The first Mayan Christmas tree is a reality and belongs to Tihosuco; a beautiful villa in Quintana Roo that was key during one of the most important passages in the history of Mexico; the Caste War. Learn more about the history of Tihosuco and the first Mayan Christmas tree below.
The story of Tihosuco, in Quintana Roois one of the most famous and important not only on the peninsula, but also on the Mexico historysince their participation was key during the caste wara warlike conflict in which a handful of large mayan leaders gave their people a voice, achieving recognition of the mayan indigenous blood as an equal before the mestizos, Creoles, Spaniards and other ethnic groups that for a long time kept them in a state of oppression.
One of its illustrious heroes is Hyacinth Pat, Mayan báatab (leader) originally from Tihosuco and one of the initiators of the revolutionary movement. His millennial last name means create, invent either make things with mud/wax and his spirit still lives on in his community, which decided adapt foreign customs to Mayan culture; this is how he was born The first Mayan Christmas tree.
On March 18, 2019; Tihosuco was declared the sixtieth Zone of Historical Monuments in the Mexican Republic and the first in the state of Quintana Roo.
The first Mayan Christmas tree is in Tihosuco
2022 is the first year in the history of Tihosuco in which the main square of the police station was decorated, nothing less than with the first mayan christmas tree in history, made of a wooden structure manufactured by the community and whose leaves are palms and guanomaterials used since pre-Hispanic times by the Mayan culture.
With a height of 8 metersthe first Mayan Christmas tree is located at the door of the Temple of the Holy Child Jesus; whose ruins and those of the old convent converted into a cemetery are the main symbols of the town.
The story of the first Christmas tree in Mexico, here!
The Temple of the Holy Child Jesus and the convent of Tihosuco, an example of struggle and freedom
Tihosuco was conquered in 1544 by Francisco de Montejo, who found it particularly difficult to subdue the local Mayans, reason enough for the Franciscan evangelizers to take it as a center of activities; being the Temple of the Holy Child Jesus and its convent, the first and only colonial buildings in Quintana Roo.
The construction of the church finished in 1839 and in 1847, the Temple of the Holy Child of Jesus saw the birth of the Caste War, when the insurrectionary Mayans entered by blowing it up. The convent was transformed into a cemetery and since then, both buildings in ruins have become the symbol of Mayan resistance. It should be noted that in what remains of the facade; the foundations of what was most likely part of the main Mayan temple or house of Tihosuco can be seen.
The laying and manufacture of the first mayan christmas tree it is a historical fact, coming from one of the Mayan communities that resisted the conquest of Mexico until the end; because it symbolizes the acceptance and integration of modern traditions to local culture, quite contrary to the marginalization and violence to which this population was subjected for so long.
