Tlalmanalli indigenous ceremony opens Generation Equality Forum in Mexico
Indigenous women’s groups perform a Tlalmanalli opening ceremony to kick off the Generation Equality Forum in Mexico. The ceremony was held at the Complejo Cultural Los Pinos in Mexico City on 29 March 2021.
“Tlalmanali” from the Nahuatl indigenous language, is an “offering to the earth.” a traditional greeting to the four winds, which consists of an altar on the ground that forms a circle surrounded by natural elements, divided into four directions (south, north, east and west). Each symoolizes an element of nature (earth, water, air, fire). It represents the seed fire of inauguration.
The collectives in charge of the ceremony were: Red Autónoma de Médicos Tradicionales y Parteras CDMX y Area Metropolitana, Colectivo de parteria LOG OLAJ ALAXIN SAGRADO NACIMIENTO, and Casa de medicina tradicional Ixchel.
Photo: UN Women/Paola Garcia
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Tlalmanalli indigenous ceremony opens Generation Equality Forum in Mexico
Indigenous women’s groups perform a Tlalmanalli opening ceremony to kick off the Generation Equality Forum in Mexico. The ceremony was held at the Complejo Cultural Los Pinos in Mexico City on 29 March 2021.
“Tlalmanali” from the Nahuatl indigenous language, is an “offering to the earth.” a traditional greeting to the four winds, which consists of an altar on the ground that forms a circle surrounded by natural elements, divided into four directions (south, north, east and west). Each symoolizes an element of nature (earth, water, air, fire). It represents the seed fire of inauguration.
The collectives in charge of the ceremony were: Red Autónoma de Médicos Tradicionales y Parteras CDMX y Area Metropolitana, Colectivo de parteria LOG OLAJ ALAXIN SAGRADO NACIMIENTO, and Casa de medicina tradicional Ixchel.
Photo: UN Women/Paola Garcia
Read More: www.unwomen.org/en/news/stories/2021/3/press-release-open...