Santa Muerte in Mexico City

On my Mexico journey, I visited the most dangerous neighborhood in Mexico City and experienced the festivity honoring the Lady of the Death, Santa Muerte — is celebrated every first of the month in the heart of Tepito, Mexico City.

The devotees are confident she is a sacred being who protects their life. They decorated her in vibrant dresses, a pretty robe, shimmering velvet, and sequins, and carrying a scythe.

The cheer of La Santa Muerte “Chiquitibum a la bim bom ba, Chiquitibum a la bim bom ba, a la bio, a la bao, a la bim bom ba, La Santa rah rah rah.. Se ve, Se Siente, La Santa está Presente — means you can see it, you can feel it, the Saint is here, heard over the Tepito on that day.

I arrived along with the pilgrims where they walked, and some crawled on their knees cradling the La Muerte in their arms head toward the public shrine. They looked pain-like in the atonement for their sins.

While heading to the altar, I was stunned by the solemn procession, where they exhaled smoke from marijuana cigarettes to La Muerte, splashed in the Mezcal*, and sprayed a kind of air freshener on her, which is believed to remove the negative energy. They also have offerings, such as sweets, flowers, fruits, candles, and rosaries.

Once I reached the sanctuary, I met a woman named Samantha. She looks around her 50s. She is not someone who had come from another place, her house just across the altar.

“I have been through a lot of things. God and she are the ones who have given me the strength to face it,” She instantly bursts into tears. “We live what we want to live, either better or worse, yet of course, I want to be generous, and I am so lucky to have her by my…

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