San Mateo Tlacotepec is a traditional Totonacan town during the town’s festival on 12/13.The festival includes, processions, dancers, mass firework and an unique blessing of the for cardinal points. The four points are sacred to the Totonaca.©Robert Freund 200712/25/2007
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The festival in San Mateo is a traditional one with a mass, procession, dancers and fire works. One of the more interesting aspects was that the final part of the mass was the blessing of the four cardinal points. The cardinal points are important in Totonacan indigenous culture.
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Blessing the cardinal points

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Fire works
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Attending the open air mass
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