Rituals of Life and Death

Rituals of Life and Death

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SAGRADO CORAZÓN DE JESUS

SALESIANAS-POPAYAN

ENGLISH WRITING DEVELOPMENT

NAME: Diana Marcela Sotelo Bolaños COURSE: 11°B CODE: 34 DATE: 27th may 

SAN BASILIO DE PALENQUE FUNERAL RITUAL

in San Basilio de Palenque is a series of ritual practices over life and death that havebeen passing from generation to generation through the African legacy.The Lumbalú is the most characteristic feature of the funeral ritual and is part of the wake, for nine days and nine nights are made melancholy songs and dances around the deadso that his soul may be provided in your body and so can pass to the world of the deadwhere the deceased will be waiting relatives.At the end of the rite takes the deceased to the cemetery and the house has been veileddeonde is swept to the dead leaves so fully and pray a prayer at five in the morning andsix in the evening because it is said at that hour when the soul or shadow as he is knownback to visit the house where he became the Lumbalú.