24/39 These two were very popular, and indulged in many acts that bordered on the obscene. We got no satisfactory explanation of this whole performance. The _cura_ said that it represented the conflict between Christ and the Jews; this we greatly doubted. The Mixe villages are set upon the very crests, or upon little terraces a few hundred feet below the crest, or the summit of some spur that juts out from the great mountain mass, of a long and narrow ridge. The road from Juquila, by Ocotopec to Quezaltepec was beautiful and typical. |