Title: La Muerte

Medium: Acrylic on flat canvas

Frame: Recycled Cardboard & post-consumer papers.

Size: 8x10

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A STUDY OF LA MUERTE A CATHOLIC (SOUTH TEXAS / MEXICO) DIETY / SAINT

DISCLAIMER** I am not stating that I DO or DO NOT believe in specific religions, because it is not for me to say how another human processes their creation on this planet. I am simply an observer, a learner, an educator. I do not believe in pushing a faith of mine or others onto another human.  This is simply research. If you have further information or educational materials, please feel free to educate me & my fans.  NO HATE SPEACH WHATSOEVER this is a safe educational space. 

WHY?I have a deep connection with Religion & have studied nearly all religions to date.  As a multi-religious human, I have been raised & educated as such: to try & understand my fellow human & the human condition as it is, undisturbed, unaltered, raw, & unfiltered, through nonjudgmental, empathetic, & understanding eyes of an observer. Basically, my dad always says, "Put yourself in their shoes", or "not till you have walked a mile in my shoes". The yearning to educate myself what humans believe, why they believe, & how they believe, pushes me to research various particles, both Big Picture & Minute Details, that pop into my life. This is Part of a Big Picture, however, it is a Minute Detail of that Big Picture. 

THE CHARACTER: LA MUERTE was in a movie, "The Book of Life "As part of my Catholic Education as well as living in South Texas, Deities or Saints are par-of-the-course. However, I do not know all of them I must say!   I was fascinated by this particular Diety/Saint.  She is called "La Muerte". In English this translates to death, murder, or demise in feminine form.

*****INFORMATION ABOUT THE REAL LA MUETE***** Name (s): (Our Lady of Holy Death) (Saint Death) (Lady of Shadows) (Lady of the Night) (White Lady) (Black Lady) (Skinny Lady) (Bony Lady) (Mictēcacihuātl) (Lady of the Dead) (Nuestra Señora de la Santa Muerte) (Santa Muerte)

What is she? is a new religious movement, female deity, folk-Catholic saint, and folk saint in Mexican folk Catholicism and Neopaganism. A personification of death, she is associated with healing, protection, and safe delivery to the afterlife by her devotees. 

Affiliation: A wide variety of powers including love, prosperity, good health, fortune, healing, safe passage, protection against witchcraft, protection against assaults, protection against gun violence, protection against violent death.

Festivals: August 15, November 2, and many public shrines celebrate the date of their founding.

The Vatican's View: Despite condemnation by the Catholic Church and Evangelical pastors, her cult has become increasingly prominent since the turn of the 21st century. (Courtesy of Wikipedia Santa Muerte - Wikipedia)

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