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Día de Muertos
In Mexico people celebrate on 1 and 2 November. It is Día de Muertos, the Day of the Dead. For many Mexicans it’s a special festival remembering loved ones who have died, both people and animals. Their lives are celebrated! Not in a sad way but joyfully! People get together and reminisce.
For many people it’s a special festival remembering loved ones who have died, both people and animals
Their lives are celebrated! Not in a sad way but joyfully!
There are skeletons and skulls in the streets and houses; shops and markets sell sweets and toys in the form of macabre symbols of death, such as sugar skulls, skeleton dolls, coffins and depictions of death, La Muerta.
Día de Muertos is a festival that brings together rituals from different religions: the mediaeval Spanish-European catholic tradition of honouring the souls of the dead and the Pre-Columbian death cult.
The Aztecs, Maya and Purépecha, for example, honoured their ancestors at specific times of the year with rituals and festivities, in which their skulls were displayed.