Hanal pixán

The "Hanal pixán ", or eaten of the bores, is a tradition of the Mayan town that takes to the end to remember of a special way the friends and relatives who went ahead in the eternal trip. It is a special event for the family of the deceaseds, because they know that, in these days, from the 31 of October to the 2 of November, the bores " receive permission " to visit their relatives.

The first day is dedicated to the children and they call U HANAL PALAL.The second day, 1 of November, it is dedicated to the dead adults and they call U HANAL NUCUCH UINICOOB, and the third day mass is U HANAL PIXANOOB called in some places " pixán " because that day a dedicated mass is applied to the bores, generally in the cemetery of the population.

It is accustomed, mainly in the State, that the children use during those days a ribbon of red or black color in the right wrist, order that the bores do not take them. Also one gets used to mooring the animals of the

house, because they could see the bores and prevent the passage them towards the "altar". The tradition includes several rites, but the main one consists of placing a table that works like "altar", where is placed typical food of the season: papaya, tamales, candy, oranges, mandarins, jícamas, mucbilpollos, new cornflour , all this adorned with photos and flowers.

The offerings for the late children are placed in an altar decorated with a table cloth embroidered in glad tones, toys and food of their preference, like chocolate, tamales, " pibes ", candies, fruits of the season, new cornflour drink and yuca with honey, and it is adorned with flowers of " xpujuc " (of wild type and yellow color), The day of the children will be put, in addition to foods and candies, toys. Second and third days put in table eaten and drinks, as well as brandy and cigarettes if it is that the deads that remember were used to eating certain stews, drinking or smoking. As it will be seen, the main element of this ritual is the foods, whose names are words of Mayan origin.

There is the belief that some days before the ceremony the souls come to wash their clothes and to prepare themselves to receive the tributes, and hope well to be treated by the living beings, who are due to worry about the attention about the offerings about meals, drinks, etc., to which the deceaseds were affection, because of another way they would not return to the world of the alive ones.