Beni Guiea - Enlightened people vibrant colors

Beni Guiea - Enlightened people vibrant colorsWeaver: Mario Bautista Martnez Size: 80x204cm; 31. 4x80. 3in; 2. 6x6. 6ft Dyes: cochineal and indigo Criollo wool from the Toluca volcano's foothills. This rug represent the cycle of life of Nahuales, or Beni Guiea as we call them in Dixza language, you would understand it as shamans. All ancient governors in our culture were high Shamans trained in all the fine arts and advanced sciences of the time. The color red represents the blood of the earth

The pattern is the eye of the Plumed Serpent woven with olive green and yellow dyed with Yauhtli (Tagetes Lucida)

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a state in which we are elvating our spirit while keeping our feet on the ground

Are we going to do the same we are doing to the Amazon to the oceans

we do not plant monocultures we make the milpa (corn

Warriors know they are mere mortals living a short existence

it is as if there is an umbilical cord woven from our bodies right through the land

Weaver: Zenaida from San Miguel del Valle

Materials and methods: criollo sheep wool hand dyed with xiuhquilitl (indigo)

however I would like to point out to a few

this is because the growth of our corn plants is intimately joined with the subtle astronomical phenomena in the sky

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