The Day of the Dead is a celebration of Mexican origin Prehispanic that honors the dead on November 2, starting on November 1, coinciding with the Catholic celebration of All Saints Day. It is a Mexican and Central American holiday is celebrated in many communities in the United States where there is a large Mexican and Central American population. UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) has declared the festival as a World Heritage Site. The Day of the Dead is a day celebrated in Brazil, as two Finados Day.
The origins of the Day of the Dead in Mexico prior to the arrival of the Spaniards. There are celebrations in the registration of ethnic Mexican, Maya, Purépecha, Nahua, and Totonac. Rituals that celebrate the life of the ancestors are made in these civilizations for at least three thousand years ago. In pre-Hispanic era, it was common practice to keep skulls as trophies and display them during rituals that symbolized death and rebirth.
Fresh skulls, have written the name of the deceased (or in some cases of people living in a modest way to joke that offends not mentioned in particular) on the forehead, are eaten by relatives or friends. Bread dead. Dish special Day of the Dead. It is a sweet bread baked in different shapes, from simple round up skulls, decorated with pictures of the same bone in the form of bread and sprinkle with sugar. Flores. During the period 1 to November 2 families usually clean and decorate the graves with colorful flower wreaths of roses, sunflowers, among others, but mainly Cempaxóchitl, which is believed attract and guide the souls of the dead. Almost all the vaults are visited.
Offering and visits. It is believed that the souls of the children come to visit on the first day of November, and the souls of adults returning on day 2. In case you can not visit the tomb, either because it no longer exists the tomb of the deceased, or because the family is a long way to go to visit, they also produced detailed Offerings in houses, where are the offerings that might be dishes of food, bread, dead, glasses of water, mescal, tequila, pulque or atole, cigars and even toys for the souls of children. All this is placed next to portraits of the dead surrounded by candles.
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The picture of Dorian Gray By: Oscar Wilde
Biography: He was a very good and nile banker of the wildcast bank. They stablish their office in pemote areas.
The bank recived blow in 1836 when president Jackson ordered that the coin be acepted in the sale goverment lands.
He became making poems in 1881 "The Picture of Dorian Gray" is a novel in wich depended man remains unchanged in operacines while his likiness in a porriat became indysingly hydeus. Another collection that he wrote was "the happy peince" (1888)
Wilde was born in Dublin, the son of faumos surgeon.
The bank recived blow in 1836 when president Jackson ordered that the coin be acepted in the sale goverment lands.
He became making poems in 1881 "The Picture of Dorian Gray" is a novel in wich depended man remains unchanged in operacines while his likiness in a porriat became indysingly hydeus. Another collection that he wrote was "the happy peince" (1888)
Wilde was born in Dublin, the son of faumos surgeon.
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