Friday, October 15, 2010

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So ... "I do not celebrate Halloween because it's an American holiday ..." Breaking topics on one of the best times of the year

For me, a debate on "Halloween vs. Castanyada "is quite fruitless and notes that it is not known and no tradition or the other. In both cases these funeral rites held since the Iron Age, and probably have the same slope Celtic Indo-European origin. Remember that Catalunya was inhabited by proto-Celtic populations in the fields of urns, and that the funeral party was certainly one of the most important and cultural characteristics of this family. In the case of Catalonia, the party lost the crucial nature of Celtic culture, as Samhain marked end and beginning of the year. For the feast of the Castanyada, this importance has been lost, but remains one of the traditional dates delcalendario.

Both parties treat the memory of the deceased becoming as natural as possible, but apparently the Catalan population complains of the lack of seriousness of Halloween, and that is a symptom of globalization and the invasion of American culture of fast food and action movies. If someone says such a thing, "I do not know the origin of Halloween, which takes place in Europe, dating back to the Iron Age: Samhain. Halloween is simply a continuation of this ancient and would pass through a filter holding a little ironic, but definitely present and practical. Personally, I love Halloween just for the naturalness that gives death stripping of the severity Christian to believe anything that should characterize this festival. I firmly believe that were it not for the intervention of the popes of Rome at the time, the feast of the Tots Sants Castanyada and have ended up being very similar to Halloween, in the case had been maintained.

But we complain that children do not want to celebrate the Castanyada, it is boring and will not stimulate the imagination. Well, Halloween, in a well designed, can stimulate children's interest in the fall and the old parties. Eating chestnuts roasted on a bonfire in the center of town, sharing panellets, scarecrow dress up and play trick or treating should not any complication. In fact there are two points I should mention before giving my article ended: there are two celebrations in Catalonia, dating back many centuries, according to which the dead come the night of October 31 to visit the living, and if panellets or fruits were not receiving them, are dedicated to frighten sleepers. That coincides with the tradition of "trick or treat" "trick or treat, where children dressed up, going door to door looking for candy in exchange for left alone to live and get rid of a prank. And second, dated and signed in the presence of empty and decorated gourds at that time in the Ripollès.

So before we criticize so fervently Halloween party in front of the version theoretically "pure" the Castanyada and Tots Sants, it is worth reflecting on two things: that in fact a reformulation Castanyada Christian, and the party as we came up with the old, and that if we do not get the batteries will no longer be held in a dynamic and be as dead as a feast of Candlemas, and what is more important, stay rigid while turning the wheel of the year or never stop celebrating nature with joy?

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

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Castanyada and Tots Sants: Celtic ancestry in the agricultural calendar Catalunya

You know when the date approaches Samhain or Halloween, restated always holding the post about Celtic Reconstructionist, but this year I decided I should empzar to do the same with the pagan celebration in Catalunya, so extensive and intense as in the case of Anglo-Celtic version.

Castanyada is a traditional festival that is celebrated and twentieth centuries past October 31st and November 1st, so therefore we are not facing any reformulation of modern Halloween adapted to the Mediterranean world, but it is a tradition, which certainly shares much in common with Anglo-Celtic this event we despise unfairly. But the point that the origins of the feast that follows the Castanyada, Tots Sants-All Saints-back, according to Joan Soler i Amigó to the ancient funerary festivals in Europe, in which case we find a direct reference to Samhain.

This festival originally nothing to do with all the saints, but all the Gods, and the proof is the task carried out by Pope Boniface IV consecrated the Pantheon
(all gods) to All Saints in the seventh century. Two centuries later, fixed the date of the festival on November 1, presumably to replace the pagan version of a non-traumatic to society.

This would only try to show that what we now call a Tots Sants funeral feast ancient pre-Christian origin, which follows the process of Christianization of the holiday that began in Rome. Tots Sants But the party is not particularly interested me, but its eve, which retains a curious way a typical local pagan ritualistic.


