Where the day of the dead is celebrated. Day of the Dead is a holiday in Mexico. Death is not the end, but the beginning of a happy life

24.09.2019

Mexicans firmly believe that people dear to their hearts do not leave this world forever after death. Once a year - on the Day of the Dead - they can visit their relatives.

Although the tradition of honoring deceased relatives in Mexico dates back to ancient times, today the Dia de los Muertos holiday is tied to two Catholic celebrations - All Saints Day (November 1) and All Souls Day (November 2). These days, Mexicans visit the graves of their relatives, where they erect "altars of death" with the beloved things of the deceased. Altars are decorated with bouquets of orange marigolds, offerings of fruits, drinks and food. An indispensable attribute of the holiday is also placed here - a skull-kalavera made of sugar or marzipan, brightly painted with glaze.

Like their American neighbors, Mexicans have a kind of humor about the world of the dead. On the Day of the Dead, it is customary not to grieve, but, on the contrary, to amuse otherworldly guests in every possible way, so that they give their blessings to the living. Therefore, closer to sunset, Dia de los Muertos from a quiet family celebration develops into a noisy street procession-compar with the participation of wandering orchestras, tambors, songs and dances.

Day of the Dead is celebrated throughout Mexico, but it is especially celebrated in the south of the country in the ancient city of Oaxaca de Juarez. About a week before the start of the holiday, a large Day of the Dead parade takes place along the central streets of the Mexican capital, Mexico City. Participants in the carnival procession make up under skeletons and dress up in the costumes of characters from the other world, as Americans do in time. This tradition has appeared relatively recently, after demonstration of a similar action in the film "007: Specter" from the saga about the adventures of the legendary agent James Bond.

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The cemetery was visible from afar, a couple of kilometers away. From the Mexican town of San Luis Rio Colorado, located on the border with the American Arizona, we left after dark, and all the way outside the windows only blackened in complete silence the harsh Sonoran Desert. The lonely necropolis outside the city limits today, on Day of the Dead, looked like a real island of life, illuminated by searchlights and surrounded by cars; from behind the fence came a completely non-funeral music, cries of children, laughter, barking dogs and even, it seems, the clinking of beer bottles. (Actually, why be surprised if there was also a case of beer in our trunk?)

November 2 caught me visiting Mexican friends in a completely non-tourist place. In the north of Mexico, which is considered more Americanized than the south and center, there are no city carnivals for Day of the Dead. But traditions are respected: on November 1, on "Angels' Day", when the dead children are commemorated, at the house of my friends there was a queue, it seems, all the children of San Luis - the family arranged tricky-tricky, a ritual of treating children with sweets, which the Mexicans borrowed from Halloween, slightly correcting its original, difficult to pronounce name treat-or-trick... Women appeared in the traditional for the Day of the Dead image of Katrina, a symbol of death - in black dresses and hats with a veil, with faces painted under the skulls (it should be noted that special makeup for this case is made in Mexico of very high quality - it was possible to wipe off the "death mask" only in the morning ).

The next day, a friend offered to go to the cemetery together - her friend's father died a month ago, and he was going to celebrate the Day of the Dead there. My friend and I were nodding acquaintances, he did not speak English at all, and I spoke very poorly in Spanish, but it was stupid to refer to the terrible inner awkwardness on such a holiday. Despite the fact that the thought of dancing on the graves still led me to a stupor, I wanted to pass this test of openness to foreign cultures.

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The tradition of celebrating the Day of the Dead in Mexico is rooted in the pre-Columbian past and is closely related to the culture of the peoples of Mesoamerica - the Olmecs, Toltecs, Aztecs, Mayans. All of them were united by a kind of cult around death: there were no cemeteries in the usual sense, and the dead were buried right under residential buildings. This practice literally brought the living and the dead closer together: the graves were not walled up, relatives regularly "visited" the dead and brought them offerings. The departed were perceived as intermediaries between the world of life and death.

The Aztecs believed that these two hypostases are natural forces that set the world in motion, the necessary components of regeneration. After all, in order to get food, it was necessary to kill an animal or a plant - which means that death gave life.

The Indians believed that a person has three souls, each of which could go to the afterlife, turn into divine power, or stay between two worlds in order to give strength to the surviving loved ones and loved ones.

