‘A loving tribute to life itself’: Celebrating the Day of the Dead

ABC News’ John Quiñones travels to Los Angeles for the largest celebration outside of Mexico honoring lost loved ones for Día de los Muertos.
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[@HazelGreen64]

It was a beautiful peaceful day yesterday in my home as it always is. Unfortunately 2 family members were added this year when they passed away a few months ago. The ofrendas bring joy and they're so beautiful when the night comes and the candles light up your home, the cemeteries, and peaceful.

[@lindahernandez6360]

Mexican has a beautiful culture , and we love to share it with the world 🇲🇽❤️

[@skipfluck4299]

Besides the Narco drug culture.

[@KuramiRocket]

@@skipfluck4299 Narco and drug cartels is NOT a culture. Please get out of here with that unecessary comment. It's tiring to always see Mexico and Mexicans being associated with crime and drugs. These things that are also a result of foreign drug consumption and illegal guns entering Mexico.

[@exodo82]

@@skipfluck4299 drugs then you AND you family want It.

[@SaulTPChannel]

I would like to say something about the origin of the icon of the Mexican Day of the Dead: "La Catrina" by the famous Mexican printmaker, cartoon illustrator and lithographer José Guadalupe Posada. The image of a female skeleton is dressed in European outfit from his upper class time. She is offered as a satirical portrait of those Mexican natives who, Posada felt, were aspiring to adopt European aristocratic traditions in the Mexican pre-revolutionary era. So "La Catrina" has become an icon of this Mexican Day of the Dead. I invite you to know more about this author. kzbin.info/www/bejne/qomufYtphrZqr80

[@capacitacionyconsultoriaes6319]

@@skipfluck4299 Narco culture, oh yes, how come drugs are so easy to get in the USA, champions of consumption

[@christysalazar3693]

There's some small towns in Mexico predominantly Mayan where people actually take out the remains of their relatives and clean them, this is seen as an intimate act of love and care for their love ones, they display the bones in wooden boxes with white mats with Mayan embroidery and the name of the person.

[@marcellix]

Absolutely beautiful 💐💀🎉🎃🏵🌸🐔🐓🥀🌹💮🌷🌼

[@rsoubiea]

we celebrate in my town too, parades and alters. I'm so glad the virus has taken aback seat.

[@loisleonard9436]

Lovely job done with love.

[@coolcloud3318]

Such a beautiful tradition. I love it! ❤️🌼💀🪦🌹

[@SaulTPChannel]

I would like to say something about the origin of the icon of the Mexican Day of the Dead: "La Catrina" by the famous Mexican printmaker, cartoon illustrator and lithographer José Guadalupe Posada. The image of a female skeleton is dressed in European outfit from his upper class time. She is offered as a satirical portrait of those Mexican natives who, Posada felt, were aspiring to adopt European aristocratic traditions in the Mexican pre-revolutionary era. So "La Catrina" has become an icon of this Mexican Day of the Dead. I invite you to know more about this author. kzbin.info/www/bejne/qomufYtphrZqr80

[@lauraroberts9066]

Great Story John!!💀🤗🎃🕊

[@th3khiid947]

🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽

[@dee_havok138]

Beautiful! Keep the tradition going! Stay safe🏵

[@hvacmania8323]

Best culture ever

[@sekinahclifton2581]

Amazing!

[@soulassassin0g]

The only thing I don't like is that some people believe this is Mexico's version of Halloween, but it's NOT. It's a celebration of the dead and has absolutely nothing to do with Halloween.

[@hvacmania8323]

F Halloween 🎃🤪

[@grod805]

It's a bit related to Halloween. It's three holidays in one: all saints day eve which is Halloween, then all saints day which is nov 1 then Nov 2 which is day of the dead

[@GG-hj6kg]

Beautiful story!

[@rosalindalay4499]

John .. great story..I have a greater respect for my departed beloved ones..thank you❤️💜🧡💀😺

[@carolmirelez170]

We always make our ofrendas for the loved ones who have passed on.

[@ericktellez7632]

That altar director thought 😍👌

[@odar9729]

I never seen it become mainstream, like this, it’s like this may grow bigger culturally across America and not just Halloween costumes. Proud of those people who gathered to put on an event that may grow bigger each year.

[@CatsInHats-S.CrouchingTiger]

It’s entered into ‘pop culture’ a few years ago. I agree, more of this coming together is what we all need and would be more positive and beneficial. I can’t believe how many have lost loved one these two years and feel like they’re going through it alone. This would help many feel like they belong to a community.

