Dia de los Muertos

Rituals.  As we said in class, rituals are prevalent in everyday life or to paraphrase Sexson, "the ordinary becomes extraordinary" in the mundane. 

Hmmm...Dia de los Muertos?  What does it mean?  Well I won't spill the beans here but is what I'll be presenting in class.

I find that I fall back on my hispanic roots in this mythology class because many of the stories I heard as a child were filled with mythological ritual.  Of course I didn't know it back then but they certainly impacted me as a child.  Most of these "myths" were superstition in nature but I believed them to be true as a child.  However, as you go through puberty and early adulthood, you begin to see the "light" and make your own sense of the world--or at least try to.