Here are a couple of somewhat typical shrines or ofrendas (offerings) as displayed at the main library in Phoenix recently.
And so El Dia de los Muertos, (the Day of the Dead) comes to a close.
Saturday, November 2, 2013
ALL SOULS' DAY
Today is All Souls' Day in Hispanic culture . . . when graves are cleaned and decorated and, in some places, picnics, music and drinking occupy the people left behind.
Here are a couple of somewhat typical shrines or ofrendas (offerings) as displayed at the main library in Phoenix recently.
Here are a couple of somewhat typical shrines or ofrendas (offerings) as displayed at the main library in Phoenix recently.
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4 comments:
I'm sure the dead appreciate the attention. Take care.
Nice photos. It is an interesting tradition.
We have something like that here in France, or at least in Brittany. I tend to call it, not All Souls Day, but "Appeasing the Dead" day. The people here religiously empty every gardening centre of all their crysanthemums, which are then placed in the cemeteries. It seems to work, because for the rest of the year, said cemeteries remain what they inevitable are, totally SOULLESS places. :)
Interesting. We have plenty of Hispanics here, but I hadn't heard of this. I'll dig deeper. Thanks.
S
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