As the result of internal migration in Argentina since the 1960s, the veneration of San La Muerte has been extended to Greater Buenos Aires and the national prison system as well. San La Muerte (Saint Death) is a skeletal folk saint venerated in Paraguay, northeast Argentina. Mictlantecuhtli (left) depicted in Codex Borgia La Calavera Catrina, a character symbolizing death, is also an icon of the Mexican Day of the Dead.

Since the pre-Columbian era, Mexican culture has maintained a certain reverence towards death, as seen in the widespread commemoration of the Day of the Dead.

Our Lady of the Holy Death (Santa Muerte) is a female deity or folk saint of Mexican folk religion, whose popularity has been growing in Mexico and the United States in recent years. She was also known as The Hangwoman as she came to help along those who had killed themselves. She was a minor goddess in the scale of Aztec mythology. There was also the goddess of suicide, Ixtab. She presided over the ancient festivals of the dead, which evolved from Aztec traditions into the modern Day of the Dead after synthesis with Spanish cultural traditions. Mictecacihuatl was represented with a fleshless body and with jaw agape to swallow the stars during the day. Other epithets for her include 'Lady of the Dead,' as her role includes keeping watch over the bones of the dead. In Aztec mythology, Mictecacihuatl is the ' Queen of Mictlan' (the Aztec underworld), ruling over the afterlife with her husband Mictlantecuhtli. As such, it is common in Spanish-speaking cultures to personify death as a female figure. La Calavera Catrina Latin America Īs is the case in many Romance languages (including French, Portuguese, Italian, and Romanian), the Spanish word for death, muerte, is a feminine noun.

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