Danza del Volador, dance of the
bird man.
A folklore activity of Mexicans, in former days a fertility ritual for a
Totonec rain god. We have seen them in the Chapultepec park, near the
anthropological museum.
The pole is approximately 30 meters high. 5 exotic dressed men climb to the
top of the pole. 4 of them have a rope around their waist of which the other
end has been fastened just beneath the platform. On the flute tones and
drumming of the LEADER (above in the pole) the 4 other men let themselves
fall with their head down. With stretch out arms every ' flyer ' completes
exactly 13 rotations, before ending up on the ground. The total number of,
4x13=52, corresponds to the cycle of the
Aztec calendar.
See here the 4 aviators and the man in the top.
The dance has almost been
completed.
Back on the ground again. The man
direct left of the pole was the pole sitter, the man with flute and drum.
Until now it
concerns some holidays: Surinam, Egypt, Peru,
Bolivia and Mexico. Further on a brief photo
report of the sun eclipse of 1999 in
north-France nearby the little village Spincourt.
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