The Raramuri celebration!!

The sound in the mountain range Tarahumara de Chihuahua changes drastically in Easter. Hundreds of traditional drums, facts with kid leather and wood of pine, resound rhythmic with the beat of the heart of thousands of Indians rarámuris (tarahumaras) who lower of highest of the mountain range or raise of deepest of the ravine in the direction of the mission of Norogachi.

There the dance and the tesgüino meet all of them around, done spiritual drink with maize fermented under earth. The embriaguez devours the religious spirit of the natives tarahumaras of Chihuahua, who celebrate to their way the Easter. For them most important of the celebration it is to dance to call to the good Gods and to emborrachar itself over and over again to remove to the Judas that all, say, bring inside. the mestizo or chabochi.

During days, thousands of Indians rarámuri (light foot) come of their distant communities touching skilfully their drums, warning the other communities that their families will be in the celebration of God, to run to the devil. In Norogachi, within the municipality of Guachochi, the Indians dance the 24 hours of the day.

The spirit of God and the tesgüino make them hold the long days of brincos and jumps, to support to the judas that beat to them with their twig, its bow, "because he is very vague and malicious, the devil in aim", comment. Before, the ceremony is centered in jerarcas of the celebration, that as initiation rite white spots in the body are painted, for that reason the pinto ones call "".

That indicates them like the leaders of its community, wisest, oldest, the most respected by all. The drums at night are accompanied by gigantic bonfires that invite them, in their time from sunrise to sunset, to continue dancing. Viacrucis becomes around the church and the 12 stations in arcs done with pine branches and encino are crossed. Before, the fiestero or leader of the dance throws tesgüino to the four cardinal points. But them they must also accompany the pascoleros, the governors, the soldiers, the musicians, the fariseos and the pinto ones, in a mixture that embriaga just as the tesgüino.

The celebration finishes Saturday when it kills itself or it burns itself to Judas, a straw doll dressed in western clothes, representing chabochi, mestizo, that is, the white man, that stops they is synonymous or incarnation of the bad thing, of the badness, the devil, of which he destroys to rarámuris, and for that reason is necessary to burn it. When burning it, chabochi dies that can have to tarahumara, because when rarámuri acquires the customs of the white man, of the mestizo, then tarahumara dies.

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