Duuv chiru biguiídi: Agave and moth ancient stories

Duuv chiru biguiídi: Agave and moth ancient storiesSize: 130x200cm Weaver: Omar Mendoza Materials ans methods: criollo sheep wool hand dyed with colorfast aniline dyes using an exhaustive method. Handwoven on a Zapotec style loom of the 16th century adapted from European styles. Woven using a 7 threads per inch reed. Design patterns and symbols. The spiked pattern emerging from the white background is referred to as ru'rduuv, the agave pattern, that honours the agave plant as a sacred plant that

the uterus

some acacia trees are already growing green buds because they can tap to deep underground moisture with their long snakey roots

Let's remember to cleanse our live and surrounding environment with the healing powers of fire

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 in the ancient way our ancestors were doing 14

the "pyramid" like shapes under the cycle of life

The sacres Jaguar reoresents the Beæz energy that connects us to nature through our intuition and to the spirit world through our dreams

3) Quetzalli

Other symbols symbol have six segments that add up to 78 years of maturity

the sun god) was taken from the Laud Codez

as we also call them in Dixzaā language

new born babies

we call the earth