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    This document provides information about Día de los Muertos, including how it originated from indigenous traditions in Mexico and was influenced by Spanish Catholic tradition. Key aspects of the celebration are constructing altars and ofrendas to honor deceased loved ones and celebrating with calaveras (skeleton figures) and calacas (comic representations of skeletons). The holiday blends pre-Hispanic rituals and Catholic traditions related to All Saints Day and All Souls Day.

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    This document provides information about Día de los Muertos, including how it originated from indigenous traditions in Mexico and was influenced by Spanish Catholic tradition. Key aspects of the celebration are constructing altars and ofrendas to honor deceased loved ones and celebrating with calaveras (skeleton figures) and calacas (comic representations of skeletons). The holiday blends pre-Hispanic rituals and Catholic traditions related to All Saints Day and All Souls Day.

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    Día de Los Muertos

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    Evelyn Gonzalez
    This document provides information about Día de los Muertos, including how it originated from indigenous traditions in Mexico and was influenced by Spanish Catholic tradition. Key aspects of the celebration are constructing altars and ofrendas to honor deceased loved ones and celebrating with calaveras (skeleton figures) and calacas (comic representations of skeletons). The holiday blends pre-Hispanic rituals and Catholic traditions related to All Saints Day and All Souls Day.

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    Why do we celebrate…?
    How do we celebrate...?
    Storytelling
    Altares y ofrendas
    Calaveras y calacas
    Knowledge checkpoint
    José Guadalupe
    Posada
    History
    ● Tenochtitlan
    was the
    capital of the
    Aztec empire.
    ● Surrounded
    by water

    ● Montezuma
    Emperor of
    the Aztec
    Empire
    Indigenous History
    Mictecacihuatl
    The lady of the dead

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    Mictecacihuatl
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    Knowledge check point
    Spanish Catholic Tradition
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    Colonization of Mesoamerica
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    Colonization of Mesoamerica
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    Día de los muertos
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    Knowledge check point
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    Knowledge check point
    Symbolism
    Monarch Butterflies and Hummingbirds
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    Monarch Butterflies and Hummingbirds
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    Monarch Butterflies
    el colibrí

    Hummingbird
    Hummingbird Facts
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    Hummingbird Facts
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    Huitzilopochtli
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    Quetzalcoatl with a hummingbird
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