To celebrate the Day of the Dead: D I've decided to dedicate myself to the paranormal but before:
What is the Day of the Dead?
All Mexicans know it but as you have noticed we have not only Mexican visitors there is also Chilean, Argentinian, English, many English-speaking So here's a little introduction to our Day of the Dead a very Mexican ritual also known as the Day of the Dead.
"The Day of the Dead is celebrated the 1st and 2nd November, in which all Mexicans remember our beloved dead, both children (which is the first day) and adults (the second) were makes offerings to "absorb" the essence of food and thus continue their journey to the afterlife ...
Some of the rituals more caracterizticas of this tradition are:
The candy skulls (Want to calavaeritas sweet? enters HERE:
All Mexicans know it but as you have noticed we have not only Mexican visitors there is also Chilean, Argentinian, English, many English-speaking So here's a little introduction to our Day of the Dead a very Mexican ritual also known as the Day of the Dead.
"The Day of the Dead is celebrated the 1st and 2nd November, in which all Mexicans remember our beloved dead, both children (which is the first day) and adults (the second) were makes offerings to "absorb" the essence of food and thus continue their journey to the afterlife ...
Some of the rituals more caracterizticas of this tradition are:
The candy skulls (Want to calavaeritas sweet? enters HERE:
are made of sugar, chocolate or amaranth decorated with colored folk, these are on his forehead the name of the deceased or in some cases of people living in a modest joke does not offend in particular mentioned.
Offerings:
If you can not visit the grave either does not exist, or because the family is too far away to visit detailed offerings are made at home where to put dishes of food, pan de muerto, glasses of water, mezcal, tequila, pulque, gruel, cigars and even toys for the souls of children.
All this is placed with portraits of the deceased.
Normally they leave water (for cooling spirit), salt (to give them strength), candles (for lighting and road guiarsu) Cempaxóchitl flower (which bring the soul of the deceased and guide them to their place of rest).
Normally they leave water (for cooling spirit), salt (to give them strength), candles (for lighting and road guiarsu) Cempaxóchitl flower (which bring the soul of the deceased and guide them to their place of rest).
must have three levels, the top represents the sky and there are placed the images of saints, in the middle is the limbo and there is a picture of the dead ones that are "purging" their sins and the third is the land and she put all the offerings. About
or at the door of the room where you drop, you must have an arc that represents the permission that gives San Pedro, for souls to leave and return to paradise and is placed opposite a trail of flower petals cempoatxóchitl to guide the dead helped by its beautiful bright yellow.
Under the altar, place a mat and some chairs along the dead to rest after their long journey
placed on the table glasses of water, which serve for the dead who are in purgatory to cool and drink so that your sins are purged or to forgive. The salt is placed to the children who died without being baptized.
The candles symbolize the light against the darkness of death. Serve to illuminate the path of the dead that arrived safely, usually placed in earthenware candlesticks, one for each deceased and one more for the forgotten souls.
Papel picado:
Papel picado is a Mexican craft is made from cut paper and has been used since the ancient civilizations of our country, for example the Aztecs made their ornaments and clothing with sacred sacred role that could give him the way they wanted it, decorate it, paint it and where they represented the images of their gods, they painted figures and symbols on the paper with melted rubber. After the arrival of the English and other cultures had other and more different ways to cut the paper.
Pan de Muerto:
(Proximamento complete with recipe)
(Proximamento complete with recipe)
literary Calaveritas:
both are so called for rhymes or verses satirical engravings that illustrate the skulls disguised as described below:
also called "calaveras" humorous epitaphs are actually people still alive who consist of verses where death (personified) jokes with real life characters, hinting about a peculiar feature of the person concerned. End with phrases which states that it will take to the grave. It is very common to dedicate the "skulls" public figures, especially politicians in power. In many cases the rhyming speech of the aforementioned as if already dead. Skeleton
!
A gift to the nation!
going to the final resting place! Mexico
descansaráde vacilada hear much ...! Spending
saliva!
Nobody had ever so much!
O wouldst much coca
O wouldst much fanta.
All to "make the story!
never said something right!
Your government was a farce!
Fox, with his last breath, he said his interlocutor:
Tell me, Who I have the pleasure?
Where does the stench? You
Amorn looks great unless the Grim Reaper, but declined
he was afraid venirpues Martha,
"I am Charon," that stinks "And I'll bring my boat.
epitaph "Here lies Vincent"
"lied very often"
Cobra as Presidentepor Zedilloy grace of God Almighty "
Author: Yucatan.
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