| Title | : | The Santa Muerte: The Healer, Protector, and Guide to the Afterlife |
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| Author | : | Kelly Mass |
| Release | : | 2022-02-10 |
| Kind | : | audiobook |
| Genre | : | History |
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| 1 | The Santa Muerte: The Healer, Protector, | Kelly Mass |
| The cult image, female divine being, and folk saint Nuestra Seora de la Santa Muerte (Spanish meaning: Our Woman of the Holy Death) is a cult image, female divine being, and folk saint in Mexican Neopaganism and folk Catholicism. Her worshippers relate her with healing, security, and safe delivery to the afterlife simply because she's a personification of death. In spite of condemnation from Catholic Church leaders and, more just recently, evangelical movements, her following has grown substantially since the start of the twenty-first century. Santa Muerte, who was initially portrayed as a male character, is now generally illustrated as a skeletal female figure dressed in a long cape and clutching several things, most typically a scythe and a world. Let’s take a look at what she means or meant to people in Mexico, and what we can learn about it. |
