Congrats Dear Death! (Feliz día, Muerte querida!)

[roguemarch]

I just wanted to share with you the special way we mexicans celebrate death. We see her (is a woman for us, Mictecacihuatl), as a friend, even an ally, because she is the only one truly fair in this universe; doesn’t matter if are rich, poor, black, white, good, bad, etc., she’ll come for you.

Mexico is one of the countries with more Catholics in

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[cmk418]

At my church in the San Fernando Valley, we celebrate Dia de los Muertos every year. It is always a wonderful way to remember those loved ones who have gone on to the next life. We have the altar set up and then someone reads the names of the dead as we place the candles around the altar. One of our community members leads the worship and it's really a very powerful spiritual experience.

Thanks for posting the information because it's nice to know a few more details about the feast.

[roguemarch]

That's awesome, glad that was interesting enough for ya!

[lalioz]

WoW that sounds very interesting! And like lot of work *g*
Croatia is like 99 per cent Catholic so that the All Saint's Day and the All soul's Day are major holidays here too.
But we are nothing like you Mexicans! You guys throw one mean part-ey for your loved dead ones.
We bring them flowers and I guess just cry over their graves making them more miserable than they already are. Ya know, cause they are dead. Death is not that big in Croatia!

but we tell mean jokes about it!!!
No seriously, we are sick fucks. We love cracking jokes about the dead.
We usually clean our family graves during the week preceding the All saint's Day, and we go and decorate it with flowers on the day itself. So there's this guy and he's cleaning his grave ya know lost deep in thought when a woman comes to him. An elderly lady clearly lost.
'Excuse me..'She says.'Can you, please, tell me where's the Kovačs grave.'
He looks at her all serious and goes-Why the hell did you go out in the first place if you don't know how to go back!!!

Yeah, we are sick!

[roguemarch]

You know, our sense of humor about the dead is very similar at yours. We catholics have a very strange sense of the afterlife, haha!

[michiru42]

Yeah, things get exciting even in a tiny little town like Ajijic here. There was still trick-or-treating, though, which I hadn't expected.

The altars you make are interestingly similar to the Buddhist ones the Japanese make for their loved ones. I guess whereever you are, everyone knows to remember their dead.

[roguemarch]

Amen to that!

Since you are in Guadalajara, you should really try a "Rodilla Reventada", is a kind of bun with marmalade and red sugar very customary over there. MMm it's been a while since I visited my family up there... I want a rodilla reventada, ha.

[trillingstar]

Wow, this is all very interesting! I find it so intriguing how religious practices and holidays differ from country to country, and if there's local lore mixed in, too. One of my closest friends is from El Salvador and for celebrating Day of the Dead, I remember mariachi music and cooking, lots of cooking! Your altar is beautiful. Are those marigolds?

[roguemarch]

Yeah, it's great to see how different cultures relate to something so human as the death.

The Cempasúchil flower is a kind of marigold in deed. But it only blossoms in october and november. A mystical flower my grandpa used to say.

Thanks for reading, Lady Star!