As onlookers clapped and danced, a mayor of a small southern Mexico town entered into holy matrimony with a female reptile in a traditional rite to bring good fortune to his people. Victor Hugo Sosa, mayor of San Pedro Huamelula, a town of Indigenous Chontal people in the Tehuantepec isthmus of Mexico, took as his betrothed a reptile named Alicia Adriana, re-enacting an ancestral ritual. The reptile is a caiman, an alligator-like marsh dweller endemic to Mexico and Central America. You can’t have a marriage without love… I yield to marriage with the princess girl,” Sosa said during the ritual. Before the wedding ceremony, the reptile is taken house to house so that inhabitants can take her in their arms and dance.

Source: Nigerian Tribune July 03, 2023 03:11 UTC