So these were not people who were isolated from our world, but nevertheless, for them, the gods and the spirits are still very much there, and when we were on the bus going back and forth to the various parts of the , they prayed not just in a generic way but for the safety of the journey, and they meant it, and when they said to me that my mother, the bridegroom's , was with us, they didn't mean it figuratively.
No era gente que viviera aislada del mundo, pero de todos modos, para ellos, los dioses y espíritus están realmente ahí, y mientras íbamos en el ómnibus de acá para allá a varios lugares de la ceremonia, rezaban no solo de un modo genérico, sino también por la seguridad del viaje, y lo sentían. Cuando me dijeron que mi madre, la abuela del novio, estaba con nosotros, no lo decían en sentido figurado.