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Religion
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People
are predominantly Catholic. The
religion which transformed the Indians beliefs when the pioneers enforced their
ways of life upon them. Today,
regular ceremonial festivities take place on saint days. For example, Easter is worshipped by the whole community.
They gather around a small table with forest flowers and a saints
picture, and begin to tell the story of Easter.
Someone carries a handmade wooden cross, and everyone progresses through
the forest to the next house, where they again gather around a table with
flowers and a picture of a saint, and the community leader continues the story
of Easter…..and they progress this way through the forest, enjoying their
unity with the nature and each other, until they reach the church in the
village.
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