[@nataliemanzo34]

I grew up in a small town in Mexico and we celebrated Dia de los muertos . Americans are just been introduced to our culture .

[@hvacmania8323]

@@nataliemanzo34 american culture is about hate

[@hvacmania8323]

@@Cargoshots your right ✅ sorry bro 👍

[@hvacmania8323]

@@Cargoshots yeah I get told to go to back Mexico etc. But whatever I don't care anymore

[@diatribe1194]

TLAZOCAMATLI...THANK YOU IN NAHUATL...LEVELS OF ALTERS REP CYCLE'S OF LIFE, COLORS TOO, BLACK WOMB, RED BIRTH, GREEN CHILDHOOD, YELLOW TEENAGERS, BLUE ADULTHOOD WISDOM SKY'S THE LIMIT, AND WHITE GRAY HAIR BONES

[@barbikayler40532]

❤

[@SaulTPChannel]

I would like to say something about the origin of the icon of the Mexican Day of the Dead: "La Catrina" by the famous Mexican printmaker, cartoon illustrator and lithographer José Guadalupe Posada. The image of a female skeleton is dressed in European outfit from his upper class time. She is offered as a satirical portrait of those Mexican natives who, Posada felt, were aspiring to adopt European aristocratic traditions in the Mexican pre-revolutionary era. So "La Catrina" has become an icon of this Mexican Day of the Dead. I invite you to know more about this author. kzbin.info/www/bejne/qomufYtphrZqr80

[@withoutartitwouldallfallap3628]

Family and I celebrate day of the dead by living our everyday lives.

[@Zamiiz]

I can’t wait for my cities parade!! So excited

[@chuchuman1163]

Very nice video. I liked it.

[@lindahernandez6360]

Aztec and mayan culture ❤️

[@Guwig]

There are more than Mayans and Aztecs in Mexico (well, in fact there are no Aztecs anymore), Mexico has almost 70 ethnic groups, this is a festival with Mesoamerican roots in general, not just Mayans and Aztecs

[@nycbankers1427]

@@Guwig shut your clown ass up this is a Mexican culture now everyone wants to claim as their own, get your jealous ass out of here this is a Mexican tradition not a latino tradition.

[@Guwig]

@@nycbankers1427 I never said it wasn't Mexican, I'm from Mexico (don't be fooled by the name), When I said that there were almost 70 ethnic groups I was talking about the ethnic groups that exist within Mexico, Mexico is more than Mayans and Aztecs Part of my ancestors would go back to the now extinct Tecuexes people not conquered by Aztecs, and the most famous tradition of the Day of the Dead, that of Pátzcuaro belongs to the Purepecha pueplo that was not conquered by the Aztecs either. I did not deny the Mexican nature of the celebration, I only said that there are more than Aztecs and mayans

[@davebuster5748]

@@nycbankers1427chill out I think he's just referring to the other indigenous groups in Mexico such as Zapotecs and Mixtecs

[@darkgames26]

Para el resto de los latinos, esto es algo serio, no una fiesta rídicula y comercial

[@HazelGreen64]

It's definitely serious and a labor of love. I'm Puerto Rican and Cuban. I started making an ofrenda for my eldest brother when he was murdered in 2017. Ever since then I make big one in my foyer and add more family members. Its emotional but it's also peaceful. In Puerto Rican culture we only light a candle on November 1st for all Souls Day but celebrating Dia de los Muertos brings a lot more meaning and closeness to my deceased loved ones.

[@ericktellez7632]

“The rest”? You are confusing all saints with day of the death, that date is exclusively Mexican since it was observed by Meso american cultures in the center and south of Mexico. The celebration the other latin countries do is all saints day, not day of the dead.

[@ericktellez7632]

@@HazelGreen64 but day of the dead isnt from the Caribbean it literally started in the valley of Mexico close to 3 thousand years ago.

[@HazelGreen64]

@@ericktellez7632 who said it started in the Caribbean?

[@HazelGreen64]

@@ericktellez7632 in the Caribbean All Sauls day is the same thing. We only light a candle and go to church. We just don’t make alters but that doesn’t matter because no one said it stared in the Caribbean. I said I celebrated Dia de los Muertos in my home this way and there’s nothing wrong with that. And Mexico is not the only country that celebrates Dia de los Muertos.

[@dracha6793]

💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖 #LIFE 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖

[@skipfluck4299]

Mexico needs this holiday more then us.

[@capacitacionyconsultoriaes6319]

600 k covid usa, think twice

[@cristycristina705]

I don't think so, Jukies&Homeless land.

