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CELEBRATIONS, DANCES AND TRADITIONS
In the month of May
Santa Cruz and in the month of January is celebrated
the celebration of the Three Kings. Between the traditional
dances they are the dance of the pig head in which a
person maintains in the head a tray with a cooked head
of pig and adorned with perforated paper and the other
people they dance with her. Another dance is the Tape
in which the dancers tile figures with tapes multicolors
that are come off the end of a post of around 10 meters
in length.
MUSIC
The folk music is executed
by well-known musical sets like the Mayan Pax, formed
by violins, drum of tree trunk, snail, guitar and harmonica.
DANCES
The dances of the Mayans
of the region of Santa Cruz de Bravo were the jaranas
and they took place to the doors of the Church, the
compass of a set of two violins, a siren, a big drum,
a tarola and tunkul, that such Mayan touched, being
the jaranas more pleased the Zunzureña, the Xcaxán-Ichamí
(to look for husband), the Xpaat-Ichamí (to leave husband)
and the Xpic-Ituz call. All the dancers who attended
used hats adorned with tapes of different colors from
a meter of length.
The gallants, when going to remove to dance to a girl
or lady, untied a great red handkerchief who took specifically
tieed to the neck and taking hold it by an end, approached
the girl of their election, they gave return him to
the eddy handkerchief and without pronouncing word some
they backed down to wait for it; if he were corresponded,
the pair rose and directed to the front of that had
invited it, and already together they arrived until
the doors of the temple, they persignaban themselves
and immediately they initiated the dance and finished
the piece they became to persignar and the girl seated
in her place.
In case of not being accepted in his first invitation,
the gallant repeated it until twice, and if he were
not corresponded either, he retired to prove fortune
with another dancer. He is peculiar that the dancers,
generally convalescent women of some disease, danced
to fulfill the done promise santo if they cured themselves.
She is from that they did not dance of taste, but like
making penance..
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