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The Day of the Mewertos in Mexico has its originate of our people originaries over the life, after the death. The Mayas, Aztecas, and Purepechas, all, without exception, had their own exception in their own cosmovision in that the death occupa a place essential. The death has a different for every culture and a country in the world. For the herence of our ancestors, in Mexico, there a feast, much food, and The 1st of November are the days official of the Day of Mewertos, festejaed the life of who who are not with us. For that we were in the center of the culture Purpeche in Michoacan, to enjoy of the offrendas, the music, and the nostalgia with that every year, we remember our difunters. Since you get you to Morrelia, the capital of Michoacan, you can feel the festivity of the Day of the Murtos in the ambient. The decoration and the bujice of the streets indicate that the fiesta is near. Our point of the initial in our tour of the Day of Mewartos is Morelia, which is a city very beautiful, with some cairjones and The Places of Morelli are repletas that record to the defunters, where there is resa his almas, and the food favorite of the deads. It's amazing, it's a treat for the eyes to just wander around this path and see all of the different handmade altars. It's beautiful. To feel the essence more pura of the celebration of the Day of the Muartos, we're aleathe us to live at the orrilla of the Lago of Pascuaro, where, since hundreds of years, has sated the culture Purpeche. The first people Purpecha that visit is Capula, famous for the work of his artesanos, that's the creation of hermosas catrinas. Now, we get to the first people Mexico, this recorrived of the Day of Murtos, that is the people of Capulah. Famos, famous for these catrinas, there are many, of all types, of many, and also there with animals. And the catrinas are inspired in the figure that the illustrator Mexican, Posse, Guadalupe Posadas, which is of origin hydro-cali-. So, we'll see if we'll see Antoine, a beautiful Katrina. See? Let's see. In this people, they are the catrinas with barrow. What is what they're doing, signara? Pintando. How do you take one? In the pinted, in the pinted. In the pint, when these are these, all these, they're done one day. Yeah, of the grandes, one, all the day, until the night. I'm going to buy a catrina. has guacamayas, has changos, and it has colors, their cabo. The best advice that I can give in the Day of the Mewertos is not to eat, because what more abundar in that belada is the food traditional of Michoacan. What you're going to eat? What you're going to eat, jim? It's a gaspacho, consists in piya, with hikama, with queso, and chili, negro. The gaspacho is of Morelia. and he has a jugue of an orange, cheeses, chile, black, chamois, salt, and lemon. Some parts that it's that they prepare with, with a beaulia and chili-berde. It's so exquisito, you're recommend. Mm-hmm, you're mangito, piña, hikama, peppino with a lot of lemon and salt. Interesting. And a few, they put in Chile, the polvo-negrove, and cheese. It's very exotic, from Morelia for the world. The Guias were our friends of Sima Expeditions, who organized the mountaine for the senderos most bellows that are all the Lago of Paspero, and also of the principal mountains of Mexico. We're going with the artesanies. This is a pancho, of borrego. It's a regal for my mom. It's very, uh, calient. My mom will cantar this regal. Amy, where you want to eat? E.Ocese. They look, really. It's with meonessa, and cheese, and a little chili. It's very delicious. Super-rich, Lyskite. It's a lot of marillo, and the grano are gigantic. I feel how it's done in the mouth. Mm-hmm. I feel like to desacen in the boca. Mm-hmm. between the months of September to November. At conquisting Mexico, the Church Catholic, made the festejos of the Day of the Mewartes are the 1st of November, fusioning to both, which facilitated the conversion. In the actuality, the Churcha Catholic Assume the Day of the Muartes and it does a sense in the theology Christian. For that is possible to find altars of this celebration in the churches around the world. It's a lot of a locura that we are in a camposanto and there's a lot of life. We love that they put many flowers to the tombs, because it gives much more a lot of what we're used in America's North. We're going to some young of Capula, that we show their trages between the streets, with constructions of adobe. O'Gasas, how are the houses here, how are you? Well, the barro, the bar is to mash it a little, and let me just to mash it, get to remohar to, let's get it to remod, you put in stierc, to make the mixture, to do the oboebes. The advantage of the adobe is that it's more strong, more resistant. In the cold, it's, it's cold and the type of the cold is fresh. We know, Sergio Arroyo, the creator of his trages allusive to the Day of the Mewartos in Michoacan. All right, we're all of the people, we're