WOMEN WARRIORS
MEXICO - Women Warriors
People of community named La Esperanza congregate in middle of a field where every year takes place a ritual fight between women to ask for rain to germinate the corn plant.
In the Nahua community La Esperanza in Guerrero State, the people maintain the tradition of a ritual fight between the women to ask for rain and to wish for a good harvest season. As part of a rain request ritual every May 2nd, two barrios of the village summon the people in the afternoon to be in the middle of a field enabled as a battlefield. Women in pairs from every barrio go to fight with bare fists and without masks to protect their faces. Above the cropland where the corn will sprout, the womenÔ³ fighting takes place, their blood represents the fertility of the land and when it falls into the furrows, it converts into the sacred liquid that will germinate the corn plant.
