thephotosocietyのインスタグラム(thephotosociety) - 4月14日 04時58分

Photo by @davidalanharvey. From my book “Divided Soul”.. it’s Holy Week in Chicahuastla, Oaxaca, México. I arrived days early for Semana Santa in the indigenous mountain town in the Trique language region. There are 17 different indigenous languages in Oaxaca. They don’t speak Spanish amongst themselves. Only when confronted by outsiders. In the highlands they have their own version of Christianity. They hid their tribal religion from the Spanish priests and soldiers and “faked it” mixing their own Sun God and Rain God in with Maria and Jesus. A common practice among the indigenous tribes and African slaves all over the Caribbean and the Americas all the way down to the southern tip of South America. The Conquistadores didn’t quite get it all. Most of my Mexican friends have never been to the indigenous regions. A foreign land to them. Zero relationship. Would be as much outsiders here as was I. The story of the cultural migration from Iberia to West Africa to the Americas fascinated me for 25 years resulting in Divided Soul. I’m not an academic nor an expert. Yet I’ve read those who are. Then I go in and get in the dirt, the sweat, the mud, the blood, and the beer. I sleep on the floor.I bond on some spiritual level that has zero to do with any denomination. I take pictures. I bring back prints. I return sometimes many years later and they haven’t forgotten me. Nor I them. Sometimes things don’t fall into any normal category of experience. That’s always what I like best.#mexico #oaxaca

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