Día de Muertos-Totenblume – Cempasúchil gestalten

In the organizer's words:

On November 2, we will be celebrating the Mexican Day of the Dead with the Mexican community in Bremen. We need lots of paper flowers to decorate the festival and the altar, the ofrenda!

Cempasúchil is the name of the Mexican marigold flower(Tagetes erecta). With its bright orange-yellow petals, the cempasúchil reminds us of the sun and life. The word "cempasúchil" comes from the Nahuatl word (the language of the Aztecs) zempoalxochitl, which means twenty flowers: zempoal means "twenty" and xochitl means "flower". The number twenty is used in this case to mean numerous, referring to the many petals of the flower, so it is the "flower with many petals". They are also used as a medicinal plant.

These flowers are also called flor de muertos in Mexico because they play a prominent role in the Mexican Day of the Dead celebrations. The bright orange color is said to show the deceased the way when they return from the realm of the dead on this day to celebrate with their living relatives. In Mexico, they are grown everywhere and harvested on the Day of the Dead.

From 6 years | Meeting point: Permanent exhibition Asia or America
Museum admission | Without registration