The Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos, Día de los Difuntos or, simply, Día de Muertos in Spanish) is a Catholic celebration of the memory of deceased ancestors that is celebrated on November 1 (All Saints) and November 2 (All Souls). This time is especially notable in Mexico where it is primarily viewed as a public Mexican holiday, and it is also celebrated in communities in the United States with large populations of Mexican-Americans, the Philippines and to a lesser extent elsewhere in some countries ...

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• Day of the Dead - History of the Day of the Dead in Mexico
• Day of the Dead - Beliefs and customs
• Day of the Dead - In fiction

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• Day of the Dead film - Miscellaneous

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The origins of the celebration of The Day of the Dead in Mexico can be traced back to the indigenous peoples of the Americas, such as the Aztec, Maya, Purepecha, Nahual and Totonac. Rituals celebrating the lives of dead ancestors had been performed by these Mesoamerican civilizations for at least 3,000 years. It was common practice to keep skulls as trophies and display them during rituals to symbolize death and rebirth. The festival which was to become Día de Muertos fell on the ninth month of the Aztec Solar Calendar, ...

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Day of the Dead, Day of the Dead - History of the Day of the Dead in Mexico, Day of the Dead - Beliefs and customs, Day of the Dead - In fiction

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"Day of the Dead" is an episode from the fifth season of the science-fiction television series Babylon 5. Day of the Dead Babylon 5 - Plot synopsis. The dead return during a mysterious Brakiri religious festival. Day of the Dead Babylon 5 - Arc significance. Day of the Dead Babylon 5 - Production details. Day of the Dead Babylon 5 - Trivia. The writer was inspired to write this story when he heard of ...

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• Day of the Dead Babylon 5 - Plot synopsis
• Day of the Dead Babylon 5 - Arc significance
• Day of the Dead Babylon 5 - Production details
• Day of the Dead Babylon 5 - Trivia
• Day of the Dead Babylon 5 - External link

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The souls of children are believed to return first on November 1, with adult spirits following on November 2. Plans for the festival are made throughout the year, including gathering the goods that will be offered to the dead. During the period of October 31 and November 2 families usually clean and decorate the graves. Wealthier families build altars in their homes, but most simply visit the cemeteries where their loved ones are buried and decorate their graves with ofrendas, or offerings. These include wreaths of an orange ma ...

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Day of the Dead, Day of the Dead - History of the Day of the Dead in Mexico, Day of the Dead - Beliefs and customs, Day of the Dead - In fiction

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The Seventh-day Adventist Church is an evangelical Christian denomination based on the teachings of the Bible. The Seventh-day Adventist Church grew out of the prophetic Millerite movement in the United States during the middle part of the 19th century. Commencing with an exploration of the concept of an "investigative judgment", the movement soon developed some distinguishing features such as the belief that Saturday is the Sabbath and a belief that death is an unconscious, nondescript state, until an imminent, global S ...

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• Seventh-day Adventist Church - Origins
• Seventh-day Adventist Church - Doctrine
• Seventh-day Adventist Church - Sabbath
• Seventh-day Adventist Church - Hell and the state of the dead
• Seventh-day Adventist Church - Baptism
• Seventh-day Adventist Church - Second Coming of Christ
• Seventh-day Adventist Church - Spirit of Prophecy
• Seventh-day Adventist Church - Creeds
• Seventh-day Adventist Church - Practices and customs
• Seventh-day Adventist Church - Sabbath activities
• Seventh-day Adventist Church - Outreach
• Seventh-day Adventist Church - Health diet and sexuality
• Seventh-day Adventist Church - Structure polity and institutions
• Seventh-day Adventist Church - Structure and polity
• Seventh-day Adventist Church - Other institutions
• Seventh-day Adventist Church - Membership
• Seventh-day Adventist Church - Off-shoots and schismatics
• Seventh-day Adventist Church - Outsider criticisms

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All Souls' Day (Commemoratio omnium fidelium defunctorum), also called Defuncts' Day in Mexico and Belgium, is the day set apart in the Roman Catholic Church for the commemoration of the faithful departed. The celebration is based on the doctrine that the souls of the faithful which at death have not been cleansed from venial sins, or have not atoned for past transgressions, cannot attain the beatific vision, and that they may be helped ...

