Comments on: The Piñatarama Project http://drawn.ca/archive/the-pinatarama-project/ llustration, Comics, Animation, and Cartoon Art Mon, 12 Dec 2011 21:52:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Brb http://drawn.ca/archive/the-pinatarama-project/comment-page-1/#comment-683301 Brb Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:28:49 +0000 http://drawn.ca/?p=10519#comment-683301 Some photos from the expo<br><a href="http://nfgraphics.com/pinatarama-las-fotos/" rel="nofollow">http://nfgraphics.com/pinatarama-las-fotos/</a><br><br>Cheers! Some photos from the expo
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Cheers!

]]> By: javierandaleandale http://drawn.ca/archive/the-pinatarama-project/comment-page-1/#comment-683160 javierandaleandale Fri, 29 Jan 2010 08:14:39 +0000 http://drawn.ca/?p=10519#comment-683160 Chinese piracy imitates piñatas like everything else, I give you that.<br>At the beginning of the 16th century the Spanish missionaries to North America used the piñata to attract converts to their ceremonies. However indigenous peoples already had a similar tradition. To celebrate the birthday of the Aztec god of war, Huitzilopochtli, priests placed a clay pot on a pole in the temple at year's end. Colorful feathers adorned the richly decorated pot, filled with tiny treasures.. When broken with a stick or club, the treasures fell to the feet of the god's image as an offering. The Mayans, great lovers of sport played a game where the player’s eyes were covered while hitting a clay pot suspended by string. The missionaries ingeniously transformed these games for religious instruction. They covered the traditional pot with colored paper, giving it an extraordinary, perhaps fearful appearance. Chinese piracy imitates piñatas like everything else, I give you that.
At the beginning of the 16th century the Spanish missionaries to North America used the piñata to attract converts to their ceremonies. However indigenous peoples already had a similar tradition. To celebrate the birthday of the Aztec god of war, Huitzilopochtli, priests placed a clay pot on a pole in the temple at year's end. Colorful feathers adorned the richly decorated pot, filled with tiny treasures.. When broken with a stick or club, the treasures fell to the feet of the god's image as an offering. The Mayans, great lovers of sport played a game where the player’s eyes were covered while hitting a clay pot suspended by string. The missionaries ingeniously transformed these games for religious instruction. They covered the traditional pot with colored paper, giving it an extraordinary, perhaps fearful appearance.

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