MEXICO CITY - Crowds have lined Mexico City’s stately Paseo de la Reforma as the capital capped Day of the Dead celebrations with a parade along the boulevard and through the colonial centre to a large altar at the Zocalo, or main square. The parade was led by a float bearing the 20-foot-tall likeness of the ancient goddess Mictecacihuatl, announced as “the queen of the underworld and the guardian of our bones.”Two dozen people clad head to toe in mud-colored makeup with animal masks walked stiffly behind, representing the nine levels of Mictlan, the underworld. Saturday’s procession of dancers, skeletons and indigenous deities is the culmination of over two weeks of massively attended public activities in the city, as well as private visits to family gravesites and home altars honouring the departed.

Source: thestar November 02, 2019 23:41 UTC