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Catrinas, one of the most popular figures of the Day of the Dead celebrations in Mexico.. There are extensive and varied beliefs in ghosts in Mexican culture.In Mexico, the beliefs of the Maya, Nahua, Purépecha; and other indigenous groups in a supernatural world has survived and evolved, combined with the Catholic beliefs of the Spanish.
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Real de Catorce in Sierra de Catorce, San Luis Potosí: a ghost town founded in 1770 and abandoned in 1920; [107] supposedly the town is haunted. According to legend one of the most active ghosts is an ancient miner known as "El Jergas", a benevolent entity who guides miners to new silver veins. [108]
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Statue of La Llorona on an island of Xochimilco, Mexico, 2015. La Llorona (Latin American Spanish: [la ʝoˈɾona]; ' the Crying Woman, the Weeping Woman, the Wailer ') is a vengeful ghost in Mexican folklore who is said to roam near bodies of water mourning her children whom she drowned in a jealous rage after discovering her husband was unfaithful to her.
Tlalcihuatl, another name for old goddess of earth. Coatlicue, goddess of earth. Tlahzōlteōtl, goddess of lust, carnality, passions and sexual misdeeds that she gives to the Aztecs. Tlazolteotl also forgives them. She is part of the Thirteen Heavens where they are "as lunar phases". Ixcuiname, goddesses of carnality.
In another source, he claimed that its origin is the Nahuatl ciuanauac or ciguanauac, meaning "concubine". [9] In Guatemala, the word siguanaba has been linked to siwan, a Kʼicheʼ Maya word meaning a cliff or deep ravine, and Guatemalan folk etymology gives this as the origin of the word. Some scholars, including Recinos and Roberto Paz y Paz ...