Altar a los luchadores, Dia de Muertos.

Amy posted really nice pictures about their Halloween celebration; in one of them, we can see a first grade mom in a "Mexican wrestler costume". That happen to be Blue Demon. I couldn't help it, my memory started to work, remembering my childhood.

Tomorrow November second, is "Dia de los Santos Difuntos" or Day of the Dead.

In short, this is a tradition where people remember family members and friends that are dead, in many places they arrange something called "altar". In los altares, you put pictures, favorite food, water, marginold flowers, bread and candles, because it is supposed the Dead come to visit. Among the Dead are the mythic Mexican wrestlers or "Los ídolos de la lucha profesional".

Maybe the readers do not need to know this, but for us, Mexicans out there, the Wrestling heroes, or "luchadores" are something attached to our Mexican identity. Many of us, boys and girls during the 60s and 70s grew up watching "los luchadores" on the movies or wrestling on t.v. Every body knows who is the "Blue Demon and El Santo, el enmascarado de plata" (The Saint, Silver mask). Those are the Mexican Super-heroes. People feel the same to them as for the very favorite football or baseball team, the core of the popular culture.

Both are dead now, Both deserve a tribute. There are legends around their names, their identities, since they were very good kept in secret. Who was better than the other, who was more athletic, who was more honest with his fans, who got the coolest mask. Both of them have sons wrestling as Juniors these days.

Want to hear Los luchadores song, click.
Want to see El Santo 60s movie, his real voice was covered for a more masculine one. click
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