Day of the Dead in Mexico, What it is, Meaning and Origin Is is a fact no one escapes death. However, despite the pain that its presence may cause, from our indigenous peoples we have learned to perceive it as stage in which we should rejoice because, as the writer Mario Benedetti would say: death is only a symptom that there was life.  As proof of this Mexicans have the celebration known as Day of the Dead. This  celebration originates  from pre-Hispanic times.  In that period, many Mesoamerican ethnic groups worshiped death.  Among them was the Mexica whose gods in charge of defining the destiny of the souls were Mictecacihuatl and Mictlantecuhtli.  Both were lords of Mictlan or Place of...