Day of the Dead

by kartooner on September 30, 2003

More than 500 years ago, when the Span­ish Con­quis­ta­dors landed in what is now Mex­ico, they encoun­tered natives prac­tic­ing a rit­ual that seemed to mock death. It was a rit­ual the indige­nous peo­ple had been prac­tic­ing at least 3,000 years. A rit­ual the Spaniards (…)

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