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{{Other uses|Posadas (disambiguation){{!}}Posadas}}[[File:Rompiendo_la_piñata.JPG|thumb|right|300px|Children smashing a traditional star-shaped [[piñata]] in a pre-posada party in Mexico City.]]
'''''Las Posadas''''' is a [[Novena|''novenario'']] (an extended devotional prayer). It is celebrated chiefly in [[Latin America]], [[El Salvador]], [[Mexico]], [[Guatemala]], [[Honduras]], and by [[
==Etymology==
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In Mexico, the [[winter solstice]] festival was one of the most important celebrations of the year that came on December 12 according to the [[Gregorian calendar#Preparation|Julian calendar]] used by the Spanish until 1582.<ref name="Mansueto">Mansueto, Anthony E.,
[https://books.google.com/books?id=XnCzFXYF9JEC
p. 110, University Press of America, 2001
</ref><ref name="Flores">Flores Segura, Joaquín,
[https://books.google.com/books?id=mUBk8mPCLOsC
p. 74, Editorial Progreso, 1995
</ref><ref name="Campos">Campos, Jorge.
[https://books.google.com/books?id=6kIrDwAAQBAJ
Ibukku, 2017</ref> According to the [[Aztec calendar]], [[Tonantzin]] (the mother of the gods) was celebrated on the winter solstice, and she is still feted on December 12,<ref name="Flores"/><ref name="Campos"/><ref name="Fee-Webb">Fee, Christopher R. and Webb, Jeffrey B.,
[https://books.google.com/books?id=kXnEDAAAQBAJ
p. 747, ABC-CLIO, 2016</ref> while their most important deity, the sun god [[Huītzilōpōchtli|Huitzilopochtli]]'','' was born during the month of December (panquetzaliztli). The parallel in time between this native celebration and the celebration of [[Christmas]] lent itself to an almost-seamless merging of the two holidays. Seeing the opportunity to proselytize, Spanish missionaries brought the reinvented religious pageant to Mexico where they used it to teach the story of Jesus' birth. In 1586, Friar Diego de Soria obtained a [[Papal bull]] from [[Pope Sixtus V]], stating that a Christmas mass should be observed throughout Mexico on the nine days preceding Christmas Day.
While its roots are in [[Catholicism]], [[Protestant]] Latinos also follow the tradition.<ref name="wsj" />
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==See also==
*[[Christmas in Mexico]]
*[[Cinco de Mayo]]
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