The summers of my childhood was spent between Chualar, crushed chiles and especially capirotada. Like everything in house, it was both very Mexican and for a very different to what school and lived in the neighborhood. At all times I had to give explanations about why the Chualar not popcorn, crushed chilies are a type of gamble and capirotada had nothing to do with that bread soaked in the inns. It was also strange to others that we were all the Easter to the church but not the pass giving us real lashes or emotional.
In the Protestant world the church is a place of important socialization, such as Good Friday service after the seven words was a holiday meal to follow at dusk. Easter Sunday was just to have breakfast with tamales and play for hours. Thus, the family was in the middle of everything as usual. Obviously we were not the only difference. The neighborhood, the city and the entire country is made up of different, but the myth of homogeneous and pasteurized Mexican made it and thereby deny ourselves. But the most unusual Easter for my self-flagellation were not Catholic, but the bewildering change of date of holiday and capirotada.
What about Easter? Easter is a lunar date and has little to do with it.
That is a mess and moves so far. The moon has a cycle around the Earth of 29.53059 days, which means there is no way to fit between a fixed number of full moons in a solar year equivalent to about 354. 36709 days is the length of the lunar year. To fit the twelve half Moon in the twelve months were invented lunar months of 29 and 30 days, 354 days achieving accurate. Sure eleven days missing a fit to the solar calendar, so he devised lunar cycles of 19 years seven of whom have extra lunar month. So the Jewish holidays (lunar calendar) get delayed with the Gregorian calendar, until it falls a year and anticipate extra month. The Islamic lunar calendar the leap month is not going backwards, and always with respect to our calendar, like Ramadan. So Muslim children are laughing at Santa Claus always going forward. Easter is even more tangled because it mixes elements of lunar and solar. Falls on the Sunday following the first full moon (element lunar) after the spring equinox (solar component). But what the hell is Easter that has gotten us into so many obstacles?
Easter Bunny after reading this blog and not being able to calculate Easter, 2023, the year of the rabbit
The Jews are a strange people because Easter celebrates the Exodus from Egypt where they lived with water, food, weekly English and legal benefits to end around in the desert, no water, no soap and no vaginal lubricant. It's called freedom and worth more than gold from Pharaoh. Jesus himself when was pouring a glass of wine with his buddies in the Easter holidays, not to just tell pa that the Romans were going to get good punks, was also celebrating the freedom that so impaired at the time so looked so much like today.
why the emphasis in Jewish texts, Christians and in general throughout the West on the treatment of aliens. That all were strangers, we are all foreigners and migrants. This also becomes more gloomy news on Easter on the graves in Tamaulipas, full of migrants crossing the desert in search of freedom (by definition poverty, like wealth, are contrary to liberty). This also makes more sinister reading these Facebook days in the comment of a little kid from the "progressive left" calling evil shit born to another because it is not Mexican. When in fact we are a country of migrants, different and foreign. When in reality only exist on the other in which we recognize and differentiate. After all God, really did not do a very couple Universe, or the calendars or its inhabitants.