The living and dead reunited on Monday night in candle-lit cemeteries throughout Mexico during the Day of the Dead celebrations
Visitors peered at large altars decorated with chocolate skulls, fruit and freshly-cut marigolds around Zocalo Plaza, Mexico City's bustling main square built near the ruins of the Aztec Empire's most holy temples.
"In people from all cultures, there's this fear of death, but here you can see them celebrating that," said Miguel Torres, a tourist from Colombia whose face and lips were painted in deathly black and white.A woman harvests Cempasuchil marigolds to be used during Mexico's Day of the Dead celebrations at San Luis Tlaxialtemalco nursery, in Xochimilco on the outskirts of Mexico City, Mexico October 28, 2021.
"The skulls, the shamanic part beneath it seems very profound to me, it goes to the roots of what the meaning of death is," said Dayan Melendez, a U.S. tourist from Colorado.
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