History Of Day Of The Dead Explained (Dia De Los Muertos)

Today we finally tackle the deep and ancient history of the day of the dead and why it's so important
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[@darkrobin]

Got any suggestions on what to talk about next? Feel free to let us know!

[@chanecialifecoach3070]

Honor your ancestors. They paved the path you currently walk. No matter if it's been easy or hard know the harder the fight, the more ancestors you have protecting you!

[@YautjaSpacePirate]

🙏

[@ca_maximum385]

No💀

[@gregrobinette8620]

​@@ca_maximum385 dafuq you mean "no"??

[@a.barrett1412]

Day of the dead has been hugley healing for me!!

[@YautjaSpacePirate]

I'm not Mexican but I like to celebrate Day of the Dead anyways. I like to remember my loved ones this way.

[@darkrobin]

I'm so glad!

[@user-cx6lq8mt5g]

Interestingly, in Japan we also have a day very similar to dios de los muertos known as “Obon” where the spirits of our ancestors and loved ones visit our realm to see us, as we go to their graves to clean and leave gifts for them. We also put up their pictures and candles. When my Japanese mom first watched Coco, she was surprised and amused to see how Mexico does the same thing.

[@lovely__shadow9305]

In my college psychology class, we watched. My professor said that yours is the best.

[@darkrobin]

Aww thanks I appreciate it!

[@MarS-dc2qx]

We celebrate people’s life’s, these days are very colorful and bright

[@spoiledsandwich7989]

I almost got kicked out when I was little for messing with those pop up spiders 😂

[@discoqueenmom]

Im not latino but I m hosting a day of the dead party, cause I love everything about it. Thanks for your video 😁👍

[@matthewmartinez3774]

Feliz!!!

[@teresafernandez9849]

No, it's also bout duty to ur gone loved ones. It's not Holoween. If u don't take out photo of loved ones, sing their favorite songs, dance to their music, mention their names, tell their stories, eat ur favorite family food, most important, place flowers where they rest. If u don't do the duty to ur ancestors, don't party! Don't make a mockery out of it! That is our greatest fear, the USA ppl making it a clown show!! Yes, you celebrate, but duty to ur ancestors first and foremost!

[@J0SHUAKANE]

@@teresafernandez9849 halloween has been made into a mockery, but its better than people not celebrating it at all🤷‍♂️

[@finalflowerchild]

Are you going to sacrifice a ----- too.

[@misaeldoesanimation4408]

As long as people respect it, everyone is allowed to do it, as long as it comes from a place of respect and love. At least that's my views as a native born Mexican

[@joannajamerson35]

This is so beautiful I learned a few new things and I love it

[@sharonkaysnowton]

Great video- Thank you for sharing it.

[@gaayisau131]

Love to hear your sound, it's quite calming though sometimes a little bit fast lol

[@darkrobin]

Thats so nice of you to say, I grew up with selective mutism and wasnt as used to speaking & reading scripts when I first started, although I do feel like I'll get better at it with time

[@germzdesantaana3831]

Great video , hermano 🖤💀🖤

[@TheWhiteWhistle]

Was showed this in Spanish class. This is only the second time I’ve ever revisited a video after class. Great content! Oh and side note, she had to slow this down by half since you talk so fast so this video is basically going super speed!

[@darkrobin]

Wow that's so cool that you did that! I'm honored, And also, yeah I do tend to read the script pretty fast Im trying to improve on that 😳

[@TheWhiteWhistle]

@@darkrobin you don’t have to improve on anything! You speaking fast makes it unique!

[@almarodriguez6788]

Same with me. Kids cannot listen to fast so I had to pause. Good video though.

[@Emmanuelight]

Very well explained, great video. Keep up the good work, consafos. ✊🏽

[@the_resourceful]

Thanks! I love the celebration as well! ❤💚💜💙🖤

[@edyfromthe3]

Awesome video 👌🏽

[@MarS-dc2qx]

The butterflies go to Michoacán Mexico end of October and early November is when they arrive there from Canada and Iowa

[@Jesusisgamingstuff]

This video was shown in my art class lol epic vedos you got

[@MirandaQUEENofFISHROCK]

Awesome video!!! Looking forward to celebrating my favorite holiday in Mexico city 2023 💀🧡💀🧡💀🧡

[@darkrobin]

I've been wanting to do the same! Hopefully I'll get there soon!

