Death Rituals and Day of the Dead in Modern Mexico Día de Los Muertos, or Day of the Dead is a popular Hispanic holiday that is often associated with Mexico. Participants of this holiday celebrate it for more than two days, they are known for their particular decorations on tombstones, festive parties, and sugar skulls. Day of the Dead started off as a couple of Catholic holidays, but has then become something that makes the holiday specially engrained into the Mexican Culture. From where the holiday has been influenced to become what it is today, is not known, where it did come from shows what kind of views Mexico has on death.
Literature Review Day of the Dead lasts about two weeks from October twenty-eight to November Eight, but the most important days of the week is November first and second, which is All Saints Day and All Souls Day (Cano, 2004). These two holidays derived from Catholic tradition, where the …show more content…
Almost everyone continues to live a bright life, visiting dead friends and family, meeting the newly deceased until their family in Earth forgets about them, and then their world turns grey. The mention of purgatory, heaven, and hell is a hint of how Day of the Dead originated from Catholic tradition, and how it is the most popular religion in Mexico (Brandes, 1997). In this afterlife, the dead will visit their living friends and family during Day of the Dead, where they take offerings from the living like food and favorite objects, and this reflects how during day of the dead, families will clean tombs and decorate them (Cano, 2004). This version of death is just another idea or fantasy of the afterlife that shows how people truly do not understand or know what happens after death. What happens after death is simply a guess or influenced by the ideals of religion, and this version of afterlife contradicts what Christians believe what happens after
Literature Review Day of the Dead lasts about two weeks from October twenty-eight to November Eight, but the most important days of the week is November first and second, which is All Saints Day and All Souls Day (Cano, 2004). These two holidays derived from Catholic tradition, where the …show more content…
Almost everyone continues to live a bright life, visiting dead friends and family, meeting the newly deceased until their family in Earth forgets about them, and then their world turns grey. The mention of purgatory, heaven, and hell is a hint of how Day of the Dead originated from Catholic tradition, and how it is the most popular religion in Mexico (Brandes, 1997). In this afterlife, the dead will visit their living friends and family during Day of the Dead, where they take offerings from the living like food and favorite objects, and this reflects how during day of the dead, families will clean tombs and decorate them (Cano, 2004). This version of death is just another idea or fantasy of the afterlife that shows how people truly do not understand or know what happens after death. What happens after death is simply a guess or influenced by the ideals of religion, and this version of afterlife contradicts what Christians believe what happens after