GHP's recognition is another issue. I think the most important thing to remember is that they've lost a lot of traditions and so are more vulnerable to claims like Tlakael's. Tlakael repackaged Euro pagan and Nuage as Aztec/Mexica/Nahua, and this dance is riddled thru with both.
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https://www.unitydanceceremony.com/ceremonyThe Elements
First Day: Water
Second Day: Earth....
Third Day: Air....
Fourth Day: Fire...
Maestro Francisco Jimenez Tlakaelel shared a prophecy in which, long ago, all the continents were joined in a big island and all humans shared the same skin color. As the island drifted to the four directions, the people's color changed to create the four Root Races; Black, Red, White and Yellow....
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Those four elements are obviously Euro pagan. And the root races idea is originally from Edgar Cayce, not any prophecy. 600 years ago, Euros didn't call themselves white, Africans didn't call themselves Black (that didn't happen until the Black Panthers) and Natives didn't call themselves red. And obviously we're not the color of fire engines anymore than Asians look banana colored. All of those are colonialist imposed labels.
And the dance leader showing off the medicine bundle of Tlakael is pretty strange. Either no one involved knows you are not supposed to do that in almost all traditions, or they don't care or claim a very different belief or practice about it.
