(14 Aug 2024)
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Mexico City, Mexico – 13 August 2024
1. Claudia Santos, believer in portraying a Mexica tradition, prepares the offering for the commemoration of the Day of Indigenous Resistance
2. Figurine of last Mexica emperor, Cuauhtemoc
3. Santos stirs fire in incensory
4. Various of Santosp perfuming Franco Armenta, with copal incense
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Claudia Santos, believer of Mexica Indigenous tradition:
"After 503 (since colonization) we have reinterpreted our history, this being the Mexica tradition and beliefs. This is the moment and resurgence of our tradition, of our several native tribes and original townships. This is why it is important to make this kind of work to honor our grandfather Cuauhtemoc."
5. Various of people taking part in ceremony to commemorate Indigenous resistance
6. Hands holding incense and purple and red varieties of maize
7. Various of ceremony in the atrium of a church
8. Armenta speaking in Nahuatl language
9. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Franco Armenta, believer of Mexica Indigenous tradition:
"This is the last place of the heroic defense of Mexico-Tenochtitlan city."
9. Offering with fruits and mockup of a high-class warrior helmet
10. Various of people dancing to drums
11. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Claudia Santos, believer of Mexica Indigenous tradition:
"Where is all that diffusion of knowledge and recognition, the glory and fame of the Mexico-Tenochtitlan city, the Mexico-Tlatelolco city? This is why we are here, resisting."
12. Armenta dressed up as a Mexica Eagle warrior
13. Woman dancing and singing
14. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Franco Armenta, believer of Mexica Indigenous tradition:
"The Tenochca people (native of Tenochtitlan) and the Tenochca army, took the Spanish army out of Tenochtitlan, defeating them."
15. Man painting face for the ceremony
16. People get ready for the ceremony
17. Man playing a conch shell
STORYLINE:
Claudia Santos’ spiritual journey has left a mark on her skin.
Soon after the 50-year-old embraced her pre-Hispanic heritage and pledged to speak for her ancestors’ worldview in Mexico City, she tattooed the symbol “Ollin” — which translates from Nahuatl as “movement” — on her wrist.
Santos was dressed in white and feathers hanging from her neck, ahead of the ancestral Mexica ceremony that she performed on Tuesday in the neighborhood of Tepito.
Since 2021, when she co-founded an organization that raises awareness on her community’s Mexica heritage, Santos and members of close indigenous communities gather in mid-August to honor Cuauhtémoc, who was the last emperor or “tlatoani” of Mexico-Tenochtitlan — as the capital was known — before the city fell to the Spaniards in 1521.
"After 503 (since colonization) we have reinterpreted our history, this being the Mexica tradition and beliefs. This is the moment and resurgence of our tradition, of our several native tribes and original townships,"Santos said about the neighborhood, which is one of oldest in the Mexican capital.
The site that she chose for performing the ceremony has a profound sacred meaning in Mexico’s history.
Though it’s currently a Catholic church, it’s also the site where Cuauhtémoc — not only a political, but a spiritual leader — initiated the final defense of the territory that was lost to the European conquerors.
Santos explained that the site where the church now stands is aligned with the sun.
Before Tuesday’s ceremony, as this year’s activities were inaugurated on August 9, a Mayan spiritual guide was also invited to perform a ritual at the church’s main entrance.
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