and now.
Posted on 10/31/2019 12:55:17 PM PDT by LurkedLongEnough
A uniquely Mexican creation deeply rooted in ancient indigenous and colonial-era Catholic culture, Los Días de los Muertos, The Days of the Dead, are now also widely observed across the United States.
The November 1-2 holiday celebrates the lives of the dead even as it mourns their loss.
Aside from paying homage to the memories of our family and friends, Los Días de los Muertos is a prime occasion to remember the unjustly dead – people who, through no fault of their own, have had their lives senselessly cut short.
It's important to remember, because today's hyper-fueled news cycles have a way of almost erasing from our overtaxed memory banks some of the most senseless violence of our time. I'm talking about those collective experiences that we intuitively understand just didn't have to be that way.
Like the mass shooting a year ago in the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, where 11 people were gunned down allegedly at the hands of a man who said he hated President Trump because Trump didn't hate Jews enough. The accused killer, who awaits trial, spent months before that incident ranting online about immigrant "invaders" and claiming that Jews were the enemy of white people.
Yet, for most Americans, the Pittsburgh massacre has already become a distant memory. A recent headline in Atlantic Magazine summed it up this way: "One year after the attack in Pittsburgh, survivors are grappling with a new reality: The rest of the country has moved on."
(Excerpt) Read more at tucsonsentinel.com ...
For Democrats Los Días de los Muertos is November 8th
Dia del Muerte is largely syncreting with Halloween at the moment.
Would be really sad if James E Garcia joined their ranks.
When did it become Days of the Dead???
I always thought it was Day of the Dead...Singular
like the people who had dirt on the Clintons?
Illegal aliens kill 25 people/day in the US.
You’re right, it is “Dia de Muertos.” I’ve never heard it as “Dias” but I don’t really care about third world holidays anyway, especially celebrations of death.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_the_Dead
And I, as an American, without a hyphen, will get right on to celebrating and promoting it.
NOT!
I remember it from some movie....
and now.
Spreading because of the Mexican gang cult Santa Muerte.
All Saints Day and All Souls Day (November 1,2) are traditional Catholic Holidays and not unique to the Mexican culture......
The Mexican culture simply celebrates in a more overt way (almost interjecting some pagan ritual) than “traditional Catholics” who celebrate in prayer at church...
What the heck is that?
Image 2 is a historical rendering of a tzompantli or skull rack. It is a type of wooden rack or palisade documented in several Mesoamerican civilizations, which was used for the public display of human skulls, typically those of war captives or other sacrificial victims. In 2017 archeologists announced the discovery of the Huey Tzompantli, with more than 650 skulls, in the archeological zone of the Templo Mayor in Mexico City.
Image 3 is an archaeological carving of a tzompantli on display at the Museum of the Templo Mayor (Tenochtilan/ Mexico City).
Image 4 is a commercial display of calavera, a representation of a human skull, for sale. The term is most often applied to edible or decorative skulls made (usually by hand) from either sugar or clay which are used in the Mexican celebration of the Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos) and the Roman Catholic holiday All Souls' Day.
Image 5 shows the murdered corpses of victims hung in public by Mexican drug cartels to intimidate their enemies.
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