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.

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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Dancers	The mass	Fire works
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.

Matachines		Torriadores		Blessing the cardinal points


		Fire works	Attending the open air mass

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