Image Description: En 2009 fue proclamado Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial de la Humanidad por la Unesco.
Las danzas indígenas trataron de ser prohibidas por los misioneros españoles en América, por lo que la permanencia de esta tradición se limita grupos nahuas y totonacos de la Sierra Norte de Puebla y el Totonacapan veracruzano, siendo bastante popular y difundido en Papantla, Veracruz, por lo que a los voladores se les conoce como “Voladores de Papantla”. Algunos grupos de indígenas de esas regiones se han trasladado a diversos puntos de la República Mexicana, como el Museo Nacional de Antropología en la Ciudad de México y el parque eco-arqueológico Xcaret en Quintana Roo, donde hacen una breve representación del ritual indígena.
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Image Description: According to Totonac myth, at least 450 years ago there was a severe drought that brought hunger to the people. The gods were withholding the rain because the people had neglected them. The ceremony was created, to appease the gods and bring back the rains. In some versions of the story, the ritual is created by the old men of a village, who then chose five young men who were chaste. In other versions, the five men themselves create the ritual. The tallest tree in the nearby forest is cut down, with the permission of the mountain god, stripped of branches and dragged to the village. The trunk is erected with much ceremony. The youths climb the pole and four jump off while the fifth played music. The ritual pleased the rain god Xipe Totec and other gods, so the rains began again and the fertility of the earth returned.
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