Submitted by WPereira on Tue, 10/21/2008 - 4:03pm.
Well I would prefer celebrating Hallowing. One resone is because I'm more into Halloween, and Dia de los muertos is more Mexican. I'm not mexican. It's all the same holiday idea. Only that in Mexico they go visit the graves. Halloween doesn't do that. My ideas for halloween are maybe toilet-papering or egging houses after trick-or-treating. ;) YEAH!
Submitted by angelesb on Wed, 10/22/2008 - 7:55pm.
In Mexico, Day of the Dead is celebrated all around the country. People go to the cemetery and put an special place at home ( altar) where relatives who are dead can come to eat their favorite food and drinks.
There is special food for this holiday, people go to houses and pray "El Rosario", when they finish to pray, they eat the tamales and atole.
In the place where I live we celebrate Day of the Dead in a different way, I live in the southeeast of Mexico and it is called "Hanal Pixan". This is a Mayan tradition. We celebrate a special day for dead children (November 1). During this day, people visit the cemetery and put toys, clothes or special baby food. if the dead child is a baby, they put baby toys.
On November 2, it's for dead adults, people pray and eat a lot. They put liquor and cigarettes for the soul of the relative. The people who die not go definitively, their souls follows present, mainly in this day, in which they return to their houses for "savoring" their favorite food that their relatives have prepared for them
The traditional food in the Peninsula de Yucatan is a special red Tamal called "Mucbipollo". it's made of chicken, corn dough, and it is cooked into a hole in the earth.
There is the belief that some days before the ceremony the souls come to wash their clothes and to prepare themselves to receive the tributes, and relatives have to treated them well, because of anither way they would not return to the world of the alive ones.
It is important to wash your clothes and clean your house because deads can feel angry if you don't do it :-)
Submitted by angelesb on Wed, 10/22/2008 - 7:59pm.
En las frontera norte la gente celebra más Halloween, quizá por la influencia de Estados Unidos, pero en estas zonas se hace un gran esfuerzo por conservar las tradiciones mayas y mexicanas.
A mis alumnos les enseño ambos para que ellos sepan de que se trata uno y otro.
Son, dos celebraciones muy diferentes, la celebración de Día de muertos en México está muy enfocado a lo espiritual y a la unión familiar aún después de la muerte.
Halloween Thingy
Well I would prefer celebrating Hallowing. One resone is because I'm more into Halloween, and Dia de los muertos is more Mexican. I'm not mexican. It's all the same holiday idea. Only that in Mexico they go visit the graves. Halloween doesn't do that. My ideas for halloween are maybe toilet-papering or egging houses after trick-or-treating. ;) YEAH!
Dia de los muertos
Es un dia cuando las personas celebran gente en su familia que se murieron.
Tambien les desamos paz.
Nos gusta Dia de los Muertos.
Gracias,
Tercer grado de una primaria en Colorado
In Mexico, Day of the Dead
In Mexico, Day of the Dead is celebrated all around the country. People go to the cemetery and put an special place at home ( altar) where relatives who are dead can come to eat their favorite food and drinks.
There is special food for this holiday, people go to houses and pray "El Rosario", when they finish to pray, they eat the tamales and atole.
In the place where I live we celebrate Day of the Dead in a different way, I live in the southeeast of Mexico and it is called "Hanal Pixan". This is a Mayan tradition. We celebrate a special day for dead children (November 1). During this day, people visit the cemetery and put toys, clothes or special baby food. if the dead child is a baby, they put baby toys.
On November 2, it's for dead adults, people pray and eat a lot. They put liquor and cigarettes for the soul of the relative. The people who die not go definitively, their souls follows present, mainly in this day, in which they return to their houses for "savoring" their favorite food that their relatives have prepared for them
The traditional food in the Peninsula de Yucatan is a special red Tamal called "Mucbipollo". it's made of chicken, corn dough, and it is cooked into a hole in the earth.
There is the belief that some days before the ceremony the souls come to wash their clothes and to prepare themselves to receive the tributes, and relatives have to treated them well, because of anither way they would not return to the world of the alive ones.
It is important to wash your clothes and clean your house because deads can feel angry if you don't do it :-)
Acerca de Halloween
En las frontera norte la gente celebra más Halloween, quizá por la influencia de Estados Unidos, pero en estas zonas se hace un gran esfuerzo por conservar las tradiciones mayas y mexicanas.
A mis alumnos les enseño ambos para que ellos sepan de que se trata uno y otro.
Son, dos celebraciones muy diferentes, la celebración de Día de muertos en México está muy enfocado a lo espiritual y a la unión familiar aún después de la muerte.