Day of the Dead in Chiapas, Mexico – gallery
gallery January 1, 2006 by Craig ‘Cisco’ Dietz © 2009
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Day of the Dead: The calaveras of Jose Guadalupe Posada – gallery
Day of the Dead: The calaveras of José Guadalupe Posada
Continue ReadingDay of the Dead, a Mexican tradition in Santiago Pinotepa Nacional, Oaxaca – gallery
Day of the Dead, a Mexican tradition in Santiago Pinotepa Nacional, Oaxaca by Stephen Dyer Wells Photo Gallery
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Los Dias de los Muertos (the Days of the Dead)
Foreigners have more trouble understanding Los Dias de Los Muertos than any of Mexico’s other fiestas. At first glance, Day of the Dead decorations, colored paper garlands, little skeletons performing daily tasks and sugar skulls inscribed with names remind visitors of Halloween. Other tourists discover that much like Memorial or Remembrance Day back north, families […]
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November 2: the Day of the Dead
Dale Hoyt Palfrey © 1995 Her face is unforgettable and she goes by many names: La Catrina, la Flaca, la Huesuda, la Pelona — Fancy Lady, Skinny, Bony, Baldy. A fixture in Mexican society, she’s not some trendy fashion model, but La Muerte — Death. Renowned writer Octavio Paz observes that, undaunted by death, the […]
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Reportaje – Dia de Muertos
Día de Muertos: Tradición de siglos que perdura Sin cantos ni rezos, los cucuchenses (estado de Michoacán) solo aguardan junto a las tumbas del panteón, adornadas con flores de cempasúchil y cirios encendidos, no faltan las ofrendas en comida para los difuntos. Se reconoce que en México el culto a los difuntos existe desde la […]
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Mexico’s Dia de Muertos celebration: Is it dying?
In Mexico, Day of the Dead – Día de Muertos – is a spiritual, intense vigil connecting the souls of the living and dead. Over the past decade, increasing numbers of tourists have been drawn to Mexico to experience the event for themselves. This has brought the traditional indigenous observance into the international spotlight and has led […]
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Aguascalientes’ Museum of Death welcomes you
As October draws to an end, a period of profound mysticism dawns in the heart of Mexico, a time to remember the departed but not without joy. In the hometown of José Guadalupe Posada, the celebrated creator of the hollow-eyed, grinning skull known as Catrina, festivities are already well underway days before the November 2 Day […]
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Hanal Pixan, Maya Day of the Dead in Pac Chen, Quintana Roo
The monkeys, they tell me, are asleep in a cave across the lagoon. But other than that disappointment, my trip to Pac Chen, a micro sized Maya village in the jungle of the Yucatan Peninsula, is the perfect way to step back in time. To get here from Playa del Carmen, our home base, we […]
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