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Celebrating Mexican traditions through collective rituals.

Celebrating Mexican traditions through collective rituals.

The ofrenda (offering or altar) of the dead is a symbolic construction resulting from the syncretism of pre-Hispanic ideologies and European Abrahamic religious beliefs. The traditions associated with the Day of the Dead continue to evolve, and the purpose behind the celebration remains constant: ensuring that the beloved's souls will never be forgotten and, therefore, never die. It is believed that a person can experience three deaths. The first death is the expiration of th

The origin of the Mexican Day of the Dead.