all of us, we're all we're doing to work. and to convivir, and, and to come and if we're looking for the vestige of the monarch. And you, you do you design? Yeah, I was design, so, we did, like, six months. The Mariposa Monarcha, also, it's too, six to seven months, in the elaboration, in what we put we, if the mariposas, the tarasas, the tarasca. Capula! The belada! The belada just began. The mission is to pass the night of animas of the 1st of November, with the poplators that live around the Lago of Pasquharo. Our next people was Santa Fe of the Laguna. We've got Santa Fe of the Laguna. This is a town Purpeche, and here still the people talk to Pruepeche. In Santa Fe of the Laguna, they have the tradition to decorate the marcos of the doors. only do they do in those homes where there was a morocto that year. That's beautiful! The streets of Santa Fe of the Laguna, and they show the spirit of celebration. That's beautiful, it's Coco, actually. Hello! How are they're going on this day? Good, good. They're from far, see. From the way. From here, look. At a poca, hmm! Inglaterra. Yeah, it's good, well, they're welcome, because, here, look. Yawai Yawang-Sulansha. What signify? That's what I mean, they're going to want to be here. What's How do you know, how you name? Jorge. Ah, much. I'm just. I'm my name, Selene. Selene? Uh-huh. Yes, yes, yes, yes, welcome, and Tanokka, that are welcome. How is it, how is it, how do you say? God me am ya. God? God, me am ya. Thank you. Now, we're going to buy fruit because the tradition says that any person that enter in the house of another, has to give something to the offrenda. I've got two pieces of cano for the defunto. We're going to enter and learn to talk with those families pure peaches. Well, we've been toped with an altar very beautiful, and all the place is full of chileas. That's beautiful. The Atares, those are the families who are the people who are in this area. And in this family, who we're not recording? We're recording one of my kids, and it's very dear, it's a mother of my mother. Well, the people who come to bring offender, and all those who they're trying offender. We've got to give us tole, atolle, compan, to invite them to all the people that come to invite us to all the people that come to invite us to my The people will be during the night to leave offrendas to her Selya, and a change the family will give to eat. I enter and I'm offered a tole very rich and this pan. It's incredible to see how they have the fachara of the casas and in the door where, where, remember the persons who have fallen, they've, they're a arc of Florida St. Pasichin. It's the characteristic of this people. It's very beautiful, also, for the decoration and... The fact that they, you know, with all the world, even with a lot of people that not know, it's, it makes very, a little. Atolle, a pancito. In the soil, we found, we know, caminos of flower of Sempasuchil, that we've got to other altars, of the Casas Purpechas. This is the way, it helps to the defunters, encounter. It's a way made of petalos of Sempasuchin. Wow. Excellent. And there was the portal of Flores in honor to Tata Albert. Good. Hello, good. We're a friend here. We're going to leave an offrenda in where? Come here. Disculpe, Senora, to who we record here? That's my father, that we put us, this, was from here, Santa Fe. Here, I live, my papa, and he, well, is, well, in May of April. Here is a custom of having an altar, right? And we prepare some things, some cookies, right, for that we expect us. And when does it? Well, when he gets? Well, it's my mother, right? To get here, right, to his house. And it's my mom, and is my father, right? But, for if people, we're not going to have so, now just we have an ophenta, for that we put in the mecita. Ah, an offrenda. So, this is for a person that has died of this year. Yeah. So, yeah. So, yeah, the aroma of the flower of Sempasuchil of the altar, helps the alas, to get to her offrenda. And the light of the bells, does peace and hope for them. The altar, they have pheasitas, velas, those fruit, what there are, there's the cruz, what they're, what they're, those, their mothers, Veda, for you adorned there, the cross. They've got me, they did it. Yes, it's beautiful, really. Gast us, we're like $3,500. A lot, a palace. A palace, God, me name. The desfile of Offrendas not for, for the Tata, Alberto, and his The people who have their offenda and the caseros, then, they prepare them a dojito, and they're, well, the door d'Urater, when the door is, because, that's the door is, because, that's the tradition. Well, there's the tradition. Well, much felicities. There are chocolate, there, pozzoles, if you're just, that'sone. Thank you. Thank you, so much. Thank you. The casero, they prepare pozole, tamale, con atolle, but, no more one once they're gastan. But it's the next year, but it's the next year, no more offends, nothing more. Nothing more, not, just, you know, and they're not, yeah, yeah, is