Many of the Aztec rituals in honor of the dead - for example, the worship of the death goddess Miktlansihuatl, who was portrayed as a woman with a skull instead of a head, incense smoking, food and gift offerings to the deceased ofrendas- became an important part of the celebration of the Day of the Dead. But, of course, in its modern form, this holiday took shape as a result of a mixture of pre-Columbian and Spanish Catholic practices, which, paradoxically, harmoniously complemented each other. For example, the popular plot of religious Spanish painting was superimposed on the Indian depiction of death in the form of a skull. Danza Macabra("Dance of Death"), in which death was painted dancing with the living. The Spaniards encouraged the Indians to conduct rituals of veneration for the dead on Catholic holidays - All Saints 'Day and All Souls' Day, which were celebrated on November 1 and 2 (before that, Indian celebrations in honor of the dead were held in August).

At the beginning of 1900. The authorities of the already independent Mexico declared Day of the Dead an official holiday to unite the nation amid political divisions that reigned supreme. So the fiesta, traditional for the south of the country, spread throughout its territory and eventually began to attract hundreds of thousands of tourists to the country. Ten years ago, in 2008, the Day of the Dead was inscribed by UNESCO in the List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

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Trying to mentally put all the known Spanish words of sympathy into more or less coherent phrases, as we walked from the parking lot, I experienced a strange mixture of fear of someone else's grief and my own bigotry. Eight years ago, my own father suddenly died, and the memories of the depression that did not leave me for a whole year after this did not fit well with the thoughts that in such a state one could communicate with the curious and see the holiday around. The San Luis cemetery was really fun: before finding our friend, we had to wade through armfuls of flowers, whole orchestras of Norteños and many people at the graves - they talked loudly, ate and drank. Our friend was sitting in a large company of relatives and was, in every sense, tipsy. They began to hug us tightly, immediately poured beer and put tamales on the plates.

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“If you don’t put a candle on a dead man, he will have to light his own finger to find his way home,” says a popular belief among the Indians of southern Mexico. Dia de muertos- this is not just a reason to remember the dead. It is believed that on this day the deceased come home to visit their relatives - and those, in turn, should take good care of making the return, albeit temporary, easy and pleasant. For this, altars with photographs of deceased relatives are erected in houses, and in some cities in squares and cemeteries. They are decorated with great imagination, decorated with flowers - pink celosi, white gypsophila, red carnations and bright orange marigolds inherited from the Aztecs cempasúchil... From their petals, a path is poured to the altar from the threshold of a house or courtyard, which will show the necessary path to the deceased. Offerings are placed on the altar - ofrendas.

Traditionally, the altar should contain four elements: water to quench the thirst of the deceased during the long journey from the kingdom of the dead Miktlan; fire (candles) to illuminate the path to earth; the wind, which is symbolized by garlands of colored carved paper papel picado, to create coolness, and unite the dead with the living earth, which is personified by food. Usually it is sweet yeast "bread of the dead" pan de muerto, tamales - Mexican "dumplings" stuffed with meat and corn flour, cooked in corn or banana leaves, hot corn drink atoll, fruits, chocolate mole sauce, and sweets in the form of sugar skulls. However, on the altar you can find almost everything that the deceased loved, including cans of Coca-Cola, cigarettes and baseball shirts! Incense is also part of the tradition, and for this, since the time of the Aztecs, copal, a resin secreted by tropical trees of the legume family, has been used.

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But still, the main and most replicated symbols of the Day of the Dead are an artistic depiction of a skull, which is called a calavera, and Katrina, a skeleton in a woman's dress and hat. These images, considered to be folk, are actually authored by the Mexican cartoonist Jose Guadelupe Posada. It was he who turned the image of the skeleton into a work of art, drawing kalavera in images of people, including politicians, for magazines and newspapers. In 1910 Posada printed a lithograph entitled La calavera garbancera- "Elegant Skeleton". The drawing revealed a lady who was ashamed of her Indian roots, dressed in French fashion and with abundant make-up to appear whiter.

In 1948, Diego Rivera, who considered Posada to be his inspiration, painted his famous fresco "A Dream of a Sunday Evening in Alameda Park", dedicated to the colonial history of Mexico, in which he quoted a satirical drawing of Posada, giving his heroine the name La Catrina(in the slang of that time - the name of an expensively dressed rich man). Since then, Katrina and Calavera have become some of the most popular images of Mexican identity.

