IslandMix - Soca, Reggae, Zouk and Caribbean Entertainment

I remember when ah was in school meh pardner tell meh he Family was Seventh Day Adventist, and dey use to spend Carnival Monday and Tuesday at de Beach.

my aunt church have camp during that carnival week, they pentecostal

It have people whose do that. Big Carnival Monday & Tuesady and dem on de beach. If not they in Tobago, dey find dey self in Miami or New York. I have a friend whose a Born Again Christian and they go to Mayaro.

Add Jehovah's witnesses' to the beach go-ers then, since they don't believe in party or celebration.
Carnival time must seem like Revelations to them

And moreso, a festival whose roots were pagan. And doh talk about J'Ouvert and the Devil mas... Lord have Mercy, we go burn in Hell according to them.

@ dis thread

Hi, I'm Joan of Arc

Brian W has an excellent point about the Evil displayed on J'ouvert Morning back in the day.......

..........A deeply religious parent will Definitely want to shelter and protect their offsprings from the sight of those Devils, Bats, Jab Jab, Robbers in Masks.

------Did Massa dress up as a Devil and Bat back in the day when we were macoing dey party from de Slave Quarters?

Well actually it was the other way around. The former slaves used to maco Massa doing this in the Carnival fetes and street parades. Our J'Ouvert is derived from the European Carnival that was praticed in Trindad 1780's -1838. The majority of characters were 'africanized' versions of the European ones and parodies of their 'masters'. The only one to come through almost untouched was the Jab Jab, the stick fighting talent was the African part. It was common for the plantocracy class to dress up/down and play slaves thmselves,like the Negue Jardin.

Bats and Robbers came much later in the 19th century and were not derived from this. Those have seperate histories altogether and were never really part of J'Ouvert.

And remember, although Carnival has its pagan roots, it was the Roman Catholic Church that adopted it as a kind of 'festival' to gradually convert pagans over into the Church. It was a prelude to Lent, this is why its butt up aganist Ash Wednesday. Christams is also pagan based feastival as is many things of daily life. But doh get meh started on this this early morning.

*steups*

Leave us alone. Well, I playin mas but maybe one would see me as more 'liberal.' Plenty people of all religions dont play mas, depending on how strict they are...SDA, Hindu, Muslim, Pentecostal etc. Guess to some ah allyuh, dem have issues. But truth is, dey eh have no more than anyone else. Dey just convicted about this and sticking to it, and dais respectable to me.

Ah know some of my family will be on the beach...