Happy Halloween: Google celebrates the fourteenth year of doodles dedicated to All Hallow´s Eve
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The Google´s logo is shaped using elements of the classic Halloween´s day
31 oct 2012 . Actualizado a las 22:51 h.Happy Halloween is the greeting from Google to the users on the home search page for fourteenth consecutive year. From the year 1999 the Google comes celebrating on October 31 with a doodle dedicated to the Celtic´s origin celebration.
This time there are five doors that hide different characters who shape the Google´s logo and help him wishing us a "Happy Halloween". From a violet octopus with a leg in the shape of "G" to a wall with eyes that reacts to the mouse click with his mouth in the shape of an "e", happening for two eyes that follow us, a classic ghost with form of "g" or another mysterious figure that languishes shaping one "l". With our leader we will be able to provoke the croak of a raven, the balancing of a spider or the flight of a cat, which is the one that finally shoots the search of "Happy Halloween", the term chosen for a celebration popularized principally in the EE. UU.
The celebration of this "Happy Halloween" comes from the Samhain. The word Halloween is a scottish variation of the fuller All Hallows' evening .
This Celtic tradition comes from the summer´s end and the autumn beginning, the dark station. In this night the borders between the world of the dead and of the alive ones become closer and it is propitious for the visit of the spirits, good or bad, that return to the world of the alive ones. This tradition would be connected also with his later christian tradition and adjustment as day of honoring to the deceased, avoiding this way the most secular or esoteric part, that of the coming of the spirits.
Curiously this death´s marked celebration coincides in dates to another celebration of the same type with the pre-hispanic world (in Mexico fundamentally), the "Día de los muertos" (Day of the dead), that it takes place on November 1st and 2nd. Though also lived as celebration, it´s much far to the "Happy Halloween", which it has to coexist with due to his nearness and influence.
Google goes fourteen years celebrating the American part (the "Happy Halloween") of this date with doodles in his front page. From 1.999, when simply two Jack O´lanterns substituted to the "o" in the name of Google to the elaborated version of this year. Pumpkins, spiders, bones, witches, cats, haunted houses or bats have formed a part of this stereotyped version of the celebration from the American point of view, which includes a congratulation as "Happy Halloween" as colophon.
Last year the Google logo was replaced with 6 carved Google enormous pumpkins that were day time carved to be illuminated at night and form with his holes the name of Mountain View's company. The process was recorded in this video recorded as a time lapse.
The pumpkin or gourd, one of the common elements of the original celebration and his later reintepretations, is one of the fundamental elements of the "Happy Halloween". One of the most widespread legends is Jack O'lantern, a farmer who cheated the devil not to go to the hell but also denied to heaven and from then he walks with a gourd illuminated in the hand or per head in the day of Halloween. Adding to the greeting of Google we want to say: "Happy Halloween".