Your Day of the Dead Altar can be an amazing way to celebrate Dia de Los Muertos this Fall. Honor your relatives with this truly authentic Mexican tradition.

On your altar, each tool and symbol holds significance, creating a focus for your energy and intentions. Common tools include: Athame : A ceremonial blade representing the element of air, used to ...

Each altar is unique, and it can be a collective ofrenda, honoring more than one person. It can include some symbols of the traditional altars built in Mexico, but it can be as modest or elaborate ...

Your ancestors don't have to feel like a distant memory. Spiritual practitioners share cross-cultural guidance on how to set up a ritual and an altar to honor them at home.

An altar from the Teotihuacan culture, at the pre-Hispanic heart of what became Mexico, was discovered in Tikal National Park in Guatemala, the center of Mayan culture, demonstrating the ...

Archaeologists working in an ancient Mayan city have unearthed a mysterious 1,700-year-old altar whose bright decorations and grim contents may hold the key to unraveling the complex geopolitics ...

The painted altar. The altar stands in the courtyard of what was once a wealthy, influential person’s home in Tikal. At just over 1 meter tall, spanning nearly 2 meters in length and 1.3 meters ...