My favorite holiday of the year. As I wrote in a previous post, on this day all families make an altar in their homes because the souls of dead relatives come to visit us. This is the altar in my house ;v; with photos of our relatives, flowers, fruit, "bread of dead(?)", coffee, beer, water, tequila... and that Coca-Cola and the bag of snacks are for my grandfather XD he liked a lot hahaha! And you can see the chocolate skulls too ;v; with the names of our relatives... yeah~ many; my 2 grandfathers, my grandmother, their brothers and/or sisters, and some relatives that only my parents knew, like my 4 great-grandparents. OH! you can see a photo of my cat too! I don't care what people could say: she is a realtive too! >83 she was with us for 15 years so she deserves to be on the altar TwT I like to think that her little soul can come visit me ;o;
On this day many people visit their relatives in the cemetery directly. We went two weeks ago to visit my grandfather's grave and decorate it with many flowers. In those days people started to do the same.
I went to my school yesterday and the Offerings Contest had begun! Students of different careers created their own altars. The offerings has issues about what they are studying, such as nursing, medicine, chemistry, biology, dentists, etc. Some altars are fun XD I photographed this altar with the "spirits" of important people in psychology hahaha. I wish Freud could analyze me XD
This sounds similar to our "Obon" in summer when the dead people family member come visit you for few days. We put candles in front of the house so that they know where to go. I'm sure your grandpa loved what you put there for him! :D
ReplyDeleteHoooo “Obon“ sounds interesting *-* I like to know how people in other countries see the death and remember their relatives *v*
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I came to now about "the day of the dead" by watching it on Discovery channel.Thanks for sharing this with us.
ReplyDeleteDiscovery Channel! *-* you‘re welcome ^^ I like to share mexican traditions to people know how things works in my country ;3
DeleteQue bonito todo <3
ReplyDeleteGracias, nena ^.^ <3
DeleteOMG el Día de los Muertos en México, parece super típico ^_^ Es increíble este concepto positivo de la muerte que tenéis, me gusta mucho! El perrito esqueleto es lindísimo! Aquí simplemente comemos castañas, boniatos y panellets (un pastelito típico de pasta de almendra y piñones) con la familia. Espero que lo disfrutaras :D
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Jajaja sii, también me encantó el perrito. Que bueno que te agrade el concepto de esta celebración, muchos de mis penpals se sorprenden cuando se las cuento. No entienden como podemos ver la muerte de una forma divertida jejeje.
DeleteI come to your blog and each time something disturbs me and I can't read full posts. Finally I found enough time and can make some comment, a week after the Day of the Dead. I really like the Mexican way of celebrating it and I love to see all those altars, skulls and skeletons in the photos. I always think of pets as relatives, anyone has some doubts about it?;)
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