the inexorable falcon of doom (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} rhinemouse) wrote,@ 2008-04-28 07:23:00 |
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Santa Muerte
I do not have the time or brains for an original entry right now, so I leave you instead with the research links my google-fu turned upon Santa Muerte, the "folk saint"/goddess of death who is prayed to in Mexico and, increasingly, some areas of the U.S.
The 'Saint' of Last Resorts (Mexico News, 2004)
Skeleton Force (San Diego Union Tribuone, 2004).
The Death Cult of the Drug Lords Mexico’s Patron Saint of Crime, Criminals, and the Dispossessed (A report by the Army's Foreign Military Studies Office)
The New God in Town (TIME, 2007)
A Novena Prayer to Santa Muere (to get your faithless boyfriend back)
I do not have the time or brains for an original entry right now, so I leave you instead with the research links my google-fu turned upon Santa Muerte, the "folk saint"/goddess of death who is prayed to in Mexico and, increasingly, some areas of the U.S.
The 'Saint' of Last Resorts (Mexico News, 2004)
"She is a Virgen de Guadalupe in negative: That which one can't ask of the Virgen, one can ask of her," says Homero Aridjis, a poet, novelist and former diplomat who recently published a short story collection about La Santa Muerte's mysterious and increasingly firm grip on the Mexican soul.
Skeleton Force (San Diego Union Tribuone, 2004).
Every Sunday, Romo, who says he is an ordained archbishop of the "Traditional Catholic Church of Mexico-United States," holds "Masses" worshipping Santa Muerte. . . . He is building a seminary in the church to train new "priests," who will be taught philosophy and English, Hebrew and French. "This movement will grow even more," he said. "Nobody can stop it because there is freedom of religion."
The Death Cult of the Drug Lords Mexico’s Patron Saint of Crime, Criminals, and the Dispossessed (A report by the Army's Foreign Military Studies Office)
The New God in Town (TIME, 2007)
A Novena Prayer to Santa Muere (to get your faithless boyfriend back)
| Muerte Santa, mi gran tesoro, | Death Saint, my great treasure, |
| no te apartes en ninguna ocacion: | never go away from me at any time: |
| Pan comiste y de el me diste, y | You ate bread and gave me bread, and |
| como eres la poderosa duena de | as you are the powerful owner of |
| la oscura mansion de la vida y la | the dark mansion of life and |
| Emperatriz de las tinieblas, quiero | Empress of darkness, I want |
| que me hagas el favor de que | you to grant me the favour that |
| fulano......... se presente a mis | ___name___ is at my feet |
| pies humiliado y arrepentido y | humiliated and repentant |
| que nunca mas vuelva a irse de mi | and that he never leaves my |
| lado, mientras yo lo necesite. Y | side when I need him, and that |
| has que me cumpla lo que me ha | you make me get what was |
| prometido. | promised to me. |
