Year with year the inhabitants of the city of Arambala meet in the creeks of the River of Alacrán (Scorpion), Located in the department of Morazán, in the Eastern zone of El Salvador, to celebrity the carnival commonness blaze. This celebration goes back from long time, from before the Spanish conquest, and that was celebrated by the indigenous tribes Lencas which lived in this zone the El Salvador .

The ancestors of the Lencas made this ritual with which they attributed to the fire a spiritual signal to him of purification reason the fire was used in its ceremonies.

The settlers of this city recognize this event like a fact that has more than five hundred years of tradition. In fact, between the settlers people exist who count as their relatives listened to of their parents and grandparents on the accomplishment of the commonness blaze.

In a bulletin published by the associations of tourism of the North zone of Morazán among them PRODETUR and the Tourist Committee of Arambala (CODETUR) a brief story appears on this ceremony of the Commonness blaze, which has been transmitted of generation in generation. In this bulletin it is illustrated:

“Backing down in the time and trying to reconstruct one of those traditions described to story way of our grandparents and great-grandfathers, we will tell to the testimony of Mrs. Guadalupe Chica , about the commonness blaze related by its grandparents. Today counted, by its grandson Benito Chica. According to the grandmother, our ancestors were organized in which today we know with the tribe name, whose direction was constituted by a head soldier: a spiritual leader. This direction was the one in charge to emit the laws and norms that allowed the operation and the coexistence of the integral families of the tribe, these laws and norms were given in the ceremonies.

An elaborated cord of TULE was given to each family (Plant that in our days still exists, plants of which are elaborated the palm bed: Petate) and each fulfillment of these laws or norms was registered making a knot to the cord, at the end of the year in the month of December the tribes, who lived in this zone, celebrated their ceremonies in which they attended all the members of the tribes in which each family gave to the head the corresponding cord and this prudent one was analyzed and later they sent to the blaze all the cords in signal of reconciliation of the beginning of a new life and thanking to its gods, being purified by means of the fire, fortifying therefore the coexistence to the interior of the tribe.

With arrival of Spaniards to east (in 1530 when San Miguel was founded) church catholic wanted to prevent accomplishment of is ceremony and when they realized that the ancestors persisted with their tradition made the decision to annex it to the celebration of the day of the Virgen de la Concepción (Virgin of Conception), in the department of Morazán…”

According to the story of this bulletin distributed by tourist association PRODETUR since the Catholic church include within its religious acts the tradition of the indigenous towns Lencas of the zone, the commonness blaze is continued celebrating until the modern dates like a traditional celebrity that accompanies to the religious ceremonies made by the Catholic church in honor the Virgin by the Conception.