Dia de Los Muertos 2024 is on Friday, November 1, 2024: What is the history of Dia De Los Muertos?

Friday, November 1, 2024 is Dia de Los Muertos 2024. Day of the Dead () is a Mexican holiday celebrated throughout Mexico and around the world in other cultures.

Day of the Dead () is a Mexican holiday celebrated throughout Mexico and around the world in other cultures.

Dia De Los Muertos is a metal band, formed in Los Angeles, California in 2005. Founded by Andres Jaramillo and Alfonso Pinzon of Agony, and Vincent Price of Body Count, as a side project.

Dia De Los Muertos is one of Mexico's traditional holidays reuniting and honoring beloved ancestors, family and friends.

The historical roots of this celebration date back to the pre-Hispanic cultures of Meso-America of the indigenous people, especially the Nahua (Aztecs, Mayans, Toltecas, Tlaxcaltec, Chichimec, Tecpanec) and others native to Mexico more than 3,000 years. Life was seen as a dream, and it was believed that only in dying could a human being was truly awake. The soul was then set free.

The most important dual images are the life-death statuettes. They show a fully fleshed living person on one side with a skeleton figure representing death on the other. Such figurines depict babies, children, and adults in the duality of life and death.

This theme is repeated, with varying degrees of emphasis, throughout each period in Mexican culture. Death seems to hold no terror for these or later is always with the people - in their art, their legends, and their religion. Death was not a mysterious and fearful presence but a realistic recognizable character as much a part of life as life itself. When Christianity was introduced in the 16th century, religion and its symbols became part of the altars we now find in Mexico today. November 1st, All Saints Day, is when the spirits of the children, called "los angelitos" (little angels), are expected to return. Traditionally, it is a time when family members share memorable stories that would commemorate their lives together. A special altar is made and adorned with pictures of deceased to remind the younger generation of their family roots. The altar also includes a feast gather at cemeteries to clean and decorate the gravesite with flowers and candles. They picnic with their loved ones offering food and drink to strengthen spirits enough to return to their other world. The skeleton represents the spirit still living after it has left its flesh on this earth.

Días De Los Muertos is important for the family to maintain good relationships with the dead for it is they who intercede and bring food fortune to the living. It is a time to come to terms with our mortality and become aware of cycle of life and death. It is a day for honoring are beloved ones.

What and why is Día de los muertos celebrated?

Día de los Muertos (The Day of the Dead) is a holiday celebrated mainly in Latin America and by Latinos (and others) living in the United States and Canada. The holiday focuses on gatherings of family and friends to pray for and remember friends and family members who have died. The celebration occurs on the 1st and 2nd of November, in connection with the Catholic holy days of All Saints' Day and All Souls' Day which take place on those days. Traditions include building private altars honoring the deceased, using sugar skulls, marigolds, and the favorite foods and beverages of the departed, and visiting graves with these as gifts.

Scholars trace the origins of the modern holiday to indigenous observances dating back thousands of years, and to an Aztec festival dedicated to a goddess called Mictecacihuatl (known in English as "The Lady of the Dead").

Many people believe that during the Day of the Dead, it is easier for the souls of the departed to visit the living. People will go to cemeteries to communicate with the souls of the departed, and will build private altars, containing the favorite foods and beverages, and photos and memorabilia, of the departed. The intent is to encourage visits by the souls, so that the souls will hear the prayers and the comments of the living directed to them. Celebrations can take a humorous tone, as celebrants remember funny events and anecdotes about the departed.[3]

Plans for the day are made throughout the year, including gathering the goods to be offered to the dead. During the period of November 1 and November 2, families usually clean and decorate graves;[2] most visit the cemeteries where their loved ones are buried and decorate their graves with ofrendas, or offerings, which often include orange marigolds called "cempasúchitl" (originally named cempoalxochitl, Nahuatl for "twenty (i.e., many) flowers"). In modern Mexico this name is sometimes replaced with the term "Flor de Muerto" ("Flower of the Dead"). These flowers are thought to attract souls of the dead to the offerings.

On dia de los muertos what happens on october 31?

On dia de los muertos means"DAY OF THE DEAD"

At midnight on October 31 the first souls begin to arrive. They are honored as the little angels on November 1, El Día de Los Angelitos. According to the Catholic religion, the little children's souls are venerated as a remembrance of the innocent children and might lose their way, a path of zempasuchitl (marigold) petals are laid in a trial from the cemetery to their home, or a firecracker may be set off at the family's house. On the particular day no one wears black nor should be seen crying, for the little ones may see and be unhappy.

The souls of the children share the ofrendas of the adults, a favorite dish, a toy or a candle is added for them. By noon on November 1, the souls of the children have departed, and souls of the adults begin to arrive. The dead partake of the food in spirit, and the living eat it afterward, but usually not until after midnight November 2, when all the traveling souls are full.

spanish version

En la medianoche del 31 de octubre de la primera almas empiezan a llegar. Ellos son honrados como los angelitos del 1 de noviembre, El Día de Los Angelitos. Según la religión católica, los niños pequeños de la almas son venerados como un recuerdo de los inocentes y los niños podrían perder su camino, un camino de la zempasuchitl (caléndula) se establecen los pétalos en un juicio de el cementerio a su casa, o un petardo puede ser las sumas en la casa de la familia. En el día no lleva un negro ni debe ser visto llorar, para los más pequeños pueden ver y ser infelices.

Las almas de los niños comparten las ofrendas de los adultos, un plato favorito, un juguete o una vela, se añade para ellos. Al mediodía del 1ro de noviembre, las almas de los niños han salido, y las almas de los adultos empiezan a llegar. Los muertos participar de los alimentos en su espíritu, y las condiciones de vida que después de comer, pero normalmente no después de la medianoche hasta el 2 de noviembre, cuando todos los que viajan las almas están llenas.