| ARU2/1993-05-28/01/IS/000/N1 > ARU2/1993-05-28/01/ST/003/N1 |
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| St. John's Feast: Text of Dera Gai Song |
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| Ufrucle catalogue code: ARU21993052801ST003N1 |
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| Country: | ARU | Aruba | | Period: | 2 | Aruba >1986 | | Date: | 19930528 | 5/28/1993 | | Issue number: | 01 | Issue number 1 on this day | | Item type: | ST | Stamp | | Serial no.: | 003 | Stamp number 3 of this issue | | Extension: | N1 | N New | |
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| Issue motive: | Dera Gai Festivities at St. John's Feast | | Issue theme: | Celebrations | | Issue url: | | | Item description: | St. John's Feast: Text of Dera Gai Song | | Item url: | | | Keywords: | | | Face value: | 80, c | | Shape: | Rectangle | | |
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| Groups of users: | A | (A) General Public | | Postal functions: | A | (A) Postage | | Items for delivery: | A | (A) All items | | Means of delivery: | A | (A) Regular | | Ways of delivery: | A | (A) Normal | | |
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| Size mm (Hor x Vert): | 25 x 37 | | Separation: | Perforation | 12,5 X 14 | | |
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| Issue details: | Fiesta di San Juan y Dera Gai is an Aruban tradition celebrated every year on June 24. In order to be in the good grace of the Gods and spirits, they had to make several offerings. The tradition to bury a living rooster (dera = bury and gai = rooster) was very common in former days. Nowadays it is obviously unthinkable to do such a thing. The Rooster has been replaced with a calabash gourd, and nowadays a synthetic rooster is placed above the ground. A man is then selected from the crowd and is blindfolded. He is then asked to kill the rooster by hitting its head real hard with a stick.
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