Shrine (izzy)

Hello, hello, hello!
It's Easter, so I am doing easter colors. I hope all are well, and I have the weirdest news!!!
We went to the Shrine of Difunta Corea. Difunta was a lady who's husband was drafted for a war (dunno which one,) and they had to walk through a desert, or a really dry patch at least, and they didn't have any water. She dropped dead of dehydration and her baby was with her.They found her three days later, and her baby had been kept alive by breast-feeding even though she was dead. So, they declared her a saint for her baby-keeping-aliveness.
She has the most visited shrine in the country and everyone comes to her for wishes they need granted. They built a market around it where you can buy everything from hanging chairs to candles to bread. Truck drivers have come for years and years to ask for a safe trip home, so there are these really old license plates lining the stairs up to her shrine. The people bring offerings of water bottles because she died of thirst. There are little buildings plastered in donated plaques with the peoples' names and stuff, and each building is for a separate thing, like sports or weddings or kids. Some people donated their wedding dresses because they got to get married and kids that survived diseases make little offerings.
We were watching around and taking pictures when we got out of the car, and we saw a guy crawling on his back. He was using his feet and his shoulder blades to go up the road, to the stairs, up the stairs, and to the shrine in a form of thanks. It was bizarre. There were a few people doing that. Our theory is that because she died on her back they crawl on their backs (all the paintings show her on her back.)
Well, that is all! I hope we get some more highly-appreciated comments on this one (hint-hint...)
Until next blog,
Izzy
P.s. Here are some pictures!

The plaques The back-crawler