CHEROKEES AND AZTECS- DIFFERENT RITUALS

The Indians were the first group that lived in America. Cherokee tribe is the most representative to North America in contrast with Aztecs, the most representative tribe in South America specifically in Mexico. These tribes have different practices and rituals. It is relevant to remark the importance of the crops and the similar practices to bless the corn plant.

One obvious difference is the belief in gods whereas Cherokee indian didin't have gods to admire and respect on the contrary the Aztec indians believed in many gods for exampleCeteoti gods to corn and Huitzilupochtli gods of war.

The ritual of war practiced by the Cherokees when the chief war officers became too old to serve one from among their own war council to replace them. Later when the war was won they danceed and bathed for seven days and seven nigths, in this time they drank a special potion to purify them selves. unlike Cherokees, Aztecs sacrificed jailed persons people or war. The ritual consited in a potion preparation and after the blood obtained by this ritual was stared in special containers with land and some herbs.

Nonethless for Cherokee and Aztecs the crops were the main part of their echonomy. The celebrationin the grow up of corn plant. The aztecs had the Xalaquia festival which lasted sixteen days and between June an July, and began when the corn plants reached their maturity and the harvest was apod. Similarly, the Cherokee tribe celebrated the green corn festival in October and the corn feast in the middke of September, in this festival they tanked the gods for the new harvest.

Finally the most important difference is that Cherokee exist, while Aztecs doesn't exist, however Cherokee works in new projects for tourist areas.