A group of tecuanes, actual gladiators of the central Guerrero Nahua rain-propitiating festivals. This particular group will square off against groups from two other barrios in traditional ritual combat originally staged to reinforce boundaries as well as experience pain to be propitiated to the rain god, syncretized with the holy cross. They are dancing on a Zitlaltepec, the mountaintop that touches the stars.

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