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Corpus Christi an artistic dance of tigers, snakes and bees

Along time ago Luciano Toala was taking a walk through the town of Suchiapa when suddenly he heard some music. He wanted to know where it was coming from so he followed the sound until he got to a place inside a tree where he found a honeycomb where the bees were dancing around, he couldn’t believe his eyes so he run and got the people from the village, when everyone came back they found a deer a snake and a tiger worshiping the honeycomb.

Now a day Suchiapa celebrates this event and it has become a tradition that the people from the town celebrate year after year.

The dance started in the prehispanic times, it’s interpreted […]

By Guía Chiapas|2018-04-09T20:14:43-06:00junio 1st, 2012|Categories: June 2012 | gch ®, Sin categoría|Tags: altar´s holy sacrament, artistic, beautiful, bees, calalá, celebration, cemetery, chamulas, Chiapas, cofradía, corpus christi, dance, dancing, deer, deers, drums, el chapulin, eyes, face, festivities, flute, forgiving cross, giant, holy saint, honeycomb, instruments, legends, little giant, locals, luciano toala, makeup, melodies, music, musicians, mysteries, nambusheli, peolple, people, prehispanic, queens, rains, san esteban church, santa anita church, snake, snakes, sound, stories, suchiapa, surimba, tiger, tigers, tizane, town, tradition, village, whistle, worshiping, year|0 Comments

Suchiapa “The way of the leaves”

Photography: René Araujo

Special thanks to: Domingo Champo Pérez

One of the biggest festivities in Suchiapa is the day they honor the “Santa Cruz” (holy Cross). On this day the tradition, which is called the way of the leaves, is about a plant called “espadana”. This plant is found in Nambiyugua and its characterized by its leaves in a shape of a sword and pointy thorns. This place is the scenario to perform what the ancestors have determined to the locals and close by communities. The people make arrangements with lots of time and dedication so on April 26 of […]

By Guía Chiapas|2017-02-07T21:34:42-06:00mayo 1st, 2012|Categories: May 2012 | gch ®, Sin categoría|Tags: activities, altars, ancestors, arrangements, carnival, celebration, Chiapas, collect, collector, communities, dedication, domingo champo pérez, espadaña, faith, family, festivities, food, generation, hill, hojeros, holy cross, las hojas river, leaf, leaves, locals, music, nambiyugua, place, plant, pointy thorns, pozol, rhythm, santa cruz, scenario, shape of a sword, suchiapa, the way of the leaves, tradition, traditional, Tuxtla Gutiérrez AV, villaflores|0 Comments

Tepache or chicha

The word comes from the Nahuatl tepache “tepiatl” which means corn drink was made with this cereal but now its most famous is produced by the mixture of pineapple and sugar.

One of the most popular fermented beverage of Mexico, as it usually has a low alcohol level in form of processing (less than 1% Alc. V ol), the custom of making this drink with corn continues in several communities especially Indians of Mexico, as in the states of Oaxaca, Queretaro, Guerrero, Sonora, Yucatan and Chiapas, where a higher alcohol level was subject to Mayan religious cults.

Today in Chiapas, tepache is made for both home and commercial use, although the quantity produced has been slowing due to […]

By Guía Chiapas|2017-02-07T21:34:44-06:00marzo 1st, 2012|Categories: March 2012 | gch ®, Sin categoría|Tags: alcohol, beverage, brown sugar, celebration, cereal, Chiapas, chicha, communities, corn, drink, guerrero, indians, mayan, méxico, mixture, náhuatl, oaxaca, panela, pineapple, pineapple skins, querétaro, religious cults, sonora, tapachula, tepache, tepiatl, Tuxtla Gutiérrez AV, word, yucatán|0 Comments