23.5" Huichol yarn painting, Mexican Folk art, Wall art, Mexican painting 60-222

Description

23.5" Mexican Huichol Yarn painting 60-222
Dimentions
Lenght 23.5 inches (59.69 cms)
Width 23.5 inches (59.69 cms)
Thick 1 inches (2.54 cms)
This painting is entirely made with yarn applied with beeswax and resin over a sheet of plywood.
There's a description of the painting written by the artist in the back that reads:
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In this painting we can see the shaman getting ready to perform a ritual in honor of the sun, the rain and the fire. He will thank them for their previous blessings and will ask them to bless the crops and the families again. In order for this, he will chant and pray during the ritual.He will present the gods with the sacred offerings and with the help of his wife, they both will take the offerings to the sacred places, like the Picachos mountain in Nayarit. Once there, the shaman will consume the peyote in order to commune with the gods."
In this painting you'll see a representation of the peyote cactus, the maize, the flower of wind or kieri, the shaman, the muvieri, the eye of God, the sacred drum or Tepo, the gourd bowl, the sun, the rain, the fire and the snake.
* The peyote cactus or "Hikuri", is a plant that the huichol people keep as their most sacred good used it to open a spiritual connection with their gods. Peyote is the soul of their religious culture and a visionary sacrament that opens a pathway to the other deities.
* The Kieri, or Tree of wind,  also known as Solandra brevicalyx, is a tree that gives a halunogenic flower that's sacred for the huichol people and they belive it's an incarnation of their god of wind, Kieri Tewiyari. They believe that the plant can help them achieve the highest level of consciousness
* The maize or Ikú, is the sacred food of the huichol tribe. There's a legend that tells that the 5 races of maize, (white, red, yellow, blue and mottled) are considered to be daugthters of the mother earth. The goddes granted their daugthers to the huichol so they could have substanance and abundance.
* The word "mara'akame" means "the one who knows,and is used to refer to the shaman in the huichol tribe. The marakames or shamans are the spiritual leaders. As ambassadors to the gods, shamans preside over ceremonies, recite the divine passages, cure the sick, interpret dreams, etc. He is the nexus with the gods, invoked through the ceremonial use of peyote, and receives instructions from the spirit world through visions, dreams and trances.
* The muvieri is a stick with feathers used by the marakame in their rituals. It's a mean to contact their gods and receive their messages. It's also used to heal, predict the future and in blessings.
* Sacred Gourds bowls are used by marakames or shamans as containers filled with important symbols, such as corn, animals, and images of family members.
* For the Huichol people, the Ojo de Dios or God's eye is symbolic of the power of seeing and understanding that which is unknown and unknowable, The Mystery. The four points represent the elemental processes: earth, fire, air, and water.
In a ceremonial meaning, the Ojo de Dios is an offering to the gods to ask for the well being of the children. The parents are in charge of making the eye of god that the children will bring to the "drum ritual". In this ritual, the children are presented before the gods so they can initiate their life as members of the tribe. Each year they add a new line or rhombus to the eye of good, in the children's day of birth.
* The snakes guide the shaman or marakame during their rituals and are protectors of the peyote cactus.
* The sun brings light and illumination to the world. Tau or Tayaupa is father sun, master of the heavens. The Huichols believe all living things receive their power from the sun, and that He guarantees healthy crops and abundant food.
* The fire, or Tatewari, is the main god, the ruler over the rest of the gods. We call him "grandfather" because he existed before the sun did. He taught all the rites of the huichol tribe, including the traditional deer hunt. He accompanies the huichol tribe during all their life and rituals.
The Huichol represent one of the few remaining indigenous cultures left in Mexico. They live in self-imposed isolation, having chosen long ago to make their home high in the mountains of the Sierra Madre Occidental, in Western Central Mexico.
Huichol Art dates back millenia. During spiritual rituals the shaman (know as marakame) have visions which are then transcribed into carvings, yarn art, bead art, pottery etc. Each image has spiritual meaning. The huichol tribe uses many simbols as representations of their deities and other things they deem sacred in their culture. Most common ones are the peyote, the deer and the snake.
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