By Rodrigo M. (r.martinez@latinospost.com) | First Posted: May 28, 2016 01:02 PM EDT
'Los Voladores de Papantla' or 'Papantla Flyers' is a very old rite performed in Jalisco, Colima and Nayarit zones in the times of the Mesoamerica period and very popular nowadays in Papantla, Veracruz, where Totonacas saved a tradition Spain missionaries forbid in America back in the times of the colonization.
The ceremony is intented to ask for rain after a long period of drought.
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