Comcaac

The Comcaac religion is the traditional belief of the Comcaac, whom the Spanish called Seri, a people of the Gulf of California coast of Sonora. They did not develop a complex system of religious governance. Their view of the world, their rites and their festivals stayed close to nature.

Their main rites marked the onset of puberty and death, and their songs and stories turned on the sea, the animals and the ancient feats of heroes and warriors. They were never formally evangelized in colonial times, so their beliefs took in none of the Catholic elements found among many neighbouring peoples.

They fought the Spanish fiercely. In the 1660s a Spanish posse killed most of the adults of one band and handed the children out among the towns of Sonora.