object of a game used in childrens birthday parties and christmas celebrations,
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Kathy Medina
1/5/2015 10:29:10 pm
A piñata is a container often made of papier-mâché, pottery, or cloth. It is decorated, and filled with small toys or candy, or both, and then broken as part of a ceremony or celebration. Pinatas are a European tradition brought to Mexico.
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Trinity
1/5/2015 10:29:24 pm
It is the object of a game played in Mexico at children's birthday parties and at Christmas celebrations, in which blindfolded children take turns trying to break the piñata with a stick to release the treats. Yet the piñata has a long history.
How to make a pinata:
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Dulce Neri
1/5/2015 11:16:05 pm
It’s a popular belief that piñatas originated in Hispanic culture among the Mayans, Aztecs and natives of Mexico.
In the olden times, it has been said that on the birthday of Huitzilopochitli, the Aztec god of war, priests hung a clay pot from one of the temple’s poles.
The pot was decorated with feathers and inside the pot were colorful stones, nuts, bead ornaments, painted stones or berries. After breaking the pot with a stick, the contents spilled on the feet of the image of the god representing an offering.
A piñata is defined as a play thing that’s essentially made like a container with materials like cardboard or papier mache. Originally Indigenous people used clay to make it. Today piñatas are filled with toys, candy, trinkets, or jewelry.
What makes it so fun to have a piñata at a party or festival is that, it is suspended from a high place and partygoers are blindfolded as they try to hit the piñata with sticks trying to break it open.
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lainy
1/5/2015 11:44:56 pm
There is some debate but it appears that its origin is not Spanish but rather Chinese.[2] The Chinese version was in the shape of a cow or ox and used for the New Year. It was decorated with symbols and colors meant to produce a favorable climate for the coming growing season. It was filled with five types of seeds and then hit with sticks of various colors. After the piñata was broken, the remains were burned and the ashes kept for good luck.Piñatas are typically made of paper-mâché.
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Dance Ellis
1/5/2015 11:49:19 pm
Piantas was used by the mayas and atezecs back in the days. They use for ceremonies. Now it is use for birthday parties. how to make a pianta you use flour water newspaper balloons and tissue paper
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Michael M
1/6/2015 02:36:22 am
A pinata is made of pottery, cloth, or papier mache, it is decorated then filled candies, toys and sometimes confetti. The pinata then sits in the air tied to a string for someone to beat and once broken the candies and toys spill for all to grab. Pinatas are used as a part of a ceremony or celebration. Although they are commonly associated with Mexico, breaking a container of treats and toys stems from 14th European century where the name from Italian "pignatta" was introduced. The Spanish then brought the european tradition to Mexico, there are other similar traditions in Mesoamerica. The Aztec had a similar tradition to honor the birthday of the god Huitzilopochtli in mind December. The mexican pinata tradition began in the town of Acolman where pinatas were introduced for catechism purposes as well as to co-opt the Huitzilopochtli ceremony. Commonly in America, Mexico, and other places around the world. Pinatas have lost its religious aspect and is now used for in ceremonies of childrens birthdays. Pinatas can come in any shape,size, and form. Some are characters of famous cartoon shows
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jonathon ingle
1/6/2015 10:33:08 pm
popular hispanic sports include soccer among most thing.popular music includes reggaeton and traditional party music.food includes papas y hamon and frijoles.
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meila
1/6/2015 10:34:26 pm
a decorated figure of an animal containing toys and candy that is hit by kids until broken open by blindfolded children as part of a celebration.
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