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From NPR music, this is Alt Latino. I'm Felix Contreraseras as we do every year at this time this

week we take a few moments to share our alt-latino sonic altar and we like to think of it as a

musical di di de los mortals altar in which we asked you to send us some musical dedications to friends

and family you may have lost recently and the idea is not to lament their passing, but to celebrate the fact that they lived.

And remember, Dia de los Mertos has its roots in a Mexican folk tradition.

Some studies suggest it's pre-Columbian.

And if you've heard this show before, you know, I always start with some music from the late Mexican musician Jorge Reyes,

who used a lot of

pre-Columbian themes and some instruments in his music.

And now a funeral chant from the soundtrack to the 1983 independent film El Norte,

which was directed by Gregory Nava.

This vocal part is sung in a Mayan dialect, and the words translate to,

We do not come to this earth to live.

We only come here to sleep. We come to sleep and dream.

All things are lent to us as we pass this earth. Tomorrow or the next day, whatever is your wish,

O giver of life, we shall go home to you. Sagi-in'i Khabenash, Paraguayi,

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