Day of the Dead - Ignorance of those who celebrate. 999 out of 1000 people who celebrate it do not know the subject.

Day of the Dead - Ignorance of those who celebrate. 999 out of 1000 people who celebrate it do not know the subject.

Personally it does not bother me or dislike me, the day of the dead, in such cases there is to know about:

What bothers me is the ignorance of the people who celebrate the Day of the Dead.

In 1800 B.C. and the cult of death was celebrated in Mexico, as reflected in the Aztec calendar is located in the Museum of Anthropology. In Mesoamerica were not Catholic at the time so it has nothing to do with what is now celebrated, with approval by the Catholic Church. This mixture came when the Spanish arrived in America.

The dead came to his death according various havens not for what they did in life:

The Tlalocan: paradise of the rain god Tlaloc. There the children sacrificed to the god arrive, among others.
The Omeyocan: paradise of sun, chaired by the war god Huitzilopochtli. Here come the captives were sacrificed, and others.
Mictlan: destined to die a natural death. inhabited by Mictlantecuhtli and Mictecacíhuatl, Mr. and Mrs. Death. It was a very dark room with no windows, which was no longer possible to leave.
The Chichihuacuauhco: dead children have a tree whose branches dripping milk to feed themselves.

Prehispanic burials were accompanied by offerings containing two types of objects: those who, in life, had been used by the dead, and you might need in their passage to the underworld.
"If the soul is thought, conscience, and will help us something we do not have to touch the dead body?"

If you ask this to people who want it celebrates no one knows it's not traditionally celebrate with them knowledge and if you mention that you celebrate but do not respect him o_O offended.

I come to the conclusion that people are always ignorant intolerant people (on the issue that both advocate) in my life I have only found a few people who can hold talks with exchange of opinions without actually attacks. Enrique Krause. And my closest friends. From there on out is puny!

The strangest thing is that in the same time celebrating the Druids, the Romans, the Mexica, Egyptians, Aztecs, and several more, death cults!

The question is who taught them this or put in agreement? There is no other than Lucifer (the devil) and his demons answer. It's too funny how people think about death but not Satan believes in the afterlife but does not believe in God.

And this is because it has a veil on her mind not to believe in God.

The Druids were doing the sacrifices for Teutates, Esus and Taranis deities were made, respectively, by drowning, hanging and the fire. (See: Tripartite Death).

The Romans placed no graves in a quiet and lonely, but the banks of the roads off the cities, where passersby could contemplate and admire instead. It is also believed that the spirits of the dead were hungry and thirsty and therefore had to provide food and drink. In the tomb were placed with regular offerings of eggs, beans, lentils and wine. Sometimes holes in the tombs were opened to pour wine inside. Wine was offered because it was a suitable substitute for blood, the favorite drink of the dead. However, during the funeral and on special occasions animals were sacrificed and blood sacrifice was made.

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The idea of hell or just a place destined to be inhabited by the dead is something that has been present in the religion and mythology of many cultures since the beginning of civilization. Within this type of belief have arisen multiple deities associated with death, such as you see below.
Greek Mythology

Hades
God Hades born Cronus and the goddess Rhea, with the brothers Poseidon, Hera, Zeus, Hestia and Demeter. Initially Hades was not the god of the dead; but after the victory he and his brothers Zeus and Poseidon on Titan, the universe was divided as follows: Zeus got the sky, thus becoming the God of Olympus; Poseidon took the sea, becoming the Lord of the Oceans; and Hades, meanwhile, stayed with the underworld, becoming the Lord of the Underworld. Following that the Underworld was also called "Hades", receiving the same name as their ruler.
Hades has been described as a ruthless master who rules over the dead who did not have the grounds to go to the Champs Elysees. In his government, Hades is helped by a multitude of things, such as the three-headed dog Cerberus or the boatman Charon; Additional Queen Persephone beside him (his niece, the daughter of Zeus and Demeter), who before his wife was abducted by him while picking flowers and playing with their peers in the fields of Sicily ...
Unlike those who enjoy peace in the Champs Elysees, those in Hades do not have the option of returning to the world. Together few deaths (Hercules and Theseus did, but they were both heroes) have escaped from Hades once have dared set foot on it.
Hades ruled from his ebony throne in the midst of a great palace. They myths Hades has a helmet of invisibility that gave him the Cyclops that his car is dark, imposing and throw four strong and black horses.
As symbols, these are basically the narcissus and cypress.
Thanatos
Thanatos is the personification of non-violent death, violent death being exerted by the Keres (hideous female spirits that prowled the battlefields looking wounded and dying). Being a symbolic being, Thanatos had (in the mythology of Homer and Hesiod) by mother Nyx (Night) and brother to Hypnos (The Dream), who is said, trying to imitate his older brother, plunged into unconsciousness of sleep to mortals who touch him because he supposedly every night and Thanatos discuss which of the two will each man ...
The appearance of Thanatos often varies, having been represented in the following ways: 1) a winged child, 2) Eros with crossed legs and the inverted torch, 3) a child asleep in the arms of Nyx, 4) a young man carrying a butterfly (representing the soul) or a wreath of poppies (associated with the god and his brother by his hypnagogic properties), 5) a young winged sword sheathed on his belt, 6) a man or a young man dressed in black and with a sword.
Macaria

