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Exitao -> RE: Easily Spotted (Jan. 18 2009 16:23:55)
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Val:
Please get back to us on that. Anyone else who might know as well.
Are lunares appropriate to some types of baile and not others?
Or are some just more appropriate?
Sean:
Thanks for your response. As it had never come up, I didn't know that polka dots were called lunares in Spanish. (I had always known lunares to be "beauty marks" like the moley moley mole on Marilyn Munroe's face.)
If you or anyone else can maybe answer or ask a gitano, or someone in the know, why or from where (whence?) does this love affair with lunares come? (Which seems somewhat answered already by Jacinto, but I want more info.)
Jacinto:
That's also interesting information. So you're saying that lunares, are literal imagery of the moon la luna? Heh, sort of makes sense, at least it has etymological support.
And that the gitanos have replaced Eostre with the Virgin Mary?
It's interesting, because Eostre's month became later called Paschal (Spanish for Easter is pascua). And she is associated with the full moon (the first full moon of spring)...
No idea what any of that means.
HemeolaMan :
It's exactly because of the current banner that I finally had to ask.
[:)]
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