Atheists & Agnostics
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(1,972 posts)My wife has 3 machetes under the bed. She uses them for yardwork, especially in her flower garden.
Mi Machete - Grupo Niche
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(1,972 posts)When I first met my wife, a quarter century ago, she told me two fundamental things about her religion (Roman Catholic).
One of them was about los Funerales del Angelitos.
When an infant or a small child dies (age 7 or younger), the child immediately becomes an angel, because the child has not had time to sin.
Funerales del Angelitos were still common when my wife lived there as a child.
The practice hasn't done for more than half a century. Here's a dramatization, courtesy of las Cantaoras del Patía, a musical group made up of professors from Patía.
My wife's religion part of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
RELIGIOSIDAD AFROPATIANA
Funerales de Angelitos: Arrullos
https://repository.javeriana.edu.co/bitstream/handle/10554/6623/tesis149.pdf