Weddings are fun and happy events, now in a small southern Mexican town , a mayor married a female reptile in a tradition rite, to bring good fortune to his people.
Victor Hugo Sosa, Mayor of San Pedro Huamelula took as his betrothed a reptile named Alicia Adriana , reenacting an ancestral ritual.
The reptile, an alligator-dweller to Mexico and Central America.
“I accept responsibility because we love each other. That is what is important . You can’t have a marriage without love…I yield to marriage with the princess girl,” Sosa said during the ritual.
The Tradition
Marriage between a man and a female caiman has happened for 230 years to celebrate the day when two indigenous groups came to peace with a marriage.
Tradition has it that frictions were overcome when a Chontal King, embodied these days by the mayor, weeded a princess girl of the Huave Indigenous group, represented by the female alligator.
The Huave live along coastal Oaxaca state, not far from this inland town.
The weeding allows he sides to “link with what is the emblem of Mother Earth asking the all powerful for rain, the germination of the seed, all those things that are peace and harmony for the Chantal man” explains Jaime Zarate, chronicle of San Pedro Huamelula.
Wedding
Before the wedding, the reptile is taken house to house so that inhabitants can take her in their arms and dance. The alligator wears a green skirt, a colorful hand-embroidered tunic and headdress of ribbons and sequins.
The alligators snout is bound shut to avoid any accidetns.
The alligator is then put in a white bride’s costume and taken to town hall for the blessed event.
She is then put in a white bride’s costume and taken to town hall for the blessed event.
As part of the ritual, a local fisherman, tosses his net and intones the towns hope that the marriage may bring ‘good fishing , so that their is propriety, equilibrium and ways to live in peace.”
After the wedding the mayor dances with his bride to the sounds of traditional music.
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