Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Dec 31: the New Year burnings: Mateo Romero

In an exclusive Ecuadorian tradition,  every one makes an effigy of themselves which represents their sins in 2013.  Then at midnight New Years they burn it. Then 2014 they start fresh. It is like a big confession. So tonight there will be some serious fires happening.

The pic here is of an effigy for a little kid named Mateo Romeo. He assured me in front of his mom he had a lot of things he had done wrong in 2013. 

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