Despite the fact that the main tradition of the Day of the Dead is to visit the cemetery, which turns into a party, different states and cities have their own customs. Mexico City has recently hosted a carnival, and the largest altar in the country is being erected on campus and the local Indian saint, the Pilgrim Child, is being praised. Niño Pa... Oaxaca is famous for its tradition calenda- a street procession with puppets, dancers and music. They dance in Michoacan La Danza de los Tecuanes- "Dance of the Jaguars", depicting the hunt for these animals, and La Danza de los Viejitos- “Dance of the Little Old Men”, in which teenagers dressed as old people first walk with their backs bent, and then suddenly jump up and start moving vigorously. And the Purepecha Indians, who inhabit the northwest of this state, are preparing for the holiday in a few weeks: young guys, tatakeres, they go, often illegally, to dig marigolds on the plantation or to the forest to cut trees for the construction of altars in the village squares. The town of San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato state hosts a colorful four-day festival La calaca dedicated to skulls, and in Guadalajara they are organizing a festival at the Belém cemetery and it seems that every single local woman is dressing up as Katrina! In Chiapas, in the village of San Juan Chamula, where the Tsotsili Indians live, the least assimilated after the conquest, they organize a festival K'Anima, during which the locals ring the church bell, believing that this attracts the souls of the dead, and then go to the cemetery to play the harps and guitars. San Sebastian, Yucatan hosts a festival Mucbipollo- this is the name of chicken cooked in an earthen oven in a sauce of tomatoes and cornmeal.

But the most extravagant custom is practiced in the town of Pomuch in the state of Campeche, which is inhabited by the Mayan Indians. Here, three or four years after the funeral, the dead are taken out of their graves, and on the eve of the holiday they literally wash their bones. This activity takes almost a day, then the remains are put in wooden boxes and carried to the cemetery, where there is a special place for their storage. On the Day of the Dead, they are taken out, laid out on the altar, wrapped in napkins with beautifully embroidered patterns and the names of the dead, and offerings are placed next to them.

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Midnight passed, but the fun at the cemetery did not subside. Still, Mexican syncretism works in an amazing way. The traditional Spanish stoic attitude towards death, the concept of the sadness of earthly existence and the benefits of suffering have not taken root here. Even deceased loved ones Mexicans call diminutive - muertitos... In a country where the Inquisition did not work, it is not customary to summon death to a duel; here they would rather pat her on the shoulder, drink tequila with her and go on enjoying life.

Guests came and went, and the grave of our friend's father was overgrown with a pile of plastic plates and cups. The slabs were separated from each other only by curb stones, and this created the impression of a large common feast. Along the path, screeching furiously, children were rollerblading, obscure Spanish speech merged with the music, and at some point I found myself stomping to the beat. My father, who always joked under any circumstances, would surely have patted my neck and smiled. And in general, it already seemed that both of them - both the father of our friend and my own - should be sitting somewhere nearby. At the next "table". Drink beer, joke, laugh and not be afraid of the language barrier.

And my soul suddenly became unexpectedly light.

Mexican poet and culturologist Octavio Paz once remarked: “A Mexican, instead of fearing death, seeks its company, teases it, flirts with it. This is his favorite toy and enduring love. " The connection between the locals and this lady is really special - and it can be best understood by attending the annual festival called "Day of the Dead".

Día de los Muertos, Day of the Dead (or rather, two days) is celebrated on November 1-2. Despite such a sad name, in Mexico this is perhaps the most joyful and family celebration, when the living remember their deceased relatives with a kind word, invite their souls to visit, are not afraid to make fun of death - and even kiss it. After all, Mexican death is a woman.

The Mexicans fondly call death La Catrina. In their imagination, La Catrina does not at all look like an ugly old woman with a scythe, but, on the contrary, resembles in her appearance a frantic woman dressed to smithereens, a graceful maiden skeleton, smiling cordially to her fellow countrymen.

Baptism of Miktlansihuatl

Day of the Dead is a holiday that goes back more than one hundred years. In it, in an amazing way, Christian traditions were intertwined with the rituals of pre-Columbian America, preserved from the very time when two of the greatest Indian civilizations, namely the Aztecs and Maya, inhabited the territory of modern Mexico.

