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Page 1 of 3 Among the most important celebrations in the country, those dedicated to the dead are high on the list, and they are:
All Saints Day and the Faithful Dead, as a result of the union between
the two cultural traditions, the indigenous and the Spanish.
In most of the country the festivities coincide
with the end of the agricultural cycle of several products such as maize and la
calabaza.
The Pre-hispanic tradition signals that in the
indigenous ritual followed by the Nahuatl group there were festivities dedicated
to the cult of the dead.
The fiesta dedicated to the child deaths (Miccailhuitontli) which was celebrated
in the ninth month of the Nahuatl calender and was equivalent to August in the
Christian calender.
Meanwhile, the fiesta for the adult dead was
celebrated in the tenth month.
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