CELEBRATION IN NAOLINCO
CELEBRATION IN NAOLINCO The celebration in Naolinco, a town of Totonac origin, has gained singular renown and starts from the patronal feast in honor of San Mateo Apóstol, on September 21, when the pilatos appear, the traditional dance, and the blacks, comparsa fight battles with Lord Santiago and his army. It is from that date when the dances announce the beginning of Todos Santos, time in which agricultural activities are intensified, announcing the harvest of various products such as corn, squash, beans, flower of the dead or cempoalxócilt. Productive and commercial work increases. The Naolinqueños, hurrying in the intricate streets, still adorned with small altars in honor of San Mateo. Little by little people are seen building metal structures to coat them with paper and paste, giving shape to skulls made with great skill and dexterity, which acquire artistic trappings of paper, glitter and any amount of paraphernalia. The domestic trades are modified: women...