Día de Muertos
Honoring deceased ancestors
Día de Muertos, Spanish for "Day of the Dead," is a Mexican holiday honoring deceased loved ones, celebrated primarily on November 1st and 2nd.
Families create altars called ofrendas decorated with marigolds, candles, photographs, and favorite foods of the departed.
The celebration blends Indigenous Mesoamerican traditions with Catholic observances, treating death not as an ending but as a continuation of life's journey.
The cemetery was alive with color during Día de Muertos.
- calaveraDecorative skull for Mexican holiday
- La CatrinaIconic Mexican skeleton figure
- marigoldOrange-petaled garden annual
- ofrendaMexican memorial altar
- altarSacred ritual table
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Día de MuertosVictorian mourning
Nineteenth-century death rituals
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