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Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Dia De Los Muertos



El Dia de los Muertos is celebrated because that the dead after their long pilgrimage from the other life arrive on earth tired and thirsty.And to remember the people who have passed away



It occurs a week before the 1st and 2nd of November.



The festivals are celebrated at the cemetery and at the streets of the table and run h



The altars are generally set on a table and then it is wrapped with a tablecloth, white sheet or with perforated tissue paper. Sugarcane is bound to the foot of the table and run high overhead into the shape of a triumphal arch.Oaxaca mole, freshly seasoned by the women, nicuatole, pumpkin with black sugar sugarcane, tejocotes, pan DE muerto and chocolate stone.



Comparsas are a type of a group of dancing people that represent manifestations from different religions and cultures of the country

On the day of the dead they go to the cemeteries and they set up food and drinks for them


The history of El Dia De los Muertos is that more than 500 years ago when the Spanish conquistadors landed in what is now Mexico they encountered the natives practicing a ritual that seemed to mock them. It was mostly the indigenous people that had been practicing at leat 3,000 years.
Another interesting thing is that the most vivid moving of The Day of The Dead celebrations take place on this island of Janitzio in lago de Patzcuaro

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