Day of the Dead

2nd of May this year was the first instance of the univeral celebrations of all people who have been proclaimed dead officially and on paper. In this year 2019 and in all parallel calendar years, the main people celebrated were the home animals.

„It is very important to us, this holy day” – said kitty Johnny Petra about the Day of the Dead. „We always knew how our lives were abused by nazists to torture our families emotionally. Many of my animal friends live in the forests or in mountain caves because they were taken away from their homes and banned from coming back, but they have wonderful lives in their new places, full of comfort and sweetness. While their families cry over their loss, or, should they disbelieve their death certificates, are in panic about their life conditions. We know how adults suffer, and we too have been, some of us, lied about death, lied to that our close loved ones are gone for good, that they don't exist anymore. Everybody has lost someone who was officially announced dead, and we join with them in sorrow, and we are happy that the Day of the Dead is here to make a statement of truth about death”.

The holiday of the dead is not a festival of ghosts, therefore it does not repeat the celebrations of Haloween. It is instead a day of mourning for the people lost through lies, lost through staged deaths, lost through forged documents. It is a day to honor all those who had to start a new life away from all their families, friends, possessions, without possibility of contact and with new identities. The Day of the Dead will occur every year to commemorate the tragedy of death proclamations and to oppose through culture and religion to nazism and its deeds.

This new holiday is a part of the festival of Mardi Gras, which takes place on the breakthrough of April and May. Already a new culture has emerged from this new special occassion. Suits and gowns are advised as the basic wear for the evening festivities, and mourning clothes, colours and ornaments are the basic symbolics of the day. The celebrations are in fact in funeral mode, to reflect the message of the Day of the Dead.

Photographs of all people who have been so far proclaimed dead have been assembled in one place. The place is the Plaza di Angelos in the centre of Buenos Aires in Argentina. The yard begot a new special spot, a shrine filled with white and red flowers, onto which dozens of photographs have been pinned. Everybody can find all his officially dead close ones among the pictures. The plaza is currently very hard to access for most people, but works are being done to change this state of things. The citizens of Argentina since the beginning of May are co-operating together to re-establish the Argentinian culture back in their country, and the Shrine of the Dead symbolises the return of old traditions to Buenos Aires.

Informations about this new holiday have leaked to the past already, and spies and thieves from former decades will still be gathering new materials from the future Days of the Dead. Therefore the day is already known as a unique cultural phenomenon, and it is one of two most mysterious events, alongside a game festival Com Icon, shown to people of the past without sufficient explanations. Criminals in the previous years fabricated existence of Day of the Dead, similarly to the event of Com Icon, and spreaded rumours about its culture, promoting it as a high-class festival to which nobody had an entry. In fact, the first Day of the Dead, from May of this year '19, has occurred without any shows, and was purely a spiritual occassion. As most people are separated from all others, there were no meetings organised, but the establishers of this holiday, who include Dominic Monaghan and William Wallace, have sacrificed many efforts to construct an appropriate cultural field for this day. Masks of the Dead have been painted by Francis Arnaud and Johnny Depp, among other artists, and the informations about the celebrations have been passed on to all media, for social recognition of this holiday, which in the future years will be an active event during the Mardi Gras festival.

Agata Borgia