Hosay or Tadjah is a West Indian commemoration, in which multi-colored model mausoleums are paraded, then ritually offered up to the sea, or any body of water. Some contemporary writers equate the multi-colored mausoleums with `mosques.` In British Guiana, now Guyana, and Suriname, the festival was called Taziya or creolized into Tadjah in refer.....
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A Muslim festival that forms part of the broader celebration of Muharram, the first month of the Muslim year. Brought to the Caribbean by the East Indians, the Hosay festival unites Hindus, Muslims, and others. And in Trinidad and Guyana it has developed into a multi-ethic affair.
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