instead we have Día de Muertos
a whole different tradition...
here a typical ofrenda
the idea is to "offer" to our dead relatives and friends
the food, drinks, and things they used to enjoy while they were alive
the tradition says to put traditional mexican food
like tamales, candied pumpkin, pollo con mole, atole,
fruits from the Fall, and of course tequila, and café
and water all for the long road to the other world...
one very important part of the ofrenda is the pan de muerto
(check the recipe on the link above, and send me some ?)
bread that is baked just around this time of the year
delicious! it is called pan de muerto and if you see
the part of the bread sticking resemble bones...
creepy but delicious, if you have access to a mexican bakery
make sure to buy some, they just bake it around late October and early Novembre
of course if the dead guy used to smoke, well a pack of his/hers cigarettesas well as chocolates and toys or other little belongings
usually the family who puts the ofrenda also traces a road of flower petals
from the door of the house to the place where the ofrenda is placed
the flowers to use to make this petals road are called Zenpasuchitl
yellow flowers traditional used these days
a wonderful, colorful and dark celebration of life, somehow
a tradition that speaks a lot of this magical mexican way of seeing life...
3 comments:
Das ist interessant, Bere. Halloween is getting popular in other part of the world for commercial reason, I think. But I just learned that it is coming from Celtic culture in my inorganic chemistry class. I didn't know about it. Halloween almost reminds me off Valentine's day in Japan. Many people buy chocolates. In Japan, women give chocolate to men, not vice versa. There is a white day in Japan that men supposed to give something back to women. In Japan, we also something like Dia de Muertos. It is called Obon. http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2286.html
Día de muertos is one of the things that makes me feel proud of being mexican; gringos wish they'd have one celebration as deep and with so much value within their culture... In Campeche and Yucatán, to celebrate the same ritual, a kind of tamal-cake with 'cochinita pibil' flavor called 'pibi-pollo' is cooked by almost every family. If I had to eat only one thing for the rest of my life, 'pibi-pollo' would be my choice...
tis interesting to see that u used diyas to celebrate dia de muertos....!
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