#Matachines

[agheaven]

Land of Enchantment

American Girl Magazine, November/December 1995

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Los Matachines de Alcalde, Alcalde, Río Arriba Co, New Mexico. Photo: Gene Peach (Dec 30, 2023)

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"We are not here to fit in, be well balanced, or provide exempla for others. We are here to be eccentric, different, perhaps strange, perhaps merely to add our small piece, our little clunky, chunky selves, to the great mosaic of being. As the gods intended, we are here to become more and more ourselves." 

-James Hollis

[alive on all channels]

[zenithglow]

Last Words of a Raramuri Shaman interview with Filmmaker Richard Hendrick

[literaryvein-reblogs]

Word List: Dance

for your next poem/story

Allemande - a 17th and 18th century court dance developed in France from a German folk dance; a dance step with arms interlaced

Beguine - a vigorous popular dance of the islands of Saint Lucia and Martinique that somewhat resembles the rumba

Bourrée - a 17th century French dance usually in quick duple time

Cabriole - a ballet leap in which one leg is extended in midair and the other struck against it

Chaconne - an old Spanish dance tune of Latin American origin

Czardas - a Hungarian dance to music in duple time in which the dancers start slowly and finish with a rapid whirl

Estampie - a usually textless, monophonic musical work of the late Middle Ages consisting of several repeated units that probably accompanied a dance

Farandole - a lively Provençal dance in which men and women hold hands, form a chain, and follow a leader through a serpentine course

Gavotte - a dance of French peasant origin marked by the raising rather than sliding of the feet

Hora - a circle dance

Juba - a dance that was accompanied by complex rhythmic hand clapping and slapping of the knees and thighs and that was performed on plantations in the southern U.S. by enslaved Black people

Kolo - a central European folk dance in which dancers form a circle and progress slowly to right or left while one or more dancers perform elaborate steps in the center

Lavolta - an early French couple dance characterized by pivoting and making high springs or bounds

Matachin - a dance performed by a matachin (i.e., a sword dancer in a fantastic costume)

Maxixe - a ballroom dance of Brazilian origin that resembles the two-step

Mazurka - a Polish folk dance in moderate triple measure

Passacaglia - an old dance performed to a passacaglia (i.e., an old Italian or Spanish dance tune consisting of variations usually on a ground bass in moderately slow triple time)

Pavane - a stately court dance by couples that was introduced from southern Europe into England in the 16th century

Quadrille - a square dance for four couples made up of five or six figures chiefly in ⁶/₈ and ²/₄ time

Rigadoon - a lively dance of the 17th and 18th centuries

Saltarello - an Italian dance with a lively hop step beginning each measure

Strathspey - a Scottish dance that is similar to but slower than the reel

Tarantella - a lively folk dance of southern Italy in ⁶/₈ time

Varsovienne - a graceful dance similar to a mazurka and popular in many European countries, Mexico, and the U.S.

Zamacueca - a South American especially Chilean courtship dance

More: Word Lists

[samuel-de-luke]

Mañana toca ir a ver a los matachines!! Y esta vaina no la iba a hacer asi pero el jefe me lo modifico al final

[fl3shm4id3n]

Can we get a part 2 of Mexican!reader where maybe she shows them some Mexican clothes and tradtional dances?

Cᵤₗₜᵤᵣₑ ₚₐᵣₜ ᵢᵢ

𝐒𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐲: 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐤𝐢𝐝𝐬 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞, 𝐬𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠.

ᴛʜᴇ ꜱᴜʟʟʏ ᴋɪᴅꜱ x ʟᴀᴛɪɴᴀ/ᴄʜɪᴄᴀɴᴀ! ʜᴜᴍᴀɴ! ʀᴇᴀᴅᴇʀ (ᴘʟᴀᴛᴏɴɪᴄ), ᴍᴇᴛᴋᴀʏɪɴᴀ ᴋɪᴅꜱ x ʟᴀᴛɪɴᴀ/ᴄʜɪᴄᴀɴᴀ! ʜᴜᴍᴀɴ! ʀᴇᴀᴅᴇʀ (ᴘʟᴀᴛᴏɴɪᴄ)

Tw: None ♡

Masterlist

The kids seemed to really like learning about your culture. So you decided to teach them some more about it. Luckily you had found stuff from back home, it bellowed to your mom. You decided to take them to the kids to show them what they were. You had taken some toys, old pictures and you had even found a Oaxaca. It was in condition and it was very pretty.

