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Facts on Traditions
sugar skulls
altars
candles
flowers
favorite foods
Pan de muerto
statue of saints
water
Decorated graves
Calacas-hand made skeleton figures used to show an active joyful afterlife.
Oaxaca
Janitzio
Food
Pan de muerto
Atole
Sugar skulls
Chocolate coffins
Calabaza en tacha
Mole verde
Chicken tamales
Chalupa
Blue corn enchiladas
Horchata
Community Celebrations
Parades
concerts
meeting at town square like places to have parties
dancing
going out with neighbors to town squares for the community.
dancing
parties
community altars
Family Celebrations
Ofrenda
A ofrenda is a memorial built to honor the dead.
An Ofrenda has a bunch of things that the person like in
their lifetime in it.
You put the persons picture on there too. You also put
some food and other things on it.
Alot of people put a type of flower called the Zempasucil
which is a large marigold, they call the flower of death.
For each deceased member of the family you light a
candle.
They create these ofrendas also to welcome back the
dead when they return to visit their loved ones.
Child Ofrendas
White flowers
Favorite toys
Wax candles
Lamp of oil with higuerilla
White or yellow crepe paper
Candies
Colored sand in the form of a honored saint
Colored corn
Work Cited
History of the Day of the Dead
http://www.azcentral.com/ent/dead/articles/dead-history.html#ixzz2hi5wCRxu
http://www.mexicansugarskull.com/support/dodhistory.html
http://www.inside-mexico.com/featuredead.htm
http://www.ladayofthedead.com/history.html
Traditions-decorations
http://www.celebrate-day-of-the-dead.com/day-of-the-dead-traditions.html
http://www.holidays.net/dayofthedead/customs.htm
http://ilovesugarskulls.com/about/about-dia-de-los-muertos
http://www.ladayofthedead.com/history.html
Family celebrations (what do families do?)
http://hamptonroads.com/events/details/61970
http://www.edhat.com/site/tidbit.cfm?nid=121231
http://www.lrgp.org/dia-de-los-muertos.html
http://ilovesugarskulls.com/about/about-dia-de-los-muertos