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Punctual like every year, we are at the gates of the festival of the dead.
Feast of the Dead has ancient origins, the Catholic Church dedicated to the commemoration of the dead.
the ancient civilizations celebrated between late October and early November.
seems to refer to the Great Flood mentioned in Genesis, with the construction of Noah's Ark and, according to the story of Moses fell in the seventeenth day of the second month, ie November.
Thus began the feast of the dead in honor of the people that God had destroyed underlining the fear to commit the same mistakes.
The Catholic Church was struggling to abolish the pagan cults with their Celtic traditions and about the year 835 Pope Gregory II moved the feast of All Saints from May 13 to November I, while in 998 Abbot of Cluny Odilo added to the Christian calendar the feast of the dead to November 2.
In those days in memory of their dead there he disguised himself as saints, angels or devils, and bonfires were lit.
It is said that between November 1 and two, the night was longer than the day that the prince of darkness and called to himself all the spirits to pass from one world to another.
The festivities of this period took place with offerings of food, bonfires and costumes, so here pagan customs to this day.
It is said that it began the habit of leaving the children gifts and sweets because Legend has it that the dead to steal or pastry shop owners to leave gifts to their loved ones. In this way we want sdramatizzare fear that you have with the world of the dead, the mystery that exists between living and dead. Children
this custom has been handed down to avoid frightening and make it clear that they want their deaths are still good.
In our area, the second morning is a treasure hunt, it goes in search of gifts left by the dead, hidden in the most diverse of the house. It is also believed that souls should be drinking and feeding.
This leaves a bottle of fresh water and a bowl of cooked vegetables such as peas or beans.
sure to religion has taken over the appearance charged with consumerism. For a couple of years in Italy celebrates the feast of Halloween has its origins in Celtic traditions as there are in Scotland, England, Ireland and France.
The night of Halloween is the custom by children to knock on doors of houses and say "trick or treat" that trick or treat and offer cookies, candies and sweets of all kinds.
course every region has its own traditions and its customs, Sicily is a feast of flavors, fragrances and colors for our children.
We are not used to say, the commemoration of the dead but the feast of the dead, maybe because they do not feel like a sad day, but happy with our cemeteries with flowers and bustling with people.
In Calabria, for example in areas inhabited by Italian-Albanians go to the cemetery in procession, and after prayers and blessings are directly Banquet on the graves, all this to get in touch with their dead.
In Piedmont you use the table for dinner and leave a place more to the table for the deceased would come to visit.
In Japan the Buddhist All Souls' Day is commemorated on July 15. They do not believe in spirits or ghosts like us, but god or entity. The recurrence
from them is that the call Obon Festival of the Soul. Handed down from the custom of preparing a horse made with a cucumber and a cow made with eggplant.
All this because to come to find them alive with a fast horse would have achieved while, to return more slowly with a slow cow eggplant.
In Buddhism there is the idea of \u200b\u200bhell and suffering after death, but it's a cross between soul and god help protect their descendants.
For the Japanese festival of Obon means having fun with the dead coming back among the living.
In China the cult of the dead has the purpose of honoring the ancestors for their businesses, their veneration and honor are prepared and decorated altars on which sacrifices and offerings are made.
In Africa almost all religions are monotheistic, they believe in one God and creator of the universe is conceived as a superior being.
why human events and their customs are addressed only with prayers to the spirits below and in particular to deceased ancestors. So it is for the descendants
strengthen and reaffirm their vital relationship with the well-being on the afterlife.
They also know that social betterment must respect the dead by giving importance to rituals propriziatori.
All this serves to strengthening the connection between living and dead.
They show the worship of the dead through ritual, amulets, masks and totems, and are looking forward messages from the ancestors.
The evangelical sects, and some Protestant churches have banned the worship to the ancestors because they believe compare to Satan worship.
back to our days and our traditions, the commemoration of the dead to join us on November 2nd to celebrate Mass at the cemetery by us with the presence of the Bishop Zambia and civil and military authorities.
conclude with a thought: do not wait until November 2 to remember our dead, but you always have them in my heart, remembering them with affection, to feel close and if we satisfy us even more, visit them more often.