[@bstraatman9604]

Muchas Gracias Your information is correct 👍

[@brittanyswain8797]

It helps me learn about day of the dead

[@hapitoons1515]

Love this channel so far, I really like how it focuses alot on Mesoamerica

[@SantiagoHMex]

i saw this un my language art class

[@sarahsunshine8455]

❤ I loved your video! I know quite a bit about the day of the dead, but it had a lot of facts in there that I did not know so thank you. I celebrate this day too. As well as my husband. However, we are not Chicano. We celebrate it for roots coming from a different religious background. Have a Great Day of The Dead 💀 Holiday ❣️😊

[@kellypawlusiak812]

I love day of the dead known as Dia de los Martos

[@oscararzateoficial]

Omg Metepec came out my magical town 😻💞

[@cursed3568]

I know a bit of spanish, pienso que tu es muy fresco

[@MirandaQUEENofFISHROCK]

@ Cursed Pienso que tu es muy fresco también

[@Solaris_Paradox]

What about the Book of Life by Jorge Gutierrez?

[@darkrobin]

I love book of life and anything Jorge Gutierrez makes, it's such a fun movie and I talk about it in my Maya and the three video

[@samsstreams9035]

what was your fav holoween cosstume.

[@eternal1668]

I love the information. Im mexican 🔥

[@darkrobin]

Thanks Im so glad!

[@sandravalls1]

Love this video. One thing though, the Spaniards didn't 'conquer' . Conquest? …that word…Let’s call it what it is. It was an invasion. It was a war. It was colonization. That word conquest implies an extermination of a culture over another and that's not what happened. The Nahuat/Aztecs were not erased. :)

[@lacalcetaderayas4505]

🤣thats a really good joke, actualy they were, because what we have now its only Interpretations of the Mexica culture, what you call Aztecs, in Mexico, used to exist many other cultures whit miths and riths who resemble, and those who have the similar cosmogonia

[@williamvasquez1677]

That's what conquer means, hon

[@samsstreams9035]

what is your fav holowing movey

[@darkrobin]

Definitely nightmare before Christmas, almost anything From Tim burton really

[@leonelherrera4413]

Started celebrating

[@felipeperez4941]

My birth day is day of the dead November 2

[@darkrobin]

That's so cool! Happy birthday!

[@felipeperez4941]

@@darkrobin thank you!!!

[@axgcat]

if you like to share other cultures, remember this phrase, No somos "Latinx."

[@williamvasquez1677]

Amen!

[@rawr999x]

My bday the last day nov 2 :)

[@martialscientist5966]

Dead of the dead is an African day as well.

[@joannajamerson35]

I celebrate ❤🎉

[@s90141]

❤

[@user-sb8sw5sd4p]

You should stop by "history channel" and National geographic, and give them a little history lesson, neither one could do a decent job in their "research" on this subject 👍🏼✌🏼

[@lacalcetaderayas4505]

he is not that accuraded, he has that weir americanized way to tell, that only distort information, now we get gringos correcting and telling us Mexicans how this tradition survive all this time

[@user-sb8sw5sd4p]

@@lacalcetaderayas4505 still, that's on the research, which this channel at least bothered to do, (unlike the others mentioned) the "life experience", the mystical, the esoteric, all these are too subjective to document, this is more academic, even us in this culture, differ from those with other backgrounds, geographic locations, etc so subtly that only we can spot the details (and do) it didn't feel like the video is giving a version, but rather an informative general perspective, only in practice the details and flavors become apparent, the subject is too heavy. The movie "Coco" moved around and above the ritual, landing here and there, just to keep the story going, that's a version of the ritual, this, a list of some of the basic parts of the ritual, all over México, I counted with one hand the channels in this category; while some tried to express their personal experience, some were definitely aimed to misinform, denigrate, appropriate or skew opinion, not this site though. ✌🏼

[@De-Boo-Tiny]

mi tatara tatara tatara tatara abuela

[@tourniqut]

It's "dia de muertos" in spanish, "dia de los muertos" sounds like a zombie movie

[@darkrobin]

Now that you mention it, it kinda does doesn't it

[@Jamesdiaz07]

@@darkrobin was "doesn't" a typo?

