Posts Tagged ‘Day of the Dead’

Why Mikiztli? [Meeh-keesh-tleeh]

This year the Cultural Coalition, Inc. has changed the name of the annual  Dia de los Muertos Festival to “Mikitztli” because of the blatant commercialization and cultural appropriation of  El Dia de Los Muertos  theme and its related imagery. In order to better communicate and share this ancient indigenous cosmo-vision, we will decolonize the name of…

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Mikiztli in Mesa – A Dia de Los Muertos Celebration!

Mikiztli [mee-keesh-tleeh]  and its history can be found tracing far back into Anáhuac, the original name of pre-colonial Meso America. Before the arrival of the Europeans, the indigenous peoples had no word for death in the Náhuatl language. We viewed death as a transition from this life to the next, called Mikiztli, a transformation or…

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