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DIA DE LOS MUERTOS
( DAY OF THE DEAD)
This is a Mexican holiday observed throughout Mexico and around Central America. It’s believed that the spirit of the dead visits their families on October 31 and leave on November 2. To coincide with the Roman, Catholic Iridium festival of allhallowwide: All hollow eve, hallow mass and all souls’ traditions.Connected with the holiday include building private altars,
Called “Ofrendas” honoring the deceased using sugar skulls, marigolds and the favorite food and beverages of the departed. And visiting graves with these gifts. Visitors also leave possession of the decreased at the graves.
Aztec
One of the Mexican's most known warriors are the “Aztecs.” The Aztecs are best known for eating chocolate and killing boat loads of people in sacrifice to their heathen gods.
They are known by most as a war-like and barbaric race. This is mostly due to the amount of people they killed. The Aztec people were certain ethnic groups of central Mexico, particularly those groups who spoke and who dominated large parts of Mesoamerica from the 14th to 16th centuries. To the Aztecs themselves, the word "Aztec," was not an endonym for any particular ethnic group. Rather it was an umbrella term used to refer to several ethnic groups, not all of them Nahuatl speaking, that claimed heritage from the mythic place of origin.