Halloween at Cökxpon

The last night of October is the end of the year in the traditional Pagan calendar. This is the night of feeling the connections with one's ancestors and dead beloveds, as well as letting go of those fruits of the passing year that we do not need any more. So I spent Sunday afternoon in the forest, literally burying things from my past. But my evening was not about silent contemplation but about something entirely different.

With the veil between this world and the other being thin, there are not only our loved ones that can get through, but all kinds of negative thoughts and entities as well. Demons if you like, otherworldly creatures of darkness, or simply the gloomy thoughts of inevitable death. Halloween is traditionally about frightening all those demons and negative thoughts away, by mimicking them and disguising ourselves as vampires, zombies, witches or other creatures of the night, and by making huge noise and revelry. Well, the Psychedelic Halloween Party at Cökxpon Café Theatre certainly did both.

When I arrived at half past 9, the atmosphere of the place resembled more to a nondescript chill-out evening, although I had to admit that the new design of the place is quite nice. The Man O'Mantra concert started around half past 10, and by then, otherworldly creatures started to infest the place. When the Cayetana started to play, quite a number of zombies and dark angels could be seen among the average concert-going audience. And after the concerts creatures of the darkness completely took over the whole place. My dark-witch-self enjoyed immensely discovering that the well- (or sometimes not-so-well) known faces are turned into Constantinos the Demon Hunter, or the Tree With Eyes. I spotted an executioner with excellent dancing skills, and an Islamic terrorist on his day off as well. They were all a nice company on the dancefloor. Okay, I must accept that at one point I was contemplating to turn all of them into newts, but I realised that I don't want to be surrounded by all those reptiles, so I decided not to do any mischief.

The zombies fell first, probably they have not eaten enough brain to keep them all night. But the DJs made quite a big noise so that no demon could get even close to Cökxpon and we could dance without trouble until the first morning of the Pagan new year.