Yaagchei: tree of life warrior

Yaagchei: tree of life warriorSize: 80x150cm; 2. 6x5ft Materials ans methods: criollo sheep wool hand dyed with aniline dyes. Handwoven on a Zapotec style loom of the 16th century adapted from European styles. Woven using a 7 threads per inch reed. Rug traded from vendors from San Miguel del Valle, Oaxaca. Unknown weaver. This rug is inspired in the ancient understanding of the tree of life common to many cultures around the world. The ancient cosmology of the Anawak people

an analogy of our mortal existence

The center pattern in this first section represents the moth that flies at night

they are teachers that keep ancient knowledge and medicine about how to live in harmony between the sky and earth

plantcestors

But it was the ancient ritual of weaving ancestral symbols and patterns that kept the family centered and tied together

Mezcal doesn't get you drunk

our ancestors developed and refined agriculture

The other sound is baà that is found in words like ba'à (grave) or in the word labàá (root)

Leaft cutter red ants are the first farmers

crushed the bones of ancient humans to creat the fifth generation of humans

This maybe the reason  why each day was assigned a different direction in our ancestral calendar in the Anahuac civilization

so some times she would just share with us her dreams as a guide to navigate this world