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• All Souls Day - Christian origin
• All Souls Day - Protestantism
• All Souls Day - Pagan roots

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The festival of All Saints, also sometimes known as "All Hallows," or "Hallowmas," is a feast celebrated in their honour. All Saints is also a Christian formula invoking all the faithful saints and martyrs, known or unknown. Common commemorations by several churches of the deaths of martyrs began to be celebrated in the 4th century. The first trace of a general celebration is attested in Antioch on the Sunday after Pentecost. This custom is also referred to in the 74th homily of John Chrysostom (407) and is maintained t ...

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• All Saints - Compare
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In Catalan popular culture, there are a large number of myths and legends about witches (Catalan "bruixes"). In the popular imagination, a witch is a woman who, by means of a pact with the Devil, has acquired supernatural power, which she uses for her own benefit and for evil purposes. During the Middle Ages, the power of the Church strengthened these beliefs among the people, using witchcraft as scapegoat for all calamities, to marginalize, imprison, and finally execute people, e ...

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• Catalan mythology about witches - The mark of the devil
• Catalan mythology about witches - The presence of witches
• Catalan mythology about witches - Power and practices
• Catalan mythology about witches - The Day of the Dead and All Saints Day
• Catalan mythology about witches - Christmas Eve
• Catalan mythology about witches - New Year's Eve
• Catalan mythology about witches - The Eve of Saint John
• Catalan mythology about witches - Other stories of Catalan witches
• Catalan mythology about witches - Note on references

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On Sunday January 30, 1972, in an incident since known as Bloody Sunday, 14 unarmed men and boys were shot dead (one of whom died 4 months later) and 13 others were wounded by British paratroopers after a Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association march in the Bogside area of the city of Derry, Northern Ireland. The march was organized by Derry Stormont MP Ivan Cooper to protest against internment without trial of Irishmen, predominantly Catholic, in Northern Ireland. While the start of the IRA's campaign against British ...

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• Bloody Sunday 1972 - Events of the Day
• Bloody Sunday 1972 - The dead
• Bloody Sunday 1972 - The perspectives and analyses on the day
• Bloody Sunday 1972 - The Saville Inquiry
• Bloody Sunday 1972 - Impact on Northern Ireland divisions
• Bloody Sunday 1972 - Artistic reaction

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The movie series created by George A. Romero. Films include: Night of the Living Dead (1968) Dawn of the Dead (1978) Day of the Dead (1985) Land of the Dead (2005) Before Land of the Dead, this series is also known as the "Unholy Dead Trilogy" by some fans. A remake of Night of the Living Dead was made in 1990, with a screenplay by George A. Romero. A remake Dawn of the Dead was also made in 2004, and another remake called ...

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Everything that Jews do regarding death is for one of two reasons: respect for the dead (kavod ha-met) or to console those left behind (nihum avelim). Jewish bereavement - Death bed. By Jewish law, Jews are forbidden to do anything to hasten a person's death but, are at the same time required to do anything possible to comfort the dying. So the spectrum of what can-and-cannot be done for a person on their deathbed goes to both extremes. There are some who will not touch a dying person for fear that something so mild ...

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• Jewish bereavement - Death and dying
• Jewish bereavement - Death bed
• Jewish bereavement - When a person is defined as dead
• Jewish bereavement - Afterlife
• Jewish bereavement - Preparing the body
• Jewish bereavement - Vigil
• Jewish bereavement - Funeral service
• Jewish bereavement - Burial
• Jewish bereavement - Jewish view of cremation
• Jewish bereavement - Community
• Jewish bereavement - Chevra kadisha
• Jewish bereavement - Zihuy Korbanot Asson ZAKA
• Jewish bereavement - Mourning
• Jewish bereavement - Five stages
• Jewish bereavement - Unveiling
• Jewish bereavement - Visiting the gravesite
• Jewish bereavement - Memorial through prayer
• Jewish bereavement - Mourner's Kaddish
• Jewish bereavement - Yizkor
• Jewish bereavement - Av HaRachamim
• Jewish bereavement - Days of memorial
• Jewish bereavement - Yahrzeit
• Jewish bereavement - Yom Ha'Shoah
• Jewish bereavement - Yom Hazikaron
• Jewish bereavement - Tisha B'Av
• Jewish bereavement - Fast of the First Born
• Jewish bereavement - General
• Jewish bereavement - Jewish concepts and topics
• Jewish bereavement - Jewish ritual
• Jewish bereavement - Jewish organisations
• Jewish bereavement - Jewish memorial days

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Baptism for the dead by proxy (or "vicarious baptism") is an ordinance practiced by members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (and schism churches), the Mandaeans of Iraq and Iran, some of the Neo-Apostolic congregations of Europe, and some Native American religions. Although all the mentioned religious groups practice baptism for the dead to some extent, the term "baptism for the dead" is used almost exclusively in reference to the ordinance pr ...

