Floccinaucinihilipilification. No I
didn't just slam my forehead on the keyboard, it's a real word. It's
the categorising of something that is useless or trivial. I think I
do that a bit. I'll have to make a note of being a
floccinaucinihilipilificationist. Despite it's meaning, the
pronunciation of floccinaucinihilipilification is no trivial task.
As far as I'm concerned, trivialis is
the original, more correct descriptive term, not the term trivial.
Like most words, trivia originally derived from the Latin, tri meaning
triple and via meaning way, "a place where three ways meet".
The word trivia was used to describe a
place where three roads met in Ancient Rome. All of which roads were
said to lead to Rome, but that probably had something to do with them
being built by Romans, and Rome is where the Romans wanted to go when
they finished roaming around. Later the term trivialis became a
derogatory term meaning "appropriate to the street corner".
Eventually trivia began referring to
the lower division of the Artes Liberales (liberal arts), basic
education, being: grammar, rhetoric, and logic. The higher division
of the Liberal Arts was the quadrivia, higher education. The
quadrivia (four ways) being: arithmetic, geometry, music, and
astronomy. So things not of the higher education (the quadvia) became
referred to as trivial.
Santa Muerta (Saint Death) goes by many names: Senora Blanca (the White Lady), Senora Negra (Black Lady), La Huesuda (The Boney Lady), Senora de las Sombras (Lady of the Shadows), Nina Santa (Holy Girl) and La Flaca (The Skinny One). Santisima Muerta is a similar version used on many candles. But I'm going to call her Undead Mary. Many modern images of Santa Muerta are often cheap mass-produced depictions of the grim reaper, however, the more traditional images portray the feminine aspect of the character and resembles a skeletal version of the Virgin Mary.
Shrines to Santa Muerta usually feature a skeleton dressed up as royalty with sceptres and crowns, seated on a throne to symbolise the triumph of death. The skeleton was used to remind Catholics of the need for a "good death" (muerte santa), fully confessed of sins. Offerings at Santa Muerta shrines are made in many different ways. These include burning candles, adorning the statues with flowers, leaving money, smoking cigars and blowing the smoke at the shrine, and drinking liquor. Sounds like a fun mass. Many followers tattoo themselves with images of Santa Muerta. Followers believe that by paying respect to death that you will be spared for more time which is why Undead Mary is popular with criminals and people who work risky jobs such as late night taxi drivers.
Confusingly the Roman Catholic Church does not officially accept Undead Mary, but the same “Saint of Death” is found in The Church of St Peter’s Chains (the Basilica di San Pietro in Vincoli), a Roman Catholic Church in Rome. “Santa Muerte” is watching over a dead Roman Catholic Bishop enshrined at St Peter’s Chains and has been officially blessed and recognised. Probably because the church views Mexicans as high speed cheese thieves.
Floccinaucinihilipilification. No I
didn't just slam my forehead on the keyboard, it's a real word. It's
the categorising of something that is useless or trivial. I think I
do that a bit. I'll have to make a note of being a
floccinaucinihilipilificationist. Despite it's meaning, the
pronunciation of floccinaucinihilipilification is no trivial task. 
