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For over 40 years, traditionally the “Festival of the Lunes del Cerro” are held in the City of Oaxaca, the two Mondays following July 16. The Guelaguetza is an event in which the whole people, regardless of social status.
Apparently, this holiday has its origins in the colonial era and are related to the feast of Corpus called the Church of Carmen Alto, Carmelite temple built at the foot of a hill which the Zapotecs had called the Bella Vista, and held the Sunday after July 16 and repeated eight days later in the “eighth”.
These festivities will soon add the excitement of the indigenous residents of the towns surrounding the city, particularly those of “Guaxaca”, which was the capital of the Marquis del Valle Hernan Cortes granted by the King of Spain, and Xochimilco which had been founded in 1521, on the orders of Hernán Cortés himself, to the north of that city.
They maintained their own traditions, according to the what, celebrating a festival dedicated to Centéotl, goddess of sweet corn, a fifth were great honors and offerings.
The inevitable interaction between the groups and the efforts of the missionaries to make acceptable the imposition of Catholic rituals, made possible the development of a cult in which incorporated elements of indigenous tradition, making it festive and spectacular external liturgies, from the time that Indians, blacks and Spanish began to live more intensely.
As part of the festivities today are inscribed “Celebrations of the Lunes del Cerro”, which now features the spectacle of dance music, dances and songs called Guelaguetza.
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