Pictures Of Dead Flowers
Blanca Gonzalez grew up adulatory Dia de los Muertos every year in Mexico.
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“My family, we put an ofrenda together,” Gonzalez said. An ofrenda is an offering.
“We put flowers,” she said. “My mom, she adapted aliment for the altar. My dad brought flowers for the altar. Everybody alternate in that.”
For Gonzalez it’s important to canyon on those cultural traditions to her daughters, who are growing up in Jackson. She was amid abounding parents who saw One22’s Dia de los Muertos affair as a way to affix the abutting bearing to Mexican traditions.
“I don’t appetite to lose that attitude for my girls,” Gonzalez said.
Carmina Oaks, a association ability specialist at One22, helped adapt the fiesta. She said Dia de los Muertos is a anniversary focused on afterlife and canonizing ancestors who accept anesthetized away, but it’s a festive, blessed occasion.
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“It remembers that we’re all activity to die,” Oaks said. “We’re all activity to be skeletons one day or another, so why not accomplish fun of it while we’re alive?”
St. John’s Episcopal Church’s Hansen Hall was arranged Nov. 1 with animated face-painted skulls depicting Catrina, a skeleton figure of the holiday. Kids busy amoroso skulls with icing, beam and agreeable tissue cardboard to actualize the acceptable adornment of “papel picado,” or “cut paper,” with the Art Association. Colorful altars broadcast about the abbey included skulls, flowers and fruit.
The altars are a attitude to account the asleep ancestors members. Ancestors and accompany accumulate to bethink admired ones, Oaks said. They acquaint belief about the asleep and bethink what they enjoyed in life.
“She acclimated to like this, she acclimated to baker absolutely deliciously,” Oaks said. “Your grandfathering admired to smoke, he was a carpenter, he fabricated this appliance for us.”
They generally accommodate photos and items to represent the admired one. For example, the Jackson Hole Historical Society and Museum created an chantry for Kelly Rubrecht, a bounded outdoorsman and artist who died this accomplished summer. The chantry included a guitar, beefy salsa, photos, CDs, hats and ache branches.
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“It’s a blissful thing,” Oaks said. “It’s not like you’re activity to cry and say, ‘I absence them.’ This is to bless the being that died.”
Families about eat acceptable food, including tamales, birthmark and “pan de muerto,” or “dead bread,” all of which were represented at One22’s party. They additionally allotment aliment that reminds them of the asleep ancestors members.
“If mom admired quesadillas, everybody will accomplish quesadillas to allotment what she admired in life,” Oaks said.
In Mexico, Oaks said, the altars are frequently created at tombs, and bodies accompany aliment and flowers and mariachi trios to sing their ancestors members’ admired songs. Some families pave the way for the asleep to arrive, putting out a bottle of baptize and a mirror with a adjust so the alcohol can brace themselves, Oaks said.
Annie Sampson attends abbey at St. John’s. She has gone to One22’s accident for the accomplished several years back acquirements about the holiday.
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“I adulation the attitude of anniversary bodies we’ve lost,” Sampson said. “I’ve absent both my mom and dad. A brace years ago, the aboriginal time we came out, we brought pictures of them.”
Day of the Asleep celebrations are abiding in age-old axial and southern Mexico. Indigenous bodies would authority a monthlong anniversary committed to the gods of death, Oaks said.
Over time the anniversary confused against adulatory bodies who accept died. The aboriginal day, Nov. 1, is for anniversary asleep children, while Nov. 2 is aloof for anniversary adults who accept passed.
“The Day of the Asleep is actual special, because it allows us to be already afresh reunited with our ancestors who accept passed,” Gonzalez said in Spanish. “And to feel them abutting again, already a year.”
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