The Hanal Pixán
The people who die not go definitively, their souls follows present, mainly in the days of deads, in which they return to his houses for " savoring " their favorite food that their relatives have prepared to them. The late faithfuls arrive at theirannual appointment with relatives and friends, to be honest after to have crossed the way that once took them, but that now leads to the " Hanal pixán ".
The "Hanal pixán ", or eaten of the bores, is a tradition of the Mayan town that takes to the end to remember of a special way the friends and relatives who went ahead in the eternal trip. It is a special event for the family of the deceaseds, because they know that, in these days, from the 31 of October to the 2 of November, the bores " receive permission " to visit their relatives.The first day is dedicated to the children and they call U HANAL PALAL.The second day, 1 of November, it is dedicated to the dead adults and they call U HANAL NUCUCH UINICOOB, and the third day mass is U HANAL PIXANOOB called in some places " pixán " because that day a dedicated mass is applied to the bores, generally in the cemetery of the population.
It is accustomed, mainly in the State, that the children use during those days a ribbon of red or black color in the right wrist, in order that the bores do not take them. Also one gets used to mooring the animals of thehouse, because they could see the bores and prevent the passage them towards the "altar". The tradition includes several rites, but the main one consists of placing a table that works like "altar", where is placed typical food of the season: papaya, tamales, candy, oranges, mandarins, jícamas, mucbilpollos, new cornflour , all this adorned with photos and flowers.
The offerings for the late children are placed in an altar decorated with a table cloth embroidered in glad tones, toys and food of their preference, like chocolate, tamales, " pibes ", candies, fruits of the season, new cornflour drink and yuca with honey, and it is adorned with flowers of " xpujuc " (of wild type and yellow color), The day of the children will be put, in addition to foods and candies, toys. Second and third days put in table eaten and drinks, as well as brandy and cigarettes if it is that the deads that remember were used to eating certain stews, drinking or smoking. As it will be seen, the main element of this ritual is the foods, whose names are words of Mayan origin. For example:
DRINKS: Sa: cornflour drink, word of origin náhuatl; ak sa: new cornflour drink; cikil sa: cornflour drink with nugget; so chucuá: mass with chocolate. It can talk about to the cornflour drink with chocolate; keyem: pozole, is an origin word náhuatl; chokó sakam: drink done with boiled mass of maize, and balché: espirituosa drink that takes control of the crust of a tree that is called thus.MEALS: The Pib: roasted or cooked under the Earth. Also thus a is called to him species of cooked great tamal under the Earth, that also denominates pibipollo or mucbipollo, but these two last terms have the Spanish word chicken; chachac wajes: species of red tamal. Its name means very red bread, due to achiote whereupon it is prepared; chilmole: stewed fact with burned Chile, meat, tomato and other vegetables. The term is of origin náhuatl, since chil it is Chile and soft it is sauce, broth or stew; chacbi nal: elote cooked in water.
Chacbil is to cook or spanish stew and Nal mean elote; pibi nal: elote cooked under the Earth; xek it mixes eatable done with orange, mandarin,
jícama and other fruits, as well as worn out Chile or some thing more; chay wah: tamal done with chaya itched; pin: heavy tortilla, since PIN means thickness; buli wah: tortilla done with frijol new or espelón, that cooks to bath Maria or in the furnace; is wah: maize tortilla new, sweet or salty and toasting; salt but: tortilla to which meat is put to him underneath ollejo and soon is fried to eat. The name is formed by Salt: light, and But: to insert, that is to say, slightly inserted.
One week later, the Bix (ochovario of the day takes place of finados. The meeting or celebration is also said of that becomes to the eight days of some event) or eighth, that is a species of complicated repetition the less that the previous one. In the nights of those days, in the doors of the houses and the earthworks rows of candles ignite so that the cores see their way when coming and when retiring of the population when finishing the finados ones.
There is the belief that some days before the ceremony the souls come to wash their clothes and to prepare themselves to receive the tributes, and hope well to be treated by the living beings, who are due to worry about the attention about the offerings about meals, drinks, etc., to which the deceaseds were affection, because of another way they would not return to the world of the alive ones.
By: Diario de Yucatan / Cityview Adaptation
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