El Día De Los Muertos

History of the holiday

• when the spaniards arrived they brought a christian holiday with them called "all souls day"
• This was a roman catholic holiday for remembering (commemorating) the dead
• It was based of a Christian Holiday mixed with a Native American one

History of The Holiday

• The result of the two holidays bending is the people celebrate this new holiday on the first 2 days of November.
• The celebration still has Christian qualities while keeping the Native american ones.

Holiday Foods

• Pan de los muertos-A special bread prepared for the deceased hence its name "bread of the dead"
• Tamales-Mexican dish made of masa wrapped in a leaf wrapper leaf wrapper is removed before consumed.
• Molé-Is a sauce used in traditional Mexican dishes containing chocolate

Holiday Foods

• Sugar Skull-Edible skull usually decorated with bright colors and cultural designs
• Atole-Traditional beverage containing masa and corn it is usually spicy

Holiday Customs

• Altars-Like a shrine dedicated to a passed loved one decorated with
• Ofrenda-Associated with the altar , this is an offering for the passed relative
• Marigolds-They use this flower to decorate because it is known as the flower of the dead

Holiday Customs

• Graveyard-They celebrated with loud music and dancing in the graveyard after cleaning and decorating the graveyard.
• Remembering the passed-They don't mourn and pout they celebrate the life that their relative had death is not a bad thing to them they love it.

My Great Grandma Helen

• I would put little plastic humming birds on her altar because she loved hummingbirds and always had them in her yard.
• A picture of the mountains, she loved the Idaho Mountains
• I would put huckleberries because she loved to go huckleberry picking in the mountains.

Websites

• dayofthedeadsf.org
• google.com