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What did is the day of the dead?

Since pre-Hispanic times in Mexico, the Indians have worshiped death and conceived as a duality of life, part of the cycle of nature.

When arriving the conquerors the death cult merged with the Catholic religion, giving rise to the tradition of the Day of the Dead during the 1st and 2nd of November of each year. At this time the Mexicans celebrate our dead going to the cemeteries to decorate them with flowers, and put altars in our homes, so that the dear souls leave the past few days and wander around the world, visiting family, home and friends.

 

What is an altar of the dead?

Food, candles, incense, liquor, flowers, photos, music and personal belongings of the deceased, offerings are made with respect for the family to remember those who are gone. Sugar skulls, bread of dead, drawings mock death, verses ridiculing vivid characters of the arts, science or politics are part of this tradition and refer to the famous adage: 'dead in the drawer and live to bash.

 

What did is the aim of the festival?

The aim of the Festival of Life and Death Traditions is to achieve the active participation of society, Mayan communities and artists, in which cultural diversity in the Day of the Dead is integrated, through the recovery of traditional ethnic practices and contemporary, alluding to this ancient Mexican tradition.

 

What are the meaning indigenous festivities dedicated to the dead?

For the indigenous peoples of Mexico located in the south central region, practices and traditions prevailing in their communities to celebrate the spirits of the ancestors, is one of the deepest and most dynamic customs currently being carried out as well as one of the most representative and important of their community life social facts.

The ceremonies performed each year dedicated to the dead, represent not only the encounter with their ancestors, but also with members of the community, which favors the interaction of families and entire communities. This highlights a wide horizon of ideas that have been enriched over the centuries, with more than 60 indigenous groups that have uninterrupted presence in almost all regions of the nation.

 

How did is the Mayan death cult?

The Maya, like other Mesoamerican peoples, expressing a profound interest in death, which can be seen in its artistic manifestations during different periods.

For the Maya of the past and the present, the dead are alive, so their spirits are in need of support as well as the living. Therefore they prepare the dishes they used to enjoy in life, to keep you energized during their journey from the beyond. To this the Catholic feast of All Saints and All Souls liturgy, both with a long tradition it merged with Christianity introduced by the Spaniards, resulting in the syncretism practice Hanal Pixán added.

 

 

How did is the contemporary practice of Hanal Pixán?

The Hanal Pixán, Day of the Dead or Time of Souls, besides being one of the most intimate practices of families in the Yucatan Peninsula, has the virtue of bringing together as many of its members.

It is a time of return: the living who for various reasons were absent from the family trunk, returning to participate in the preparations for the celebration. Return the souls of loved ones, to share food offered to them with love, then living and the dead meet again. And so from family to family, from one generation to another, this ancient tradition continues to maintain through the centuries.

 

How it was that you originated the day of the dead?

Day of the Dead is celebrated in Mexico long before the Spanish conquest, in fact, it has more than 3000 years old.

The ancient inhabitants of pre-Columbian Mexico in Mesoamerica: Aztecs, Mayans, Purepecha, Nahua and Totonac, rituals were between two holidays: small and large, that during the colonial times merged with the culture and the Catholic religion. The earliest history of these ceremonies date from around 1800 BC. As indicated by a mud mask from Tlatilco, State of Mexico.

In pre-Hispanic Mexico, after the wars between peoples, it was a tradition keep skulls of enemies as trophies to show them in rituals related to death and rebirth.

These celebrations were presided over by the goddess Mictecacíhuatl, known as the 'Lady Death', and wife of Mictlantecuhtli, Lord of Mictlan or 'Land of the Dead'.

 

How it arose and where it comes from our tradition?

The origin of this celebration goes back to a time before the arrival of the Spaniards. The festival comes this party commemorated the 9th month of the Aztec solar calendar, and lasted one month. The festivities were presided over by the goddess Mictecacíhuatl, "Lady Death" and paid tribute to deceased relatives.

The ancient Mexicans believed that the souls took different paths or roads that were determined by the type of death they had suffered, and not for the life that had led (the duality of hell and heaven came with the Spanish).

 

What day the Day of the Dead is celebrated?

The small party, begins 20 days before the big party, the first was dedicated to children and the second to adults, as now, it is customary for the 1 November is dedicated to the dead children and 2 adults . The beginning of the celebration of the dead adults or large party was timed to coincide with the Catholic feast of All Souls.

The day of All Saints was included within the 20 days prior to the big party where small parties were dead. This tradition was adapted and managed to stay alive under the Spanish yoke, despite evangelization. Taking advantage of the interest in manipulating the Spaniards had parties Indians to convert to Catholicism, Mexicans were adapted and thus achieved the festivities dead were not taken as pagan.

 

What is the aim of putting an altar of the dead?

The altar of the dead is the basis of this celebration. It is an offering that is brought into the house of the deceased or in the pantheon next to his grave. The center of the altar should be crowned by the photo relative or person celebrated, and a cross.

 

It has certain specific elements that should not miss as they all have a symbology itself. It is believed that the souls of the dead return from 1 to 2 November, and living with the living and eat the essence of food available to them.

2 afternoon altars are collected and the food is distributed among relatives for all coexist around what they shared with the deceased.