The Tita mona and the Cha'a : An ethnography of the regulating entities of the Mazahua festivity

Abstract

This paper presents two brief ethnographies about the Tita mona and the Cha'a as regulatory entities in the procedures of worship of San Miguel Arcángel, in two Mazahua communities, San Pedro de los Baños, Ixtlahuaca and San Miguel la Labor, San Felipe del Progreso, Estado de México. We are guided by the theoretical foundation: ritual specialist as a character trained in the instructions of the ritual, the festival as coexistence between the human and the sacred, and the ritual as a ceremonial worship procedure. In this way, the Tita mona and the Cha'a represent their ancestors as a good example of the custom to control the behavior of the spectators and participants of the festival.