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All Souls Day in Mexico and Sugar Skull Tradition

Writer: goldenstateservicesj
goldenstateservicesj
Nov 2, 2016
1 min read

Today is the end of the Day of the Dead celebration in Mexico. I’ll bid farewell to this wonderful holiday by sharing with you a very interesting and detailed article about this colorful Mexican custom.

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Day of the Dead

The Day of the Dead (El Día de los Muertos in Spanish) is a Mexican and Mexican-American celebration of dead ancestors which occurs on November 1 and November 2, coinciding with the similar Roman Catholic celebrations of All Saints Day and All Souls Day. While it is primarily viewed as a Mexican holiday, it is also celebrated in communities in the United States with large populations of Mexican-Americans, and to a lesser extent elsewhere in Latin America. Despite the morbid subject matter, this holiday is celebrated joyfully, and though it occurs at the same time as Halloween, All Saints Day, and All Souls Day, the mood of The Day of the Dead is much lighter, with the emphasis on celebrating and honoring the lives of the deceased, rather than fearing evil or malevolent spirits. The origins of the celebration of The Day of the Dead in…

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