Latino Holiday Traditions (Las Posadas) || #Blogmas 2017

Hey friends! So for my next blogmas post Before I start my post I wanted to thank you for taking the time to actually read what I have to say. I started this blog so I could have a place to put my feeling & ideas without being judged. Ugh enough of the mushy stuff let's get to the post shall we....

As I mentioned a couple times before, I'm Hispanic (you guys are probably already sick of me saying so lol) For todays "blogmas" I wanted to share a tradition that we do during the holiday season.

Las Posadas (The Inns)
This is celebrated in Mexico between December 16 and 24. During this time certain people dress up as Maria (Mary), Jose (Joseph) & un angel (an angel.) They go from house to house seaking refuge just like Joseph and Mary when they made the trip from Nazareth to Bethlehem in search of a safe place where Mary could give birth to baby Jesus.

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Everyone in the procession is carrying a candle and is following Mary & Joseph as they find refuge in a house (don't be alarmed we don't knock on a random strangers house, the houses that are picked have already decided to take part).
When the people participating get to the first house they knock at the door & the people on the outside start singing asking to come inside the house. The people inside the house sing that they can't come inside the house. To keep walking.

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As tradition goes they get rejected at the first couple of houses. They do this a couple more times until they get to the house of the last family (the host family). Once they get to the last & final house the people inside invite Mary & Joseph in along with everyone else. Once everyone is invited inside they feed them. The food that is usually provided is the following
Tamales, Pozole, Menudo. (Anything really, but those are some of the most popular ones) Also, If you follow me on snapchat you probably already know what tamales & pozole look like but just in case you don't

The following images are what each food looks like

Tamales:

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This is what tamales look like from the outside.
(Protip: YOU DO NOT EAT THE CORN HUSK)

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This is what they look like on the inside. They taste
even more yummy if you add sour cream or spicy salsa

Pozole:

Image Via: cooking.nytimes.com

Menudo:

Image via: latinlife.com

After the food is done, little kids are invited to break a piñata. The piñata looks something like this

The image above also has a description of what the 7 spikes on the piñata stand for. If you don't know spanish what the image says is that the 7 spikes are the seven sins. Once they break the piñata the candy is supposed to be a reward from God for fighting the sins.

There's also warm drinks such as ponche, hot chocolate, champurado, ect. These go great with the tamales trust me.


This goes on until the 24th of December  (each day the celebration is at a different persons house). On the last day everyone at the celebration cradles a statue of baby Jesus in a blanket. This is done at exactly at 12AM the day baby Jesus was born.


Below are videos of what posadas look like & what cradling baby Jesus looks like.


What Posadas are
*credit Eddie G! On Youtube*

Cradling baby Jesus
*credit to Gguzma707 on youtube*

Hope you guys are enjoying blogmas so far.

In the comments below please write what traditions do you guys do in your family or if we happen to share the same tradition leave it in the comments. Can't wait to hear from you guys.






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