The Day of the Dead (El Día de los Muertos or All Souls' Day) The Day of the Dead (El Día de los Muertos or All Souls' Day) is a holiday celebrated in Mexico and by Latin Americans. The holiday is about in gatherings of family and friends to pray and remember friends and family members died. The celebration occurs in November 2nd in connection with the Catholic holiday Traditions include visiting the cemetery, with family and friends to cleaning and paint the tombs and adorn the graves with colors flowers The origin of now the call day of deads is not clear, goes back until year 800 a.c in the dead Festival, celebrated between the Aztecs in the months of July and August, to celebrate the end of the maize harvest, bean, pea and pumpkin, that comprised of the offering to the Mictecacihuatl goddess. This Goddess, queen of Chinahmictlan was the guardian of the ninth level of hell, Mictlan call.