Dead's Day

The Dead's day is a festivity celebrated in Mexico on November 2º.
It has  its roots in the prehispanic civilization that used to live here, before the Spanish guys arrived to conquer them.
The prehisapanic civilizations used to make some offers to their dead people, but not like now, they conserved and put the real skulls in it.
When the Spanish men came, they were shoked about the way indians lived. When the conquest was done, the next step was to change the mind of them, to convert them to their religion and to make them accept the European way of life.

One of their strategy was to mix the two cultures in some aspects. 
Specifically in this holiday, they made some changes to the offer, instead of the real skulls they replaced them with sugar and chocolate skulls and also they made up some prays to make it more convincent and easy to accept for the indians. Also the dead's bread was made up to supplant the bones indian used to put.

In my opinion this is the most beautiful celebration we have in Mexico, is so colorfull and it makes you be proud of your roots. It has soul, and make you be happy and inspired. No Hallowen can replace the place we have in our hearts for the Dead's Day. 
And one of the important points of this festivity: It celebrate the Death, it's not afraid of it; it makes it special.

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