One was a public message of devotion to religious images of Mary and Jesus, but internally, also expressing that they were canceling the promise that they were converting to Christianity. It was communicating in two different ways, although many modern singers don’t know the roots it has in the Kol Nidre prayer that it goes back to a time when converso Jews were trying to demonstrate their loyalty to the Christian faith, but also giving a dual message.
I talk in the book about the Saeta music, which is sung a capella at Easter time. That’s why I think there are so many poets living there, including the ex-mayor. When you look over the entire valley, with cliffs and sheer drops, you feel like a bird that could plunge. Winds from Africa blow across the summit. Christians and Muslims battled over this sandstone ridge.
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