Lyndee Goodin
Intro to Spanish Language and Culture
Dia de los Muertos
Where and When?
- Mexico, Central America
-primero-dos de noviembre
How?
- Families and friends decorate the burial places of their loved ones.
- Cleaning of the cemetary tombs are part of the traditional activities.
- Build and altar with the persons favorite foods and trinkets that they liked when they were lliving.
Why?
-It celebrates death being a part of life.
- To honor the deceased children on the 1st of November, and the adults on November 2nd.
- They believe that the gates of heaven are open on midnight on October 31st, and the spirits of all the deceased children are aloud to reunite with their families for 24 hours and the adults on the 2nd to enjoy the festivities that are for them