The Corpus Christi festival is the catholic celebration about the Body of Christ, it is a period of grief for the church; Corpus Christi is forty days later from the holy Friday, and as it is connected to Easter week, it is a mobile date.

This celebration came to be established in the Totonac world, substituting the extensive complex of native festivals that was done for those dates, in relation to the beginning of the spring season.

Papantla is without place to doubt a region that has always figured for its cultural wealth, by its people, its traditions and customs, the archaeological zone of the Tajín and its incomparable Festivity of Corpus Christi.

The festivity goes back before the arrival of the Spaniards to México. Since it has a lot to see with the solar calendar and the changes of seasons, according to the pre-hispanic calendar that they used, every 65 days there were a change of season and exactly during the change to the second season the Totonacs venerated its Gods, the God of the rain, the God of the thunder and the God of the sun.