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The Festival Holi, A Festival With Out Barriers Sandra Patricia Castelblanco Quincoz. Angie Lorena Gutiérrez Quintero

Holi is a spring festival celebrated mainly in India that involves throwing brightly colored powders and water at each other to celebrate the arrival of spring. The festival honors stories from Hindu mythology, such as a god saving a devotee from being burned and a god painting his lover with colors so she would love him. The colored powders used - red, blue, yellow, and green - symbolize love, fertility, and the arrival of spring. Participants dress in white cotton clothes that are then colored during celebrations, which include dancing and throwing powders regardless of religion, status or differences. The festival aims to show that all people are equal and can celebrate love and happiness together.

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The Festival Holi, A Festival With Out Barriers Sandra Patricia Castelblanco Quincoz. Angie Lorena Gutiérrez Quintero

Holi is a spring festival celebrated mainly in India that involves throwing brightly colored powders and water at each other to celebrate the arrival of spring. The festival honors stories from Hindu mythology, such as a god saving a devotee from being burned and a god painting his lover with colors so she would love him. The colored powders used - red, blue, yellow, and green - symbolize love, fertility, and the arrival of spring. Participants dress in white cotton clothes that are then colored during celebrations, which include dancing and throwing powders regardless of religion, status or differences. The festival aims to show that all people are equal and can celebrate love and happiness together.

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THE FESTIVAL HOLI, A FESTIVAL WITH OUT BARRIERS

*Sandra Patricia Castelblanco Quincoz.

**Angie Lorena Gutiérrez Quintero.

Holi is a festival that is celebrated mainly in India and other countries. The event
is also known as the spring festival, as it celebrates the end of the winter
season on the last full moon of the month, which normally coincides with the
end of February or beginning of March. It consists essentially of throwing bright
colored powders and colored water to each other, as a symbol of happiness for
the arrival of spring, trying to imitate the cheerful colors of the flowers that will
be born during the spring.

The Holi is celebrated in honor to some stories. A story is about the god Vishnu
that saved to Prahlada from burned to death and his bad aunt died at the stake,
in this moment is celebrated the triumph of good over evil. Other story is about
Krishna, he had blue skin and for this he think that his beloved Rabdha would
not love for his color and for this Krishna paint her with colors powders for that
she like who him. And this is why the people use the colors powders in honor to
Krishna

The colors powders used are the red means love and fertility, the blue represent
the color of Krishna, yellow is the turmeric color and green symbolizes the
arrival of spring. This powders aren`t dangerous because this are made of
macerated medicinal flowers and the people use the flowers dye, spices and
edible powders. In the festival the people often dress in white. The clothes are
made of cotton. The women and men go dressed with dress very representative
of the culture, the women are dressed with the salwar and the men go with the
kurta is a Hindu shirt. The clothes of the people highlight the colors.

The holi festival is an event cultural very big that a lot of people of all ages can
go. In the event the people dancing and the colors powders are thrown at each
other. It festivity is very important because the Hindu people put aside their
differences, regardless of the religion or status. This celebration shows that we
are all equal and everybody celebrates the love and happiness above all things.
This festival transmits good energy in all the people who participate.

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