As the celebrations begin at the national level, they include a huge show in Mexico City typically on the night of October 31 with families seated in the locations of graves where the Mexican traditions say it is in. Although the dead day of the famous Mexico vacation may seem similar to Halloween, in reality it represents its rituals to commemorate the departed from the world. November’s first and second days will see people waking up to interact and rejoice with their family and live friends.
Given the timing, it might seem sense to compare Halloween, the day of the popular American holiday known as “Ghosts Week,” to the Day of the Dead, but the two feasts represent distinct worldviews.
The native inhabitants of central and southern Mexico can reclaim the day of the dead.
Millions of indigenous people lived in the region when the Spanish first arrived in the middle of Mexico 500 years ago, and the conquerors referred to them as Aztecs since at the time they were all unified under the Empire of the Extensive Aztek.
The Aztek Empire was established around 1427 AD, or roughly a century before the entrance of the Spanish language, according to sources from the colonial era.
However, the holiday known today in Mexico as Da De Los Muertos, or the “day of the dead,” existed several centuries before and may have originated with the Tolitic people in the country’s centre.
The Aztecs had a wide variety of gods by the time the Spanish invaders arrived in 1519, including the death gods that they celebrated on July 31 during the Day of the Dead. According to Aztec mythology, the Mictecacihuatl gods were sacrificed when she was a child and slept magically to stage puberty in the underworld, where she later married and ruled the underworld.
Metcasiah and her bone husband gathered Mikecacihuatl, which was frequently portrayed with a loose leather and a skeleton connected with death and resurrection, so that it might be returned to the realm of the neighbourhoods and was repaired by the gods.
Mexicans observe Day of the Dead. Aztec celebrations between legend and Halloween
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