“Bolom Chon”; it’s a song played in total devotion to a jaguar, the Bolom, that comes to visit the Chamulans, Mayans from the highlands of Chiapas, Mexico, with their lives of goat-herding and back-strap looms, their traditional skirts that tell to which social class one belongs, their cement architecture, cowboy hats, and world renowned Carnaval.
Tzotzil Mayan musicians preparing to play the “Bolom Chon” for the Señor de Tila festival in San Andrés Larráinzar. Photo: Adolf Alzuphar.
Zinacantán, Mexico, Sept 16 (EFE).- Around 3,000 Tzotzil Indigenous People, along with municipal authorities, education committees and students from Zinacantán, Chiapas, in southern Mexico, participated in the parade to commemorate the 213th anniversary of the Mexican War of Independence. Prior to the civic ceremony, the Tzotzil Mayan authorities prepared an ancestral ritual in which they …