Paganism
Column: Day of the Dead – a Harvest Festival
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Jaime Gironés explores the Day of the Dead as a harvest festival, noting the many diverse ways the holiday is celebrated, including as a companion to Jaime’s Samhain celebrations.
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Jaime Gironés explores the Day of the Dead as a harvest festival, noting the many diverse ways the holiday is celebrated, including as a companion to Jaime’s Samhain celebrations.
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Clio Ajana writes about reconnecting with one’s ancestors during these days of the dead.
“Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them.”- G. Eliot
I’ve always felt that the dead have a complicated life in Latin America. Although the Day of the Dead enters modernity through Mexico, the conversations and intimacy with death are profoundly embedded in and throughout Latino/Hispanic culture. Nobel Laureate Octavio Paz once commented ““The word death is not pronounced in New York, in Paris, in London, because it burns the lips. The Mexican, in contrast, is familiar with death, jokes about it, caresses it, sleeps with it, celebrates it, it is one of his favorite toys and his most steadfast love.”