ANA CARVAJAL COROMOTO
not had a home in the village of Guasipati where not prepare the traditional cake Morrocoy, each family before reaching the Holy Week, and had booked at least four copies of the most robust Chelonia, which bred in their homes or captured in the nearby sheets after setting fire to the little creatures come out of hiding. Not having the above mentioned was a tragedy, so get it turned into a real mission, as they say now. The Morrocoy is still alive cooked, but before taking it to the pot had to get him out of his shell, was a task for men, because they had to have good biceps and a machete "afilao." What I liked most was the children egg layer that Morrocoy placed the cake to cover, remained toast and they thought a real delicacy. The cake had many escorts one of them was the sweet potato boñuelos once the ladies ready ready exchanged the dish to see which one tasted better. Some took pride in making the best cake Morrocoy, as it cooked in the shell itself Morrocoy.
Another very important tradition in those days, was the game of the screens and the top. The girls did shake up the town with great care drew him all the pulp to a gourd through a hole that pierced side, the drying in the sun and this was like a ball hard and tough, but empty, then placed him in long and half a stick sharpened at the lower end and was ready to dance or turn to it using a cord wrapped round the stick and threw the ring (ground) similar to what is done with the spin, those were dozens. The game was to turn the shaker for the kids with his spin destroy their humanity, ie the sieve. The top had to be well prepared, some had a huge size like a fist, but that does not mean they could reach the sieve, leaking naughty with their eternal dance. The girls just watched, had to wait to be older to participate, the game was on the street and ended when the boys with his spin had destroyed all the screens. The biggest affront to men was that they could not break or destroy the screens, in these cases left the game dejected, until the next day for revenge, the girls jumped for joy instead.
Sacred music coming from the flooded church all the people in those days (Thursday and Friday) inviting people to a true recollection. Nothing to go to the river, dance or play the tealight in those days. The whole town is devoted to recall the Week and participate in the procession on Thursday and Friday (with his best gala). On the road to Calvary in strategic places is improvised a painful season, stopped the pastor there to remember the suffering of Jesús.Todo that before coming to Calvary which was located on the outskirts of town. At night was the wake where the faithful gathered, there could take the famous caratillo (drink made of rice or corn and nail kind) who prepared the ladies of the town.
nights of Holy Week was a feast for the children (accompanied by their brothers or sisters) are delighted parapara playing a kind of metra, smaller and naturally, the fruit of the plant Paraparo (Sapindus Saponaria), black as night, they invent many games, "quiminduñe" opens his fist, even or odd ... The game was to gather as much afterbirth. Also rubbing to heat and throw their opponents, which were deftly evaded by children.
These were some of the traditions during Holy Week in the village.
Ana Carvajal
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