Carrying the Word: The Concheros Dance in Mexico City

Appendix 1: Timelines for Santo Nino de Atocha

225 Appendix 1: Timelines for Santo Niño de Atocha 1880 1883 Santiago Tlatelolco establishes its palabra in Mexico City. 1876 or 1887 Jesus Gutierrez raises the Reliquia’s standard in Mexico City and assumes position of Capitan General de las Danzas de Tenochtitlan. 1890 1891 Jesus Gutierrez returns to the Bajio. 1897 Manuel Luna born. 1900 1902 Ernesto Ortiz Ramirez born. 1908 Manual Luna raises mesa. 1910 Ernesto Ortiz comes to Mexico City. 1920 1922 Ernesto becomes a captain of the mesa of San Juan de los Lagos. 1924 Ernesto Ortiz marries Maria Robles. 1930 Jesus Gutierrez dies. 1930s Manuel Luna becomes general of Santiago Tlatelolco. 1933 Ignacio Gutierrez Rodriguez (Tata Nacho) becomes general of the Reliquia. 1940 1942 Oratorio of Ernesto Ortiz’s mesa of San Juan de los Lagos burns down. Appendices A p p e n d i c e s 226 1948 Ernesto Ortiz joins Gabriel Osorio. 1950 1951 Andres Segura dances for the first time at La Villa (Poveda 1981:283). 1958 Gabriel Osorio dies. 1960 1960 or 1968 General Ignacio Gutierrez dies. 1970 1973 Ernesto Ortiz’s sister Dolores dies. 1974 Maria Robles (wife of Ernesto Ortiz) dies. 1976 Ernesto Ortiz’s mesa visits the Mohawk reservation in the United States and other locations, invited by Blancas raíces de la Paz of the Mohawk reservation, Akeswasne, New York. 1977 Ernesto Ortiz visits Guatemala. 1978 Pilgrimage of Ernesto Ortiz and others, including Andres Segura, to Santiago de Compostela. Angelica made sahumadora. 1979 Andres Segura forms his own mesa, Danza Azteca Xinachtli. 1980 Ernesto Ortiz officially adopts Santo Niño de Atocha. Beginning of involvement with ceremonies at the Templo Mayor and in the Zocalo. 1988 Ernesto Ortiz’s mesa visits the Sufi group Neredin in New York. 1990 1991 Ernesto Ortiz raises his pillars to status of captains. 1992 The pillars establish their own mesa. Ernesto Ortiz, with the mesa Insignias Aztecas, visits Santiago de Compostela, where the latter raises a mesa (Santa Cruz Espiral del Senor Santiago de Compostela). 1993 Manuel Luna dies. 1995 Ernesto Ortiz recognized as a general. Ricardo López Ortiz (his nephew) named as inheritor. 1997 Ricardo López Ortiz made captain in Fresnillo, Zacatecas. Ernesto Ortiz Ramirez dies (November 5). Appendix 1—cont inued ...