the tradition? No, no, not is not per year, if they're doing, every year, when they're No, chan-kosun, custom, six, chankun, e-she, yon khanapuets, abelos, and so we do we, we'll, we just, we should. We just see us. We've got to go to the custom, and the dialect, we have to stay. We've got to enter the second house, we've offered a chocolate with pan, it's delicious, and many testimonials of these people, Purepecha, that's a They go from door-in-pourta, letting us the offrenders, recall to the difunters, all the community is re-une, go to those houses that have in the Altar, they're in the Altar, receive food. It's a form of the people that are with us. Then we went to the Altar of Tata Tomas, yeah, for tradition, festejo, or conviction, the sentiment that all we all we all part in the day of the Murtos is the same, love for the family. It's really amazing to be here in a small town in Michoacan, and the candles, and all the kids are running around asking for candy. And, saluding to the people from the other people from, also, they're visiting us. They were surprised with a ball, local. I wanted to cry a little, because it was very beautiful. Oh, yeah, of course. You guys, they're doing super well. How many do you have? 10? 8. Oh, my brother? Almost I'm, Jorge. It was just so it was very beautiful to see the putting the offrendas there in the altar, and then the little, we're playing. We're just going to rending homage to all the diffunters of Santa Fe of the Laguna. But that year, there are many casas with altar. I'm going to go visit a family, and the way to enter and visit an altar with respect is, We're sitting at the house of a family that gave a permission to give a permit to give a present to the people who were. There are cajas, there are various things that can offer to the family. So, well, we're going to be. We're going to put a new friend, because we're invited. So it's a way to show respect. Rosalio Gabriel Dias was the name of the Finado, and was the head of the family for many decades. Pedimus to someone of his descendency, to tell him more about him and his Altar. So, we know to his nieta Heidey. Tell us, to who we're recording today. He's my abuel, is my abuel, he's like a legend, he, I mean, he knows too. But no, no, no, no, no, never ever. And the idioma, never, no, never. Nogrimas, is, like, of felicity, it's, like, nostalgia, like, like, or, like, or, like, you're still, like, you're still of your families, murtos. So, it's, like, it's, like, it's, like, Nothing more we do, when they've done to fallecese, our, our parents, we prepare us all, so we're all, in satole, pozole, or tamale, so. And it's parted with the people of the people? them, they record them, and they bring offrendas, and then we give us atolle. The other year, the day of death, we just we just we do we have a little bit, but, but, not so, so, so, so, so, so, it's like, like, to reunio the family, and do, like, a comidita, and, and nothing more. This tamal that my, my prima, is tamal, here, of Michiacan. Hey, Di, God me name, for to open the door of your house, of your family, and, well, here we're It's very good. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Ohal, we could replicate those. It's a tradition very beautiful, and I feel that it's necessary to see the tradition, for that never it's to be able. And I'll be honest, it's the first time that I'm a day of mortals, and I'm Mexican, then... And, and of Morellia. And, of Morellia, uh, that's, to propagate this tradition a little more, because it's very beautiful. What advice do you do the people to maintain the pure pecha? Istermace, Stinkuch, Mita, Mita Kowant, and Yipulet. Purapeche, that you see that, that you want to hear me, that he, we can't be, because there, you know, my camera, but, but, because there, you know, Mitter, there, Wanda, and there, but, you know, that one, but, you know, that one, because, it's not, you can't really, but, but, you know, It's not a miracle, I want to Purapeche. How do you, I love? Hikken Wembezuka. Disek. Dise my my Tia, that she, he'll. Ah! That's good. Thank you guys so much for teaching us the Puertopecha language to take in the culture. Look, visit the US, from England, from Canada, of Quebec, and of Tamolipas. bread and so a good gift for the people, very good passion, thank. Thank you for the hospitality. I'm content to share this moment with you and to honor the memory of your being close to the deceased. Yerhani Yerhammer Rosario Gabriel. The technique is the most of the world, and I think that we're all of our sharef us from here with you. Thank you. It's been absolutely magical, my heart is full, and it's so amazing to be here and experience this, and thank you. They're being here, because she's very proud of Heidi, because she courteously, share the roots Purpecheas, and I'm just to continue to be in Mexico. And, live the nation Purpecha! We're we we're just pures Pirequas in the house, but not we're not just we listen, and