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Zinacantan Carnival.

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The carnival in Zinacantán is one of the richest and most complicated, in which aspects of the cultural history of Zinacantán are represented, where before the Conquest there was contact with Aztec merchants who introduced concepts such as K'uk'ui Chon, Quetzalcóatl or the Feathered Serpent that is still personified in the carnival.
This festival occupies a central place and is a symbolic model of the natural and social structures that still prevail. For the Zinacantecos, the world is divided into an Indian sector and a Ladino sector, and in the carnival they reaffirm these divisions of the universe with ritual force and give the Zinacanteco judgment on them.

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