Día de los Muertos

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Across
  1. 6. "Skull" in Spanish.
  2. 10. An elaborately decorated altar or shrine dedicated to the deceased.
  3. 11. Pan de ______, sweet bread that is left on the ofrendas for the deceased.
  4. 12. Region stretching from Central Mexico to Costa Rica.
Down
  1. 1. Refers to the era before the arrival of the Spanish.
  2. 2. Spanish word for candle.
  3. 3. Flower used ofrendas and in the cemetery, its scent attracts the spirits of the deceased.
  4. 4. The migration of these insects are symbolic of the spirits of the dead returning home.
  5. 5. Most famous calavera created by José Guadaulpe Posada.
  6. 7. Burned to attract the spirits of the ancestors.
  7. 8. Spanish word for bones.
  8. 9. This group of mesoaméricans believed that a person had three souls.