[@MarS-dc2qx]

Day of the dead is not Mexican Halloween

[@puredew8833]

This information is incorrect. Dia de los Muertos is a mesoamerican holiday. And we are not aztecas. Azteca is a colonizers term. We are Mexica!!

[@darkrobin]

You're right, Mesoamerica is full of many diverse cultures and civilizations, and the names they use should be respected. I should have made those distinctions clear in the video. Every day I learn more and more so thank you for clearing that up, I'll be sure to keep that in mind for next time

[@christianpalmer225]

You had a like until you said Latinx. Blech.

[@Dick_thickems]

You gonna call it latinx but not chicanx? No mames we’re Latinos.

[@siyaslang9463]

first en last XD

[@xm26legend31]

Do not use the latinx word.....

[@covenawhite4855]

This is based off Christian All Souls Day. Mixed with indigenous tradition

[@lacalcetaderayas4505]

No, this was a precolombin tradition, after the spanish concuest the prohibit alot of the miths and costums, specialy this one, but the indigenist refuse to letit go, so the "agree " to let them celebrate in the his rits in the all saint day

[@nonyabidness6492]

@@lacalcetaderayas4505 nope, most of what you see including the colorful skulls, alebrijes and ofrendas were nothing like what was celebrated back then.

[@TheOnlyLuPayne]

bro's using a png...💀

[@kingtunip6386]

your a self-identified Chicano yet you said this holiday was meant to reconnect with your Hispanic roots and not indigenous roots??? hommie that's just Hispanic not Chicano

[@johnstauffer1032]

Upon reading articles by several Mexican authors, dia de la Muertos is tracked back to western Europe ie Danza macabre and other celebrations far preceding the Aztecs.

[@casualyoutubewatcher9753]

Most scholars agree that Halloween as we know it originated some 2,000 years ago, when Celtic people in Europe celebrated the end of the harvest and the start of a new year in a festival called Samhain (

[@casualyoutubewatcher9753]

Aztecs have been celebrating it for 3,000 years

[@casualyoutubewatcher9753]

And it's a whole month

[@MarS-dc2qx]

You should learn more Spanish it will open more doors for you

[@darkrobin]

Yes it will! learning diffrent languages has many benefits, Thankfully I can understand it very well, its the actual speaking part I have to practice

[@Nahh498]

The day of the dead is actually a relatively new holiday that developed sometime after Mexican revolution. This was to promote a distinct Mexican identity and pride among indigenous peoples. The Day of the Dead in its current incarnation and its supposed historic origins was a complete fabrication by the Cardenas administration in the 30s for the same reason.

[@teresafernandez9849]

What? It's documented, Native ppl went underground to continue this practice! My family is Yaqui, my great great grandparents made alters! Fill in the blank with BS as usual!

[@johnstauffer1032]

It's origins mimic western Europe celebration like Danza macabre etc.Far predating the notion that it was the Aztec culture that started the ceremony. It was actually the 3 day celebration that started on the 31st (dia de la angelitas, day of the little angels) all souls day on the first, followed by all Saints day on the 2nd. Not to say Mexico hasn't turned it into What it is now. Funny my abuela never said anything about the celebration. Didn't even acknowledge its existence.

