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Date Posted: 14:42:46 05/13/10 Thu
Author: Ani
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Day Of The Dead

Tonight I was watching SBS and they had a show on about how the Aztecs celebrate their dead relatives each year by having a feast in their homes and the cemeteries in their villages. They dress up as dead people wearing masks and outfits you'd actually only be seen dead in. Their homes have shrines to the dead and are lavishly decorated with flowers and fresh produce as offerings to those who have passed on. Special meals are cooked consisting of recipes passed down from great grandmother to grandmother to mother then daughters. The women take delight in cooking this special food and seemed overcome with emotion as they relived the times when they were all alive and preparing these meals together. I thought it an interesting way of making death seem more bearable and less of a loss than the way in which we seem to view it. There is a day set aside for children who have passed on also. Incense is burned and when the church bells toll, this is meant to depict the time when the dead relatives souls are present. Even the presenter came away with a whole new mindset. Death didn't seem to be at all something to be dreaded to the Aztecs. The fact that this celebration meant that you'd all be together at least once a year seemed to ease the grieving process somewhat.
It kind of takes All Souls Day to a whole new level.

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