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Prior to Spanish colonization in the 16th century, the celebration took place at the beginning of summer. Gradually it was associated with October 31, November 1 and November 2 to coincide with the Western Christian triduum of Allhallowtide: All Saints' Eve, All Saints' Day, and All Souls' Day. Traditions connected with the holiday include building private altars called ofrendas, honoring the deceased using sugar skulls, marigolds, and the favorite foods and beverages of the departed, and visiting graves with these as gifts. Visitors also leave possessions of the deceased at the graves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eScholars trace the origins of the modern Mexican holiday to indigenous observances dating back hundreds of years and to an Aztec festival dedicated to the goddess Mictecacihuatl. The holiday has spread throughout the world, being absorbed within other deep traditions for honoring the dead. It has become a national symbol and as such is taught (for educational purposes) in the nation's schools. Many families celebrate a traditional \"All Saints' Day\" associated with the Catholic Church.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOriginally, the Day of the Dead as such was not celebrated in northern Mexico, where it was unknown until the 20th century because its indigenous people had different traditions. The people and the church rejected it as a day related to syncretizing pagan elements with Catholic Christianity. They held the traditional 'All Saints' Day' in the same way as other Christians in the world. There was limited Mesoamerican influence in this region, and relatively few indigenous inhabitants from the regions of Southern Mexico, where the holiday was celebrated. 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Andrew reference's Ophelia's \"virginal and vacant white\" would have conveyed specific and gendered associations. Her action of offering wild flowers to the court suggests, some argues, a symbolic deflowering, while even the manner of her 'doubtful death', by drowning, carries associations with the feminine.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ryan Randall","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":30127973124,"sku":"","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1509\/5516\/products\/Ophelia2.jpg?v=1523118739"},{"product_id":"copy-of-pocket-square-day-of-the-dead-by-paul-ryan-trani-1","title":"Pocket-square Skullflowers in Blues and Yellows by Paul Ryan Trani","description":"\u003cp\u003eSkulls have a high degree of symbolism often used in art to represent death and change. 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The theme carried by an inscription on a rustic tomb, \"Et in Arcadia ego\"—\"I too [am] in Arcadia\", if it is Death that is speaking—is made famous by two paintings by Nicholas Poussin, but the motto made its pictorial debut in Guercino's version, 1618-22 (in the Galleria Barberini, Rome): in it, two awestruck young shepherds come upon an inscribed plinth, in which the inscription ET IN ARCADIA EGO gains force from the prominent presence of a wormy skull in the foreground.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe skull becomes an icon itself when its painted representation becomes a substitute for the real thing. Simon Schama chronicled the ambivalence of the Dutch to their own worldly success during the Dutch Golden Age of the first half of the 17th century in The Embarrassment of Riches. The possibly frivolous and merely decorative nature of the still life genre was avoided by Pieter Claesz in his \"Vanitas\", opened case-watch, overturned emptied wineglasses, snuffed candle, book: \"Lo, the wine of life runs out, the spirit is snuffed, oh Man, for all your learning, time yet runs on: Vanity!\" The visual cues of the hurry and violence of life are contrasted with eternity in this somber, still and utterly silent painting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen the skull appears in Nazi SS insignia, the death's-head (Totenkopf) represents loyalty unto death. However, when tattooed on the forearm its apotropaic power helps an outlaw biker cheat death.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen a skull was worn as a trophy on the belt of the Lombard king Alboin, it was a constant grim triumph over his old enemy, and he drank from it. In the same way a skull is a warning when it decorates the palisade of a city, or deteriorates on a pike at a Traitor's Gate. 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The theme carried by an inscription on a rustic tomb, \"Et in Arcadia ego\"—\"I too [am] in Arcadia\", if it is Death that is speaking—is made famous by two paintings by Nicholas Poussin, but the motto made its pictorial debut in Guercino's version, 1618-22 (in the Galleria Barberini, Rome): in it, two awestruck young shepherds come upon an inscribed plinth, in which the inscription ET IN ARCADIA EGO gains force from the prominent presence of a wormy skull in the foreground.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe skull becomes an icon itself when its painted representation becomes a substitute for the real thing. Simon Schama chronicled the ambivalence of the Dutch to their own worldly success during the Dutch Golden Age of the first half of the 17th century in The Embarrassment of Riches. The possibly frivolous and merely decorative nature of the still life genre was avoided by Pieter Claesz in his \"Vanitas\", opened case-watch, overturned emptied wineglasses, snuffed candle, book: \"Lo, the wine of life runs out, the spirit is snuffed, oh Man, for all your learning, time yet runs on: Vanity!\" The visual cues of the hurry and violence of life are contrasted with eternity in this somber, still and utterly silent painting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen the skull appears in Nazi SS insignia, the death's-head (Totenkopf) represents loyalty unto death. However, when tattooed on the forearm its apotropaic power helps an outlaw biker cheat death.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen a skull was worn as a trophy on the belt of the Lombard king Alboin, it was a constant grim triumph over his old enemy, and he drank from it. In the same way a skull is a warning when it decorates the palisade of a city, or deteriorates on a pike at a Traitor's Gate. 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