[@Howard007]

I already learned about this in the Lizzie McGuire Halloween Episode

[@TheWorldisSoDivided]

All Saints day

[@couchpotato6270]

November 1st it’s to honor children in the family who have passed. November 2nd is to honor the adult family members.

[@jesuswalksonwater7095]

Thats on December or sum idk

[@lisa-we1vn]

hi! im not from mexico, could anyone please explain the meaning/significance of the day of the dead for the mexican families? :)

[@queerios9925]

It's meant to celebrate the life of your loved ones who passed. An altar is made with marigolds (their scent guides their spirits to your altar), a cup of water, a cup of salt, their photos, some food offerings to make the spirits comfortable while they visit

[@newmind4850]

This just Mexican not Latino get it right.

[@outlawbillionairez9780]

Adams family... "We gladly feast on those who would subdue us!! "

[@diatribe1194]

QUETZALCOATL REPS THE SUN AND BRAIN WAVES WISDOM AND ALL ENERGY WAVES....FOR A PERSON IT'S A TITLE LIKE A PhD

[@user-ok1dn9yg9y]

EN DÍA DE MUERTOS LA HUMILDAD PREVALECE EN MÉXICO,POR NUESTRAS RAÍCES COLONIZADORAS (EL CATOLICISMO) GUARDAMOS RESPETO A LA VIRGEN Y SOBRE TODO A LOS QUE HAN FALLECIDO, PORQUE NO TODO SON PELÍCULAS DE TERROR( AUNQUE SON BUENAS JAJA) SIEMPRE HAY QUE RECORDAR A NUESTROS SERES QUERIDOS

[@jesusislas5135]

No roben nuestra historia , cultura y trádicion

[@papagato503]

Too bad I don't celebrate that holiday .😘😧

[@xochitlm7586]

I don’t know how long ago this tradition began but I know for a fact it didn’t start 3000 years ago with the Aztecs because they didn’t exist in the Mexican lands until like 600 years ago.

[@ericktellez7632]

Yeah that was weird lol, it’s actually from the predecessors of the Aztecs, it goes back to the Olmecs and it keep traveling towards the other tribes like the Mayans, the Aztecs or rather Mexicas simply adopted it as well.

[@nataliemanzo34]

@@ericktellez7632 lol omg . Do u realize how dumb u sound. This is a Aztec tradition. My ancestors. Is funny how u foreigners think you know more about us Mexicans lol.

[@ericktellez7632]

@@nataliemanzo34 No its not, the Aztecs weren’t there 3 thousand years ago. Thats the bronze age during the Olmecs

[@nataliemanzo34]

@@ericktellez7632 smh . They don’t know exactly what year it was invented. All they know that is Aztec tradition. And the Aztec empire as we know started in 1400. But they were part of a bigger tribe and got vanish for they’re human sacrifices rituals. You realize that right know they only thing they about the Olmecs is absolutely nothing right. Even the name Olmec was given to them. So you’re claiming to know that they started dia de los muertos lmao. You should go tell the historians this information. Cause right now they don’t anything about them.

[@lindahernandez6360]

It is an aztec tradition , it started with the aztecs. Always hating , mexican culture , aztec and mayan culture you like or not

[@goddess3316]

ayibobo fete gede

[@decordsuccessful1823]

*I am just here to listen to the professionalism from this smart female journalist*

[@mattg.7379]

This comment is meant to address another comment made about Joseph's claimed use of divination. I am aware some will try to justify the practice of divination by making reference to this story. Here is the Biblical explanation. In many cases, discussion of the Bible usually ends up with the Bible being attacked. I have stated that the Bible will be made illegal a short time from now because it offends many. he most likely scenario is that Joseph owned a silver divination cup as did all Egyptian nobility at that time. The context is not clear that Joseph ever used this cup in divination. As part of his plan to test his brothers, he placed something small yet valuable in Benjamin’s grain sack. A silver cup was a perfect object in this case, as it held great financial and spiritual value in Egypt. The reaction of Joseph’s brothers reveals their concern: “They tore their clothes” (Genesis 44:13). Judah also said, “How can we clear ourselves? God has found out the guilt of your servants; behold, we are my lord’s servants” (Genesis 44:16). Joseph’s test worked. His brothers were immediately convicted of their sin against Joseph and attributed their current misfortune to God’s hand of justice. Another consideration is that Joseph had no need to use a cup for divination. God had enabled him to have prophetic dreams himself and to interpret the dreams of others. Joseph found his success in God without the use of props. After revealing his identity to his brothers and forgiving the wrong they had done him, Joseph sent them back to their father with this report: “God has made me lord of all Egypt”(Genesis 45:9).

