"Mary Magdalene"
by Christine Irving
2005

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In Pictures:
Latin America celebrates Day of the Dead
from Al Jazeera
http://english.aljazeera.net/English (Americas)
12 November 2007

People across Latin America have been celebrating the Day of the Dead festival [Reuters]

A man paints the grave of family members in the town of Santiago Sacapacatequez in Guatemala. Day of the Dead festival has its origins in a pre-Hispanic Aztec belief that the dead return to Earth one day each year to visit their loved ones [Reuters]

An Andean dancer performs the Scissors dance in front of a grave on the outskirts of Lima. After cleaning tombs and setting up gazebos around gravestones, people light candles for dead relatives and have grave-top picnics and parties [Reuters]

Huge traffic jams form around cemeteries and street vendors do a roaring trade, selling food, flowers and candles [Reuters]

People launch a kite during a contest in Guatemala [Reuters]

Day of the Dead in Guatemala is marked with a kite festival and dining 'Fiambre', which contains a mix of cheese, meat, eggs and vegetables cured in vinegar [EPA]

A man dressed as a ghost slave, a character from Salvadorean mythology, marches in the town of Tonacatepeque, San Salvador. Citizens of Tonacatepeque, originally an indigeneus community, celebrate on the eve of the Day of the Dead with a parade to remember characters from the mythology of Cuzcatlan, the ancient name of El Salvador, and their deceased relatives [AFP]

Two sculptures of skeletons, representing the famous Mexican painters Diego Rivera and Frida Khalo during the celebrations of the Day of the Dead at Mexico City's Zocalo Square [AFP]

Day of the Dead is celebrated in various forms and names in Catholic communities across the world. Here candles burn on graves in a cemetery in Petrila, west of Bucharest. Romanians hold this ceremony every year, mostly in Transylvania, an area with a large number of Catholic believers [Reuters]