Mexico Travel Guía

In many places of Mexico, they venerate the figure of the Holy Death. It is a question of a cult similar to the Christian in the forms, who adores the figure of the death represented by a skeleton with funeral clothings. A tradition that goes back to thousands of years and that with the step of the years it sees as its faithful increase.

In the Warrior's states, Veracruz, Tamaulipas, Campeche, Morel and Chiuaya one can observe this educated individual, who wins followers between the population. Normally this figure is adored by who drug traffickers or other delinquents put in risk its life every day, like killers, but at present there are great the followers who join this particular religion that has neither church nor fixed organization and that spreads over the mouth to mouth. Those who invoke it look in her for answer to the whereabouts of its kidnapped relatives or to recover stolen objects. If you travel up to the border between Mexico and the United States, you will see as in the street positions they sell ninth of the Holy Death, medals and sails.

The image of the Holy Death is represented by a figure andrógena, decked by funeral clothings. In a hand it takes a scythe with which he harvests souls and also a small world. Normally the statues are in red, white and black. The gifts include flowers, meals and enclosed tobacco and marijuana and sails ignite in its honor.

ORIGINS

Its origins go back to the pre-Hispanic epoch, under the name of Mictecancuhtli and Mictecachihuatl, like the god and goddess of the death, and the Mictlan like “the region of the dead persons”, place where there were going to stop those who were dying for natural causes. These gods were deities to which they were entrusting to themselves to the dead persons and also they were invoked by all those who were wishing the power of the death. The death, natural sight as something and that is part of the life, is the extract of this cult. At present, this ideal turns out to be day by day Mexican, as when for example in the burials the funeral covey is accompanied by an orchestra, which celebrates the death.

Death and life unite in this singular cult.