we just we listen, and we also we listen, and we like much the music of his region. Rosaliyingi Tsuki, Nikara Nicarania. Rosalio Gabriel Dia, always will be recorded with a sonrisa, and will be present in the hearts of his family. It was really amazing to be part of something so personal to the family, but they were so happy to have us there. And they told us about their grandfather, and she spoke Punevecha, the native language. Is this happening in the States? Maybe not as much. People here are very welcoming. But not all is a legria in Santa Fe of the Laguna. Acaba to die the abuelita that inspired the character of the Mama Coco of Disney, the senior Maria Salud Ramirez Caballero. He had 109 years and was alfarer. What do you feel being here? I don't really know where to begin, but speaking as someone who comes from England. where you only really hear about the Adel Mwerthos and you don't really know the true meaning behind it. You paint your face and you see the beautiful pictures, but being here in Michocan, in Santa Fe, which is the hometown of Coco, the film. It's purely magical. The Mexican people are so warm and welcoming, you literally go into their house, and it's beautiful, the meaning behind it, it's a celebration of life, and it's paying respects to all of your family members that have done everything for you in the past, and my body is buzzing. It's just so warm here, and it's exactly like you could picture it and more. It's just magical. That night, no dormitiams. That night, not dormitiams, continued our tourn nocturno, The next people to visit is Eronguari Quaro. Here we've seen a pre-a-demostration of dance folklorica, the ballet most famous of Michoacan, the dance of the biggitos. There was a seora that has robbed our attention. A's 80 years, I've been with Dicha, gozando of her culture Purpeche. The legend that the day of the Mekyllan, the history of Meklan, the inframundo of the cultures perispanicas. The Mictlan is the place of the decanso eternal for the almas, of who have been made in the After a voyage of 9-etapas, atravessing obstacles that mithes of our spirit, the animas exaustas, get to the mctlan, and there are received by the Seniors of the Mewarty. Offer of the Cemetery, abunded the animals. A man, a man, us invite to try a exquisite pozole that vending in their house. The posole is made in his house. The posole is made with granos of maize and the accompanied with ravanos, lechuga, sebolla, chili, and oregano. The origin of the Pozole, according documents antivose, from the Codice Florentino, provien of the sacrifices human. The elit in water, comia, desmenusada and co -cited in water with maize, in a caldole, delicious. Delicious! Also! has water of Jamaica and fruits like manzana, guayava, and tehocote. Continuamon rodeing the Lago of Pascuaro, to visit the Cemetery most scenic of all Michoacan, because they're in the atrio of the Iglesia of the Pobogea Pouche of Arokutin. This is the Cemetery of Aurocutin, and I think that's the most beautiful that I've seen in my life, it's incredible, how it's only is illumined with the velas, and it's a coldness with the combination of the lights and the flowers of Sempasuchin. This is the real Munchakhan, the real Day of Mewartes. It's very beautiful. It's very much, it's very magical, the colors, the vellas. It's really beautiful with all the flowers and the candles. There's a lot of marigolds. There's sort of an orange haze of the candles and the flowers and the flowers together. us permitted to the campanarer of the temple of Arokutin, to see the cemetery from the high, in a night as special, as the Day of the Murtos. We're going to another cemetery, and we're just going around Lake Pascoa. I think it's a fantastic experience and celebrations. It's very different from how we... how we view the dead in England. Whereas here, I think the experience is completely unique because it's a celebration of life, really celebrating those people that you've lost, and I think that's a beautiful way to view the dead. We're not. We also the cemetery most famous of Michoacan, L. Zinsunzan, the antigoa capital of the Imperio Purpecha. The cemetery is known for his fiesta. The and they're to the ammeneer. There we just that night, not dormitiams. This is the ultimate cemetery, Cemetery Simpsun San. Okay, well, here in the tombas, we can find. Okay, well, here in the tombas, we can find the food favorite of the defuncto, that's the What I like is the Cementere, the Cemetery of Shinsunzan, is that there music. We listen to the band, how they talk to the defunters, and there is a fiesta, the people are taking on the cemeteries. It's an a feast in the cemetery, it's incredible. The cemetery most emblematic for the Day of Mewartes in Michoacan, because it's one of the most great. The Day of Mewertos in Michocan has been one of the most great experiences of my life, and I think that all Mexicans do it to live, so, come to this state to live the Day of Mewertos in the…