tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330114585754884758.post673552513169706497..comments2024-03-28T22:13:35.527-06:00Comments on Jim & Carole's Mexico Adventure: Cajititlan's spectacular Fiesta of the Three Kings - Part 2Jim Cookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04923490491088874998noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330114585754884758.post-46670135289239761712017-03-28T01:58:39.931-06:002017-03-28T01:58:39.931-06:00Your photos are wonderfully descriptive. We went t...Your photos are wonderfully descriptive. We went the following year and loved the celebration. A little side note we learned...those in the black and red masks received blessings during the previous year and are in effect saying skip me this year for I have been blessed and others could use help. It brought significant meaning to us, that so many were in masks. Truly an evidence of the giving and caring people of Mexico. Our blog is in the process of changing over yo: kanduadventures.wordpress.comKandu Adventureshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13593597543645494895noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330114585754884758.post-39204599968296690042010-09-12T23:03:19.498-05:002010-09-12T23:03:19.498-05:00The large pre-Columbian ceramic jar which you say ...The large pre-Columbian ceramic jar which you say depicts many bulbous-like flowers actually depicts the peyotl (peyote) cacti.<br />The use of peyote by 16th century Aztecs, is well documented by Spanish chroniclers (Sahagun) and in Aztec codices. Peyote as well as mushrooms may have played an important role in both commerce and religion in pre-Columbian times. The peyotl cacti button of Northern Mexico was the favorite hallucinogen of the Chichimecs. <br />Carl de Borhegyi<br />For more visit mushroomstone.comCarl de Borhegyihttp://mushroomstone.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330114585754884758.post-84156203599852308752010-05-17T16:30:18.449-05:002010-05-17T16:30:18.449-05:00Thank you,for your photos.I enjoyed so much.I can ...Thank you,for your photos.I enjoyed so much.I can to identificate any persons that I can' to see in many years ago. Please do you can to take a picture of the boy in the drums with this dancers. Thank you so much.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330114585754884758.post-2204980978173475002010-01-24T20:39:23.739-06:002010-01-24T20:39:23.739-06:00Jim, your photography just gets better and better ...Jim, your photography just gets better and better and your posts richer and fuller. Love your Cajititlan series and am looking forward to the other parts of the Colima series. <br /><br />I've posted a link to your blog from mine, now that I've rebirthed it as Mexico Insights: Facts, Fables, Folklore and Fiestas. It's at http://judysblog.mexico-insights.comJudy Kinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00390584440587112586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330114585754884758.post-76590496789179187172010-01-17T17:49:05.819-06:002010-01-17T17:49:05.819-06:00Thank you so much,Jim. I enjoy your blog. For many...Thank you so much,Jim. I enjoy your blog. For many years my husband and I celebrated the Three Kings Day with a BIG party.It was special and the guests enjoyed a party after they had stopped celebrating Christmas!Your pics are wonderful and as a 30 + yr visitor to MX I appreciate your efforts. In another life time I would be an expat in MX.<br />EdieAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330114585754884758.post-52096845081399299692010-01-17T17:46:06.502-06:002010-01-17T17:46:06.502-06:00Thank you, Jim, for your great photos and insight ...Thank you, Jim, for your great photos and insight as to the festival. I also enjoy view & reading other parts of your blog...very good! I'm a friend of Carol & Sven Nielson who live now in Ajijic. I'm planning on coming their way on Feb. 9th with a friend for 3 weeks and hopefully will meet you while there.<br />Judith ~ floweringbeads@gmail.comUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07374900890740553956noreply@blogger.com