Carmen and Zarco Guerrero promote the original ancestral lineage of Día de los Muertos with their annual Mikiztli festival. Here's how to attend.
masked performances, art activities and food. Most notably there were also ancient ceremonial practices, like the Danza Mexica which is a form of ancestral worship and ode to what the Aztecs described as the four sacred directions north, south, east and west. The event drew hundreds of people and has been Phoenix’s longest-running celebration to honor the dead.
“It has to do with immigration patterns,” Sandoval said. “Day of the Dead, in terms of actual lineage and tradition, is really exclusive to central México. If we look at immigration patterns into the United States, many of the Mexican immigrants coming to the U.S. weren't coming from central México. In other words, they were never bringing Day of the Dead with them because it was never a part of their culture.
“Día de los Muertos in terms of the calendar year, becomes the one time of the year in the United States, where Mexicans and Chicanos and Latinos, I would say, more generally have the opportunity to gather as a community and really be proud of our culture, be immersed in our culture and share our culture,” Sandoval said.
“The authenticity and the multigenerational nature of this festival is really what sets this apart from other festivals,” said Gloria Martinez-Granados, a jewelry maker, designer and artist who has been attending the festival for over five years.Martinez-Granados also told The Republic that her husband, Reggie Casillas, who is also a Phoenix-based artist, has been attending the festival since he was a kid, when his parents were vendors.
“It's intergenerational and it's cross-cultural,” Zarco said. “It's inclusive and people are always attesting to how beautiful it is and that's what we wanted it to be. The beauty comes not just from the color and the costumes and the masks, but really from the spirit that's brought from all of these different aspects of the family, different cultures, countries and people represented here.
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