tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529642981086836071.post882600850374889417..comments2024-03-12T02:51:37.981-04:00Comments on DBKP - Worldwide Leader in Weird: Seville Spain's Easter Holy Week: 17th Century PagaentryMondohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14823296680977269849noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529642981086836071.post-32766032823461878332010-11-24T13:32:19.293-05:002010-11-24T13:32:19.293-05:00Thanks for the info. I've practically grown up...Thanks for the info. I've practically grown up in Sevilla and frankly I just find this whole thing a major pain...They cut the traffic in the centre of the city, and it's all quite bizarre. Being an atheist, I never bothered much about it, except my in-law people are coming to visit next year coinciding with Holy Week, so I looked it up in Google, and found this, which is simple yet informative!<br />Two or thee things I remember from this festivity when I was very little: So as not to frighten kids, the Nazarenos normally carry sweets about their person, and we kids used to approach them screaming "Nazareno, dame un caramelo!"<br /> (Nazareno, give me a sweet!"), and normally we came home with pockets full of sweets. Another thing we used to demand of them was wax! We had a few days out from school, and the idea was to make wax balls, take them to school and compare sizes!! So, we'd start off with a small tinfoil ball, and ask the nazarenos to drip hot wax on them. We'd often got burnt, but it didn't matter! As the candles are different colours depending on the Hermandad, the wax ball was quite pretty.<br />One horrid thing, though...<br />The extreme catholic young men go out wearing suits & ties, they worship these floats with most everyone else, get drunk and then often go relieve themselves up the Cathedral walls. Hipocrits! I dislike the whole catholic thing, but the Cathedral is a lovely building and the fact that is soiled by the very catholuc people is disturbing...Aleksahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07034431433063533347noreply@blogger.com