Day of the Dead is taking on Halloween traditions, but the sacred holiday is far more than a 'Mexican Halloween'
Submitted 1 year ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to anthropology@mander.xyz
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WHARRGARBL@beehaw.org 1 year ago
Halloween itself is derived from the efforts of the European church to obliterate Celtic culture by declaring the dates of Samhain as a christian holy time, then incorporating and bastardizing many of the “pagan” (pre-church) practices. Doing the same to Dia de los Muertos is english tradition.