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The dances, which reflect Mexican syncretism, went on for hours.

Day of the Dead is one of Mexico’s great visual spectacles — and a celebration of cultural syncretism.

He said 94% of the parents he studied embraced “a disparate, irreconcilable collection of beliefs” he called syncretism.

More important, they speak to the long tradition of syncretism that has always defined India, a tradition that contemporary politics increasingly — and tragically — aims to erase.

The Empress of the Americas and the patron saint of Mexico, this brown-skinned apparition of the Virgin Mary also represents the power of syncretism, since she’s a combination of European and Indigenous traditions.