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Metepec, Mexico – 1 November 2024
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1. Various aerials of lit candles at cemetery ++MUTE++
2. People sitting by graves with candles
3. Women with umbrella sitting by grave
4. Close of candles and flowers on grave
5. Woman looking on
6. Person lighting candle
7. Guadalupe Sánchez Juárez setting up offering in honor of loved ones
8. Close of candle and orange marigolds next to grave plaque
9. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Guadalupe Sánchez Juárez, homemaker:
"We feel very good that she left it (Day of the Dead tradition) to us, but at the same time it is very sad because my mother has already passed away and we follow her tradition, but these days are sad."
10. Mariachis playing by graves
11. Close of phone recording mariachis
12. Mariachis performing
13. People next to candle offerings
14. People setting up offering
15. Various of man with hat sitting by grave
16. Cross made of orange marigolds
17. Pot over fire; flowers in background
18. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Fernando Salinas, graphic designer:
"The idea of the vigil is to place the candles (by the graves) and stay awake all night until the wax is consumed."
19. Offerings on graves
20. People placing cardboard of loved one next to grave
21. Close of candles and flowers
22. Woman placing flowers on grave
23. Woman with painted face
24. Luis Ángel Terrón standing by grandmother’s grave
25. Close of candles and orange marigolds
26. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Luis Ángel Terrón, economics student:
"It is a beautiful tradition because they (dead loved ones) never really leave. It really makes us feel closer to them and makes us value much more the people who are still alive and makes us remember special moments with those relatives who are no longer with us but who live here in our hearts."
27. Various of cemetery and graves
STORYLINE:
Mexicans celebrated the Day of the Dead, a time to honor deceased relatives and loved ones, with vigils and homemade altars.
Friday night through Saturday morning, families brought a variety of offerings to encourage the deceased to return home and hear the prayers of their loved ones.
Day of the Dead begins Oct. 31, to remember those humans who died in accidents; it continues Nov. 1 to mark those who died in childhood and then Nov. 2 to those who died as adults.
Observances include entire families cleaning and decorating graves, which are covered with orange marigolds.
At both cemeteries and at home altars, relatives light candles, put out offerings of the favorite foods and beverages of their deceased relatives.
They do so to reconnect with their dead just as their ancestors have done for centuries.
For many more in small communities like Metepec, on the fringes of Mexico City, it is also about preserving the core of their traditions as celebrations in bigger hubs have increasingly been marked by mass tourism.
Day of the Dead dates back to ancient Indigenous civilizations.
No one knows when the first observance took place, but it is rooted in agriculture-related beliefs from Mexico’s pre-Hispanic era.
When Spanish colonizers arrived, and began forcing Catholicism upon Indigenous communities, they would mix Indigenous traditions with Catholic holidays.
AP Video shot by Martín Silva Rey
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