How to say 'swung around'?

Question

Hi there, last night I was trying to translate for a friend of mine but one sentence gave me real trouble, she was recounting her visit to Mexico where she said:

"I went to a village where they put on a show, apparently an Aztec ritual, it involved a tall pole and the men climbed it and swung around the pole on ropes to descend."

.... or something along those lines.

It really got me stumped, I didn't know how to say 'put on a show' which I have since looked up and it seems to be montar un espectáculo.

Would pole just be poste?

And that whole 'swung around on ropes' bit - help please???

Would it be balancearse, columpiarse or perhaps hamacarse??

As you can image I made a real hash of the sentence but would like to know for next time (ja, ja, being such a common sentence and all) if someone wouldn't mind translating the whole sentence

I presume what she saw was something like this

Fascinating, Kiwi, because I once attended a western rodeo where some American Indians performed the same feat! - NancyGrace, May 29, 2011

it looks awesome doesn't it! - Kiwi-Girl, May 29, 2011

Answer 1

"I went to a village where they put on a show, apparently an Aztec ritual, it involved a tall pole and the men climbed it and swung around the pole on ropes to descend."

"Fui a una villa en la cual montaron un espectáculo, aparentemente un ritual azteca [que] consistía de un alto poste al que los hombres se trepaban y alrededor del cual se balanceaban guindados con sogas para descender."

Thanks heaps Tom :) - Kiwi-Girl, May 29, 2011

so villa can mean village? I always used pueblo. - Kiwi-Girl, May 29, 2011

oh and what is the difference between trepar and treparse? - Kiwi-Girl, May 29, 2011

Answer 2

Guindados con sogas, le dieron vuelta al poste.

nice, gracias - nice to have you on the forum - I can see your addiction is building, this place is a bit like the Hotel California so beware! lol :) - Kiwi-Girl, May 28, 2011

so guindar means 'to hang' and you use it with 'con' to mean 'hang from'? - Kiwi-Girl, May 28, 2011

Did you mean Guindajos ? - pesta, May 28, 2011

No, I don't know what "guidajos" means. You can also say "guindados de sogas..." - margaretcorwin, May 28, 2011

ok gracias Margaret :) - Kiwi-Girl, May 28, 2011

@ Pesta http://www.wordreference.com/es/en/translation.asp?spen=guindar - Kiwi-Girl, May 28, 2011

Thanks! - pesta, May 29, 2011

guindarse - lorenzo9, May 29, 2011

Answer 3

I would have said:

I went to a village where they put on a show, apparently an Aztec ritual, it involved a tall pole and the men climbed it and swung around the pole on ropes to descend."

Fui a un pueblo donde vi un espectáculo, un ritual azteca, donde descendían atados por el tobillo y girando alrededor de un poste unos hombres que lo habían trepado previamente.

gracias :) - Kiwi-Girl, May 29, 2011

Answer 4

First time I hear guindar use that way, jeje, here it means , colloquially, to mug

I would use trepar, not treparse. Actually, at least in Spain, treparse is very seldom used, I think it can be said, but I am not even all that sure about that.

thanks for that :) - Kiwi-Girl, May 29, 2011

Answer 5

Hola,

aquí está un enlace a un texto que cuenta la leyenda que explica la origen de esta maravillosa tradición

Hi,

Here's a link to a text which tells the legend that lies behind this marvelous tradition:

http://voladoresdepapantla.com/index_esp.htm

(NOTE: there's a link to the English version on the left)

Thanx Koyan :) - Kiwi-Girl, May 29, 2011

Answer 6

guindajo?? (it's that time of year)

and does it mean 'shred' too? - Kiwi-Girl, May 29, 2011