Dia de los Muertos

(draft — to be rewritten from the ledger) Mexico's Day of the Dead is said to have grown from indigenous rites for the dead layered with the Catholic feasts of All Saints and All Souls. Marigold paths, home altars, the imagery of skulls — not mourning the dead but celebrating together with the dead who have come home. The same skeleton as Japan's Obon, standing independently on the far side of the earth: the farthest shore of the visiting-deities current.