OUR CULTURE, HANAL PIXAN!!!

It´s nice to know about other cultures but it´s important to know about our culture, that´s why here I add a little explanation about HANAL PIXAN:

The "Hanal pixán ", or eaten of the bores, is a tradition of the Mayan town that takes to the end to remember of a special way the friends and relatives who went ahead in the eternal trip. It is a special event for the family of the deceaseds, because they know that, in these days, from the 31 of October to the 2 of November, the bores " receive permission " to visit their relatives.

The first day is dedicated to the children and they call U HANAL PALAL.The second day, 1 of November, it is dedicated to the dead adults and they call U HANAL NUCUCH UINICOOB, and the third day mass is U HANAL PIXANOOB called in some places " pixán " because that day a dedicated mass is applied to the bores, generally in the cemetery of the population.
There is the belief that some days before the ceremony the souls come to wash their clothes and to prepare themselves to receive the tributes, and hope well to be treated by the living beings, who are due to worry about the attention about the offerings about meals, drinks, etc., to which the deceaseds were affection, because of another way they would not return to the world of the alive ones.

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