Day of the dead in Mexico, colourfull and happy!!

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(Free-Press-Release.com) November 4, 2009 -- The Day of the Dead is an important holiday in Mexico and the reason for a large deployment of traditions.

History tells us that for millennia we celebrated death. During the ninth month of the Aztec solar calendar, the Indian organized for the occasion festivities which lasted all month. They had chosen this time because the weather changed causing the cold winds from the north. They were convinced that the spirits were carried by these winds.

The Spanish conquistadors considered sacrileges these beliefs and, intending to convert Indians to Christianity, altered and moved the festivities to November 1st and 2nd , dates established by the Catholic Church to celebrate the "Day of all Saints" and "Day the Dead". The result is a mixture of pagan and Christian tradition.

Death is the great mystery that accompanies every human being throughout his life. The only certainty we have is that we will die, we cannot know the future, nor even understand this, but what is certain is that sooner or later we will face death. Who has not already asked what there is after? But the answers can only be speculation. Death has been represented in all cultures through a variety of rituals, some of which have become traditions over time. The celebration of the Day of the Dead, with its deployment of customs, is designed to give children and adults the idea that death is a return of life to experience the rituals of some ancient cultures on the same theme, strengthening the character of the religious point of view by integrating the idea of death that scares us and fascinates us.

For the Mexican people, death is stalking you all the days of his life. He woos the challenges, he seeks and fears of a permanent game. A strange relationship that we might call the "ultimate love". Hispanic cultures believed the death as a duality to life. Nobody knows its exact origin, but the Day of the Dead is celebrated in Mexican villages as an expression of fervent magic and history.

The origin of donations is the worship which the natives made their dead in the temple offering pods, flowers and burned incense to perfume the air and so pleasing to the gods who resided with the spirit of deceased.
The altars or offerings that take place in many Mexican households are a tribute to loved ones who are left in "the beyond". The altar is hung on a wall or a table, a photograph of the loved ones of the family are dead, we have about clothing, food, toys and personal items that the person was alive when used. There are other things like a glass of water to quench the thirst for the journey is long, candles to light the way (the candle represents the soul alone) and flowers are a welcome message for the soul, and also something very important: the incense or copal.