This week I visited San Juan Chamula, Chiapas in México, a very enigmatic place because of its religious syncretism, which is the combination between Christianity and pre-Hispanic Mayan beliefs.
The Church of the town (in which you can not take pictures inside, which is a shame because it is very interesting what happens there), there are no benches, the floor covered with pine needles and endless candles all over the place and smoke of copal, with indigenous kneeling making murmurs in their language (Tzotzil); more than a church is a center of Mayan healing in conjunction with prayers to San Sebastian, you see people doing a kind of clean with eggs and also practice killing chickens and doing those rites, all this while drinking sodas like Coca Cola and others.
The Chamulas are distinguished by their black wool dress in woman and in some men it is also white.
