Teotzapotlán: sacred zapote land mountains

Teotzapotlán: sacred zapote land mountainsSize: 60x100cm Master Weaver: Mara Mendoza Contreras Price: $900 USD. Materials and methods: Agave fiber hand dyed with Black Sapote ( Diospyros nigra). Handwoven on a Zapotec style loom of the 16th century adapted from European styles. Woven using a 7 threads per inch reed and a hemp warp. Desing, patterns and symbols. My auntie Maria wove this rug in a series of a first batch of rugs when she was experimenting on how to use agave fibers for weaving

This rug is about the color blue

Becoming a flowered person requires one to live a life of balance and constant growth and learning

guiding us in this flowered path on earth so that our spuirits can blossom

The mirrored pyramid like pattern in the middle represents the idea that as it is above is below

we have the snake energy that ground us to the world

The idea is that part of our lives is dictated by human behavioural patterns that we can predict and foresee but in spite of that we can never fully predict or understand

Our people have spent a lot of time observing the energy flows of nature

farmers can predict rain patterns up to 8hrs in advance by looking at red ant activity

the shamans that have awakened

The symbol in this rug represents the warrior life cycle path

like it happened to people in the 60s after reading the teachings of Don Juan and wanting to do peyote ceremonies every weekend

The path might be always an upward struggle