Latino Arts for Humanity

The meaning of Day of the dead Celebration is:

The conception of a new life in further on and life as a duality with death. Death as the step to a new life a cycle that never ends.

The indigenous tradition

The cult to dead in the pre-Hispanic towns is the conception of a new life in further on, in the region of the Gods, the life and the food: Ometecuhtli and Omecíhuatl, and of the idea to accompany there to the deceased with the necessary thing for that new life, presided over by Mictlantechuhtli and Mictecacíhuatl, Gods that lived in the Mictlán: place of dead.
The members of those towns before removing a corpse from their house placed much food and flowers to them; after exhumer them they honored during four days, placing offerings to them twice a day.