Nan Pa'ch ceremony

The Nan Pa'ch ceremony (also Paach ceremony) is a corn-veneration ritual celebrated in San Pedro Sacatepéquez, San Marcos in Guatemala. On December 7, 2013 UNESCO officially recognized the ceremony as Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding.^[1]

The ceremony gives thanks for good harvests in a ritual that highlights the close connection between humans and nature. The ritual features prayers in the Mam language as well as the dressed ceremonial corncobs.

The Paach ceremony has become increasingly infrequent, with some young people seeing it as irrelevant and old fashioned, while economic insecurity has caused some bearers to withdraw from the practice due to a loss of faith.

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UNESCO List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding

Africa

Aixan/Gana/Ob#ANS TSI //Khasigu Bigwala Dikopelo folk music of Bakgatla ba Kgafela Earthenware pottery in Kgatleng District Empaako Isukuti Koogere oral tradition Ma'di bowl lyre music and dance Male-child cleansing ceremony of the Lango Rituals and practices associated with Kit Mikayi shrine Sanké mon Secret society of the Kôrêdugaw Seperu Sega tambour Chagos Taskiwin Traditions and practices associated with the Kayas in the sacred forests of the Mijikenda

Arab States

Al Sadu T'heydinn

Asia and Pacific

Ala kiyiz and shyrdak Biyelgee Buklog Ca trù Carolinian wayfinding and canoe making Chapei dang veng Coaxing ritual for camels Design and practices for building Chinese wooden arch bridges Folk long song performance technique of Limbe performances - circular breathing Hezhen Yimakan storytelling Li textile techniques Lkhon Khol Meshrep Mongol Tuuli Mongolian calligraphy Mongolian traditional practices of worshipping the sacred sites Naqqāli Noken Pottery-making of Chăm people Qiang New Year festival Saman dance Skills of building and sailing Iranian Lenj boats Suri Jagek Tais Tsuur end-blown flute Watertight-bulkhead technology of Chinese junks Wooden movable-type printing of China

Europe and
N. America

Cantu in paghjella Chovqan Glasoechko Kalyady Tsars Ojkanje singing Manufacture of cowbells Suiti cultural space Spring rite of Juraŭski Karahod Cossack’s songs of Dnipropetrovsk Region Xhubleta Yalli (Kochari, Tenzere)

Caribbean and
Latin America

Eshuva Mapoyo oral tradition Nan Pa'ch ceremony Vallenato Yaokwa