OCUMICHO, Mexico — Guided by their ancestral lunar calendar, members of Mexico’s Purepecha Indigenous group celebrated their own New Year’s Eve — a little differently than the West’s traditional New Year. Purepecha Indigenous people hold a New Fire ceremony to mark the start of the new year, based on an ancient lunar calendar, in Ocumicho, Michoacan state, Mexico, just before …
The empire the Aztecs couldn't conquer Brian Overcast / Alamy Stock Photo The yácatas of Tzintzuntzan are uniquely round and made of volcanic stone – perhaps the most intact relics of the P'urhépechas The P'urhépechas were one of the only indigenous groups in Mexico the Aztecs failed to conquer – but despite that feat, they were nearly lost to history. …
