just gathering my thoughts....& wondering if u still stop by.....
Dia De Los Muertos
- It is not the Mexican version of Halloween.
- It is a Mexican celebration called the Day of the Dead
- Is has been celebrated since the year 1800 B.C.
- It is not scary or morbid.
- It has no images of dead people, ghosts, witches, or the devil.
- It is not a cult. This ritual has nothing to do with cults.
- It is a Catholic Christian ritual intermixed with folk culture.
- It is a day which includes going to mass as an essential aspect of the celebration.
- It doesn’t honor death
- It is a 3 day celebration which honors dead relatives
- It is a day of reflection upon ones life, heritage, ancestors and the meaning or purpose of ones own existence
It is a way to offer love and to remember departed family members thru the creation of altars or ofrendas.- It is not a sad ritual.
- It is about Love not Fear
- It is not a “strange” ritual.
- It is very similar to going to a grave and leaving flowers or stuffed animals, lighting a candle to remember the deceased.
- It is not a careless or fearless confrontation of death.
- It is a moment to reflect upon one’s life and the cycle of life and death.
These interesting tidbits were found HERE.
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5 Comments:
Beautiful post as usual, Minta. And the images you used were very beautiful. Admittedly, our celebration does seem cultlike but only to the prudish.
I have to go through your archives. You're an intensely interesting person!
interesting celebration indeed! ever notice that, here in america, weddings and funerals are very much the same. prepackaged and dull to the point where they look like the same type of event. (there's a ceremoney followed by a reception). might as well serve a multi-staged funeral cake, with a little tiny skull on the top.
i would even think about hiring the band or dj at the end of every funeral to play the ymca song a few times. you could even have somekind of emblem catching ceremony at a funeral reception. next one to catch the funeral garter or corsage will the the next one to die.
yeah, i think i have a million-dollar idea here. any other ideas for this funeral-reception?
The multi-tiered wedding cake with the skull on the top sounds good to me. I need to get hooked up with that.
It's cool skeletal stuff
Thanks for posting this... as a newcomer to L.A., I had heard about DotD. I love to learn all about the diversity of myriad cultures... you just saved me some digging. Great post. ~S
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