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• Baptism for the dead - Overview
• Baptism for the dead - History
• Baptism for the dead - Christian opposition
• Baptism for the dead - Holocaust Victim Controversy
• Baptism for the dead - Links
• Baptism for the dead - Links with a Neutral Viewpoint about Baptism for the Dead
• Baptism for the dead - Opposed to Mormon Baptism for the Dead
• Baptism for the dead - In Favor of Baptism for the Dead
• Baptism for the dead - About unauthorized proxy baptisms

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A Kohen (or Cohen, Hebrew "priest", pl. Kohanim or Cohanim), assumed to be a direct male descendant of the Biblical Aaron, brother of Moses, has a distinct personal status within Judaism. Kohen - The high priest. Kohen - Biblical data. Aaron, though he is but rarely called "the great priest," being generally simply designated "as ha-kohen" (the priest), was the first incumbent of the office, to which he was appointed by God (Ex. xxviii. 1, 2; xxix. 4, 5). Th ...

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• Kohen - The high priest
• Kohen - Biblical data
• Kohen - Age and qualifications
• Kohen - His costume
• Kohen - Sanctity and functions
• Kohen - In rabbinical literature
• Kohen - His powers
• Kohen - Restrictions
• Kohen - Critical view
• Kohen - Post-Exilic conditions
• Kohen - Political aspects
• Kohen - Connection with Sanhedrin
• Kohen - The priesthood in the Hebrew Bible
• Kohen - Importance of pedigree
• Kohen - Rules protecting against ritual defilement
• Kohen - Exceptions to rules for contact with the dead
• Kohen - Division into work groups
• Kohen - Post-Temple theology and practice
• Kohen - Women and the priesthood
• Kohen - Marriages involving Kohanim
• Kohen - Historic and present-day Orthodox Judaism view
• Kohen - Reform view
• Kohen - Conservative Judaism view
• Kohen - Kohanim in contemporary times
• Kohen - Orthodox Jewish views
• Kohen - Conservative and Masorti Jewish views
• Kohen - Reform and Reconstructionist Jewish views
• Kohen - Who is a Priest?
• Kohen - Recent genetic findings: The Kohen gene
• Kohen - Cohen as a surname
• Kohen - Outside Judaism
• Kohen - Trivia
• Kohen - Bibliography

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A calaca (a colloquial Spanish name for skeleton) is a figure of a skull or skeleton (usually human) used for decoration during the Mexican Day of the Dead festival. Tracing their origins from Aztec imagery, calacas are frequently shown with marigold leaves and foliage. As with other aspects of the Day of the Dead festival, calacas are generally depicted as joyous rather than mournful figures. They are often shown wearing festive clothing, dancing, and playing musical instruments. Calacas used in the festival include ca ...

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Book of the Dead is the common name for ancient Egyptian funerary texts known as The Book of Coming [or Going] Forth By Day. The name "Book of the Dead" was the invention of the German Egyptologist Karl Richard Lepsius, who published a selection of some texts in 1842. "Books" were nothing like a modern book – the text was initially carved on the exterior of the deceased person's sarcophagus, but was later written on papyrus now known as scrolls and buried inside the sarcophagus with the deceased, presumably so that it ...

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Christ's presence (Greek: parousia) is considered to be his invisible rule from heaven and is believed to have begun in 1914. Witnesses believe that Jesus' prophecy recorded in Matthew 24 have been being fulfilled since that time. They identify the same period with the 'last days' referred to by the Apostle Paul in 2 Timothy 3:1-5. It is taught that starting with World War I in 1914 (which actually began several months before the prophesied October fulfilment), as well as increases in other conflicts and natural disasters since ...

