🌼🌿✨ Discover the Deep Indigenous Meaning Behind Día de Muertos! ✨🌿🌼 Long before the name

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[00:00:00]Before the word Mexico ever existed, [music] our ancestors already spoke with the dead.

[00:00:04]For the Aztec, the Maya, the Purepecha, and the Toltec, death wasn't an ending.

[00:00:09]It was a return, a journey of the soul back through the [music] underworld to find balance again.

[00:00:14]If your family celebrates Dia de Muertos, comment [music] raices and follow Mexican-American roots because our faith didn't come from Europe or temples. It came from the earth itself.

[00:00:24]>> [music] >> They honored a goddess named Mictecacihuatl, the lady of the dead, who ruled Mictlan, the world beneath.

[00:00:32]Every year her festival lasted an entire moon cycle, welcoming [music] spirits home with food, song, and firelight.

[00:00:39]Then came the [music] Spanish, bringing new gods, new names, new rules.

[00:00:43]But the old beliefs refused to die.

[00:00:46]Mictecacihuatl [music] became the Virgin Mary to some and La Catrina to others, proof that two worlds could blend and create something entirely new. And that's [music] the story of us, the Mexican-American story.

[00:00:59]Indigenous at our roots, Catholic by history, resilient by choice.

[00:01:04]We didn't lose our ancestors. We carry them every November, every altar, every heartbeat that still remembers their name. Follow Mexican-American roots to remember who we were before anyone called us Mexican and how we became who we are today.