CARNIVAL OF RIOSUCIO-CALDAS
Two towns founded between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries "Quiebralomo and the Mountain", the disputed territory that lies at the foot of Cerro Ingrumá, pleaded mortal enmity. The two priests Priests, manage to unite them in historical alliance with both Ríosucio founding in 1819, hence the unique urban design based on the two main squares just a block away from one another.
It is believed that 1,847 January 6th Mountain Indians intervened for the first time with their rites of worship Aboriginal land on the feast of the Magi coming Quiebralomo, in this mixed since ancient dances and songs of African origin with Spanish sacred theater and choreographic forms of European ancestry and then came "Amusement Matachinescas" festive laws mandating the reconciliation of former rivals.
Not a religious devil, nor is it a party unchristian. Carnival does not touch the religiosity of men. It is an inherited mood Aboriginal cultural tradition and the mixture of cultures and races who lived the western part of what is now called Caldas.
The Devil is an inspiring spirit of many things like preparing the ears for music and body for dance. It's who inspires writers and poets to make the verses and songs. It is a good spirit of tradition, symbolic of the party custodian.
Ríosucio Carnival is the demonstration of the culture of a people, which was formed with the indigenous integration, the black African and white European, very special culture has had representatives in all genres of artistic and spiritual.
Ríosucio Carnival takes place every two years around January 6th and is structured as a dramatic long poem written collectively by the "matachin" or deeper carnival of mystical and literary ability.
STANDARD-BEARER
This person is responsible to carry the banner of Carnival solely without handing it to anyone except in case of emergency the president or mayor of Carnival.
You should keep the joy and pass it to the town carnival parades guide all Pre-carnival Carnival and the last was Abelardo Vallejo who until his death was the oldest.
THE DEVIL
It is an universal figure not born of human caprice. does not break because if not that we have fallen into Ríosucio this gift of grace. is the cosmopolitan. has meaning in different continents. because men demand to respond to their distress, explains the events of nature, intelligence, those who tortured inwardly through an active sensibility, intimate ghosts. unable to give rational appeals to mythical figures. the one devised that being diabolical explained to an essential part of the cosmos. Rest is helpless defenseless against the world. for that it riff off has only to have replicas at different wonders: why I'm so and humanity work that way? not end the interrogation.
CREWS
"The objective is to extend Gang Devil's Carnival, identified as most important activity within the same and the same. Many gestures carnival may disappear. The Gang, no! The term itself has acquired mystical and religious connotations: mystical, because it means an assemblage of devotion (love), and religious, because it is the standard of conduct of a certain group of citizens adopted during a period of approximately eight months. The term gang reverentially referred to as a folía or group of Carnival in Brazil. At that are "singing sambas modinhos and love life and hope are adventures in this dance and singing protesters to life, the world and love.
The Gang is the space of equalization of the differences between men par excellence. While the square equals the carnival attitude, free contact and family lives within the gang. It is free because hierarchies disappear and familiar everyday because the new kernel is much cohesive and united to the same family and traditional family groups are displaced to accommodate the cuadrillero partner who are scheduled leisure activities until the action.
CARNIVAL BANNER
It's the same for Ríosucio (The White peace, joining Green Mountain with Gold Quiebralomo) but adds the Devil in the center.
Crown the spear a "Chinese" instead of hurt like a spear, bob to stoke the fire of joy and art.
