Posts Tagged ‘Dia de Los Muertos’
Thursday, 1 November 2018
Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, is a celebration of life and death. While the holiday originated in Mexico, it is celebrated all over Latin America with colorful calaveras (skulls) and calacas (skeletons).
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Wednesday, 1 November 2017
Always Remember: There are more of them than there are of us.
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Friday, 27 October 2017
Yeah, I know we’re a few days early, but so what.
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Thursday, 1 November 2012
The fascination of the Mexican people with death goes way back to the time of the Aztecs. For the Aztecs, death signified not an end but a stage in a constant cycle. Worship of death involved worship of life, while the skull, the symbol of death, was a promise of resurrection.
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