The Macaria is commonly known is the daughter of Heracles, but another Macaria mentioned in the Suda (Byzantine Encyclopedia of large s. X). The latter Macaria daughter of Hades (the mother is not mentioned) and appears as a personification of the blessed death. Even one source puts it as a particularly pious counterpart God Thanatos.
Roman .Mitología

Dis Pater and Pluto
Dis Pater and Pluto are actually the same being. Originally Dis Pater ("Rich Dad" in Latin) was a chthonic god of wealth, fertility, agriculture and subsurface minerals; however, because the Greeks had nicknames for Hades linked to the wealth associated with the metals of the underworld or underworld, where in Roman mythology (which takes its gods in Greek mythology) Pluto took the place of Hades, sometimes it (Pluto) was called as "Dis Pater" or simply "Dis" because previously the god Dis Pater had been absorbed into the identity of Pluto.
Pluto was essentially the same as Hades was born Saturn (equivalent of Cronus) and Ops (Rhea equivalent), had kidnapped his wife Proserpina (Persephone equivalent) and lived in Tartarus (the underworld), where he received and judged the souls of those who had not managed to go to Elysium.

The fundamental difference with Hades was that, besides being the god of the underworld, Pluto was also the god of the treasures of the earth, treat these crops and such goods or metals, gemstones and other such things.
The appearance of Pluto was sometimes a man's beard and long, hard-faced and grim, black wand and magic helmet covered with skin. Sometimes she was depicted on a throne of ebony, which is portrayed with four black horses or Cerberus, the three-headed dog.
Mors
Mors in Roman mythology was the personification of Death Thanatos equivalent in Greek mythology. Mors was associated with Mars, the Roman god of war; Pluto, the god of the underworld; and the Orc or Orcus, a somewhat ambiguous figure who used to represent a demon punishing broken oaths but also at the same Pluto ...

In a combat history Mors Hercules to save the wife of a friend, while in other stories Mors appears as Pluto's servant in charge of escorting souls to the gate of the underworld.
Note:
The Fates, with the same features exist under the name of "Fates" in Greek mythology, not to be considered as goddesses of death but as personifications goddesses of fate or Wyrd. They were in charge of controlling the metaphorical thread of life of mortals and immortals (immortality of the Greek gods was relative: they could not be killed by mortal but other gods), even controlling thread Jupiter. There were three Fates: Nona (Clotho in Greek mythology), who spun the thread from the spinning wheel to use; Tenth (Lachesis for the Greeks), which mediates the thread with a stick; and Morta (Atropos to the Greeks), who cut the thread determine when and how someone died.
Babylonian .Mitología

