Breathe
By Martha Ortiz
I would like to take advantage of this column to make a short portrait of the piñatas, their virtues, sins and their idyll with the winter manzanita: the tejocote.
I am referring first to the beautiful hanging craft conceived as a star, suspended in the sky by a simple rope. The piñatas are boldly dressed with shiny cardboard and thin, tousled tissue paper in contrasting colors, in a perfect, beautiful, Mexican combination.
The piñatas -which I think are of a somehow imposed feminine nature, since they imply a sacrifice of brokenness and some imposed patriarchal idea- have by nature seven peaks that represent each of the deadly sins: laziness, pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony and anger. I confess that I detest lies and, when I have them made by extraordinary craftsmen and craftswomen, I order them with six peaks, because I live off one of them (gluttony and the pleasure it provokes in the tongue), the spirit and a body that shudders with pleasure.