[@KuramiRocket]

The bible offends people because Christians don't respect those with different beliefs and constantly attack important cultural traditions like Day of the Dead. You would see my culture destroyed. This is how genocide starts.

[@cliojustclio4473]

…how is this relevant to the video at all?

[@sterlingbartonn]

First

[@Howard007]

GOD DAMN IT… if you’re not first you’re last

[@robc7034]

🏆

[@Howard007]

@@robc7034 Way to rub it in Rob

[@leveece]

So sad. Lord Jesus Christ come!

[@couchpotato6270]

It’s not a festival for sadness. It’s a time to honor. November 1st is to honor the memory of children in the family who have passed. November 2nd is to honor the adults. I have an Ofrenda and it has sparkling, colorful Sugar Skulls. The 1st I put out a cake pop for my baby brother. The 2nd, I’m putting out Pan Mexicano and tamales, for my mom and dad. I’ll play some mariachi music, because they loved, loved to dance. 💜 forever.

[@KuramiRocket]

Stop with your Christian hate. This holiday is to remember lost loved ones.

[@leveece]

@@KuramiRocket where does your creator tell you to put on costumes and honor the dead? God never tells us to commemorate dead people. This is an evil day! Lucifer is behind this stupidity. What I am saying is not Christian hate, it is the truth. celebrating the dead is witchcraft and voodoo

[@KuramiRocket]

@@leveece It is Christian hate because you are disrespecting an important cultural tradition that has existed since pre Hispanic times. You are trying to stop cultural practices and beliefs based on YOUR religion. This is how genocide starts.

[@leveece]

@@KuramiRocket so what's more important, cultural traditions or the commandments of God (your creator)? God doesn't want you to participate in paganism. I didn't say you should stop celebrating this pagan tradition, YOUR CREATOR says you should NOT celebrate pagan practices. Don't get mad at me, take it up with the ALMIGHTY GOD.

[@nwolfe1990]

Wasn't the face painting only started because of James Bond?

[@jesuswalksonwater7095]

Not even close

[@ericktellez7632]

No, the festival in Mexico city started after bond.

[@Drea_A]

no

[@GuzmanLaBelica]

No, your thinking about the parade that happens in Mexico city. The face paint has been around for way longer.

[@SaulTPChannel]

@@Drea_A I would like to say something about the origin of the icon of the Mexican Day of the Dead: "La Catrina" by the famous Mexican printmaker, cartoon illustrator and lithographer José Guadalupe Posada. The image of a female skeleton is dressed in European outfit from his upper class time. She is offered as a satirical portrait of those Mexican natives who, Posada felt, were aspiring to adopt European aristocratic traditions in the Mexican pre-revolutionary era. So "La Catrina" has become an icon of this Mexican Day of the Dead. I invite you to know more about this author. kzbin.info/www/bejne/qomufYtphrZqr80

[@mattg.7379]

I would like you to consider the fact that The Day of the Dead is not pleasing to our creator Yahuah. The day of the dead is a stench in the Lord's nostrils. This may come as a surprise to some. If you claim to be a follower of the Lord Jesus Christ, please stop making altars, giving offerings to the dead, praying to deceased saints, ancestors, and Mary. The Lord desires a personal relationship with his children. This includes reading the Bible and praying to the Lord Yahushua and His Father Yahuah. There shall not be found among you anyone who burns his son or his daughter as an offering, anyone who practices divination or tells fortunes or interprets omens, or a sorcerer or a charmer or a medium or a necromancer or one who inquires of the dead, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord. And because of these abominations the Lord your God is driving them out before you. You shall be blameless before the Lord your God, (Deut. 18:10-13) For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, (1 Tim. 2:5 ESV) I know this warning will not be heeded by most. A one world religion is currently being formed. Two excerpts from recent articles demonstrate how this is happening. Pope Francis is currently promoting interfaith dialogue. The stage is now set for the revealing of the antichrist. Many of those who continue in spiritual blindness and who take part in this one world religion ware being conditioned spiritually to take the mark of the beast and give their worship to him at a certain point in time. This coming antichrist will demand worship through his mandatory mark. Similar vaccine pass systems are being put in place throughout the world. Soon, a global crypto currency system will be connected to this vaccine pass system, and a completely new way to buy and sell will exist. "In the heart of Berlin, a new sacred building is coming up with the aim of bringing Christians, Jews and Muslims to a single place of worship. The foundation stone will be laid on May 27 by people of these faiths. Called the House of One or, colloquially, Churmosquagogue, it incorporates a church, a mosque and a synagogue. A meeting space at the center of the building will be open to people of other faiths and world views as well as the secular urban society." indianexpress.com/article/explained/churmosquagogue-berlin-church-mosque-synagogue-7205837/ "The Abrahamic Family House, which encloses a synagogue, a church and a mosque in a single complex, and which is scheduled to be inaugurated in 2022, is 20 percent complete, the Higher Committee of Human Fraternity (HCHF) said in a statement on Tuesday. The Committee, which is also supervising the project , said it is inspired by the 2019 Document on Human Fraternity. Constructed on Saadiyat Island in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, the project is closely followed by Pope Francis and the Grand Imam Ahmed el-Tayeb of al-Azhar, who endorsed the design, the HCHF said." www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-city/news/2021-06/abu-dhabi-abrahamic-family-house-2022-human-fraternity.html