The ancient Aztecs honored the goddess of death on a special scale. Miktlansihuatl, and this is how her name sounded in those days, was portrayed as a very pretty young lady, though with a skull instead of a face. She was always dressed in a skirt made of rattlesnakes, which, according to the beliefs of the Indians, acted as guides to the afterlife.

After the Spanish conquistadors, who suddenly descended on the Yucatan, began to root the faith of Christ among the aborigines with fire and sword, the pagan holiday was likened to the Catholic Day of All Saints and moved on the calendar from mid-summer to early November. The very same Mictlansihuatl in baptism took the name of La Catrina and changed the "rattlesnake" skirt for the colorful outfit of a rich Mexican duenna. However, the essence of the holiday has not changed - Mexicans on this day, like hundreds of years ago, commemorate their deceased relatives, and not at all saints.

Sweet sacrifices

The first day of the holiday, which was named Día de los Angelitos ("Day of the Angels"), is dedicated to the commemoration of the dead children, and the second - to all the rest of the dead. The main attribute of the holiday is the altar built by the relatives of the deceased. The altar is certainly decorated with flowers - white, lilac or fiery red marigolds. Each family tries to outstrip their neighbors in decorating the altar. Among the Mexicans who love to boast, there are even contests to determine the best "memorial flower bed".

In addition to decorating with flowers and scented candles, the altar is filled with items related to the deceased, those things that will be useful to him in the afterlife. While waiting for a guest from the other world, caring relatives prepare gifts for him in the form of jewelry, memorable photos, cigarettes and, of course, edible gifts. The living believe that on these holidays, the souls of the departed visit those from whom they had to be separated. They are not averse to joining a cheerful family feast, which is why Mexicans try to treat their dear guests with the spirit of their favorite dishes.

If it is customary to spend the first day of the holiday in the family circle, then the second is dedicated to unrestrained fun and carnival processions. Thousands of marigolds bloom on the city squares, the central streets are filled with mummers - spirits, cheerful ghosts, skeletons, rattling bones to the beat of the music. Mexican women of all ages are happy to try on the image of La Catrina - the fatal beauty of death.

Shop windows are filled to the brim with miniature coffins, skulls and skeletons made of sugar, chocolate, paper, cardboard and clay, as well as other attributes of the holiday. These souvenirs are no less popular among tourists than among the Mexicans themselves. These days, in all of Mexico, you cannot find a house where the name of the noseless duenna is not mentioned.

The culmination of the holiday is a visit to the cemetery. Mexicans bring with them flowers and candles, photographs and memorabilia of the deceased, favorite food and drinks that instantly transform the cemetery from a monastery of sorrow into a cozy and "living" place. People have long conversations with their departed relatives, have picnics, sing and dance right at the graves. The ringing of bells is heard from everywhere, which helps the souls of the dead not to get lost and find their way home.

Día de los Muertos is a collective funeral celebration, when the deceased are commemorated not on the day when they were gone, but all together, publicly - with songs, jokes and dances. All this resembles a naive attempt to drown the pain of a particular person in collective fun.

Overcoming fear is the key idea of the holiday, and it is no coincidence that everyone takes part in it, from old people who are about to find themselves in La Catrina's arms to babies. Little Mexicans love to wander the streets in the costumes of the dead, devour sugar skulls and marzipan coffins by both cheeks, and literally hold death by the hand.

There is something completely correct in this seeming “wildness”. Mexicans get to know La Catrina at a very tender age, so they have no fear of death, but only friendly relations with her.

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A very strange holiday, I have never even heard of it. Also an amazing and one might say strange way of doing it. Thank you, now I will remember this day!

1 . Night of the witches.

Walpurgis Night, Europe

The holiday is celebrated in many European countries on the night of April 30 to May 1. On this night, all the witches of the world flock to their main coven on Bald Mountain. In order to scare away evil spirits, it is customary in the villages to hold a ceremony of exorcism of witches: fires are made on which stuffed witches are burned, houses are walked around with torches, church bells are rung, etc. By the way, herbs collected on Walpurgis Night have special power. Different European countries have their own characteristics of the celebration. For example, it is customary for the Scandinavians to burn all the garbage that has accumulated over the year, and in the Czech Republic, so that not a single witch gets into the house and does not harm people, sand is poured on the threshold. According to legend, any witch, before entering the room, recounts everything that lies on the threshold.

