day of the dead is a mix of which two cultures and traditions?
The creation of a distinctive Mexican culture from the pre-Columbian and Iberian cultures has informed the folk art and symbols associated with Dia de los Muertos. As ephemeral as life itself, much of the art so laboriously created for Dia de los Muertos is intended to be consumed and destroyed by the end of the festival. Only more recently has the ephemera of Dia de los Muertos found its way into permanent art collections. Consider the ancient flower of the dead, the cempasuchil (marigold.) It guides the souls of the dead back with its beauty and scent, both of which are temporary. The delicate papel picados, the elaborate paper cut outs used to decorate the altars and which harken back to Aztec paper banners for the dead, are left to the elements and disappear in the rain. The calaveras de azucar, beautifully decorated sugar skulls, are eaten with gusto, as are pan de muertos. The intricately designed, ubiquitous candles which illuminate the altars and graves melt away as surely as the the blue copal incense disappears into the air.
day of the dead is a mix of which two cultures and traditions?
Which two cultures does the day of the dead come from?
The roots of the Day of the Dead, celebrated in contemporary Mexico and among those of Mexican heritage in the United States and around the world, go back some 3,000 years, to the rituals honoring the dead in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica.
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