Saak Le'e Shiì: midday solar blessings area rug

Saak Le'e Shiì: midday solar blessings area rugMaster weaver: Maria Mendoza ContrerasSize: 60x100cm; 2x3ft Materials and methods: Hemp and agave warp. Criollo sheep wool, agave fibers, and henequen all dyed with natural dyes. Turkey feathers were added for ceremonial touch. This rug was woven on a Zapotec walking loom of the XVI century style using a 7 threads per inch reed. Patterns and symbols: fire, smiles, fifth pointed solar cross and seeds of life. Our ancestors, the Benizaa people, the

Weaver: Jesus González

from our fists to the growth of plants and the formation of clouds and galaxies

The path of the warrior teaches us that we must embrace death as part of life in order to live fulfilled lives

Frida had some unreconciled feelings about children because while she was teaching her students surprised her with a birthday party and called themselves her sons and daughters

Her family has a rug stand near the Tule tree but since tourism influx dropped down in Oaxaca due to the pandemic sales have been very low in so they were reaching out to other families in the village to help sell their rugs

This is how we live in community

On the other hand

What if when we are looking "up" in the sky we are really looking down into the bowl of the cosmos

medicine and power

We know that the sun's ecuator rotates faster than the north and south poles which creates a four different magnetic fields on the sun's plasma

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This pattern is a #fractal symbol that teaches us about the perception state that nahuales (#shamans) achieve when they unite their nahual perception in the spirit world with the day to day perception in the tonal world of language