2. Voodoo people

The Gede or Fitdemo holidays are usually held on November 1st and 2nd. These days people come to cemeteries to praise the lord of the dead - "Baron Samedi", and conduct colorful ceremonies around crosses decorated with candles, skulls and marigold flowers. The festive uniform of Gede, patrons of the cemetery and masters of eroticism, consists of black and purple clothes, a top hat and numerous tiny mirrors sewn onto clothes. The tradition of celebrating these mystical holidays belongs to the cult of Voodoo, which is widespread in this former French colony.

3. Sumo versus demons

Celebrated on February 3 and is part of the Haru Matsuri Spring Festival. The holiday is associated with the ritual of driving out evil demons. For this, soybeans are used, which are scattered both in residential buildings and in temples throughout Japan. It is believed that the best evil spirits are chased away by men born in the year of the corresponding animal according to the lunar calendar, but sometimes famous sumo wrestlers are specially invited. While scattering the beans, a special formula for expelling spirits must be pronounced.

4. Great Chinese ghost

Hungry Ghost Festival, China .

Celebrated on the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month (end of August). This holiday symbolizes the end of the "month of the dead". According to legend, it is in the seventh month of the lunar calendar that the gates to hell open and the ghosts of the dead can calmly walk the earth in search of food and entertainment.

The Chinese entertain their deceased ancestors with the help of costumed dance processions and launching miniature paper boats and lanterns into the water. This is done to indicate the direction "back" to lost ghosts, ancestor spirits and other deities.

5. Day of the Big Goat

The holiday, which takes place at the end of August and lasts exactly three days, annually attracts several thousand tourists to the small Catalan town of Cervera, who want to watch the procession of the festival participants dressed up as evil spirits. An important tradition of the holiday is Correfox - running with torches of the city dwellers dressed in devils, who with loud shouts ward off evil otherworldly forces from their homes. The culmination of the celebrations is the ritual call to the city of a creature named Gran Macho Cabrio (Big Goat) with the aim of further exile.

6. Sometimes they come back

The Mexican counterpart to Halloween is Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead. Celebrated in early November. The tradition of honoring the dead passed to the Mexicans from the Aztecs. The embassy kept the skulls of their ancestors at home and a couple of times a year they organized feasts for those who had passed away. On the day of the dead in Mexico, it is customary to visit cemeteries and set the table for the dead. It is believed that the dead can drop in to visit their relatives. Therefore, Mexicans prepare special treats and set the table especially for their departed ancestors. Another important tradition of Día de los Muertos is the masquerade of the "dead": Mexicans dress up as devils and ghosts and thus welcome the dead.

7. And sometimes they stay ...

The holiday of the victory of good spirits over evil. Celebrated every year from late October to early November. It is believed that during ten holidays, all the gods, led by the main deity Sanghyang Vidi, descend to earth and join people. The spirits of deceased ancestors also take part in the celebrations, and they are prepared for their arrival in advance. The Balinese set up small altars next to their houses with offerings to deceased relatives. At the end of the holiday, a compulsory rite of expelling the ancestors who have "sat down" in this world is held. Otherwise, according to the Balinese, they may stay on the ground until the next Galugan.

8. Buried alive

On July 29, in the Galician city of Pontevedra, residents put living people in coffins, and then rush in a funeral procession to the doors of the temple, erected in honor of Mary Magdalene. Then the funeral service is given to the "dead". It is interesting that the "dead" are people who have experienced clinical death. After that, the "living dead" are carried to the local cemetery, where they are almost buried in a grave, but at the last moment they stop - and the procession goes back. The holiday symbolizes the return from the world of the dead to the world of the living.

While part of the planet is actively preparing for Halloween, a parade-preparation ("La Catrina") took place in Mexico in honor of another surprisingly "scary" and very original holiday Dia de Los Muertos - "Day of the Dead".

We will tell you what kind of game it is and why the holiday is interesting. Go.

1. Day of the Dead - a centuries-old tradition that could not be eradicated

The history of the holiday dates back to the Maya and Aztecs. Their faith was closely associated with the rituals of death and resurrection. Locals (before the conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards) often kept real skulls of the deceased in their homes, as symbols of death and resurrection.

