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Day of Death

The Day of the Dead is a Mexican celebration that honors Hispanic origin the dead on November 2, starting from November 1, coinciding with the Catholic celebrations of All Souls Dayand All Saints.
It's a Mexican holiday, which is also celebrated in some Central American countries, and in many communities in the United States, where there is a large Mexican and Central Americanpopulation. UNESCO has declared the Mexican holiday as Intangible Cultural Heritage mankind.1 Dead Day is a day celebrated in Brazil, as two Souls Day, but the holiday does not have the same roots thatpre-Hispanic Mexican holiday.
The origins of the celebration of the Day of the Dead in Mexico predate the arrival of the Spanish. There are records of Mexican ethnic celebrations, Maya, Purepechaand Totonaca. The rituals that celebrate the life of the ancestors in these civilizations are made from at least three thousand years ago. In the pre-Hispanic era it was common practice to keep skullsas trophies and display them during the rituals to symbolize death and rebirth.
The festival that became the Day of the Dead marked the ninth month of the Aztec solar calendar, near the beginning ofAugust, and was celebrated for an entire month. The festivities were presided over by the goddess Mictecacíhuatl, known as the "Lady Death", currently related to "Catrina" (character of José GuadalupePosada). The festivities were dedicated to the celebration of children and the lives of deceased relatives.

The originally called La Calavera Catrina garbancera is a figure created by JoseGuadalupe Posada and baptized by the muralist Diego Rivera.
The original version is a metal engraving authored by cartoonist José Guadalupe Posada, the original name is "La Calavera garbancera". "Garbancera"is the word that was then known to the people who sold Garbanza having Indian blood who claimed to be Europeans, whether Spanish or French (the latter more common during the "Porfiriato") and...