This traditional game of the Venezuelan plains is native to our aborigines, dates back to very ancient times, is preserved today in certain regions of our country, adopted by the inhabitants such a toy was and is still originally manufactured with the fruit of the taparo tree (Crescentia cujete), although in the market it is find several versions in an industrial way made entirely of plastic or other material and in a way other than the original.

To make it a small tapara is used as round as possible, its pulp has been extracted and several holes are made, placing it for a while in the sun so that it dries through a thin stick fixing it, this will serve as a tip, in which a cord is tied preferably nylon, when pulling the string will look for it to be dancing like a spinning top, its openings will allow air to enter when rotating producing sounds that vary according to the shape and speed of the shale
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In regions of our country, such a traditional game is promoted and promoted such is the case of the Guanape Valley in the northwest of the Anzoátegui state as the welcome monument at its entrance and in Chaguaramas in the state of Guárico.

Usually in the meetings the woman throws the zaranda, the man for his part dances the top, the women are placed in circles and dance their shale and the men with their spinning tops try to destroy them.

In times of wakes of the Saint, which are religious rituals that are customary to perform on the occasion of thanking favors or miracles that have been done to a loved one. The women on such a holiday throw and dance their screens and the man throws his top to hit the shale of the woman he likes, if he destroys it the woman will be his bride for that night.

http://artesanoscaracas.blogspot.com/2013/01/el-juguete-y-los-juegos-traves-de-la.html  

https://www.efdeportes.com/efd94/zaranda.htm  

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