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Doctrines of Jehovah's Witnesses, Doctrines of Jehovah's Witnesses - The Bible, Doctrines of Jehovah's Witnesses - Beliefs about God, Doctrines of Jehovah's Witnesses - The Name of God, Doctrines of Jehovah's Witnesses - The Nature of God non-Trinitarian, Doctrines of Jehovah's Witnesses - Beliefs About Jesus Christ, Doctrines of Jehovah's Witnesses - Problem of Evil, Doctrines of Jehovah's Witnesses - Baptism, Doctrines of Jehovah's Witnesses - Salvation, Doctrines of Jehovah's Witnesses - Neutrality, Doctrines of Jehovah's Witnesses - Creation and the Flood, Doctrines of Jehovah's Witnesses - Religious Symbols, Doctrines of Jehovah's Witnesses - Eschatology: the Condition of the Dead and Judgment Day, Doctrines of Jehovah's Witnesses - Moral Standards, Doctrines of Jehovah's Witnesses - Blood, Doctrines of Jehovah's Witnesses - Development of Doctrine, Doctrines of Jehovah's Witnesses - Progressive Development of Witness Teachings - A Timeline, Doctrines of Jehovah's Witnesses - Significance of Doctrinal Changes, Doctrines of Jehovah's Witnesses - Importance of Doctrine, Doctrines of Jehovah's Witnesses - Jehovah's Witnesses and other religions, Doctrines of Jehovah's Witnesses - Reference & Research Materials

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Seventh-day Adventist doctrine is based on the Anabaptist protestant tradition. The Protestant doctrine of the "priesthood of all believers" is so central to the thinking of Seventh-day Adventists that members have always been encouraged to study the Bible to discover truth for themselves guided of the Holy Spirit. This may explain their reluctance to establish a creed. Adventist doctrine resembles mainstream orthodox trinitarian Protestant theology, with the exception of several areas. ...

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Seventh-day Adventist Church, Seventh-day Adventist Church - Origins, Seventh-day Adventist Church - Doctrine, Seventh-day Adventist Church - Sabbath, Seventh-day Adventist Church - Hell and the state of the dead, Seventh-day Adventist Church - Baptism, Seventh-day Adventist Church - Second Coming of Christ, Seventh-day Adventist Church - Spirit of Prophecy, Seventh-day Adventist Church - Creeds, Seventh-day Adventist Church - Practices and customs, Seventh-day Adventist Church - Sabbath activities, Seventh-day Adventist Church - Outreach, Seventh-day Adventist Church - Health diet and sexuality, Seventh-day Adventist Church - Structure polity and institutions, Seventh-day Adventist Church - Structure and polity, Seventh-day Adventist Church - Other institutions, Seventh-day Adventist Church - Membership, Seventh-day Adventist Church - Off-shoots and schismatics, Seventh-day Adventist Church - Outsider criticisms

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At the Reformation the celebration of All Souls' Day was abolished in the Church of England, though it was renewed in certain churches in connection with the "Catholic revival" of the 19th century. The observance was restored with the publication of the 1980 Alternative Service Book, and it features in Common Worship. Among continental Protestants its tradition has been more tenaciously maintained. Even Luther's influence was not sufficient to abolish its celebration in Saxony during his lifetime; and, though its Ecclesiastical sancti ...

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All Souls Day, All Souls Day - Christian origin, All Souls Day - Protestantism, All Souls Day - Pagan roots

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According to one Catalan tradition, a person who wants to become a witch should go to the seashore, undress completely, and roll around on the sand. After giving seven full revolutions, stand and make three circles, then sits and roll again. All of that is to be done seven times. During the circles and the rolling, the would-be witch speaks certain prayers or incantations; if no one has seen her, and the ritual has remained secret, ...

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Catalan mythology about witches, Catalan mythology about witches - The mark of the devil, Catalan mythology about witches - The presence of witches, Catalan mythology about witches - Power and practices, Catalan mythology about witches - The Day of the Dead and All Saints Day, Catalan mythology about witches - Christmas Eve, Catalan mythology about witches - New Year's Eve, Catalan mythology about witches - The Eve of Saint John, Catalan mythology about witches - Other stories of Catalan witches, Catalan mythology about witches - Note on references

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