HELP! day OF DEAD 10 POINTS!?

Question

DAY OF DEAD

I don't get these questions help?

1.how do many families honor the dead?

2 why did some ppl in the old owrkld believe that the dead could return to erath on oct.31?

3.wat is mictlan?

4.describle an altar. what does it have? why is it done?

5. what is copal?

6. what three things must an altar include?

7 what r calaveras?

8 wat is papel picado

9 what does black represent?

10 what does purple represent?

11Pink?

12 white?

13 yellow and orange?

14 who is honored on nov 1>?

15 who is honored on nov 2?

16 what r these deffintion?

angelitos

calaca

calavera

careta

ofrenda

and finally what is la catrina?

PLEASE HELP!

Answer 1

1.  Catholic families honor their dead

7. Calavera = skeleton

8. papel picado is torn up paper literally

black is death, purple is royalty,

Nov. 1st honors children who died, Nov. 2 adults who died

angelitos are baby angels, calavera is skeleton (or skull), ofrenda is an offering you make.  Sorry I don't know the rest

Answer 2

that's a lot of info ur asking for! Dia De los muertos is basically a celebraton of  ones life. families celebrate the lives of their loved ones, as cathlolics we believe that when a person dies they're going to a better life and they are in a better place than we are.  people think that because  someone dies it's a bad thing, by all means it is not

Answer 3

1.They celebrate by buying flowers,setting up altars and stuff like that

2.i dont know

3.i dont know

4.it like has pictures of the dead person n they put flowers on it

5. copal is an incense(smelly stuff) they burn during the event

6.umm im not sure

7. skulls

8.cut out paper

9-15. idk what the colors r

16.calaca--ckeleton

calavera--skull

ofrenda--the offering

sorry maybe the answers arent that clear

hope this helps ♥