Puerto Rican christmases are in what way mixing christian and native cultures?

Question

Actually... in any holiday

I mean that in Puerto Rico, christmas, and any other holiday (I don't know which exact one) have mixed some Christian practices with some native (Puerto Rican) ones. I'm not a racist... What are some of them

Answer 1

Sorry Christmas is a mixture of pagan and religious culture.
The actual holiday started out as sun worship. The evergreen tree was all that was left green. So they decorated it and jumped around it and got sloppy drunk and had an orgy and in a few months the sun came back and they said see there it works.
They were afraid not to do it. So we have the biggest star or the sun on the top of the tree. We call it Jesus birthday and it wasn't and we know that. He died at passover at 33 1/2 years old.
That makes him born in Sept.
Santa Clause comes to us from this pagan religion, he is a lie by the way. So how is Puerto Rican's going to corrupt a pagan holiday? It is all just make believe anyway.

Answer 2

They other holiday you might be thinking of is Three Kings Day and at one point was bigger holiday than Christmas. That is the day that the kings brought the gifts to the baby Jesus.

I'm not sure if this answers your question but a local Puerto Rican tradition around Christmas is to go on parandas. People go from house to house singing and generally being loud, a traveling party. They wake you up and you have to cook and serve drinks to them and continue the party into the early morning. It is really fun and some of my fondest memories of living in Puerto Rico as a young girl.

Here is a link with some more on this.

http://www.boricua.com/2006_Issues/December/holiday_tradition.htm

Answer 3

I really don't get what you're asking. Puerto Rico has been mainly catholic since the Spanish conquered the island in the 1500's.

Answer 4

three kings day. they celebrate the bringing of gifts to the baby jesus.