Santa Muerte - Mexico's cult of Holy Death


	Santa Muerte - Mexico's cult of Holy Death

wiccantexan

10-29-2007 10:06 PM

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10-29-2007 10:45 PM

FirstApostate

LOL. And I thought X-tians were wack-a-doodles!

10-29-2007 11:35 PM

wiccantexan

I find it deeply moving. Being married to a Mexican, we erect a Day of the Dead altar in our home at this time of year.

10-30-2007 1:43 AM

boniface

@FirstApostate

Where'd you get so worldly? Hiding in your closet?

Like it or not, Death is the one fact-of-life everyone alive today will eventually face. She, Santísima Muerte, is one of the "great forces" of Nature.

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