The 2008 burning of Zozobra.
Who?
Going through emails (sorting to correct folders, I save
everything, gads) I found out it is almost time for the
2009 burning of Zozobra! Wish I could be there, this
is so cool in my book!
http://www.zozobra.com/history_legacies.html
Excerpts:
This effigy was designed to represent the tribulations and gloom of the past year that had to be exhumed before the celebration of Fiesta could truly begin. Gloom must be dispelled by burning before joy could be fully realized. The effigy was burned to highlight the parties; jubilation could be realized as the effigy collapsed in flames - gloom had just been dispelled!
In the then small city of Santa Fe, the Will Shuster party could not go unnoticed by the community at large, and in 1926 the Fiesta Council asked him to bring this idea of dispelling the tribulations and gloom of the past year by the burning of evil. Zozobra was born!.
You think this is cool wait till you hear about New Mexico skinwalkers!
