I'm doing Mexican day of the dead, and apparently, orange is the main colour. Why?
In Wicca, Orange is also the color that symbolizes the holiday of Samhain, the Celtic day of the dead, known to most as Halloween. It is when the veil or the plain of this universe and the universe the dead inhabit are at a close vibratory state so that the spirits of the dead who haven't yet moved on can interact with this world.
Samhain is also the pagan new year and th last harvest sabbat. In most pagan cultures, any grain not harvested by Samhain is left in the fields for the faeries to have. Orange and Black are the colors of the Wiccan Samhain season and the Orange represents the fall colors and the black represents death.
A lot of Mexican culture comes from Spain, they had Celts and Gauls there once. perhaps it's a carry over. You also may want to check into the native lore too. That would be cool if both sides of the Atlantic had some semblance of the same ritual in paleolithic times.
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