The first official witness the ritual celebration of the Castanyada accepted in Catalonia once Christianized, dates from 1033, when the saw assembly
c Olive Bishop's festivities included within accepted. Thus, it is easily deduced that this event was held before that date, and apparently, in the same way that until recently few decades. Castanyada place, like Samhain and modern Halloween, the union of this world with the World of the Dead or the Other World, and the presence of the dead who wander through the world of the living for this night.


The Reconstructionist ritual Castanyada catalan is a nightly ritual in which light lunch and have an ongoing role. It is a solemn but not sad time, as they sell. As in the case of Samhain, celebrated Castanyada death but also life left in this world, and recognizes the changing seasons with the same respect as a summer party.

The food in this case consists of nuts, dried fruits and desserts with it. The nuts and chestnuts are an indicator of the upcoming absence of fresh fruit, and are closely related to the dead. Panellets-or even in other parts of the bones of Saint-candy made with sweet potatoes, almonds and pine nuts, were the "bread" which were offered to the dead and the family ate that night, a night in which it was important stay awake to remember with joy to those who are not. That night was lit in the home or in the center of town, a fire that served to guide the spirits of the dead to visit their relatives live, and to toast the nuts and fruits that were eaten at the height of autumn. As corresponding May 1, Oct. 31 marks the end of all life agricultural, livestock are kept and now can only come the cold, so that night is the beginning of a dark half of the year, and as such should be celebrated with joy, perhaps getting rid of this sad and tragic tone with which permeated the Christian tradition since the rapture of the peoples of Europe.

Fantasia Encyclopedia of Popular Catalana - Joan Soler i Amigó
Castanyada - Viquipèdia

Monday, October 11, 2010

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I just installed Ubuntu 10.10 and my PC does not start

If when starting the pc after the installation I get this message:
error: the symbol 'grub_xputs' not found

not alarmed, easy solutions. Simply
we start with the Ubuntu cd 10.10,
enter the live-cd, enter the console and repair the grub like this:

sudo mount / dev / sdXY /

mnt sudo grub-install - root- directory = / mnt / dev / sdX

where XY is the letter and number of the partition where you installed ubuntu.

have to know where Ubuntu will install gparted sudo

This is an example of my case with the ext4 in sdb7:

ubuntu @ ubuntu: ~ $ sudo mount / dev/sdb7 / mnt ubuntu @ ubuntu
: ~ $ sudo grub-install - root-directory = / mnt / dev / sdb Installation
finished. No error reported.

Monday, October 4, 2010

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The Drudismo is recognized as an official religion in United Kingdom

News in English:

Link to the news on the BBC English:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11457795

Link in 20 minutes:
http://www.20minutos.es/noticia/831834/0 / Druidism / religion / United-Kingdom /

two days ago was made public the news that Druidry is again, after almost two thousand years, a persecuted religion in the United Kingdom. So going to have a status of "faith" or "sect" is not recognized, can carry the name "religion." This decision should lead to an increase in the seriousness of its practitioners and social acceptance (besides the obvious: tax exemption).

But to what extent it is beneficial to consider the part of Druidism a list of recognized religions or official? Without doubt, this is great news that will help create controversy, so I hope that the seemingly unshakable foundation of theology to move a little, but the essence of this belief system, this tradition also makes sense in shadow, as a response or reply to the faith of the mainstream. I do not love, at least personally, to put the Druid at the height of Catholicism and Anglicanism, it is much older Druidry, as it seems ridiculous to consider official, then as a rebellious people must fight without falling into the trap of what what submitted to comply with the parameters that society dictates.

radicals, mostly Christians put their hands to the head and scream that we will regress if Druidry recognizes as another religion, but others, mostly radical Fluffies NewAge-believe fans consider as another religion Druidry going to give you the answer to your prayers, happiness, or even is a big step towards the peaceful coexistence of faith. And in both cases it seems very innocent to reduce the discourse to that.

That Druid Network Association, with 350 members in the UK, has achieved something similar, it does seem curious. No longer a partnership that represents all Druidry, but have made themselves champions and holders of this merit. I'll see where that leads. And now see how many "born again pagan" they call themselves Druids, or practitioners of Druidism. Remember Druidry continues to be ROS it is: a training for a sector of the population were not all Druids at the time of the Celts, not everyone wanted to be.