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.
Tot nu toe
betreft het een viertal vakanties: Suriname,
Egypte, Peru, Bolivia en Mexico. Verder een kort
fotoverslag van de zonsverduistering in 1999 te
noord-frankrijk in de buurt van het plaatsje
Spincourt. Er is een mogelijkheid om mijn
gastenboek te tekenen. Deze homepage is
ontworpen door Sander van Kuppevelt (sandervk).
