SC - Los Dias de los Muertos - Samhain

[Mordonna22 at aol.com]

In a message dated 11/2/1999 3:42:47 PM US Mountain Standard Time, 
kerelsen at ptd.net writes:

<< 
 Obviously, the latinoamericano culture perceives death far
 differently than most norteamericanos. My professor indicated
 that the festival is a Christianization of the monthlong festival
 celebrated by the Aztecs at this time of year to honor their
 dead.
 
 I wonder what might have been on the Aztec tables?  Hey, it's in
 period! :) >>

Also in period, EARLY period, of course, is the Celtic celebration of 
Samhain, which has much of the same sentiment as Los Dias de los Muertos.  
Some of the celebratory practices are also the same.  One of the traditions 
is that the early Celts carved images of "spirits" into turnips, which led 
eventually to the American practice of carving jack-o-lanterns from pumpkins, 
and the hispanic practice of the ghoulish pastries.  Los Dias de los Muertos 
is, like the American Hallowe'en, a mish-mash of cultures.  It seems to take 
something from the Moors of Spain, the Celts of Spain, the Aztecs, and the 
Catholic Church, and probably also the Inca, the French, the English.....




Mordonna The Cook
SunDragon Western Reaches
Atenveldt
(m.k.a. Buckeye, AZ)
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