Tihosuco

Syncretism in Mayan Lands

Ongoing project that portrays how foreign traditions of colonialism and westernization landed in Mayan lands of the Yucatan peninsula located in Mexico.

This town dates back to 1550, and was established as part of the congregation policies subsequent to the conquest.

TihoSuco is one of the cradle towns of the Mayan revolution in the years 1861. From there the revolutionary movements began to be assembled until it was completely abandoned after the war. Refounded forty years after the conflict by inhabitants of the Mayan peninsular sector who inhabited the colonial buildings and settled in them. This documentation of the people of Tihosuco invites us to look at this religious syncretism and its ways of developing them, with the unique codes of each place come together, rooted in the vast majority of the peoples of the Yucatan peninsula. The movement is called Caste War that the Mayan natives of the south and east of Yucatan began in July 1847 against the population of "whites" (Creoles and mestizos), who were mostly established in the northwestern portion of the Yucatan peninsula.