Although at another time here at yoors I wrote something short about this dance, I want to explain to you better what it is about, it is a dance that takes place in the state of Aragua Venezuela.

Many of the aboriginal groups in our country, who were not absorbed into Hispanic culture at the time of the colony, perform ancestral rituals within their cultures that are often not understood by other cultures.

History

The rituals that include what we call “La Lora” or should be called “La lloradera” are very common in our ancestral cultures, for example those of the Wayu ethnic group in the Venezuelan guajira and the Sierra de Perijá, perform a ritual called “el Desentierro”, once the person or family member has died, a few years after death, they dig it up, this act is sacred, full of songs that accompany him, relatives cry in a moving way to the deceased and caress his remains, recalling anecdotes of times lived with the deceased, the good times they spent together, once the ritual is over, they rebury him.


Aboriginal people in central Venezuela culminate death events and some holidays with the act of mourning deceased close relatives.
In the state of Aragua (Central Region of Venezuela), the dance of la lora takes place on November 2, coinciding with the catholic faith when the day of the dead saints is celebrated, or day of the dead, it is believed that this has been happening since the time of the colony when Venezuela was colonized and the catholic religion was imposed by the monks present in the region, in fact one of the parts of this dance, La Chispa”, is where the deceased are imitated, under the influence of alcohol, then the act of “crying” takes place .
Over time this dance was adapted, cultures were mixed and only the festive phase of these demonstrations that gave the name of this dance “LA LLORA”.



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