Nergal and Ereshkigal
Ereshkigal was the daughter of the god Anu (king of the gods and god of the heavens) and sister of Ishtar (goddess of love, sex, fertility, life and war). She lived happily in heaven until the great dragon Kur abducted her and took her to the underworld, the place which became queen, thus becoming the goddess of the underworld or the dead.
Initially she reigned alone until Nergal met and joined him on the fact that there are different versions. One of those versions that:
Habíase organized a banquet of the gods in heaven and Anu, Ereshkigal considering that his daughter was in the Underworld, the messenger sent to transmit Kakka Ereshkigal news of feast and so it may come up for you.
Kakka then crossed the seven gates of hell to get to the throne of Ereshkigal. After hearing the message of Anu, Ereshkigal sent his messenger and son (had with Enlil, father of Nergal ...) Namtar to heaven. However, once Namtar reached heaven, Nergal seriously offended him, so his uncle, the wise god Ea (creator of humanity), Nergal sent his nephew to hell so that he apologize to Ereshkigal.
In the underworld, Nergal and Ereshkigal is passionate about each other and whoring for seven whole days, after which Nergal, and satisfied, secretly escaped the bed to return to heaven. Realizing that, Ereshkigal despaired and became enraged, threatening the very Anu to send to the people of his kingdom to Earth until the number of deaths exceeded that of living unless Nergal regresase with her and her lover outside forever ...
Upon learning of the threat, Nergal was furious and organized a military expedition (say 14 demons) to overthrow Ereshkigal. Nergal then lowered his troops, breaking each of the seven gates to reach the throne of Ereshkigal. There, Nergal took her by the hair and lifted, but Ereshkigal confessed his love, he proposed to her and offered to share with him the government of the underworld. Seeing the attitude of Ereshkigal, Nergal was moved, released her, cried and gladly accepted the offer of the goddess. Since then both together they ruled the world of the dead.
As for some of the individual characters Nergal (born of the rape of Ninlill hands of Enlil), it is said to be the sober appearance of the sun god Utu, representing the noon and the summer solstice, a time of drought, destruction, famine and death ... Concordantly with that Nergal is not only a god of the dead and the underworld but a god of plagues, pestilence, destruction and war. That is why it is often represented as a figure with a human body carrying a sword and / or a scepter, which has two lion heads and legs wrapped in a type of shroud.
Egyptian .Mitología

Anubis
Sometimes depicted as a dog accompanying Isis, Anubis usually is portrayed as a man with black jackal head (hence his priests wore masks jackal) and holds a royal scepter. This reflects the fact that the jackal, for their habit of digging up graves for food, was associated with death in Egyptian imagery. But that logic representational the black also plays an important role, since the Egyptians this color represents the putrefaction of bodies, darkness and death, but in turn it is the color of the fertile land and one of the colors used to represent the resurrection. As for why it is sometimes depicted as a dog, that is caused by the fact that the dog is an animal able to see both in daylight and in the darkness of night, which is able to represent duality death / resurrection of Anubis own. Finally, much less frequently (Heliopolis is an example) Anubis was painted like a snake, an animal that was at once evil and protector in the Egyptian symbology.

Formerly Anubis was the great ruler of Duat, the Egyptian world of the dead. However, after being killed by Seth and his minions, Osiris was resurrected by Isis, but could not return to the world of the living, so they stayed in the world of the dead and to be more important than Anubis, became be the first command in the underworld, handling thereafter to judge the dead. Thus Anubis becomes the right hand of Osiris, the executor of his judgments and responsible for the following tasks: 1) Initially embalming and care for the bodies of the pharaohs, and he had received the title of "embalming of the gods "after helping Isis in embalming of Osiris; more later, with the evolution of religious beliefs, Anubis became the "god of mummification," and commissioned to accompany the deceased (in general and not just pharaohs) in court. 2) Impose hands to remove the dead heart, put a scarab amulet heart in place and take to heart the judgment to be heavy. 3) Monitor with Horus balance when hearts are weighed during the Judgment of Osiris. 4) Protect the embalmers priests. 5) According to some texts, guide the dead in the afterlife with the moonlight. 5) Meet the pleas of protection of the dead. 6) In the "Late Period" assist in meeting solicitasen love spells to your advantage to that.
Osiris
Osiris is an Egyptian god of fertility, regeneration of the Nile, agriculture and vegetation. But, especially after the myth of his death and resurrection, Osiris became god of death, resurrection, and judgment on the souls of the departed. For these reasons the myth above is the cornerstone of Egyptian eschatology and the birth of the moral role of the Egyptian religion, since it is the ideas of good (personified in Osiris), evil (personified by Seth) where they enter, the resurrection of the deity and his triumph over evil and death, and the establishment of that divinity as an instance of judgment in relation to the fate of man after death.
Count the myth that was kind and wise king Osiris (in mythology, not reality) that Egypt civilized men teaching agriculture, establishing just laws and making them worship the gods, creating a religion. All this without resorting to force of oppression.

