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Gigantonas Paradise in Leon
Leones Tradition
Between November and January, the gigantonas depart from Sutiaba through the city of Leon, followed by children who enjoy dancing and songs.
Time does not make a dent in the old Florentine, whose age exceeds a hundred. High, like all of his kind, has a face made of tin ears and a beautiful hair cabuya. In his time was the most beautiful and popular, but one day someone sold it and went to the arid Somoto. Hence was rescued in August 2013.
They found it full of moth, dirty and discolored. Although a smile returned to his face, there are about sixty who oppose him. Is the Xochilt, Estrellita, La Kassandra and Salome, among others. None has the vejentud is special about the Florentine, the higher data Gigantona in Leon, a city whose population has grown up watching dance in the streets to huge dolls in the past were used by the Indians to represent the Spanish woman.
Children Drummers
Every night of November, December and January and the parents of William Mauricio Alfaro Lira away Cordobas forty four of the dance gigantonas who daily pass by his house, located in the neighborhood Zaragoza.
The little ones are fans of this tradition , walking whole blocks behind and Pepe gigantona Cabezon and even have a 1.4 meter gigantona playing with the months of the year than in León are not seen in the streets.
The period laid down by the Indian Community Sutiaba for the gigantonas dances in the streets is from November to January. At that time several groups of children and adolescents come to tour the city .
The Gigantoneros
Alexander Rios, is a small charging the huge head of Pepe Cabezon and negotiates the price of your parents danced with the children Alfaro Lira . " Want of C $ 10 or C $ 15 ," asks the chavalo in seductive tone . People ask for C $ 15 because the pair has a bar dancing Chiguines asking a cow , which has recently been added to the dance.
But the other is Alexander , the eldest in the group , who calls the shots in between these six chavalos Lion walking every night dancing a gigantona , Salome , which has among its attributes the strangely moving his buttocks .
This Alexander , surnamed Red Darce , gigantona dances from eight. It started , as all begin , drumming and roll , but now is the balladeer . " At 10 years and was with the " Kassandra "and" Mercedita " . After date the " Esmeralda" and now with "Salome " . I have also walked in contracts , depending on the time . My mom does not care , but it tells me I have to be home no later than at 12 " .
Until tragedies in song
According to those chavalos be the balladeer is tops. And is that children who pursue not only happy to see a huge doll dance but to listen to taunts containing couplets .
" Here are my dwarf who dances to his bombom , and here you have this chubby Molejón head ." Children who persecute the whole gigantona and burst out laughing , so the chavalo remains committed to disturb the chubby , " Here are my dwarf to dance again, here have this chubby having egg head " .
There are traditional songs and others that they have invented : "Many houses destroyed water took them , the cornfields were lost, also the rice harvest , the cry of a girl who lost her mother and heard, is the Casitas killed a lot of people are already 15 years Posoltega brothers , they rest in peace santa , this land of Leon never forget them ... " .
" Sutiaba is nice, if history is like a jewel , the ruins are our joy as Poneloya beaches , long live punche gold ... " is another song . Alejandro Rojas Darce says " some ask vulgarities and we do not like it because there are children ."
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