{"title":"All rugs","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is a selection of from our physical inventory at the work shop.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf an item is out of stock you can pre-order the item and we will expedite production. Alternatively contact us to pay a 50% deposit and we will produce the rug according to our weaving schedule.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf you are looking for a specific color or size please contact us and we would be happy to assist we also offer custom made rugs in any size or pattern.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"testing","title":"Lightning and the eye of Quetzalcoatl","description":"\u003ch4\u003eSize: 79cm x 147cm; 31 in x 58 in; 2.6 ft x 4.8 ft\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eNatural Dyes: Cochineal for wine red, red, and amaranth pink. Pecan husk for tan.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eThis is an ancient design that depicts a variation of the lightning symbol. The Benizaa people understood the power of lightning and it was often associated with the voice of the gods. The world for lightning is Gusiú’u. Farmers believe that with the first lightning storm of summer grasshoppers’ tiny eggs in the ground begin to hatch, and many trees begin to send new shoots to make the most of the rainy season. The voice of god commands the Benizaa people to prepare the land for the sowing of the corn.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eThe eye of Quetzalcoátl in this pattern consists of a Diamond within a diamond, within a Diamond in a fractal-like pattern that represents the ever expanding awareness of the universe. The diamond pattern represents the balance of the four types of energy that were used to create the universe; e.g. the four elements, the four seasons, the four directions, etc. We weave this diamond to remind ourselves that a balanced life and the equal use of the four types of awareness will allow us to see the world through the eye of Quetzalcoatl and receive wisdom. The four types of awareness are: 1) Nahual, the awareness of dreams and intuition. 2) Tonal, the awareness of language and logic. 3) Quetzalli, the spiritual needs and pursuits. 4) Coatl, the earthly needs and pursuits. \u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e \u003c\/h4\u003e","brand":"dixza","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":236922667010,"sku":"","price":13500.0,"currency_code":"MXN","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0002\/0584\/8578\/products\/DSC05251_20mp.jpg?v=1573839895"},{"product_id":"crescencio-the-seer","title":"Crescencio: the seer rug","description":"\u003cp\u003eRug size: 31.5x55in 80x140cm \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eColors: cochineal (dark red and pink) indigo (blue and blue-gray)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePrice: $420USD or equivalent currency.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf you purchase out of stock or customize your rug, our lead time is 1 month for production. Plus 10-15 days for shipping.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFree shipping by Mexican Post Office.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExpedite shipping by FeDex and DHL at extra cost. We will ship and invoice you the total. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a wool rug designed by Samuel and signed with his native name (3 deer, 5 rain). Samuel and his mom worked together to make this rug for a custom made project that had an unexpected turn; the customers came to visit and fell in love with a old vintage rug laying around the house. So now it is looking for a new home. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe design is inpired on the legend of Crescencio a Nahual who live in our village in the 1900's during the time of the Mexican revolution. Crescencio had the power to transform himself into an eagle to spot the govermnent troops, then he could transform into a tornado to confuse the enemy and scare the horses. He would then lead his men to win victory after victory to protect our land and steal food and money to give to the poor. I understand that tales and stories should not be understool literally, they are told to us in a poetic language and since we are small kids. I believe that humans have the capability to communicate and fine tune with animals, maybe Crescencio didn't literally transform himself into an Eagle but he could communicate with eagles and see directly through their eyes. Or maybe he was just really good at understanding \"bird language\" as it is taught in nature schools or as it is still practised by many indigenous groups.