Día de los Muertos countdown: Cumbia de los Muertos by Ozomatli
Honor your ancestors by dancing, singing, playing, enjoying with this powerful canción!
Aqui no existe la tristeza
solo existe la alegria
el baile de los queridos
de los queridos del pasado
mira como baila mi mama
bailando con mi hermano del pasado
sus espiritus se juntan bailando
lleno de alegria y gozando
Cumbia, Cumbia [repeat]
pero que buena
pero que rica
Sierta gente solo pueden ver
espiritus bailando [...]
Día de los Muertos countdown: 2:52 away
We’re only hours away from Día de los Muertos on the west coast. I’m thinking about the ancestors and the many ways they contribute to our lives.
Video: Know Art by Victor M. Montañez
Día de los Muertos: How to create a simple altar
Many people want to acknowledge their ancestors but they don’t have a lot of time, energy, or money. Fret not, because making an altar can be easy. What counts is your good intent. Here is the most pared down altar:
1. a cloth or piece of fabric
2. a candle
3. a photo or drawing of your ancestor(s)
4. [...]
Día de los Muertos countdown: Is Halloween a gangrened limb?
A border buddy of mine wrote to me about Día de los Muertos:
Día de los Muertos is becoming more and more popular in California. This is because Halloween has become more and more empty of spirituality. Once, Halloween was celebrated as a spiritual practice. As time has passed it has become another limb of [...]
Día de los Muertos countdown: Bareto's "Ya se ha muerto mi abuelo "
What do you think of this canción?
Bareto “Ya se ha muerto mi abuelo” by autumns_child
I got the lyrics from a post on the roots of Chicha (a type of music). I couldn’t hear “eating suri” but I’d like to hear the version of the song that has that line!
The first two verses [...]
Día de los Muertos countdown: Oaxaca
I hope you enjoy this video about Día de los Muertos in Oaxaca.
Here’s an excerpt of a post from Oaxaca Cultural Navigator that Nancy Lorenza Green, artist and poet, told me about:
Dia de Los Muertos: Day of the Dead in Teotitlan del Valle, Oaxaca
Janet and her brother Eric just completed a Day of the Dead [...]
Día de los Muertos countdown: What happens to the food on the altar?
We never eat the food set out on the altar for the muertos and my friend Rosanna Salgado McDonald tells us why:
My grandmothers said that they prepared food for the spirits of our
relatives, but that we shouldn’t try to eat the food after Día de los
Muertos has passed. She said the spirits took the flavor [...]
Día de los Muertos countdown: metro muertos
Muertos are everywhere in Mexico City, even in the metro.
Día de los Muertos countdown: La Muerte by El Gran Combo
Infectious. La Muerte.
Día de los Muertos countdown: El Festival de las Calaveras
Pascual’s Skeleton sings a song
Without any pain or dread
Although half a leg is really gone
Still a flower sits upon his head.
La Calaca Pascuala canta
Sin pena ni temor
Aunque le falte una pata
Y en el sombrero lleve una flor.
That’s my favorite passage in El Festival de las Calaveras/The Festival of Bones, a bilingual book with captivating illustrations [...]