"The future must know where you've been."
@Totalanimefan: Celebrating the lives of those passed on!! Traditionally, an altar called an ofrenda is used to place items the deceased liked in their lives, as well as food offerings and stuff like that. Every year I make a mini ofrenda for my passed on cats - I put cat toys on there, and like, wet cat food >w>
Common things to offer are pan de muertos (which is a sweet bread), wine/beer/alcohol in general, tamales, etc. Candles and flowers are also used to decorate the altars, plus it's common to do crafts like sugar skulls or papel picado (colorful banner things?? they're cut up from paper!)
"The past predicts the state you're in!"