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SANTA FE 鈥� Past and future. Darkness and light. Hope for what鈥檚 yet to come.

It was fitting that the 102nd Burning of Zozobra began Friday with a thunderstorm sunset, casting a tempestuous September sky in a fiery twilight as nearly 50,000 people filled Fort Marcy Park for this annual ritual of puppeteering, theater, pyrotechnics and collective catharsis.

After nightfall, groans of thunder were muffled by the guttural death rattles of Old Man Gloom, as longtime Fire Spirit Helene Luna scored one final victory over the towering marionette that has embodied the woes of Santa Feans since the 1920s.

Luna鈥檚 passing of the proverbial, and in this case literal, torch to 24-year-old Than Povi Martinez of San Ildefonso Pueblo marked a poignant moment for spectators.

The heroine of 30 years removed her emberous crown and placed it atop Martinez鈥檚 head. The massive crowd cheered in the field below, their faces lit by the prismatic shimmer of fireworks.

Luna, 61, and Martinez embraced before a sawing heap of fire, smoke and ash from thousands of tokens of Santa Fean 鈥済looms鈥� 鈥� the charred remnants of a Zozobra that had glared and gesticulated for hours as a red-coated King George III before sparks poured from his mouth and flames consumed him.

Created in 1924 by Santa Fe artist Will Shuster and run by the local chapter of Kiwanis Club since 1964, Zozobra has grown over the years into the largest annual event in the City Different.

Kiwanis Club has already announced that next year, Zozobra will return as 鈥淶ozobra the Kid,鈥� according to Zozobra Chair Ray Sandoval, who said that eventgoers have long requested Old Man Gloom send up the legends of the Wild West.

More than 60,000 people had attended in recent years, prompting organizers to cap ticket sales due to safety protocols and impacts to infrastructure in the park, which was visited by a black bear on Monday amid a string of bear sightings throughout the state this summer.

Several generations of New Mexico residents and many out-of-state visitors mingled, laid out blankets or unfolded camp chairs for Friday鈥檚 festivities, which began at 4 p.m. with live music and an abundance of fiesta foods and sweets.

Sharon Lomofsky, a film and TV production designer working on 鈥淭he Four Seasons,鈥� a Netflix comedy-drama series being filmed partly in New Mexico, said she was expecting a 鈥渧ery, very large spectacle and a very, very large crowd and a lot of energy.鈥�

鈥淚 imagine that intensifies everything compared to cynical New York,鈥� she said as she was walking in through the park gates. 鈥淵ou鈥檝e got to go with the flow. Cynicism will kill you.鈥�

Skyler Swanson, a Los Alamos resident who hadn鈥檛 attended since the 1990s, had brought his daughter, Lilja, a Zozobra first-timer.

鈥淚t was great,鈥� she said as they followed the throngs of crowds out of the event into the streets of Santa Fe. 鈥淚 saw the 鈥楬amilton鈥� Broadway show, and they had one of the songs. I was like, 鈥榃ow, that was such a fun little reference.鈥� I thought it was really fun.鈥�

Speaking to the Journal in advance of her final performance, Luna said bequeathing her role as Zozobra鈥檚 stair-scaling, torch-twirling Fire Spirit was bittersweet, but marked the opening of her own new chapter.

鈥淚 know I鈥檓 going to miss it terribly, but I just feel very proud of what I鈥檝e done,鈥� said Luna, the fourth person to play the role in Zozobra鈥檚 history. 鈥淎nd also, it was my choice. I just thought, you know, I still feel very blessed to be able to take ballet class, to be able to run, to be able to do this (Fire Spirit dance) and climb a lot of stairs. I feel physically really good.鈥�

John Miller is the Journal鈥檚 northern New Mexico correspondent. He can be reached at jmiller@abqjournal.com.