Holyday Traditions
Jan. 1st, 2009 03:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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darthanne about regional traditions and realised I forgot to post about one of my favourite Southwestern ones:
... Johannes and I both grew up calling these 'Luminario', but it seems like most people know them as 'Luminaria'. Either or?
The traditional way to do these is to get a brown paper bag, fold the top edges down, fill the bottom with sand or gravel and put in a votive or tea candle. I've also seen small bricks with holes carved in them for the candle. They're usually seen on Christmas Eve, but with the electric kind coming out in recent years (such as these), they're seen more commonly throughout December.
Albuquerque especially does massive displays.
The electric ones are cool too, cause then the candle doesn't blow out. ^__^
The original conversation came about because we were talking about the Southern tradition of eating black-eyed peas on New Years.
Any other New Years traditions people do?
darthanne about regional traditions and realised I forgot to post about one of my favourite Southwestern ones:... Johannes and I both grew up calling these 'Luminario', but it seems like most people know them as 'Luminaria'. Either or?
The traditional way to do these is to get a brown paper bag, fold the top edges down, fill the bottom with sand or gravel and put in a votive or tea candle. I've also seen small bricks with holes carved in them for the candle. They're usually seen on Christmas Eve, but with the electric kind coming out in recent years (such as these), they're seen more commonly throughout December.
Albuquerque especially does massive displays.
The electric ones are cool too, cause then the candle doesn't blow out. ^__^
The original conversation came about because we were talking about the Southern tradition of eating black-eyed peas on New Years.
Any other New Years traditions people do?
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Date: 2009-01-05 03:13 am (UTC)-We're planning on celebrating the Chinese New Year as a group on the 25th, so I'm gonna be doing a lot of reading on it soon. Yay for the heads up!
And you're right, that is really fascinating. ^__^ I love how some culture things seem to crossover without realising it.