A visual research experience: the ceremonial songs of Concheros.
This study – a product of the project “Water and Time Temples”– is an audio-visual research experience which allowed the capture and subsequent analysis and diffusion of the rituals of pre-Columbus origins regarding water cycles. It specifically refers to those rituals practiced by the so-called “graniceros” and “tiemperos” in Amecameca, Atlautla and San Pedro Nexapa, México, by means of the study of “Concheros”, those who execute the dance known as “Aztec Dance”, during which they sing and dance ceremonial dances and songs which are nahua solar rites. On the field participative observation methods were used, for which we counted on the advice of Mr. Gabriel Hernández Ramos, Conchero Captain of La Mesa de Sacromonte in Amecameca. The studied rituals reflect the survival of these ancestral traditions in those towns –although with some unsubstantial changes in the original ways– and keep the solar rites alive amongst their people.