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Each year in loiza, they have a festival featuring these characters. raul is legendary in the community for making the masks. in the spanish tradition, remember, it represents the moors. because the moors invaded spain for eight centuries. that was a time of war between them and they tried to get them out. okay. they didn t like them for two reasons. you usm and you reot our people. uh-huh. they use a grotesque mask and costume with wings because the spaniard had to represent the moors in a bad way for them. and here in loiza, they make all the masks for the vigilantes. the masks have a long history. back in spain in the 1500s, they had festivals celebrating the defeat of the black muslim moors by the white christian spanish. and the characters would represent the scary, dark ....
Each year they have a festival featuring these characters. raul is legendary in the community for making the masks. in the spanish tradition, remember, it represents the moors. because the moors invaded spain for eight centuries. that was a time of war between them and they tried to get them out. okay. they didn t like them for two reasons. you re muslim and you re not our people. uh-huh. they use a grotesque mask and costume with wings because the spaniard had to represent the moors in a bad way for them. and here in loiza, they make all the masks for the vigilantes. the masks have a long history. back in spain in the 1500s they had festivals celebrating the defeat of the black muslim moors by the white christian spanish. ....
For vigilanties. the masks have a long history. back in spain in the 1500s they had festivals celebrating the defeat of the black muslim moors by the white christian spanish. they would represent the scary dark invaders. when the tradition came to puerto rico, it meaning completely got switched. as the culture added the more elaborate masks and the africans added drums, it began to represent strength and defiance of colonial rule. it went from representing white people kicking out black people to a sign of black people s strength. like la la land moonlight and not so fast, gozling. so, this is one of the masks that they use. and it is made in coconut. i have here the whole process. okay. once you select the coconut with the machete, have to cut it oh, wow. ....
Them. the masks have a long history. back in spain in the 1500s they had festivals celebrating the defeat of the black muslim moors by the white christian spanish. they would represent the scary dark invadeers. when the tradition came to puerto rico, it meaning completely got switched. as the culture added the more elaborate ma elaborate masks and the africans added drums, it began to represent strength and defiance of colonial rule. it went from representing white people kicking out black people to a sign of black people s strength. like la la land moonlight and not so fast, gozling. so, this is one of the masks that they use. and it is made in coconut. i have here the whole process. okay. once you select the coconut with the machete, have to cut it oh, wow. ....