Mazunte Build - The Ceremony of a Minka

Even before we arrived on the property to continue the construction we had left uncompleted four years ago, there was idea of a Minka we kept throwing around. Originally it was Manu who proposed this South American tradition, held normally at the beginning of a building project. The objective is to have a little celebration with friends, family, neighbors, and people of the community in general, combined with a bit of ceremony to ask the land and all the beings inhabiting it for permission to build. Since this type of event is present in various cultures, there may be some differences in their interpretation. Which is perfect with us: being a multi-cultural group in a rural part of a North American, though Latin American country, we were ready to mix traditions. One distinctive feature we didn't want to go without, was a big bonfire.

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