All Saints Day (November 1)
This day celebrates the feast of all saints who had an exemplary life and also the dead children.
This festival is small compared with the Day of the Dead, in the traditions it is customary to make shrines to the saints in the churches, and many families usually make their children dead altars either indoors or on headstones in cemeteries.
The altars are adorned with colorful paper, marigold flowers, if the altar is for a child is put toys like cars, dolls, candy etc.
Day of the Dead (November 2)
Today held the greatest feast of the dead in Mexico. The celebration is filled with many customs. People like to go and place flowers on the graves of their dead, but for others it represents a rite that start at dawn, when many families make altars for dead on the gravestones of their dead relatives, these altars are of great importance because with them are believed to help the dead to have a good way for death.
families spend long hours working on the altar, many of these shrines are considered true works of art, as they reflect the hard work, dedication and creativity of people to provide good altar. There are many ways to shrines of dead, usually easier to do a lot of people in their homes and on a table covered with a cloth is placed a photograph of the deceased, and decorated with flowers and some memories.
Other altars are made according to tradition, which states that the altar must consist of 7 levels or steps that represent the 7 levels has to pass the souls of the dead to rest. These altars are usually done in places where there is a large space where it can fit around the altar, which must be wiped off the fourth with herbs to the four winds the day before the day of the dead. First built or produces the skeleton of the altar with either cardboard, wood or whatever is so they are well grounded the 7 levels, of which the seventh must be almost at ground level and he gets the second level is a bit smaller than the first and so on until you reach the first level Each step is covered with black cloth and white. Each step has a meaning and must contain certain specific items:
