Another strange Three Kings Day… cimarrón

It would seem that the lost tradition of Three Kings Day is hidden behind a “squeezy” day without feelings from the time of the toys of the Holy Kings. The State, without paying attention to ecclesiastical claims, “machuca” the custom of centuries, what we have lived since our birth and much more back, as a beautiful habit of a healthy, naive syncretism that feeds the imagination and belief of children. Perhaps some modern and “inclusive” psychologist finds that it produces irreversible traumas in the creature, which would mean millions of beings “deformed” by the supposed “lie” orchestrated by society as a whole, as a universal conspiracy. The District Council carried out, as always, the traditional Three Kings Parade, which seems contrary to the political inclination that an inadequate legal establishment prescribes: Law 139-97, which for almost 26 years has changed holidays, as a monument to the laziness, in a country that needs production to break chains of poverty and inequality. Political initiative that seeks to extend the festivities in a month that has days of rest left over. The Epiphany (divine manifestation) of the Magi, a Christian holiday on January 6, corresponds to the “presentation of Jesus to the pagan people.” Matthew does not mention names or numbers and the tendency is to refer to them as “wise”. Catholics understand, for reasons of Faith, that his remains are preserved in the Cathedral of Cologne, in Germany. Creole folklore says: “Lo tre reye”: Melchor, Gaspar and Baltazar, who on the night of January 5 bring gifts, especially toys to the children who have behaved well throughout the year and coal and horse poop, to the others . They are made very small to fit under the doors, and also, super quiet. They were left and at other times cigarettes, grass and water for the camels. In the sky there are three stars of the Circle of Orion that represent them: Alnitak, Alnilan and Mintaka. The Old Bethlehem, similar to the Italian Strega Befana, comes the following Sunday, with gifts for the forgotten, an excellent occasion for godparents to meet their godchildren. The mystics indicate that strange signs indicate greater events than combined with our Dominican nature, they upset everything, we see that, if the Old Bethlehem arrives before the Kings, there is an extraordinary contradiction with the traditional. Some sharp legislator should be motivated to review the legal framework that induces the transmutation of dates, in this religious case, causing two celebrations in the year, for the sole benefit of toy merchants. I am convinced that Three Kings Day is not exclusive to infants and encompasses a population that, despite its marked adulthood, believes in them. In my letter I ask for Hope: for a country where the joy of meringue harmonizes with social justice; of peace and less violence; of effective education; of officials who meet expectations; public and private honesty; of healthy, timely and reliable justice: Real Justice. That in that flight of the soul, we give reality to the outdated dreams of a better country, full of opportunities and that we stop being a rich land, full of poor people.