When you taken the stuff back to the kids, it was Tuk who really liked the Oaxaca, it was black but had very vibrate colors. She had tried it on, it surprisingly fit her. You had let her keep it. You continued to show them the others things, such as the photographs that were from your family. The boys were mainly curious on the toys, since they were slightly similar to the ones that they grew up with.

As you showed Tsireya and Kiri the pictures, you told them about what year they were from and other questions they had. Tsireya was curious if they had any kind of dances and any more kind of clothing. You told them about the Huipil, the china poblana and you had brought up the Oaxaca again. As for the dances, you told her about the Jarabe Tapatío, Concheros, Matachines and Jarana yucateca.

For more information, you had showed them videos of the various dances. They were very interested. The movements from the dancers were very cool to seen, a lot what happening on the video. Not only that, but what they wore, caught their attentions by the colors and how the clothing matches the dancing. This reminded them of their kinds of celebrations and dances when it came to the clans. They too wear attire that fits the dances.

They wanted to try and do those dances. You wanted to try them too. So you all to try and dance, it was hard at first since you didn't have a dance instructor, you had to watch videos in attempt to learn. You and the kids would spend hours watching the videos, trying to study the moves and how to imatate them. Afterwards you'd all be at the beach trying to do those same dance moves, you didn't have the attire that they wore, so you used what you had and even tried remaking the clothing that the dancers wore.

Tsireya was a quick leaner, she already knew how to dance, so it was easy for her to get a hang of the dance. Even though Neteyam wasn't much a dancer, he too learned quickly. Meanwhile Kiri had decided to do her own thing same with Rotxo and Tuk who also decided to do their thing. Both Ao'nung and Lo'ak are tying to one up each other, they weren't dancers, but they still attempted to compete between the two of them

[taravangianlistenstothebeachboys]

Okay I know I was just spitballing before about TLT being influenced alot by Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun. But I finished the second book in the series and there's so much goddamn lyctorhood shit in there! Kept the details in the readbelow, but fuck man its gotta be intentional!

The obvious similarity between what the alzabo does vis a vis Severian/Thecla and what lyctorhood does for Harrow/Gideon. I have consumed you, my love. I've gorged myself on your very selfhood and turned my unfamiliar flesh into your prison. You wake within me and myself becomes yourself.

Its even richer in the wake of The Unwanted Guest. You can't find the body of Chatelain Thecla in here, she's digested, you've become of her, Severian of the Matachin Tower, Severian of the House Absolute! You cannot take another's soul into your own and expect to come out the same person! Severian has a perfect memory, and he perfectly remembers his time growing up among the apprentices of the Torturer's guild, and he perfectly remembers his time growing up among the other chosen daughters of the Exultants.

But also Harrow directly subverts a lot of Severian's whole deal in a way that seems too coincidental to write off. Severian has a perfect memory, and within it he keeps the whole of his lover's life with him past her death. Harrow forced herself to forget Gideon, and in doing so made sure a part of her stayed whole and undigested. Both of them are plagued with hallucinations, both of them are constantly wandering in a recollected past that never was, and yet while Severian's memory renders him overwhelmed by the past Harrow is falling through its absence.

Then there's also the inversion of how they die and how they're consumed. Gideon dies to save Harrow and the rest, all but forcing Harrow to consume her so her death can mean anything, so she could mean anything in death. While Severian tortures Thecla to death. Tortures her to the point of craving death, and hands her the blade (out of pity? sympathy? possessive rage?) that lets her end it quickly. And only after he leaves, only after he speaks of his love for her to everyone who'll listen, only after he meets the man causally responsible for his infatuation that he partakes of her flesh like it was a party drug.

And then there's the way you can see Severian in John. Both of them telling their audience how much the ones they killed and ate meant to them. Both of their stories predicated on their lovers no longer being there to speak of it. The ghosts of Thecla and Alecto and Dolores Haze all trapped on the magic isle of their killer's mournful, crooning, self-aggrandizing autobiographies!

It goes back to the fucking Magician's Apprentice! Its Lolita from the framework of magic and cannibalism and power! "Its about devouring somebody's life," My God!

