It is common for Peruvians to visit the cemetery, play music and bring flowers to decorate the graves of dead relatives. [79] Europe Southern Italy and Sicily De Pacina, Michelle (November 1, 2022). "Millions of Filipinos visit cemeteries for All Saints' Day". NextShark. United States. Archived from the original on October 20, 2023 . Retrieved September 22, 2023– via Yahoo!. The Philippines, which is a predominantly Catholic nation, is considered the second country after Mexico with the most people to celebrate the Day of the Dead. Agustin Sanchez Gonzalez has a similar view in his article published in the INAH's bi-monthly journal Arqueología Mexicana. Gonzalez states that, even though the "indigenous" narrative became hegemonic, the spirit of the festivity has far more in common with European traditions of Danse macabre and their allegories of life and death personified in the human skeleton to remind us the ephemeral nature of life. He also highlights that in the 19th-century press there was little mention of the Day of the Dead in the sense that we know it today. All there was were long processions to cemeteries, sometimes ending with drunkenness. Elsa Malvido also points to the recent origin of the tradition of "velar" or staying up all night with the dead. It resulted from the Reform Laws under the presidency of Benito Juarez which forced family pantheons out of Churches and into civil cemeteries, requiring rich families having servants guarding family possessions displayed at altars. [16]

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Pan de muerto and calaveras are associated specifically with Day of the Dead. Pan de muerto is a type of sweet roll shaped like a bun, topped with sugar, and often decorated with bone-shaped pieces of the same pastry. [31] Calaveras, or sugar skulls, display colorful designs to represent the vitality and individual personality of the departed. [30] Día de las Ñatitas ("Day of the Skulls") is a festival celebrated in La Paz, Bolivia, at the beginning of November after the celebrations of All Saints. In pre-Columbian times indigenous Andeans had a tradition of sharing a day with the bones of their ancestors on the third year after burial. Today families keep only the skulls for such rituals. Traditionally, the skulls of family members are kept at home to watch over the family and protect them during the year. On November 9, the family crowns the skulls with fresh flowers, sometimes also dressing them in various garments, and making offerings of cigarettes, coca leaves, alcohol, and various other items in thanks for the year's protection. The skulls are also sometimes taken to the central cemetery in La Paz for a special Mass and blessing. [73] [74] [75] Brazil

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The film is well made. Good camerawork, voice-over work, and high quality throughout. It is also a long film. The total run time is just short of two hours and ten minutes. While it is long, it is very well paced. It never feels like it drags on to belabor a point. Global Top 10 Films (English): October 25–31". Netflix. November 16, 2021. Archived from the original on November 21, 2021 . Retrieved December 30, 2021. Is there life after death? Can anyone speak to ghosts or spirits of dead people? As i really don't want to provide a spoiler, the end of this film is predictable. Douglas, Edward (November 21, 2007). "EXCL: Joby Harold on Army of the Dead". ComingSoon.net. Archived from the original on November 11, 2020 . Retrieved May 26, 2021.a b c d e f "14 Things About Army of the Dead That Will Stop Your Heart". Netflix. May 21, 2021. Archived from the original on May 24, 2021 . Retrieved May 25, 2021. Video interviews of several people willing to do so led to profound conclusions. Many of these mediums are able to see what is beyond the mirror (admittedly some of the time) but never what is in it, such as a need for proper dental maintenance. Profound wisdom was gleaned - such as that sometimes it is phony! People looking for signs that their guesses might be accurate based on your emotional response! Revealing! Quinones, Sam (October 28, 2006). "Making a night of Day of the Dead". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on November 3, 2023 . Retrieved November 26, 2006. Opposing views assert that despite the obvious European influence, there exists proof of pre-Columbian festivities that were very similar in spirit, with the Aztec people having at least six celebrations during the year that were very similar to Day of the Dead, the closest one being Quecholli, a celebration that honored Mixcóatl (the god of war) and was celebrated between October 20 and November 8. This celebration included elements such as the placement of altars with food (tamales) near the burying grounds of warriors to help them in their journey to the afterlife. [13] Influential Mexican poet and Nobel prize laureate Octavio Paz strongly supported the syncretic view of the Día de Muertos tradition being a continuity of ancient Aztec festivals celebrating death, as is most evident in the chapter "All Saints, Day of the Dead" of his 1950 book-length essay The Labyrinth of Solitude. [18]