
A mi la muerte me pela los dientes. Death peels my teeth! Which means "Death can't do anything to me!"
Quien con la esperanza vive, alegre muere. He who lives with hope dies happy.
Celebrating you Grandma! My alter this year...only on paper.
El Día de los Muertos, the Day of the Dead has been celebrated in Mexico, and other Latin countries, since pre-Columbian times. This is a very special ritual, it is the day in which the living remember their departed relatives. Sometimes, when people of other cultures hear for the first time about the celebration of the Day of the Dead, they mistakenly think it must be: gruesome, terrifying, scary, ugly and sad. Nothing further from the truth, Day of the Dead is a beautiful ritual in which Mexicans happily and lovingly remember their loved relatives that have died. Much like when we go to a graveyard to leave some lovely flowers on a tomb.
On November 1st and 2nd Mexico celebrates the Day of the Dead.
Like the rest of the pre-Columbian civilizations, these people succumbed to the Spanish conquerors, which imposed their customs, their language and their Catholic religion. The natives acquired these new cultural elements, blended and adapted them to their own culture; from this fusion new beliefs and ritual were born, such as the Celebration of the Day of the Dead.