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Even though this was my fifth year leading a small group to Sumpango to experience the story behind the Giant Kites, the wonder, devotion and larger than life creations are always fresh. Every year the kites are different. Some of them are Gigantic, as high as a six story building. Others of them are simply Giant, from 4 to 6 meters -- taller than a person and requiring a team to fly them. Regardless of size each and every one of them is made from Chinese tissue paper and glue, an effort directly involving over 700 members of this Kachiquel Maya town, who work every night for months to make kites for this day, the Day of the Dead. Every kite has a theme of life, death and transformation.
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