In Mexico City, parades will feature people in colorful customs with large skull masks while skull-shaped floats move through the streets to the rhythm of Aztec drums. Marigolds, skull-painted faces ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Every year, five hours west of Mexico City on Lake Pátzcuaro in Michoacán, residents flock to the island of Janitzio to visit the graves of their departed relatives.

Elements of Catholicism and Christianity were later incorporated into the Indigenous death ritual after the colonization of the Aztec empire ... sugar skull face-painting and masks are some ...

Elements of Catholicism and Christianity were later incorporated into the Indigenous death ritual after the colonization of the Aztec empire by the Spanish in the 16th century ... Colorful altars, ...