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GUELAGUETZA

 

It was constituted where Huayxacac was based and he was teocalli where the one sacrifice was carried out doncella in honor to the Centéotl Goddess. The celebration to the Goddess of the Maize was taken under the Christian control and it went transforming into " Monday of the Hill " and later it took the name from " Guelaguetza ". For the Indians it was the meeting to distract themselves, to dance and to interchange gifts of the products that they had had left after the day of seat of the previous day. The hermitage of Carmelite Santa Veracruz of the Barefoot ones has already been initiating its construction in 1696 for three centuries, on the same temple to the Centéotl Goddess and where long ago the celebration was made of the great gentlemen. Today both Mondays of the Hill, in the Hill of the Bunker and with a great theater outdoors, are the more beautiful, important and spectacular celebrations indigenous of the country. There in both last Mondays of the month of July, folkloric groups arrive from all the regions of the state to show their music and dances. As of 1951 the festividades of Monday of the Hill adopt the popular term of the " Guelaguetza ", because the regional delegations are used to bringing, to give between the traditional public, products (regional fruits, drinks and flowers), in addition to ofrendar to the contenders their music and its dances. Since then, the dances and the donation of gifts constitute the main number of the festividades of " Monday of the Hill ", and the word " Guelaguetza " identifies to the assembly of activities made during First and the Second Monday of the Hill. Thus, the presentation of regional dances, whose contemporary antecedents go back to 1932, as a result of a proposal of distinguished oaxaque6nos worried to maintain the essence of the traditions, from 1974 is made in the Audience of the Hill of the Bunker, whose construction resembles a Greek amphitheatre. Previously, in that site a roundhouse, well-known rose outdoors like " Roundhouse of the Lily ", original seat of the modern festividades the Guelaguetza. From then, the celebrations have stopped being a spontaneous expression of popular participation to become a great event of attractive for the visitors of the City of Oaxaca. The idea to present/display the dances of the different regions from the state has the purpose of showing the public the enormous existing musical diversity, and also of emphasizing the great colorful wealth and of the traditional clothes. On this one it is necessary to write down that to the passage of time some of the original components have come becoming: substitution of natural textiles by synthetic, loss of the models and original designs of the traditional clothes and changes in the original choreographies and music. Like part of these festividades, from 1968 each delegation presents/displays a candidate to the title of " Centeótl Goddess ", in memory to doncella sacrificed so that its town obtained the grace of the Gods. The chosen one is crowned publicly and presides over the festividades. Location the Guelaguetza Audience is located in the hill from the Bunker to the northwest of downtown of Oaxaca, to 2 kilometers (1,2 miles), the approximate time is of 10 minutes in automobile.