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The roots of the Day of the Dead, celebrated in contemporary Mexico and among those of Mexican heritage in the United States and around the world, go back some 3,000 years, to the rituals honoring the dead in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica. The Aztecs and other Nahua people living in what is now central Mexico held a cyclical view of the universe, and saw death as an integral, ever-present part of life.

Upon dying, a person was believed to travel to Chicunamictlán, the Land of the Dead. Only after getting through nine challenging levels, a journey of several years, could the person’s soul finally reach Mictlán, the final resting place. In Nahua rituals honoring the dead, traditionally held in August, family members provided food, water and tools to aid the deceased in this difficult journey. This inspired the contemporary Day of the Dead practice in which people leave food or other offerings on their loved ones’ graves, or set them out on makeshift altars called ofrendas in their homes.

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Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead is a Mexican tradition. Family members go to graveyards where their loved ones are buried, clean their graves, and decorate with flowers and food. This is a celebration of life, not mourning the death of a family member. Of course, the most famous aspect of Dia de los Muertos is the calavera, or the sugar skull. Women also paint their faces like La Catrina. That is what has made Dia de los Muertos cross over into Halloween territory in the US. Dia de los Muertos is celebrated from October 31 to November 2 and is not a sanctioned Catholic observance.

By contrast, All Souls Day is a day that Roman Catholics observe to remember dead loved ones. It isn’t a time for music and dressing up or leaving offerings of food at graves, it is about praying for the souls of the departed who are in purgatory.

In the Roman Catholic tradition, even if you are baptized, you die with the guilt of lesser sins on your soul. On November 2 we pray for the dead so that their souls can be cleansed and made ready to meet God. Masses for the dead are said and flowers can be placed at their graves, but this day is all about prayers for the dead.

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The annual Mexican celebration, Día de Muertos (Day of the Dead), is a time when families gather to honor and remember deceased loved ones.It is believed that the souls of the dead return to visit the living families in homes, businesses and cemeteries. The Aztec honored their dead with fiestas and rituals during the harvest season. They viewed death as the beginning of the cycle of seasons and life.

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Estudiaban en la Anáhuac las muchachas su maestría

Cuando llegó la flaca diciendo “Su vida ahora vengo a agarrar”

Las muchachas se espantaron y se fueron en tranvía

Ella dijo “Ni lo intenten pues su alma me he de llevar”

Ellas dijeron “A un acuerdo debemos de llegar, porque no queremos quedar frías”

Y escucharon decir el único acuerdo que se puede llegar, es que unas tortas de Don Rey me deben invitar.

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Mexican families erect an altar to receive their deceased who "come to visit"; Offerings are placed such as food and drinks that the loved one liked in life. They are placed on a table that usually has 2 levels, symbolizing heaven and earth

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Altars of the dead with flowers and food are placed, remembering our loved ones who have already left for the afterlife. ... The basic objects include candles, salt, incense, sugar skulls, the traditional bread of the dead and marigold flowers.

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The way i celebrate this festivity is inviting my family to my house or going to a familiar house and celebrate together eating tamales and drinking hot chocolate, having a good time with each others, and putting the altar and ofrendas together.

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Children eat tortilla chips, while adults enjoy a beer in honor of the deceased, to remember how happy he was in life, while listening to the mariachi music playing "eternal love."

The pantheon full of flowers and families that are going to pay tribute to their deceased today, November 2, the children do not know of sadness and the adults shed a discreet tear that they wipe in a bottle of beer.

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Death mat. Skull parade, Macabre alley ,Wrestling in the pantheon of Santa Paula.

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Oral narration, theater, displays of altars, guided tours, independent festivals, and photographic exhibitions is something that the citizens of Xalapa can enjoy as part of the cultural billboard with which the City Council commemorates the Day of the Dead.

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With offerings in public squares, characters disguised in the style of La Catrina or pictorial expressions on walls, it is a tradition that does not go unnoticed.

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The offerings made by those who loved their family and friends, who no longer live on this plane, stand out. The altars are decorated with clothes, food, drinks, photographs, and they even play the music that the dear deceased liked.