by Amanda C Vesty | May 10, 2022 | Beliefs in Afterlife, Death, History & Culture, Sacred and Divine, superstitions
Ah puch is an extremely fearsome deity usually depicted as a skeleton, often with rotting flesh. He is also known as Ah Cimih, Ah Cizin, Hun Ahau, Kimi, or Yum Kimil. In the Quechua language Cimi means “Death” and Cizin “The Flatulent One”...
by Amanda C Vesty | Oct 27, 2020 | Beliefs in Afterlife, Ceremony, Community, Death, History & Culture, superstitions, Uncategorised
The Mexican Festival of the Dead – El Dia de los Muertos – Jean Francis One of my most memorable holidays has to be a visit to Mexico to take part in the The Mexican Festival of the dead – El Dia de los Muertos. This festival is a sacred...
by Amanda C Vesty | Aug 15, 2020 | Death, Funerals, History & Culture, superstitions, Uncategorised
Omen of death at Penwortham. The distinctive town name is derived from pen (meaning a hill), wort (meaning green) and ham (meaning settlement). The story is based on Fairy Lane that runs from the foot of Castle Hill. It got its name from the legend of Penwortham...
