Day of Dead
November ancestor celebration
Day of the Dead is a Mexican holiday honoring deceased loved ones, celebrated primarily on November 1st and 2nd.
Families build altars with photographs, marigolds, candles, and favorite foods to welcome spirits back for a visit.
The celebration blends indigenous Aztec traditions with Catholic observances, treating death not as an ending but as part of life's cycle: The Day of the Dead parade filled the streets with skeleton costumes and music.
- Día de los MuertosMexican festival for ancestors
- muerteEnd of life
- skullsHead bones
- marigoldsPungent orange garden flowers
- ofrendaMexican memorial altar
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- holy daysEaster Sunday, Easter Week, Christmas Eve, Christmas, Epiphany
- Death MythsGrim Reaper, Anubis, Hades, Osiris, Charon
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Day of DeadHalloween
October 31st festival
All Hallows' Eve · exorcism · Samhain · ghost stories · haunted houses
Day of Deaddeath denial
Refusing to accept dying
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Day of DeadHalloween
October 31st festival
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