Día de Muertos Zócalo 2010. FARO de Oriente, Jorge Reyes.

The celebration of the Day of the Dead -- which is actually a week of festivities which begin on 28 October and end with a national holiday on 2 November -- is an integral part of this embracement of death that is particular to Mexican national identity. During this period, the popular belief is that the deceased have divine permission to visit friends and relatives on earth and enjoy once again the pleasures of life.

Mictlan was the Aztec underworld, ruled over by its Lord and Lady. It was a gloomy place, reached by the dead only after wandering for four years beneath the earth, accompanied by a "soul-companion", a dog which was customarily cremated with the corpse.

Aztec myth tells how the god Quetzalcoatl journeyed to Mictlan in the Fifth Sun in order to restore humankind to life from the bones of those who had lived in previous eras. For bones are like seeds: everything that dies goes into the earth, and from the earth new life is born in the sacred cycle of existence.

Este año se reanudó la tradicional ofrenda de Día de Muertos que se suspendió el año pasado, ahora se puede apreciar diversas ofrendas hechas de cartonería, madera y metal, admirar obras monumentales y expresiones artísticas, así como participar en el homenaje a José Guadalupe Posada, Carlos Monsiváis y Jorge Reyes, por su legado artístico, literario y musical al patrimonio intangible de los mexicanos.

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[javier280696]

Hey, te faltó lo mas importante.

Donde dejaste al M.0562 recién rehabilitado ??? xD

No importa.

Excelentes tomas, fue padre la ofrenda de muertos en zócalo pero yo apenas y pude entrar a ese solo vagon de interior durazno con los muertos ahi adentro :S

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