In a development that has gotten tongues wagging across the globe, a Mayor of southern Mexico in San Pedro Huamelula town, Victor Hugo Sosa, has married a female reptile named Alicia Adriana in a traditional rite to bring good fortune to his people.
As onlookers clapped and danced, the Indigenous Chontal people of the town watched while the Mayor took his betrothed reptile re-enacting an ancestral ritual.
During the marriage ritual, Sosa said “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”.
According to local reports, the reptile is a caiman, an alligator-like marsh dweller endemic to Mexico and Central America.
Reports have it that marriage between a man and a female caiman has happened here for 230 years to commemorate 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, wedded 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, reports said.
Jaime Zarate, chronicler of San Pedro Huamelula clarified that the wedding allows the 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 Chontal man.”
Before the wedding ceremony, 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 a headdress of ribbons and sequins.
Reports said the creature’s snout is bound shut to avoid any pre-marital mishaps. Later, she is put in a white bride’s costume and taken to town hall for the blessed event.
It was reported that as part of the ritual, Joel Vasquez, a local fisherman, tosses his net and intones the town’s hopes that the marriage may bring “good fishing, so that there is prosperity, equilibrium and ways to live in peace.”
Speaking with newsmen, Sosa said “We are happy because we celebrate the union of two cultures. People are content”.
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