[@KuramiRocket]

Go leave your hate somewhere else colonizer

[@edahiguajardo9015]

I would rather honouring Mictlantecuhtli and Mictecacihuatl

[@ericktellez7632]

Too bad for you I dont give a crap about your lord

[@Drea_A]

no

[@mattg.7379]

@@KuramiRocket Yes, it is typical for a response like this to be highlighted on KZbin at this time in history. You wish to label me a "colonizer" because I point out the evil of these pagan practices many peoples of the earth choose to celebrate. Most people in this world believe in the false Satanic mandate which is: “Do What Thou Wilt Shall be the Whole of the Law.” Yahuah our Lord does not say, "do as thou wilt." This is why He and His followers are hated by many. Christians who follow the Word of God are labeled as "hateful" because they remind people that God hates the sins they commit. The Bible has a scripture about people who hate those who share the Word of God and rebuke evil. "They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly." You call the Word of God "hate" because it judges the wicked acts of men. This is why the Bible will be made illegal not too long from now. People want to do what pleases them, even if it means being disobedient to their creator, Yahuah. Soon, the antichrist will rule the entire world. He will demand worship through a mandatory mark. Most of the peoples of the world have been conditioned to receive him and will gladly take his mark and worship him. Perhaps you will be one of them? Let me remind those who love idolatry, sorcery, necromancy and all kinds of evil that they do have hope if they ask for forgiveness, and allow the Lord Jesus Christ to guide them along the way of righteousness. God hates idols and idolatry, but there is still good news for idolaters. If 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 provides the warning, the next verse provides the hope: “And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.” Members of that church had once been idolaters. They had worshipped false gods, bowed the knee to idols. Yet Paul could say this was in their past. They had learned what all of us must learn: Christ died for idolaters. There is forgiveness for idolaters if only we will worship God the Father through Christ Jesus his Son. Most of the world will continue to believe wrongly that Yahuah the creator is "hateful" because he punishes the wicked for their idolatry, necromancy, murders, sorcery, drunkenness, etc. Those walking in the Spirit of the Lord who belong to Yahushua don't practice these things. Yahuah commands sinners to repent and turn to the Lord Jesus, and stop practicing these actions that are abominable to Him. The Bible says, “If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own." The Lord is full of love and mercy. That is why He has His servants remind people to turn to the Lord Jesus for salvation and stop doing the sinful things he hates.

[@barbthompson2715]

Isn’t HALLOWED THE DAY OF THE DEAD!!!, I guess NOT!!!!

[@oogabooga7882]

the dead still votes

[@jesuswalksonwater7095]

In America yes

[@jesuswalksonwater7095]

And you're still a sad pathetic troll kid🤫

[@oogabooga7882]

@@jesuswalksonwater7095 i'm glad i can bother you. if you're bothering me maybe you'll leave those Altar Boys alone Jesus.

[@jesuswalksonwater7095]

@@oogabooga7882 still a bad troll🥱🥱

[@poncho828]

Trump still lost lol

[@warlordop713]

Let’s go Brandon

[@TrustinginJesus]

I loved this holiday until I knew the real meaning so get and so get right and find Jesus and you say it's innocent but if you look at the real route it's super demonic

[@TrustinginJesus]

I love what you said about

[@jesuswalksonwater7095]

Fake news

[@usedupchapstick]

Celebrating life is never evil. I hope you realize that one day and truly recognize jesus loves and doesn’t judge this celebration as evil. God bless.

[@jesuswalksonwater7095]

@@usedupchapstick He's a false christian lmao, this guy could care less about Jesus or any religion. He's just a troll

[@thepossessor]

@@usedupchapstick How can it be celebrating "life" if it's called day of the DEAD? Lol