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Title: Dia De Los Muertos


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Dia De Los Muertos Day Of The Dead
Ana Olivar Grade Language Arts
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Why is Day of the Dead Celebrated?
  • To honor those who have passed
  • Celebrates life and death
  • Began about 3000 years ago as an Aztec ritual

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How is this day celebrated?
  • Altars filled with candles, flowers, ofrendas,
    calacas.
  • Ofrendas -offerings of fruit, breads, candy
  • Calacas -handmade skeleton figures

Altar
  • Processions in the evening to the cemetery
  • Tombs and tombstones are repainted

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Where Does It Happen?
  • United States Central America
  • Mexico South America
  • Philippines
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