Friday, December 08, 2006

Queretaro Nativity

For some reason, I have a fixation with Nativity scenes, Latin American style.
A few weeks ago, to my great joy, they put up a life-sized nativity scene in one of the plazas en downtown QRO. So I had to take some pictures...

Here is the Jesus' birth scene:
And, like all large nativity set-ups in Mexico/Central America, it also includes more scenes possibly based on Bible stories, as well as a typical village scene from the country.

Here are Mexican children doing piƱata in their village:

And here is Bernal QRO/creation... Not sure how a lion and girraffe got in QRO...


The three wise men coming to see Jesus: (in latin america, the wise men have names, which I don't remember, and one comes from the middle east with his camel, another from china with his horse, and another from india with his elefant)


And, they put up a "hell" scene too. Not my favorite.

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