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Day of the Dead in Mexico

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“I don’t want God to forgive me, I want God to help me.”

- During a confession on a weird cops movie.

In Aztec mythology, Mictlantecuhtli (“lord of Mictlan”) was the skeletal god of death who ruled over Mictlan, the underworld, with his wife, Mictlancihuatl.

Mictlantecuhtli was depicted as a blood-spattered skeleton or a person wearing a toothy skull. His headdress was shown decorated with owl feathers and paper banners, and he wore a necklace of human eyeballs. He was not the only Aztec god to be depicted in this fashion, as numerous other deities had skulls for heads or else wore clothings or decorations that incorporated bones and skulls. Although such imagery might seem morbid today, in the Aztec world skeletal imagery was a symbol of fertility, health and abundance, alluding to the close symbolic links between death and life.

In Aztec mythology, Mictecacihuatl is the Queen of Mictlan, the underworld, ruling over the afterlife with her husband, Mictlantecuhtli.

Mictecacihuatl’s role is to keep watch over the bones of the dead. She presided over the ancient festivals of the dead, which evolved from Aztec traditions into the modern Day of the Dead after synthesis with Spanish cultural traditions. She is said now to preside over the contemporary festival as well.

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