Maybe could be better to talk about “Halloween” but I’m sure too many persons are talking about xD so I decided to talk about something about I have grown up.
“El dia de muertos”
I have been investigating lately about and I could find that it is a tradition which has been expanded around the world, but originated in Mexico, a festival dedicated to “the lady of death” or better known as “Catrina”
This festival has sprout even to very far places as Philippines, Ecuador, Brazil etc.
I’m sure you can find info about on the wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_the_Dead
but I wanted to describe this days as I saw them since I was a Child.
The older moment I keep about this celebration is in the school (Basic School) I was around 6 Years old, and I remember the smell to smoke mixed with myrrh. and a way made with flowers. “Sempasuchil flowers”, the way came from the entrance of the classroom finishing in what we called “La ofrenda” a table filled with food, fruits and candies also water and “Pan de muerto” I remember to me all this looked so epic and mysterious.
Also I remember my teacher told me something. Because the candles started to shake.
My teacher told that the candles started to bright up and shake because our holly dead were in there taking the essence from the food to take it to the other side (maybe was only the wind but I still believe in that) after the candles stopped bright, we could take the food and candies.
That was my very first encounter with this festival, years later I understood that this festival is even deeper. is about faith, more than a religious obligation, people really believe that this day their beloved people who died time ago returns home to spent a time around the living people, but people don´t afraid about that.
it is a nostalgic moment a moment to think about the past. maybe you can read info about but is something that you must live to understand it I think.
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