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Between Heaven and Earth

Between Heaven and Earth there is a connection that not everyone is able to perceive and accept. However, for the Tzeltal people, deep in the Lacandon jungle, it is easy to find that emblematic moment on specific dates.

15 min

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Worldview

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2013

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Synopsis

Between Heaven and Earth there is a connection that not everyone is able to perceive and accept. However, for the Tzeltal people, deep in the Lacandon jungle, it is easy to find that emblematic moment on specific dates: the 3 May is one of them.

On that day, the community leaders, accompanied by the most joyful sounds, form a very peculiar connection between Heaven and Earth at specific sites. In their prayers, they pray for their health, daily food and the welfare of the community. They sacrifice farm animals at the foot of the cross and in the sacred places, pour cocoa, liquor, pozol and broth into them; but they also offer up their dance, performing it in front of the cross.

Seen from the outside, this is folklore, but for the Tzeltal, it is honour and glory to the Supreme Being, a connection “between Heaven and Earth”.

Ancestral knowledge Catalan subtitles Culture Identity Tradition World view

Artistic and technic data

Year:

2013

Direction:

Mariano Estrada

Production:

Tseltal Bachajón Comunicación

Indigenous peoples:

Tseltal

Geographic area:

Mexico

Language:

Tseltal

Subtitles:

Spanish, Catalan

Subject:

Worldview

Genre(s):

Documentary

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