Death & Santa Muerte – Elliot Edge in conversation with Researcher David B. Metcalfe

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The Cult of Santa Muerte has grown to encompass millions of followers spanning from Chile to Canada, and more recently around the globe. In this 3 hour presentation, Elliot Edge and I enjoy an in depth conversation about this new representation of death taking over the Americas, as well as comments on death in culture, the Roman Catholic Church’s condemnation of the figure, alchemy, and the role of death in practical and contemplative traditions. Visit SkeletonSaint.com for more information.

Borderland Devotions – Santa Muerte and the margins of faith

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While the media in the U.S., Mexico and beyond often focuses on an inflated image of Santa Muerte as a so-called ‘narco-saint,’ her devotees come from a broad spectrum of those who have stepped beyond the status quo to accept lives lived in the liminal area…

Sixth Anniversary of the Santa Muerte Temple in Tultitlan

Enrique Hernandez Garcia has posted some spectacular pictures from the 6th anniversary celebration held at the Santa Muerte Temple in Tultitlan. The celebration included over 500 pilgrims, celebratory dancers , mariachis, abudent food, six couples married , ten children baptized and prayers for a prosperous, protected and healthy new year.

Who mourns the coming of the Kali Yuga?

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Blissfully reposed on a corpse in the charnel grounds, sipping from the skull of a murdered Brahman, what care is there for kings or thieves, wanton women or virgins, for wealth or poverty or any of the other lamented signs mentioned in the Puranas?

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