[ronispadez]

I have a quastion ☝️🤓

Had a matachine dance after a school mass today and was thinking ab this. (Their outfits were so pretty and the drummers were going HAM. loved it)

*Also, a "big celebration" can range from just having a special Mass for her (longer than normal, special decorations, etc) to a whole out celebration. Feast and dancing and everythang

[quuaartzzz]

Danny Lyon, Four Matachines, Tamazunchale, Mexico (1973)

[twinkubus]

ok also finished the shadow of the torturer and quick thoughts

really was into the time severian spent at matachin tower. usually i'm frustrated w/ books that begin w "ahh and here is my life spent as a child..how i grew up..." but this one was doing it for me!!

then dr. talos appeared and i was like. oh right. i think every scene with him sucks LMAO.

i felt a lot of tonal whiplash going from the tower->the outside world which on one hand i can see being a Considered Authorial Choice but on the other hand it kind of sucked!! every character seemed to be stuck in there for comedic relief for a little while.

basically the entire middle part i was trying to rush through but then post-duel i got my interest mildly piqued again

interested to see how claw of the concilator is b/c i remember liking it better than SotT--even specifically on a writing level. but that could've also been bc i was reading EXTREMELY BAD books right before then, lmfao.

DISAPPOINTING to go from reading cj cherryh 80s sf novels to "written by a guy" 80s sf novels i was like oh yeah every fantasy book writes about women Like That huh. i had almost forgot .

[surumarssi]

Tag game

Thanks @saraminia for tagging me!!

Current time: 20.59

Currently thinking about: augh grocery list

Current favourite song: Graft Vs. Host by Protomartyr and Pleasant Heart by Ought

Currently reading: The Shadow of The Torturer by Gene Wolfe (Book of The New Sun #1)

Currently watching: Not much

Current favourite character: "Hi my name is Severian from the Seekers Of Truth And Penitence and I have ebony black hair (that's not how I got my name) and dark eyes like limpid tears and a lot of people tell me I look like an exultant. I'm not related to Vodalus but I wish I was because he's a major fucking hottie. I'm also a torturer, and I go to Torture School in the Citadel where I'm a journeyman. I'm a goth (in case you couldn't tell) and I wear mostly black. I love hot topic and I buy all my clothes from there. For example today I was wearing my cloak that is darker than black with my executioner's mask. I was walking outside the Matachin Tower. It was snowing and raining so there was no sun, which I was very happy about. A lot of preps stared at me. I put up my middle finger at them."

Current wips: I'm working on a big pile of worldbuilding for uhh some kind of project probably. I'm also trying really hard to write fanfiction but I never get that far bc I can't do plot to save my life.

I'll tag @theteaisaddictive @hilema @timeslive-inhouse @pulchriate @skullvis @pharah-airways, if you want to do it !

[downwithpeople]

you know book of the new sun isn’t trying to make a sourcebook at it would distinctly be to its detriment if it spent a long time explaining all the shit that happened and telling us things that severian has no way of knowing, if it did anything to abandon the epistolary thing it’s got going on. but like. the baby girls who get dumped at the Matachin Tower and taken to the Witches’ Keep? i wish we could find out what all’s going on with the witches. i bet there’s a femcel severian who’s having an equally strange adventure

[christianpureofficial]

Is Catholicism dying out among U.S. Hispanics? Latino Catholics weigh in

Source Archbishop Gustavo García-Siller of San Antonio blesses matachine dancers during a celebration on the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. He believes that Hispanics — immigrants especially — will help bring new life into the Church. / Credit: Archdiocese of San Antonio Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 15, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA). It’s Dec. 12 in San Antonio. Despite the cold outside, the inside…

[rastronomicals]

9:25 PM EDT July 9, 2024:

Beyond Creation - "Omnipresent Perception" From the album The Aura (April 12, 2011)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

This album cover reminds me of The Book of the New Sun, Severian and his Brothers in the Guild of Torturers living in the Matachin Tower, and their Sisters in The Witches Keep, each of which turn out to be the ruins of rocket ships

File under: Montreal Tech Death

[apesoformythoughts]

“…I was thrilled by the mountain views, the vast panorama of the empire of air. As children we have no appreciation of scenery because, having not yet stored similar scenes in our imagination, with their attendant emotions and circumstances, we perceive it without psychic depth. I now looked at the cloud-crowned summits with my view of Nessus from the nose cone of our Matachin Tower and my view of Thrax from the battlements of Acies Castle before me as well, and miserable though I was, I was ready to faint with pleasure.”

— The Sword of the Lictor