El Día De Muertos

Question 1

Huichol Indians orgin

Answer 1

-from Mexico isolated for centuries

Question 2

How is the Sierra Madre split?

Answer 2

• Eastern mountain range
• Western mountain range

Question 3

How would Aztecs expand?

Answer 3

They would give the choice to their enemy to either join them or die.

Question 4

Who did the Aztecs believe in?

Answer 4

Quetzal coatl

Question 5

How did they believe Quetzal coatl would return?

Answer 5

In the flesh (as a human)

Question 6

What did the Aztecs believe in?

Answer 6

• a deity would return from the East

Question 7

What is the Aztec language?

Answer 7

Nahuatl

Question 8

What does Quetzal coatl mean?

Answer 8

Feathered Serpent

Question 9

What would the feathered serpent god be in charge of?

Answer 9

Lightning & thunder

Question 10

What did Spain find out that Mexico has?

Answer 10

Gold

Question 11

Who found out that Mexico has gold?

Answer 11

Hernán Cortés

Question 12

Who was Hernán Cortés

Answer 12

Spanish conquistador

Question 13

Where did Cortés come from?

Answer 13

The Gulf from the Eastern waters

Question 14

What was considered a sacred animal?

Answer 14

Jaguar

Question 15

What did Cortés bring to Mexico?

Answer 15

Large horses with musketeers

Question 16

Who did people think Hernán Cortés was?

Answer 16

Aztecs thought he was Quetzal coatl

Question 17

What led to the fall of the Aztecs?

Answer 17

Giving all their gold to Cortés

Question 18

What did Spanish missionaries convert Aztecs to?

Answer 18

Catholicism

Question 19

What is Chicunamictlán?

Answer 19

Huichol believed that it’s the land of the dead that has 9 levels

Question 20

What is the last level of Chicunamictlán?

Answer 20

Mictlán

Question 21

What did the Aztecs do to help them reach the final stage

Answer 21

• celebrated the dead by providing ofrendas

Question 22

Goddess of death

Answer 22

Mictecacihuatl

Question 23

How did the holiday change after the conversion?

Answer 23

It continued after conversion but was made shorter

Question 24

What days are all saints and all souls?

Answer 24

November 1st All Saints Day
November 2nd All Souls Day

Question 25

What was the exact time of change Day of the dead?
Before vs After conversion

Answer 25

Used to be:
Mid-July to Mid-November
Now is:
Dawn of November 1st to dawn of November 2nd

1 month to 1 day

Question 26

What is there to include in an ofrenda?

Answer 26

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3 flowers
2 Velas
2 Traditional drinks
1 pan de muerto
1 Copal
1 Retrato

Question 27

What are the 3 flowers in an ofrenda?

Answer 27

1. Cempasúchil
2. Mano de León
3. Nube

Question 28

How does Cempasúchil look like?

Answer 28

• Golden Orange
• can grow as large as a person

Question 29

How does a Mano de León look like?

Answer 29

• tiger’s hand
• fluffy
• magenta (purplish red)
• medium in height

Question 30

How does Nube look like?

Answer 30

• like a type of dandelion
• white
• small

Question 31

What colors are the Velas in an ofrenda?

Answer 31

Yellow or white

Question 32

How long do the velas have to burn for?

Answer 32

24 hrs
(Same time as the length of el día de muertos)

Question 33

What are the traditional drinks?

Answer 33

Atole and champurrado

Question 34

What does a pan de muerto usually have inside?

Answer 34

Cross ✝️

Question 35

What is Copal?

Answer 35

• incense
• smells like vix
• sap of a tree
• amber gold color

Question 36

What is Retrato?

Answer 36

Picture of loved one

Question 37

What are calaveras de azúcar?

Answer 37

Skull candy made of sugar associated with this holiday

Question 38

Who is Calavera Caterina?

Answer 38

• most famous image at El día de muertos
• famous drawing from early 1900s

Question 39

Who made Calavera Caterina?

Answer 39

José Pasada

Question 40

What things are associated with El día de muertos?

Answer 40

• mountains
• oceans
• moons
• suns
• spirals related to nature

Question 41

What are calaveras?

Answer 41

Skulls

Question 42

What are calacas?

Answer 42

Skeletons