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A Mayan woman holds a dried-up scull of a deceased family member during the bone...

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A Mayan woman holds a dried-up scull of a deceased family member during the bone cleansing ritual at the cemetery in Pomuch, Mexico, 26th October 2019 (photo)
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Jan Sochor
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2019 AD (C21st AD)
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2019
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Every year on the Day of the Dead, people of Pomuch, a small Mayan community in the south of Mexico, visit the cemetery to take part in a pre-Hispanic tradition of cleaning of bones of their departed relatives ("Limpia de huesos"). People who die in Pomuch are firstly buried for three years in an above-ground tomb then the dried-up bodies are taken out, bones are separated, wrapped in a decorated cloth, put into a wooden crate, and placed on display among flowers for veneration.

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two persons / 21st century / South America / America (continent) / colour / skull / skeleton / woman / faith / paganism / religion / tradition / culture / photo / Mexico / North America / mzphoto / explicit
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