March 2011 Rituals

After surveying the cemetery we located it's oldest male and female residents, 1863 and 1864 respectfully, we asked their permission and laid down "the Ancestors" in their honour, a feast of food fragrance and music followed for them and us the living.

Carnival featured largely as not only did we commit with art and pain to the gods but also to the skin.

Ghede had been lurking around for a while, watching from the fringe, amused at our antics, finally on the darkest night of the year they manifest in the flesh and we gave at the crossroads took them for a tour of the town and peeked into the life of the humans.