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November 2, 2018
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A woman at an altar in the Janitzio Island pantheon, or cemetery, during Day of the Dead. The decorative, flowered part of the altar symbolizes the entrance door to the world of the dead, the path that must be followed to reach Mictlán, the place of the dead in the pre-Hispanic culture. RNS photo by Irving Cabrera Torres