Day of the Dead example

The day of the Dead It is a Mexican custom that dates from pre-Hispanic times, its celebration covers all its states, and vestiges have been found in the Mexica, Mayan, Purépecha and Totonac cultures.

This pre-Hispanic festival coincided with the Catholic celebrations of All Saints' Day.

This same coincidence is found in the Celtic origins of the holiday of Halloween in which the word Halloween is a translation or adaptation of the word “All hallow's eve”, (From Old English), which would translate into “All Saints' Eve” and which was celebrated from October 31 to October 1 November.

The celebrations of day of the Dead and Celtic Halloween, were appropriate to the Catholic traditions of all saints, it should be noted that the celebration made with pumpkins American with candles inside, it is also of Celtic origin, as turnips were used with candles that represented the heads that were cut by they.

Returning to America, this celebration has a very high roots, and has been confused with American Halloween but this custom survives widely in Mexico and some places in Latin America, where the tombs of the faithful are visited Deceased. On this date, people clean and accompany their deceased in the pantheon, celebrating and returning it in a family conviviality party.

In Mexico, in day of the Dead, The offering to the faithful departed is characteristic, in which sweet skulls, flowers of cempasúchil, photographs, articles used in life by the faithful deceased as well as the food they liked the most the deceased.

Even though it is celebrated in many parts of Mexico, in Michoacán and Oaxaca there are deeply rooted pre-Hispanic customs and traditions; In Oaxaca and Michoacán, the bread of the dead was widely disseminated, which is a bread made with figures of bones, skulls, and throughout the rest of the country satires about death are made (the bony one) and as additional information, the skulls are sung, which are little jokes or small stories made to friends and family, in which macabre jokes are made about they.

In Mexico City as well as in the metropolitan areas, they have settled down to celebrate both the day of dead like Halloween, starting an ambiguous custom that respects the circumstance of both cultures.

In the world, the approach that is given to death in Mexico has become very notorious, where a generally sad phenomenon in a universally accepted party without taking away the respect that said situation merits.

This custom of mocking and living with death has been declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. Staying as a seal of guarantee for Mexican and pre-Hispanic culture.