SC - Los Dias de los Muertos - Samhain

[Elysant@aol.com]

In a message dated 11/2/99 5:42:47 PM Eastern Standard Time, kerelsen at ptd.net 
writes:

<< Obviously, the Latin-American culture perceives death far
 differently than most North Americans. My professor indicated
 that the festival is a Christianization of the month long festival
 celebrated by the Aztecs at this time of year to honor their
 dead.
  >>

I would not generalize this statement as 'most.' Some of us are very much 
aware of what death and the celebrations of our ancestors are all about. I 
think the last estimate was set at over 70,000,000 North Americans. :-)

Ras
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