Abstract

PERDIGON CASTANEDA, Judith Katia. Una relación simbiótica entre La Santa Muerte y El Niño de las Suertes. LiminaR [online]. 2008, vol.6, n.1, pp.52-67. ISSN 2007-8900.

A yearly tradition in Mexico City is to dress the Christ Child at home in order to take it for a blessing on the celebration of Candelaria day; the clothes are related to the devotion to a saint, the invocation of Jesus Christ or any other famous saintly representation because miracles. A dress in high demand is the one of the Lucky Christ Child, an iconographic representation that rests on a skull in the manner of a pillow. This image has been reconsidered and reconceptualized in a symbiotic way by the believers of the Santa Muerte, who dress their own children like the Christ Child, in a style so that they continue with the tradition of celebrating the Candelaria's festivity in its own peculiar way.

Keywords : Santa Muerte; Niño de las Suertes; Candelaria.

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