by Thomas Humphrey, photos and text
This ceremony of indigenous origin dates from 1531, when Chichimeca captains and Indians already evangelized, fought against their own racial brothers to get them out of idolatry and lead them towards the Christian faith.
This historical moment is remembered every year, with the entry of the Xúchiles and the souls in honor of all the ancestors who fell in this battle for the conquest of the Christian religion.
Xúchiles are funeral offerings in the form of flowers and cacti about two meters wide and the height of a story-and-a- half building. They are intrinsic to the Chichimeca (indigenous hunter gatherers) celebrations of the town’s namesake, St. Michael the Archangel’s, feast day in San Miguel de Allende.
The aerial photo is not mine. It just gives a sense of the atmosphere of the celebration and procession. The other nine photos are mine.
Thomas Humphrey Photography
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Thomas Humphrey: "I have been making photographs for nine years. During the first two years I was living in California and I had a full-time rather demanding job so maybe that was just a warm-up period. For the last seven years I have been retired and contentedly living in San Miguel spending more time with photography."
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