Tradition, Pulque and Death

The first time that you drink pulque you don’t get drunk, you get magical, at least that’s what those who know says. The certain thing is that since its birth, this prehispanic beverage has been associated with a mistic sense. It was the ancient Aztec settlers who, in their worldview of the world, named deity Mayahuel as “maguey goddess”, maguey is the plant from which the pulque is extracted. Nowadays, more than 500 years away, the pulque is considered “The Beverage of the Gods.”

It is a bittersweet alcoholic concoction with a thick and foamy consistency that can be mixed with an infinite number of fruits, vegetables and other foods to give it different flavors. This mixture is called “curados”. There are curados of oats, celery, guava, orange, melon or pineapple. And other more exotic, such as curados of chili, Kinder Delice — a famous chocolate — , lemon pie and recently curados of cempasuchil.

The cempasuchil is not a fruit or a vegetable, it is a flower traditionally used to decorate the offerings that are placed in Mexico City each year, between November 1 and 2, to honor the dead. Yes, it’s that yellowish-orange colored flower whose beauty astonished everyone in Coco, Disney’s movie. From the end of October, that flower floods the streets, markets, houses, offices and Instagram posts in Mexico. It is perhaps the main element on altars that offer tribute to loved ones who are no longer with us.

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