In Guatemala, on the All Saint’s Day, the kite appears as one of the mediums for the population to communicate with their dead. The most cited village is the one of Santiago Sacatepequez.

We can see on some of the pictures the cemetery transformed in a true anthill in which bustle around, between their burials, some men which seem Lilliputians near from their big kites alike to multicolour big suns.

The legend tells that the dead’s mind still clung to the earth could on this day, seize on the line kite and begin their trip towards the heaven.

According to Rafael Coyote, representative of the Guatemalan delegation in Dieppe, the Maya calendar reveals the existence of a specific day dedicated to the celebration of the dead people during which people fly kites.

These last ones were not probably as imposing as the actual ones. The apparition of the models of a big size in the Santiago Sacatepequez cemetery will not date more than hundred years ago, according to Rafael Coyote again.

This custom, without disavowing its first meaning, tends since fifteen years ago to use new shapes in a determined objective: using kite as a privileged support of expression, but also for the Indian heir people claims’ of the Maya civilisation in its struggle to preserve its identity.