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Festivities: These are traditional holidays to honor religious events, such as Carnival, Holy Week, Easter, etc. or public celebrations, such as Mother's Day, Father's Day, Valentine's Day, etc. Dia de la Independencia or Anniversario de la Independencia , September 16, commemorates Mexico's independence from Spain and is the most important ...
Mother's Day in the Netherlands in 1925 Northern Pacific Railway postcard for Mother's Day 1916. Mother's Day gift in 2007 Mother and daughter and Mother's Day card. In most countries, Mother's Day is an observance derived from the holiday as it has evolved in the United States, promoted by companies who saw benefit in making it popular. [9]
Victor and Valentino is an American animated television series created by Diego Molano for Cartoon Network.It was produced by Cartoon Network Studios.The series follows the titular duo, two half-brothers staying with their grandmother in the Mexican town of Monte Macabre, as they interact with supernatural beings that plague the town, many of whom are derived from Aztec, Olmec, and Mayan ...
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Dec. 16—One writer called them "dances of mystery" — public performances cloaked in a sense of privacy. The traditional cultural dances performed by many of New Mexico's pueblos around ...
Calaca-like figures can be seen in the Tim Burton film Corpse Bride, Neil Gaiman's movie Coraline, video games such as LittleBigPlanet (2008) and Guacamelee! (2013), and the 1998 Tim Schafer computer game Grim Fandango. In Monster High, Skelita Calaveras is a calaca and is the daughter of Los Esklitos (The Skeletons).
All across Mexico, families create altars (or ofrendas) to the dead to encourage them to visit, adorning them with offerings and mementos such as flowers, photos, candles, the departed's favorite ...
Lorenzo Demetrio García Aguilar is the son of Josefina. He has taken his mother's style but has made it more surreal. He also creates “muñecas” and plaques, along with interpretations of religious, cultural and family themes, such as those related to the Garden of Eden and Day of the Dead. He also created a portrait of his mother in clay.