While the Day of the Dead is connected to All Saints day via the Catholic roots of religion there , it is also strongly mixed with the occultish voodoo pagan religion of the country and their strong superstitions about death and the dead.
It is indeed. But they do acknowledge death and the dead as part of the human condition, not to be feared but to be overcome, with life and victory, which some others of us ought to do, too, (with no admixtures, of course), instead of hiding from death, dying, and the dead. How many people just cremate their dead so no one sees a body, have no graves to visit, wear no mourning clothes, get no time off to grieve, and set aside no days to visit cemeteries and honor their ancestors? Not much among us. And our young people grow up without roots and connections, and without the stories of those who went before and formed them. SMB
While the Day of the Dead is connected to All Saints day via the Catholic roots of religion there , it is also strongly mixed with the occultish voodoo pagan religion of the country and their strong superstitions about death and the dead.
ReplyDeleteIt is indeed. But they do acknowledge death and the dead as part of the human condition, not to be feared but to be overcome, with life and victory, which some others of us ought to do, too, (with no admixtures, of course), instead of hiding from death, dying, and the dead. How many people just cremate their dead so no one sees a body, have no graves to visit, wear no mourning clothes, get no time off to grieve, and set aside no days to visit cemeteries and honor their ancestors? Not much among us. And our young people grow up without roots and connections, and without the stories of those who went before and formed them. SMB
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