Arturo huerta

DAY OF THE DEAD Adult english B1

Teacher humberto
 DAY OF THE DEAD
It’s a mexican tradition that is celebrate in november 1st and 2nd every year.
These dates are so colorful between the cut paper, the food, the music and the shrine
 ORIGINS
The origin of this tradition becomes to the aztec tradition, where the people of these
era celebrate one god named Mictlantecutli, he was, in te aztec religion, the god of
the dead.
The aztecs thought that if you celebrate this god you’ll have a pass to go to Mictlán,
the place where the souls gone after die, there the people will have a pacific life
without ill or pain.
DAY OF THE DEAD AFTER THE
CONQUEST
After that the spanish come to México the traditions was so different, first all the god
and godess of the aztacs was changed for images of people who exist in Spain.
The people that comes of Spain imposed a new religion where the aztecs have to
change all about themselfs, traditions, dates, clothes only for say something.
 DAY OF THE DEAD IN
CENTURY XX
After all the changes about the tradition a man who was named José Guadalupe
Posadas, in 1900’s, painted the death with a big hat and flowers, he named the
“garbancera”.
Years after Diego Rivera painted the garbancera in a different way, he put in she a
big dress, a lot of rings and other things, this Paint was a joke for the spanish and
their lifes
 DAY OF THE DEAD TODAY
We celebrate this date going to the cemetary and puting a shrine in our houses, this
shrine have a picture of the person who die, have the food that he/she loves in life,
water, salt, bread, cut paper and another things.
Most people have the tradition of paint their faces like skulls and the children going
to ask for candys, this tradition is celebrate in diferrentes ways around the state but,
the most beautiful is the celebration that Pátzcuaro has.