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The start of the Carnival season traditionally aligns with the Christian observation of Lent, a 40-day period leading up to Easter that typically involves fasting, or giving something up as a sign of sacrifice in exchange for spiritual replenishment. For this reason, Carnival, which is characterized by lively indulgence, happens just prior to Ash Wednesday (which falls on February 17 this year), though some organizations may vary their timeline to last slightly beyond that, or to take place at a different date entirely.
The Economist, more than 50 countries celebrate their own Carnival traditions
that are unique to their customs, but there are a few similar threads that bind them all together.
The Spiritual Practice Of Self-Mummification Shutterstock
By Richard Milner/Jan. 22, 2021 10:02 am EDT
When you think of mummies you might envision those ACE bandage-wearing guys pulled from sarcophagi in Egypt you know: all pharaonic, shrunken and distributing curses or maybe Universal Picture s miserably failed Dark Universe launch circa 2017 s Tom Cruise-led
The Mummy. (Actually, we re betting you didn t even remember that movie until right now, although you might remember Brendan Fraser s identically named 1999 movie.) But what you
don t probably think of is desiccated Buddhist monks hardened into a permanent, multi-hundred-year-old seated lotus position.
This is exactly the case, though, with members of Shingon, an ascetic, nondoctrinal sect of Buddhism that arose during Japan s Heian period (794-1185 CE), built from the tethers between Japan s native Shinto animism and Buddhism as it was imported from mainland China. Shingon monks followed Shugen
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Becca Blond is a Lowell Thomas award winning travel and lifestyle writer. She is the author of more than 30 Lonely Planet travel guidebooks across five continents. These days she no longer writes guidebooks, but still writes full time, creating travel content regularly for Lonely Planet, Afar, Culture Trip, Trivago Magazine, and PlanetWare. Her work has also appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, Us Weekly, The Guardian, and USA Today 10 Best among others.
Although she has explored much of the world, she has spent the most time adventuring around the African continent and considers Cape Town, South Africa a second home that she returns to as much as possible.
Unique Words That Can t Be Translated Into English Shutterstock
By Daniel Leonard/Jan. 11, 2021 4:46 pm EDT
Have you ever wished you had a word which means the day before yesterday? Well, English might let you down, but Spanish has you covered. As Spanish Pod 101 explains, the Spanish word for the day before yesterday is anteayer.
But anteayer is just a basic example. As it turns out, there are lots of words from other languages that lack English equivalents. Some of these words like treppenwitz are humorously specific. Others like ya aburnee are burning with passion. All of them are curiously unique.
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