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Day of the dead

THE DAY OF THE DEATH

The cult to deads had fundamental meaning in the indigenous towns and from it arose a series of ceremonies, attitudes, fields and offerings there that agreed deeply and until today in the mentality of those towns.
A way to say that the memory of its dear beings occupies the sacred site that corresponds to an altar and it takes to flowers, adornments, confituras and foods to them so that they try to live the impossible illusion to see share them with them as if the mysterious abyss did not exist between both that separates the life of the death.
Each one of the materials that conform an altar, has a special meaning.
The altar rises on a table covered with an embroidered table cloth or open...

Posted by: Tricia F. Doyle

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