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Church of the Guanche People

The church's official symbol

The Church of the Guanche People (in Spanish "Iglesia del Pueblo Guanche") is a religious organisation, founded in 2001 in the city of San Cristóbal de La Laguna (Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain), aiming to rescue and spread the pagan religion of the Guanche people.
In 2008 the Church had approximately 300 members. The Church of the Guanche People is included in the studies of minority religions in the Canary Islands.
It was founded by a group of Canarian devotees of the goddess Chaxiraxi. The Church of the Guanche People performed baptisms and weddings according to what they know of Guanche custom. On 2002, a wedding held in accordance with purported Guanche rites took place on the island of Tenerife — a practice not observed for several centuries since the Spanish domination of the archipelago. The Church of the Guanche People has its own calendar, which officially begins with the first celebration of Achu n Magek in 2001. According to his system this is the year I Guanche New Age, so 2016 would be the year 16 on your calendar.
The Church of the Guanche People is a modern pagan religion representing Canarian Neopaganism. The Church of the Guanche People is similar to other neo-pagan movements such as Kemetism, Hellenism and Germanic Heathenism.

Chaxiraxi is a goddess, known as the Sun Mother, in the religion of the aboriginal Guanche inhabitants of the Canary Islands. The goddess Chaxiraxi was one of the principal goddesses of their pantheon. She was associated with the star Canopus.
As the people of the Canary Islands are believed to have originally been Berbers, it is theorized that Chaxiraxi was adapted from the goddess Tanit, given a different name and set of attributes. She is also associated with the alleged appearance c. 1392, 1400 or 1401 of the Virgin of Candelaria on Güímar, on the island of Tenerife, carrying her infant, Chijoraji.
Chijoraji or Chijoragi is a name given to the infant Jesus carried in the hand of the Virgin of Candelaria (called by the Guanches Chaxiraxi) in Tenerife. Chijoraji is the aboriginal Guanches name given to this representation of Christ.