The day of the Dead celebrations on 1 and 2 November rather than accept the crown of the life cycle, and that death comes for us all. As directly follows Halloween, the festival is not designed to bring fear or sadness.
The day of the dead to the living allows those who have died - the honor of family, friends, ancestors and pets. While its origins are ancient Meso-American cultures, from Mexico to Honduras and El Salvador, anyone can take this annualCompliance and Schneider, this colorful celebration to remember their loved ones.
History
Since the connection of Halloween, back about 3000 years ago the ancient Celtic people believed that on October 31, the boundary between the living and the dead is dissolved, through the spirits of the dead in the living world. To combat the Druid festival Samhain (pronounced Sow-wen) held this time of year, put the Catholic Church of All Saints - akaHallows Day '- in mid-May to November 1st Halloween is shortened from All Hallows' Even, the eve of the day.
Meanwhile, in the western hemisphere, indigenous peoples like the Aztecs, Mayans, Olmecs, Toltecs and other tribes in Mexico, instead of celebrating the death rituals of their ancestors during the month of August. E 'corresponding to a party around a goddess named Mictecacihuatl, The Lady of the Dead. If the Catholic Spanish conquistadors arrived in the New World more500 years, sought to mock the rituals that seemed native and death symbolizes the death and rebirth to remove.
The old ritual refused to die before the forced conversion. Then, the ritual of making more Christian, the Spaniards moved to correspond with all the saints and day, all souls '1 and 2 November. In Mexico, Dia de los Muertos, as it is known in Spanish, often in honor of deceased children and infants on the first day, and adults died on the second Day.
The initial attitude was that the Meso-American life is a dream, and death is the awakening to real life. are the dead are as semi-divine status, the permission given back once a year. You are welcome, not fear.
How Day of the Dead is celebrated
Today, Day of the Dead celebrations take place in Mexico, parts of Central and Latin America, in the southwestern United States and some European countries. In Mexico, the festivities are elaborate, more than> Christmas observances. Parades and decorations in homes and cemeteries abundant this time of year a tourist spectacle.
Families visit cemeteries to clean the graves of loved ones, decorate with flowers and candles, and the community with the spirits of the dead. Often picnic in the cemetery, bringing the deceased favorite foods and beverages.
If the church relics granted magical healing powers, has been expanded with the use of Milagros, Spanish for miracle, metalThe stimuli in the form of animals that need healing. This led to the specially designed Day of the dead foods like sugar skulls and Pan de Muerto, sweet bread baked egg-shaped skulls and bones. These offers may be eaten by dead or alive.
colorful parades with people like skeletons, a reminder that, in death, life, we actually kept even more severe. skull masks and artwork of skeletons doing everyday activities such as dancing, cycling, and food andDrinking remind us that the eternal soul away, separated from the body.
The celebration to welcome home the dead with respect and devotion. Some families make an elaborate dinner, put the food not to eat until the next day, so to eat the ghosts first. They can also read with fresh sheets, so the spirits to rest after the long journey to Earth. And build altars with ofrendas to obtain bidsRelations with the dead.
Making an altar or Ofrenda
You do not have your loved ones day with a Mexican Dead altar at home to accept and honor their spirits for a visit. Start by creating a table with pictures of the dead, and his ashes, and if you have them. Do not forget the pets dead!
Decorate around your photos with flowers and candles. Food & Drink Sets are used outside to enjoy it. Listen to the music he loved. Put objects of artcollected or works of art created in or near the altar. Write messages and notes in this place next to their pictures. Even the elements of life of pets, such as toys, leashes, handled, and tags.
ofrendas traditional products that represent the four elements of earth, air, fire and water. A glass of water is held, the ghosts have a drink after their long journey. sheets of tissue paper cut with designs developed, called papel picado, which represents the air as they move with the sweetestBreeze. Flowers and a bowl of salt often earth, fire and candles.
Daisies are the flower of choice for the Day of the Dead decorations. Their pungent smell is to lead souls to the ground, and marigolds are often bloom from late October. Flowers can be arranged in an arc, together with the paper papel picado, what the connection from earth to heaven.
Create the altar before Halloween, and keep it as long as it feels right. PhotographAltar for posterity. Each year presents a new opportunity to remember and honor those who have meant so much to us, while they lived. Inevitably there will be new faces as the years go by to add.
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