Zozobra ("Old Man Gloom") is a 50-foot giant marionette statue built and burned during the annual Fiesta de Santa Fe in Santa Fe, New Mexico. As the name implies, it embodies the gloom; by burning it, people destroy the worries and problems of the previous year in the blaze. Anyone with excessive darkness is encouraged to write down his grim nature on a piece of paper and leave it in the "dingy box" found at the Santa Fe Reporter office in the week before the burn. Many people put legal documents in the dingy squares as well. At the festival, papers from the grim box are placed at Zozobra's feet to be burned beside him.
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History
Fiestas de Santa Fe has been held since 1712 to celebrate the repetition of the Spanish city in 1692 by Don Diego de Vargas of the Pueblo tribe who had occupied the city since the Pueblo Revolution of 1680. The burning of Zozobra dates from 1924. Santa Fe artist and marionette maker, Gustave Baumann, came up with the idea of ​​making sculptures, also called Old Man Gloom, and ritual burning; and then conspired with his friend William Howard Shuster, Jr. to burn the first Zozobra. "Zozobra" means "anxiety" in Spanish. The idea of ​​Baumann may have been influenced by the cartonerÃÆ' a Mexico (papier-mÃÆ' Â ¢ chÃÆ' Â © sculpture), especially the stupas that explode during the burning of Judas that occurs on Holy Saturday or New Year's Eve, as a way to rid oneself of one's own community or crime..
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Modern celebration
Every year in Santa Fe New Mexico, more than 50,000 people go to watch Zozobra, who stands 50 feet tall. The fire marked the start of a three-day celebration that included a traditional Mass at St. Anthony's Cathedral. Francis; reenactment Entrada , when Don Diego de Vargas returned to the city; Parade of Children's Pet; and Historical/Hysterical Parade. The Santa Fe Kiwanis Club built Zozobra and burned the statue at Fort Marcy Park. Zozobra was burned on September 7, 2007, certified by Guinness World Records as the world's largest doll, with a height of 15.21 m (49.11 ft). Zozobra's next record was broken by a mascot of 17.82 m (58.46 ft) for Ottawa Ital-Fest one year later on September 6, 2008.
The Zozobra Burning at Fort Marcy Park in Santa Fe, New Mexico has traditionally been held in September, but ticket sales before the show were upgraded when it was moved to Friday just before Labor Day 2014.
Events
When the locals fill the Fort Marcy park in Santa Fe on Friday before Labor Day, Las Fiestas de Santa Fe has officially begun with the Zozobra tradition. If people can not add their documents that fill the marionette before the show, and they still hope, there is a "grim tent" that offers a box for people to keep contributing to the Marionette stuffing. There are food trucks scattered around the park offering New Mexican local cuisine, navajo tacos, lemonade, and turkey legs. Zozobra stands tall at the head of the field, with his appearance changing every year. First, the local band performs and then at nightfall, the fire dancer comes out. The "fire sprinter" was dressed in red with a flowing headdress, carrying two lighted torches, to symbolize the old enemy of the Old Man Gloom. He was accompanied by a small "glooms", whose children dressed up in white dancing beside him. The role of the fire dancer is to frighten his little friends, because he represents the light that sends darkness and bad energy this year. This night dance part begins with Jacques Cartier who appeared as a spirit dance role for 37 years after serving as a New York ballet dancer and then, a dance instructor. One of Cartier's disciples, James Lilienthal succeeded his instructor as a spirit dancer in 1970 and played this role for 30 years, which then handed it to his daughter. Helene Luna now performs as a Fire Flame dancer every year, as the original Santa Fe herself. While the dancers perform on stage in the shadow of Zozobra, who is actually a functioning pup, start to move his arms and head. Then, as he was famous, Zozobra began to move his mouth to let out an unpleasant moan, voiced by other local people, to express his grim feelings to his arch-enemies. After the dance performance was over, the fireworks that stuck to the marionette set off and caught it with fire. So start burning. It is common for audiences to start chanting â € Å"fire himâ € when a figure made of chicken wire, wood, and muslin is engulfed in flames. The public warns that this event may be frightening for children. Dolls filled with anonymous letters, divorce papers, mortgages, even hundreds of police reports donated by the Santa Fe Police Department, were burned to the ground. After he finally fainted, the fireworks show took place on a pile of burned dolls. In ticket and food sales, the current celebration raises over 300,000 dollars used for scholarships, charities, and grants for Kiwanis club, which sponsor and hold the rights to this event. Zozobra has been used as a fundraiser since 1964 when the rights were awarded to the Kiwanis club.
List of events burning Zozobra
Gallery
See also
- Burning Man
References
- Zozobra: The Gloomy Parent Story , Jennifer Owings Dewey; photographed by Jeanie Pulsen Fleming, Santa Fe: University of New Mexico Press, 2004
External links
- Zozobra Burning - Official Site
- Santa Fe Fiesta Council - Official Site of Santa Fe Fiesta
- Video burning Zozobra, 2005 - The Santa Fe New Mexico
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