kartooner

“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 would try unsuc­cess­fully to eradicate.

A rit­ual known today as Dia de los Muer­tos, or Day of the Dead. “

http://www.azcentral.com/ent/dead/