Entierro_de_la_Sardina

Entierro de la Sardina

Entierro de la Sardina

Spanish carnival ceremony

For the painting by Goya, see The Burial of the Sardine.

The "Burial of the Sardine" (Spanish: Entierro de la sardina) since 1851, is an annual Spanish ceremony celebrating the end of carnival and other festivities. The "Burials" generally consist of a carnival parade that parodies a funeral procession and culminates with the burning of a symbolic figure, usually a representation of a sardine. The "Burial of the Sardine” is celebrated on Ash Wednesday and is a symbolical burial of the past to allow society to be reborn, transformed and with new vigour.[1]

Entierro de la Sardina in Murcia 2015

Many Spanish festivals end with ceremonies in which a symbol representing the excesses of the festival is burned or destroyed — although some have been lost, others have been revived. Similar celebrations include the "Fiesta del Judas", the "Judas Party" (la quema del haragán), and the "Burning of the Raspajo" (la quema del raspajo).[2] The burning of an effigy represents a regeneration and liberation — the passage of the symbol through the fire represents a purging of the vices and a restoration of the order temporarily subverted during the festival;[3] in ceremonies of symbolical burial, the theme is one of reflection.[4]

Notes

  1. [1]
    Barreto p. 261
  2. [2]
    Barreto p. 259
  3. [3]
    Barreto p. 259-260
  4. [4]
    Barreto p. 260-261
  5. [5]
    "The Burial Of The Sardine by Goya | Oil Painting | franciscodegoya.net". www.franciscodegoya.net. Retrieved 2020-09-29.

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