After finishing their work, Osiris left to impart his teachings to other countries, leaving Isis as ruler of Egypt. However, when Osiris returned, his jealous brother Seth and his 72 companions locked Osiris in a chest shape, then throwing it into the Nile to drown. Fortunately Isis searched and found the chest, bringing him back, but did not help much as Seth found the chest, took the body of Osiris and cut him to pieces and scattered throughout Egypt ...
Without giving up, Isis reassembled the body and restored life to Osiris, taking with him a son by magic, and he had found all his pieces except his penis. That son was Horus, who later avenged the death of his father, overthrowing Seth and seizing control of Egypt. Osiris, despite having risen, he could not return to the living world and went to the underworld, becoming the judge of souls and the ruler of the afterlife. That is why, in the religious interpretation of the myth, the living Pharaoh (symbolically) and identified with Horus, dying, with Osiris (also symbolically), under whose form is worshiped. Although and an even more general level, Osiris is the symbol of immortality and resurrection, and that is why at a certain stage of ancient Egypt all died transformed into Osiris.
Finally, generally is represented mummified Osiris with green skin, a staff, a whip or a scepter and a crown; or Osiris appears in animal form, like a crocodile, a big fish, a dog, a heron or a black bull called the "Bull of the West," he expresses his title reign in the underworld as the West is Egyptian symbol beyond.
Aztec .Mitología

mictlantecuhtli
Mictlantecuhtli, whose name means "Lord of Mictlan" for the Aztecs was the chief god of the dead and the ruler of Mictlan, the lowest area of the nine that made the Aztec underworld.
The ways in which it is represented Mictlantecuhtli were always gruesome: blood covered skeleton or a human figure with skull head and large teeth, sometimes with eyeballs in their sockets. When it became a hit, it was decorated with owl feathers and paper banners, arms used to appear aggressive gesture (to suggest a willingness to destroy those who come into your presence) and sometimes they placed sandals to indicate their senior . Although the worst of all was the necklace of human eyes that matched her ear bone, or symbolic way certain codices was represented with the huge jaw open to receive their jaws to drop during the course of the day star ...

The worship of this god was so horrendous as it looks: it, participants sacrificed victims and ate the flesh of those slaughtered in the temple grounds.
The kingdom of Mictlantecuhtli (Mictlan) they were the souls of those who died of any other forms of water-related, death in combat in childbirth or sacrificial death. But to get there they must travel the long and stormy "road of death", descending from the first to the ninth level, thereby either not passed the tests and disappeared or were persevered and perpetual rest (not happiness) Mictlan, commonly portrayed as rather bleak though, according to Sahagun (a text of great importance), after his journey from east to west the sun god (the sun) illuminated the region of the dead, bringing dawn for residents the underworld.
Mictecacihuatl
The wife was Mictecacihuatl Mictlantecuhtli, who ruled with him Mictlan, inhabiting a sinister house without windows. Mictecacihuatl was associated with spiders, owls and bats, all things associated with aspects of the underworld as underground and dark.
The myth that Mictecacihuatl sacrificed baby, going through it to become the Lady of the Dead says. Likewise, the Aztecs believed that she watched the bones of the dead and funeral presided festivals belief is that partially survived in the popular folklore of certain areas of Mexico where he still is associated to such traditions.
The appearance is similar to Mictecacihuatl her husband, being usually depicted with an emaciated body, a skull head and an open jaw to devour the stars fall throughout the day.
Maya .Mitología

