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Gollete is a variety of “pan de muerto” (Bread of the Dead) from Puebla, according to the National Institute of Indigenous People (INPI), who described as a “colorful thread”.
According to INPI, golletes are essential and indispensable on the traditional altars on Day of the Dead as salt, water, candles, copal, incense, marigolds flowers, and velvet flowers, bread, rucksack, izcuintle, and canes.
It is said that it originated in Puebla; however, it is not as elaborate, known, or traditional of state offerings.
Also, it is a salt’s bread, as a cookie, because is tougher and crunchier, and is spread with sugar and pink pigments.
In addition, INPI said golletes and canes are together in the altar, because golletes are placed on the canes. They are related with Tzompantli, a kind of altar where the heads of defeated enemies or sacrificed captives were impaled in order ro honor the gods.
It symbolizes a sacrificed head, and the cane, the stick used to cross the head.
Mientras que en Acámbaro, Guanajuato se elaboran conejos, mulas, borregos y pan de canela. pic.twitter.com/QVuoJVfMqT
— Coolhuntermx (@coolhuntermx) October 25, 2020
En Puebla se pueden comer los “Golletes”, roscas adornadas con colores. pic.twitter.com/KlNIkAx4Kw
— Coolhuntermx (@coolhuntermx) October 25, 2020
Translation done by: Luba Michelle García Vega
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POB/LFJ
