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The Atitecos, as these Tz'utujil-Maya townspeople are called, see themselves as living at the very navel of the world, and the traditional life of the town centers upon a cycle of rituals, the performance of which is seen as fundamental to the very continuation of the universe itself.

The head of the San Juan Confraternity sits with the shaman-priest on the church porch after Palm Sunday mass.