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Offering Parade

As is well known, the Day of the Dead and in particular the tradition of offerings and altars to the deceased has a pre-Hispanic origin.

The celebration, with memorable the ninth month of the Aztec solar calendar, around early August and is celebrated for a month.

This ritual was in honor of the goddess Mictecacíhuatl, the Lady of Death (where they say they were inspired by "la Catrina" by José Guadalupe Posada) and wife of Mictlantecuhtli, Lord of the land of the dead.

According to the pre-Hispanic belief, the deceased died a natural death would end up in Mictlan.

To reach Mictlan was due to take a difficult path, because the deceased took four years to get there. Then this time, the souls came to Chicunamictlán, or disappeared resting place of the dead souls.

This the deceased was buried with a dog, which would help to cross a river and come to Mictlantecuhtli, who was delivering gifts as an offering.

why the deceased was buried with various objects, whether they had used in life and serve him in the afterlife.

With the arrival of the English cultures merged and the veneration of the dead and then was given a religious character linked to Christianity.

It is therefore common now on Day of the Dead to candles, religious images, as well as food that he liked the deceased in the belief that they return the night of November 2 to visit their loved ones gone.

"You've thought about what you would have put on your altar or offering once they're dead?

I do not forgive the bread of the dead, skulls sugar or chocolate.