Yum Kimil
Also known as Ah Puch, Kimil Yum is the main Mayan god of death and holds the title of "Master of Death". He is the King of Xibalba, or the last of the nine levels of Xibalba. The reason for this uncertainty is the fact that "Yum Kimil" and "Ah Puch" are names that have been associated with different identities in different versions of Maya myth has been given to the personification of death. So many sources makes clear the difficulty of determining who it is or Yum Kimil Ah Puch, the difficulty that Dr. Martha Najera Ilia Coronado (researcher at the Center for Maya Studies, UNAM) said it well in his article from Myth to Ritual; These were his words: << The principal gods of death are depicted as anthropomorphic beings, which is due to its existence in the Maya pantheon responds to the main concerns of the people for his own death, which derive beliefs on the fate of other living beings. Of these related death and the underworld gods, there is one that is death itself and receives several names in colonial Yucatecan colonial sources: Ah Puch "Fleshing" Kisin, "The Flatulent" Hun Ahau "One Lord" Yum Kimil "Lord of Death"; among the Quiche: Hun Came "One Death" and Came Vucub "Seven Death." This god is in the codices as a skull image, a skeleton or a human corpse rotting >>
In the aforementioned article, Dr. Martha also claims that the Mayan gods of the underworld symbolize various energies of death, complement the vital forces of the cosmos by their nature and where they live (opposite and complementary to heaven), and great theater has its influence on Earth, where along with the heavenly forces secure the dialectical destruction-creation / life-death. In this framework, Yum Kimil is associated with night, diseases and, within the underworld, particularly the lower strata of the nine. Finally, some little known Dr. Martha is clear that the Mayan god of death is depicted with vital features (eyes wide open, hands in certain position, etc) that the Maya, like other ancient civilizations to animistic nature, death is not seen as nothingness, emptiness or the mere absence of life is seen as an active force, as an energy plays an antagonistic role to life in the cosmos, opposing it in a ratio of dialectical complementarity needed for balance of the cosmic whole.

Now what are the popular traditions, believed to Yum Kimil prowling around the homes of the sick and lead to expensive hunt Xibalba. Their presence in these cases was noticeable through the sound of bells. Once the fearsome God was near, all I could do was cry or mourn so overwhelmingly confusing Yum Kimil into thinking he was in Xibalba, after which he passed by.
Celtic .Mitología

Donn the Dark
A Donn is known as Donn Firineach ("Donn of Truth") and as the "King of the Fairies Donn," but also as "Donn the Dark", a god of death. There are thus three mythological characters Donn. The first two are based on the myth of the mountain Donn, from which he and his assistants (fairies) warn clouds gather infallibly and always true that a particular weather event is coming. Different case is that of Donn the Dark, originated from an ancient epic.
Skimping details, the story goes that Donn was the military leader of the Milesians to Ireland during the invasion made to avenge the death of Patriarch Mil. It so happened that the Milesians were (near the Irish coast) to some island and the Irish had given three options: submit, do battle, or spending nine days on the island and go later. Given that and based on the judgment of Amirgin, the resolution was to be leaving after nine days but returned later to land and invade harder. However when returning a temporary broke out and the ship Donn sank due to strong winds that came and separated from the rest of the fleet immediately after Donn said, "I will put under the blade of swords and spears Warriors who are on earth now, but let me disembark "

Thus Donn and his crew perished near Dumhacha islet, islet on which were subsequently buried. Therefore, over time the island was known as "The House of Donn". From this legend-myth that Donn had settled on the rocky island emerged, warning that nobody would come to the other world without going through your home, which he offered as a temporary resting place for all those who died. As seen, the myth of a symbolic interpretation of actual history, as the island has a hand Donn the Irish coast and across the open sea, representing one thing the world-destiny of souls and the other the world of the living.
Morrigan
Morrigan is the Celtic goddess of death, war and destruction, but also of love, sex and fertility. She is certainly a complex goddess because in it are the Badb, Macha and Nemain goddesses, usually interpreted as aspects of Morrigan, a goddess who is a mother, daughter and lover, or maiden, mother and widow.
Morrigan's appearance varies and is believed to have the ability to change shape. However, based on the various aspects of its nature it is often represented as a beautiful woman or an old hag, as a warrior woman full military attire or as a crow or a huge raven, since according to mythical stories Morrigan on the battlefield like a giant crow, although sometimes it does in the manner of an icy wind that follows bloodshed.

Morrigan is used to invoke the midst of battle playing war horns, which affords protection, consisting not in a direct attack on the enemy, but this influence (tending to weaken and fail to make the opponent) at a time key battle. And, despite its complexity, Morrigan was primarily a goddess of war and death, so the skulls of those killed in battle were called "acorns Morrigan"