LOS PINTOS – TARAHUMARAS 82

“At the Holy Week celebrations, the Taharumara invent or rediscover ritual dances of men with painted faces and bodies. A commemoration of prepararing for which combat?” (Raymonde Carasco)

“Dances with Judas-Lucifer as a reproductive force.
‘Judas, we Fariseos, we call him Kumuchi,
the paternal uncle, the brother of God,
the one who is abajo, in the nether world,
who shuts off the water, the gates of rain.
It doesn’t rain now because we don’t dance.
We don’t dance the Tutuguri or the Yumari.
Me, after the sowing, I’ll dance again’, Felipe the Raspador’s assistant told us.” (Régis Hébraud)