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An ofrenda (Spanish: "offering") is the offering placed in a home altar during the annual and traditionally Mexican Día de los Muertos celebration. An ofrenda, which may be quite large and elaborate, is usually created by the family members of a person who has died and is intended to welcome the deceased to the altar setting.
Día de Los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, is a Mexican holiday that’s associated with death, but it’s far from a sad holiday. Instead, it’s a time to celebrate the lives of those who have ...
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Andrade, Mary J. Day of the Dead A Passion for Life – Día de los Muertos Pasión por la Vida. La Oferta Publishing, 2007. ISBN 978-0-9791624-04; Anguiano, Mariana, et al. Las tradiciones de Día de Muertos en México. Mexico City 1987. Brandes, Stanley (1997). "Sugar, Colonialism, and Death: On the Origins of Mexico's Day of the Dead".
In Mexico there is a wide variety of pan de muerto ("bread of the dead"), some with a human shape, others with an animal shape, although the most common is the round one with two "bones" or crossed strips of dough and sprinkled with sugar or sesame seeds, which are offering to deceased loved ones on the altar of the dead.
La Catrina is a ubiquitous character associated with Day of the Dead (Spanish: Día de Muertos), both in Mexico and around the world. Additionally, it has become an icon of Mexican identity, sometimes used in opposition to the Halloween Jack-o'-lantern. [1]
An altar cross in the center of an altar table of a Methodist chapel in Kent, Ohio, United States. The center of the altar cross contains the christogram "IHS". Altar with crucifix in the Imperial Mausoleum in the Cathedral of Petrópolis, Brazil. In the foreground, a tomb with effigies of Emperor Pedro II of Brazil and his wife Teresa Cristina.