Every year, the Aztecs organized a real month of sacrifices (modern August), as a sign of respect for the dead, the afterlife and its patroness, the goddess Miktlansihuatl.

The Indians believed that death only marks the transition of a person from one state to another. In other words, death for them is only a transformation, after which the path of life does not end.

Despite the fact that the indigenous population of Central America was forcibly converted to Catholicism, it was not possible to eradicate the strong tradition. Neither 500 years of Catholic propaganda, nor interbreeding with a religious calendar, nor soft integration into Christian canons helped.

All that the Catholic Church managed to do was to move the holiday to the first day of November, when the church celebrates All Saints Day. So-so achievement.

The Day of the Dead has remained an original pagan holiday, with its own symbols and traditions.

2. Modern integration and the symbol of the Day of the Dead

In modern society, the zinc engraving "Calavera Katrina" by Mexican artist Jose Guadalupe Posada has become a symbol of the Day of the Dead. He portrayed a woman with a skeleton in high society clothing and called her “La Calavera de la Catrina,” showing that the rich and fashionable are as mortal as everyone else.

Figures of Katrina have become an integral part of the holiday and an excellent Mexican souvenir.

It is believed that this is how the very Miktlansihuatl, in honor of which the Indians made sacrifices, should have looked like.

3. Mexicans from childhood have absolutely friendly relations with death

From a young age, modern Mexican children see images of Katrina, play with skeletons, and eat humorous coffins and skulls. Game! But in this way, little Mexicans are not afraid of the idea of death, for them it is absolutely common.

4. Mexicans celebrate the holiday two days in a row

Day of the Dead is celebrated two days in a row on November 1st and 2nd. It is believed that it is on these days that the souls of deceased relatives visit their home. On November 1, Mexicans communicate with the souls of deceased children, and the next day with the souls of adult relatives.

Nov. 1- Day of Little Angels (Día de Angelitos), when deceased children and babies are honored
November 2- Día de los Muertos - the day when deceased adults are remembered

No mourning and days of mourning. It is believed that this holiday is a great occasion to laugh at death and actively enjoy life.

5. Traditions that can shock

For the Day of the Dead, Mexicans prepare brightly decorated altars in memory of deceased relatives.

Favorite things, food, drinks of a deceased relative, sweets are placed on the pedestals, candles are lit. It is believed that the soul of a deceased relative must remember the taste of earthly dishes. Many put altars right on the streets, contests (!) Are held to determine the best pedestal.

Altars can also be seen in offices, public places on the streets and squares of cities.

The traditional baking for the holiday is Pan de muerte (Bread of the Dead) - a sugar-dusted bun with a bread ball baked on top, symbolizing a skull. A sort of Mexican cake for the dead.

The culmination of the holiday is a visit to the cemetery. Mexicans are arranging there noisy parties with songs and dances. Also, long conversations are conducted with deceased relatives and funny facts from the life of the deceased are remembered.

6. Cities of the Dead. Not scary

On the days of the holiday, its symbols (skulls and skeletons) are drawn almost everywhere. Most often, they smile and are made in bright festive colors.

On the eve of the holiday, in the shops in the form of sweets and desserts, you can find various variations of skeletons, skulls and coffins.

In addition, a lot of themed decorations, souvenirs and other attributes of the holiday are sold.

Spectacular street processions, noisy carnivals, impromptu exhibitions and fairs are organized in large cities, and cemetery picnics in small cities.

7. Hollywood and Day of the Dead

"Dead" carnivals have been played up more than once in Hollywood films. One of the most famous is the opening scene in the latest James Bond film, Specter. Exotic surroundings and spectacular performance.

In November, a new colorful cartoon from Pixar studio "Coco" will be released on the big screens, in which such an unusual holiday is played up.

Day of the Dead is an integral part of the life of every Mexican *.

Mexican poet Octavio Paz once said: “A Mexican, instead of fearing death, seeks her company, teases her, flirts with her. This is his favorite toy and enduring love. " Everyone goes crazy in their own way.

* The holiday is popular in many countries of Latin America: Ecuador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador.

By the way, in 2003, the holiday "Day of the Dead" was included by UNESCO in the list of the intangible cultural heritage of mankind.

This is not pop Halloween.

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