesize puppets
which are fantastically dressed in vivid colors.
This puts the focus on the play and the puppets, or in this case on the murtis [divine images] and the stations of the cross.
Love
the tourists come from EU countries, mostly. I have never experienced anything like the procession for so many hours, after awhile I felt like it was a dream, I got mixed up as to what time it was,too.
GTB
Hi!
Buon Giorno!
Yes, that's what I am talking about: you feel like you are in a dream and you forget what time it is! :-)
Thanks for the link, it is very informative:
www.processionedeimisteri.it
This is the first year is available in English according to the site [click onto UK flag].
I like anything very old. One country I went to about five years ago, every block had something 400 - 600 years old.
This festival the past 400 years the same. Highlights from the website:
Two brotherhoods existed in Trapani [monastic orders] St Michael (since 1366 in Trapani ) and PBJ (Precious Blood of Jesus).
The clever statues created in XV century. The first sacred group "The Ordeal" dates to 1612.
20 groups of murtis. Wood and/ or cork skeleton with a cloth/ glue papier mache technique for the skin called "carchet" a specialty of Trapani.
This guarantees the most intensive emotional expressions. Our Lady of Sorrows closes the procession.
Two types of gaits are used: a swinging gait makes the statues come to life when viewed from afar.
The processions returns to the same church.
The deities are given chains, bracelets, crowns, jewels, and floral compositions.
So interesting. Thanks for sharing it.
Hi!
Question: On the website processione has a map "2009 itinerary". Whew they walk very far!!!!
Where are you located on this map? And where do you shop, catch the bus, go to see the fishermen, etc.?
[Name some streets/ intersections then I can find it on the map].
Nice talking to you!
Love
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