unesco: Paach ceremony

UNESCO: List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding - 2013
URL: http://www.unesco.org/culture/ich/USL...
Description: The Paach ceremony is a corn-veneration ritual celebrated in San Pedro Sacatepéquez. The ritual describes the growing and harvesting of corn and includes dancing, prayers in the Mam language and a meal. Older men and women dress ceremonial corncobs, offer prayers during the ceremony, coordinate the preparation and serving of food and perform a ceremonial dance to marimba music. In recent years, the Paach ceremony has suffered from a decrease in transmission, with young people and some bearers declining to participate.
Country(ies): Guatemala