it's a chant i writed bassed on the old xi'oi way of pray, that's why it sounds a little like a lethany.



About Mictlántecuhtli (Lord of Mictlán), he was a feared god, but the real "divine" was his wife, Mictecihuatl, because the lord of Deads died every 52 years with the sun (when the civilians and religious calendar paired).



So, Mictecihuatl choose a mortal husband to wear the Mictlántecuhtli's mask. If you were a soul-cold man, wishing for material goods, she may choose you to become her husband, but you had to bear the horror of living dead, using the mask you can see a person, but when you see the face, you see the newly born face mixed with the dead rotting face. You could see the destiny of people and things, and that's the "not so nice" side of marry her. Seeing past and future, often it's more a curse than a gift...



In the Dead's Day, or Death's day, we mexicans make an altar, a little shrine for the dead, where we put the pictures of the relatives and friends already gone. We serve food, their favourite food, wine, mezcal, tequila, beer, some people even put their clothes near, and paper with the Death's colors, black and purple, with yellow/orange flowers that bloom on that season, the cempoalxochitl (20 leafted flower) making a little "road to home". The candles must be keeped lighted day and night (actually, there use to be a lot of fires on that days).



We dress our little girls as Catrinas too. I think i have a pic about it on my gallery, but if don't, i'll upload it later. Catrina it's one of the "avatars" of Death, a fancy dressed and elegant woman who takes the life of richs and poors equally, 'cause "La muerte todo empareja" (Death everything flats). This image of Death was very popular in the Revolution, as a reminiscense of Mictecihuatl. Even there is a semicatholic cult, the "Holy Death Church", but they are more like voodoo than real indigenous peoples.



In fact, there are some MLP fans that draw Rarity as Catrina, because of their elegance and generosity.