Traditional Indigenous Tzotzil Chamulan Worship Service in Nichnamtic Chiapas, Mexico
A few hundred years ago the Indigenous Tzotzils expelled the Catholic priests from their churches and now practice a religion that is a mixture of pagan ritual and Christianity. At the services quantities of cigarettes, Pox (pronounced “Posh” a liquor made from sugar cane) and Coca Cola are consumed (the latter presumably to create big belches that expel evil spirits from the body). A brass band plays, homemade bottle rockets are fired and ritual dances are performed for a variety of saints. There are no pews and the floors are covered with pine needles and hundreds of candles.
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