Tire la Catherine - Canadian tradition of making pulled taffy on Saint Catherine’s day, 25 November...
La Morena - Spanish phrase for a dark haired girl, used in lots of odd contexts...
Ekaterina - Russian given name, possibly derived from Hecate...
______ - Spanish name for the queen of the dead
______ - a famous piece of music from Mozart’s Magic Flute, the song of the queen of the night
Are these items related to a pagan goddess?
How exactly does animism work? What animists believe?
How many people know that Saint James is Ogun? Yesterday I was looking at pictures of the Camino de Santiago, and I found a patch to put on your clothing with the symbol of Saint James. It’s a red cross in the shape of a sword, and that was my last clue. I’m sure now. I have a description of Saint James as Ogun the warrior in the book, Govenors of the Dew. It’s a novel, a classic from Haiti, where the people practice a kind of double faith. Christian saints are overlaid with African deities.
I can not remember whether I wrote about this before. Maybe I’m getting repetitive?
So, I am saying that medieval pilgrims were practicing double faith. When they travelled to Santiago de Compostella, they were continuing their pagan traditions - traditions that were in place long before Christianity began.