[@aracelylopezpsyd5794]

@@johnstauffer1032 two separate practices developed over history, the fact they overlap is mainly because the church moved the dates to match All Saints Day NOT because the original practice was at that time. The original holiday was a month long celebration in August. Your abuela probably didn’t mention it because the Spanish did indeed do a great job of assimilating many of our ancestors into the Catholic Church. The fact you want to credit this holiday to Europe speaks for itself. The holidays are celebrated very differently. Your trying to convince yourself over a dance when the core of this holiday is NOT some dance. The holiday is about the graveyard celebration & the ofrendas & inviting our ancestors. There was nothing Macabre about Día de Muertos, it’s all about celebration & remembering & welcoming our ancestors where as European’s All Hallow’s Eve is the opposite. Just because your abuela didn’t celebrate it doesn’t take away from how important it is to the rest of us Mexicanos. Don’t celebrate it, no one is forcing you to care about this culturally important holiday, but you suggesting you know something the rest of the world does not shows your ignorance. It’s significance is acknowledged by the rest of us Mexicans even if you don’t acknowledge it’s true origins. I know my family has been celebrating it for generations.

[@lacalcetaderayas4505]

@@aracelylopezpsyd5794 wtf, why its so many gringos correcting our traditions now? whats going on?

[@oldschoolbussdrive]

dislike because you said latinx

[@teresafernandez9849]

Mexicans on both sides of the border hate the term Latin x, just another USA term to demean us. Stick Latin x where the sun don't shine!

[@oldschoolbussdrive]

@@teresafernandez9849 exactly I'm Mexican American and it hurts my ears when I hear latinx

[@oldschoolbussdrive]

@@kellypawlusiak812 rude for you gringos to name us without our permission

[@aracelylopezpsyd5794]

It wasn’t a term created by the “gringos,” it’s a term established by the population of Latin-Americans living in the USA who do not identify with gendered terminology. Gringos don’t use the Spanish gendered terms, they more commonly incorrectly label us all Spanish people, or they use terms like Hispanic. Latinx people in America use the term Latinx because we have always called ourselves Latinas/os. With greater awareness of a need for non-gendered terminology to be inclusive of our non-binary gente, younger populations established the term Latinx. If you don’t like it, don’t use it, but don’t tell other Latinx people what we choose to call ourselves, especially those who are non-binary. You getting offended about something that doesn’t effect you in the least is a big joke when there are real people truly hurt by your refusal to acknowledge their existence.

[@johandubon6577]

Latino* community.

[@aracelylopezpsyd5794]

To those offended by the term Latinx - to be clear, it wasn’t a term created by “gringos,” it’s a term established by the population of Latin-Americans living in the USA who do not identify with gendered terminology. Americans don’t use the Spanish gendered terms, they more commonly incorrectly label us all Spanish people, or they use terms like Hispanic. Latinx people in America use the term Latinx because we have always called ourselves Latinas/os. With greater awareness of a need for non-gendered terminology to be inclusive of our non-binary gente, younger populations established the term Latinx. If you don’t like it, don’t use it, but don’t tell other Latinx people what we choose to call ourselves, especially those who are non-binary. You getting offended about something that doesn’t effect you in the least is a big joke when there are real people truly hurt by your refusal to acknowledge their existence. Until a better, equally inclusive term comes to use, Latinx (or Latine) is here to stay whether you like it or not because it is the right thing to do.

[@nonyabidness6492]

Yeah but it's anglosizing the Latin language. If you pernounced it the way our people would say it, it would be Latin-che' or lantin-je. Not "Latin-ex", it makes no sense in Spanish, Nahuatl, Otomi, or any of the Maya languages. It's cringe

[@ericnino6048]

Latinx is pushed by white liberals. It’s the white liberal that put all that nonsense in the heads of those brainwashed idiots to begin with.

[@ericnino6048]

I can will tell you what to call you when you keep trying to rope the rest of us into your BS. If your gonna use latinx than make up some other name that has nothing to do with Latin heritage/ nationalities.

[@sergioguti2293]

Latinx . 😂😂😂. Shitty word... I woodn't identafy myxself with that silly word made up by latino careabeans.

[@gregrobinette8620]

"Latinx is here to stay wether you like it or not becuz its the right thing to do" My relative by the gods you have no idea what the right things are. Your Latinos/Latinas. Gender is not a social construct, its an objective fact of reality.