Today is The Day of the Dead

[Darth Eggplant]

Today is the Day of the Dead.

here are three sites you might

go to if you want to know more

about this mesoamerican holiday.

http://www.usc.edu/isd/locations/ssh/boeckmann/Dead/index.html

http://www.oaxacainfo.com/dod.htm

or one of my favourite movies

The Quick and the Dead

Now Calaverablanca is also celebrating

this holiday with this months November

calendar, something Oingo Boingo and GF

fans will enjoy; more cool calaveras!

Calaverablanca's November calendar

and finally Calaverablanca's

Astrology Fandango section of my

fan site is offering for the

Day of The Dead, GRIMPEG horoscopes.

Grimpegs are mp3's but GF-esques

dead, death, skeleton kind of tunes.

you can go here to download and listen

to todays horoscope.

 

GRIMPEG Horoscopes (no longer there)

*at a later date GRIMPEGS

will be made available

through my fan site,

for those who did not get

the chance to download them

on the Day of the Dead*

 

now even if you personally do not

believe in Astrology at least this is

a chance for you to BeBop your Bones.

 

So Have A Happy Day of the Dead

and try not to throw your bones

into the drink today.

[Sanspoof]

The Day of the Dead is, In my opinion, more spiritual and haunting than Halloween (Or as I like to call it, 'Hallow's Eve' That's an old English name by the way). I even made some paper-mache calaveras!

 

LONG LIVE THE DEAD!

 

And if it isn't good enough, how about some scary stories on the Blue Casket? I know the DOTD is not exactly like a spooky Hallow's Eve celebration, but I enjoy cheesy ghost/zombie movies

[Lateralis]

It gives me another justified chance to quote Edgar Allan Poe, so I cannot complain.

[JofaGuht]

Originally posted by Sanspoof

The Day of the Dead is, In my opinion, more spiritual and haunting than Halloween

 

That's not the point. The reason why Day of the Dead(Dias De Las Muertos) is so wonderful is that it celebrates the dead in a upbeat festival manner. On this day, they choose not to mourn or greive the death of their loved ones and have a big festival. Also, I just ate some Pande Muertos(a kind of sweet bread on this holdiday) It tastes really good.

 

October 31: All Hallow's Eve

November 1: All Saints Day

November 2: Day of the Dead

 

These are all upbeat wonderful holidays That I like to define in this manner. Holloween is celebrating the demons we all try to hide, and we bring them out in the form of vampires, ghouls, witches and zombies. All Saints Day is pretty self-explanatory, celebrating the saintly people and the people of God (on this particular day, the sun burns my skin )And day of the dead are celebrating those who have passed away, and instead of feeling sad for their death, they feel happy for their life that they lead, and makes people recognize that death is a step up and should honor death. Death is not the end of life, it is a part of life, and the most important as well.

 

Of course, I'm not sure that's what they wanted the holidays to be, that is just how I celebrate them.

[Darth Eggplant]

Halloween is the ancient pagen

holiday Samhain and ALL Saints Day

was the churches feeble attempt

to co-opt it. Day of The Dead

which gets celebrated all week

leading up to the actual day

is a huge big happy pinats.

as Manny says so well in the game

it really is a holiday for the living

but the dead just play along with it.

 

I am not sure about it but in some

places in North America Devil's Night

which falls on the 30th of october

seems to be more of a thugs night out.

Now I am basing this on the book

and movie The Crow, the first

and only real Crow movie,

Devil's Night we don't have that

here in Canada.

But for the Day of the Dead,

hotels book up early

as many tourists

go to experience this festival.

 

still spirituality could be

happy happy joy joy rather than

glum somber judeao-christian-islamic.