day of the Dead
· WHAT IS DONE DURING THE CELEBRATION: Every year many families place offerings and altars decorated with cempasúchil flowers, chopped paper, sugar skulls, dead bread, mole or some dish that their relatives liked to whom the offering is dedicated, and as in pre-Hispanic times, incense is placed to aromatize the place. Likewise, the festivities include decorating the tombs with flowers and often making altars on the tombstones, which in indigenous times had a great meaning because it was thought that it helped lead the souls to travel on a good path after death. Tradition also indicates that, to facilitate the return of souls to earth, cempasuchil flower petals should be spread and candles placed tracing the path they are going to travel so that these souls do not get lost and reach their destination. In ancient times, this path led from the family home to the pantheon where their loved ones rested. · ...