Dia de los Muertos, the greatest mexican tradition

 

Dia de los Muertos, a Mexican tradition that transcends time

Dia de los Muertos, a celebration of memory and a ritual that favors memory over oblivion


In pre-Hispanic times the cult of death was one of the basic elements of the culture, when someone died they were buried wrapped in a petate and their relatives organized a party in order to guide them on their journey to Mictlán. In the same way, they placed food that he liked in life, with the belief that he might feel hungry. The "Dia de los muertos"

in the indigenous vision implies the transitory return of the souls of the deceased, who return home, to the world of the living, to live with relatives and to be nourished by the essence of the food that is offered to them in the altars. placed in his honor. 

 In this Dia de los muertos celebration, death does not represent an absence but a living presence; death is a symbol of life that materializes in the offered altar. In this sense, it is a celebration that carries great popular importance since it includes various meanings, from philosophical to material. Its origin is located in the harmony between the celebration of Catholic religious rituals brought by the Spanish and the commemoration of the "dia de los muertos" that the indigenous people carried out since pre-Hispanic times; The ancient Mexicas, Mixtecs, Texcocans, Zapotecs, Tlaxcalans, Totonacs and other native peoples of our country transferred the veneration of their dead to the Christian calendar, which coincided with the end of the agricultural cycle of corn, the main food crop in the country