Guanche Ceremony (Re-enactment of the Finding of the Virgin)
On the eve of the big festival, performers in Guanche costume re-enact the legendary discovery of the Virgin's image by Tenerife's indigenous people before the Spanish conquest. It's a striking, free open-air spectacle in the basilica square at dusk that needs no Spanish to enjoy.
The legend plays out in three acts on the square below the basilica. Two Guanche shepherds stumble across a silent woman and child on the beach; one hurls a stone and finds his arm frozen, the other gashes himself with his club. Word goes to the chief, Mencey Bencomo, who arrives, reads the figure for what it is, and the shepherds are healed the moment they touch her. Then come the lances, the leaping, and the deep blare of bucio horns made from conch shells.
The Colectivo Guanches de Candelaria have kept this going for more than 250 years, since around 1749, in what's reckoned to be the first re-enactment of a religious story to put the islands' aboriginal people centre stage. It starts at 8pm and feeds into a night procession through the streets, with fireworks at midnight as the image returns to the basilica. You won't need a word of Spanish to follow it.
Source: https://rtvc.es/ceremonia-guanche-virgen-de-candelaria/