On an 82-foot pole, four men prepare for the ritual ceremony of the “Voladores,” or “Flying Men.” Attached to ropes, they are spun around the mast as they’re lowered to the ground, while a fifth man at the top plays the flute and drum in Mexico City’s oldest urban park, Bosque de Chapultepec. The ritual originated in what is now Veracruz, Mexico, more than 2,600 years ago and was intended to petition the gods for sun and rain to fertilize the earth.
Mar García, GPJ Mexico
On an 82-foot pole, four men prepare for the ritual ceremony of the “Voladores,” or “Flying Men.” Attached to ropes, they are spun around the mast as they’re lowered to the ground, while a fifth man at the top plays the flute and drum in Mexico City’s oldest urban park, Bosque de Chapultepec. The ritual originated in what is now Veracruz, Mexico, more than 2,600 years ago and was intended to petition the gods for sun and rain to fertilize the earth.
Mar García, GPJ Mexico
On an 82-foot pole, four men prepare for the ritual ceremony of the “Voladores,” or “Flying Men.” Attached to ropes, they are spun around the mast as they’re lowered to the ground, while a fifth man at the top plays the flute and drum in Mexico City’s oldest urban park, Bosque de Chapultepec. The ritual originated in what is now Veracruz, Mexico, more than 2,600 years ago and was intended to petition the gods for sun and rain to fertilize the earth.
