This community in Mexico wages the annual wars to bring rain
Throughout Mexico, you can still find annual traditional rituals to ensure that it is raining in crops. One of the most famous of these rituals takes place in a small community in the southern state of Kuriro, where residents are doing a century old ritual war in Jaguar dress in exchange for annual rainfall.
Were called The tigers’ fighting or fighting of the Jaguars (The LTTE’s fight/jagars fight), the ritual is believed to be hundreds of years.
The festival, which is rooted in the precedent practices and later, is another example of religious synchronization in Mexico during the Colonialism of Spain, which explains why the ritual is referred to as the LTTE’s fight: the Jaguas, not breeding to Latin America.
“We ask God to help us bring enough water to our crops every year,” says one of the participants says In this video. “Some participants struggle. Some people don’t fight. Some people struggle until their bodies can no longer bear it.”
The festival, which is held between May 2 and 5 every year, sees the dressing as partners as a jaguars, wearing a yellow suit with black polka spots and masks. With a rope bathing in Meskal to make it difficult, the participants are provoking their enemies, and its pounded blood is a offering of the Mexica god of the rain of rain.
Jaguar has always played a significant role in all prehistoric civilizations in Meso America, which appears to be an important person in the reliefs and sculptures of temples and palaces.
Through music and dancing, participants and participants walk on the streets of the city until they reach the battlefield.
Five to 15 minutes are fighting for five to 15 minutes, followed by a Nahwad proverb of the region, saying, “No matter how much the tigers are bleeding, there will be more rain to sprout the seeds.”
This video examines the annual “tiger” war for rain in Kuerro’s Gitlala.
After the war, the winners and the losers remove their masks to identify themselves to their enemy.
“At the end of the fight, we are always friends. This is an offering for the Goddess of God, so he gives us good rain and we do it with that purpose, not from anxiety or hatred,” Arnbow points out.
To engage in war, participants must follow some strict rules and compete effectively. This includes preparing a month ago, visiting their ancestors, speaking with masks to simulate the Jaguar Spirit, and cleansing their souls through Mescol.
This year’s festival will be held on May 5th.
With reports from Efe
