Wednesday, August 29, 2012

The Fighting Farm Women of Guerrero, Mexico

http://www.vice.com/read/mexican-fem...ource=vicefbus



In May of every year, farmers from La Esperanza—a Nahua village in the state of Guerrero, Mexico—prepare their land for seeding. The fields are ploughed and the seeds germinated, but it's common local knowledge that the rain to grow the crops won't arrive without a little extra seduction. So, while the farmers outfit their land, the rest of the villagers begin preparing a ceremony to ask for rain.


The basis of this quaint little ceremony involves women from a few of the local communities beating the living **** out of each other so that they can collect the spilt blood in buckets and use it to plough and water the land. Real gentle, spiritual stuff.



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