I talked about this topic another time, but I did it in Spanish, now I publish this way so that it reaches the greatest number of people, as it is a popular religious manifestation with more than 300 years of tradition, rooted in different states of the country such as Aragua, Vargas, Guárico, Miranda, Cojedes and Carabobo. It is a mixture of indigenous, black and Spanish cultures. Recently declared intangible cultural heritage of humanity in December 2012, after 10 years of evaluation and documentation by UNESCO, created through the Institute of Cultural Heritage of Caracas.
The most striking feature is the commitment of the participants to fulfill the promises that normally apply to health problems (long and rare diseases, difficult to cure or accidents that endanger their lives).
It is a representation of good against evil, in which the devils in procession through the city dance to the door of the church, and be prepared from the previous night in a wake, accompanied by the song of fulias, consideration tenths and prayers of ointments and rosaries, until dawn, to the next day to begin the whole ritual. At dawn, the devils go in procession to the cemetery, where they perform a dance to honor the deceased devils and ask permission to begin the celebration. Once permission is granted, they walk back to the church door (as the devil does not enter the church), where they remain on the ground while the predecessor takes care of the Corpus Christi (Body of Christ) mass represented by the Holy Sacrament. During the Mass, the new promeseros are blessed and proclaimed, which will participate from that moment until they fulfill their promise. At the end of the mass, the church commission with the Holy Sacrament leaves in procession, through which the devils gathered at the doors of the church go back between dances, drums and maracas, until they fall exhausted at the end of the procession, so during the dance They leave their masks sag until they surrender to the ground. Their red costumes and their colorful and colorful masks, the faith with which the promeseros, dancing devils participate and make this celebration a true example of the cultural encounter that took place in our country with the arrival of the Spaniards. #Diblosdeyare2