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe center of this rug has the Eye of the Feather Snake symbol, the diamond with its four corners represent the balance of the four awareneses that are represented un our body. The navel is the center that unifies this forces. From the navel up, we have the bird energy: the spiritual energy of humans. Think of the heart, the brain and the pituitary gland as organs that create thoughts, emotions, dreams and intuitions that can shape the world even though these are intangible things. As much as we inherit DNA we also inherit thoughts, dreams and emotions through stories, that is the spiritual realm of humanity. From the navel down, we have the snake energy that ground us to the world. The snake are the elders of the planet and walk with their full body on the ground, they represent the earthly energy and needs that ensure survival. Think of the kidneys working to maintain the overall fluid balance in our bodies and filtering waste materials. Our reproductive organs and our legs ensure survival and reproduction of our species, we think on our feet to think faster and hunt on the land. The left side of our body is called the Nahual side while the right is called the Tonal. I think of this as the specialized right and left side of the brain. For our ancestors, the Nahual awareness was everything we couldn’t describe precisely with logic and words, for them their dreams were as real as this world that we could see and touch and actually developed special techniques to master their awareness in the world of dreams. The Tonal side is the world of language and logic, in this real our ancestors also excelled, creating a beautiful tonal language that encrypts a lot of knowledge and wisdom. They also understood the mathematical cero and created one of the most precise calendar systems. In fact, John D. Barrow in his book of Nothing praises the ancient calendar and points out that it was so precise in the accounting of time that it took moderns astronomers using high computing power and precise atomic clocks to realize that the calendar system makes a mistake of 0.019 splits of a second per year. When we use our four types of awareness in a balanced way we can see the world through the eye of the feather snake and achieve great feats.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe found symbols in the corners is what I have come to call the cycle of life of a warrior, a warrior embraces death not as something to be feared but as a natural duality of life. While embracing death we become more present and live our lives in the present; instead of shifting from worrying about the past of the future like the Buddhist teach us. The ancient cultures of Anahuac had public, free mandatory schools that their children had to attend. In one of these schools they were taught the way of the warrior: there are many rites of passage and tests they had to pass, too long to elaborate here, however I would like to point out to a few. First is learning how to grow your own food and hunt, then doing long walks and pilgrimages, then using sacred plants, then mastering the art of dreaming and finally being put to test in life and death situations. Young men and women became warriors when they could face death with a true face and a true heart; if you think about it and remember the stories of survival, in life and death situations humans, if they are grounded they bring the best of themselves and could achieve great feats and acts of generosity. Imagine if we were all trained to achieve those states from a young age.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis rug is a perfect gift for young people and anyone going through a personal struggle in life, it is a reminder of the medicine within. I recommend putting this on the floor in the bedroom, bathroom or somewhere where you could be walking on it barefoot so that the sole of your foot absorbs its medicine. Follow up the reading with the four agreements book by Don Miguel Ruiz and the Teachings of Don Juan by Carlos Castaneda. They both derive the knowledge from an ancestral body of wisdom that we call Toltecayotle, a balanced way of life. But don’t be caught in the surface of knowledge, like it happened to people in the 60s after reading the teachings of Don Juan and wanting to do peyote ceremonies every weekend. Use indigenous knowledge appropriately and with respect, these patterns are universal and are always speaking to us, the sacred geometry in our DNA is shared and if we treated as sacred it will unveil itself to us all.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"dixza","offers":[{"title":"Custom order: Blue, Red, Green or Yellow backgrounds.","offer_id":20743340687430,"sku":"","price":10000.0,"currency_code":"MXN","in_stock":true},{"title":"Existing rug: dark cochineal, gray blue, blue and orange.","offer_id":20743350222918,"sku":"","price":10000.0,"currency_code":"MXN","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0002\/0584\/8578\/products\/20190511_190929.jpg?v=1557773946"},{"product_id":"gueech-bishiuu-flowers-of-the-desert","title":"Gueéch bishiuű: flowers of the desert","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis rug was woven by my mom Leonor Lazo Gonzalez; I helped her to weave it a little bit whenever I had a break from farmwork. It was woven in the traditional style of the Benizaa people, the main symbol is the eye of the feather serpent that becomes awaken when we live a balanced life. Our elders teach us that balance and harmony is the source of love and wisdom. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSize: 80x150 cm 2.5x5 ft\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"dixza","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":20801326710854,"sku":"","price":14000.0,"currency_code":"MXN","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0002\/0584\/8578\/products\/IMG-20190429-075151.jpg?v=1559484955"},{"product_id":"agave-love","title":"Agave love","description":"\u003cp\u003eMy Auntie Maria Mendez Contreras and her son Justino Martinez Mendez were pioneers in reviving the agave weaving techniques in our village. They both have won state and national weaving prizes for their work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis rug is part of an early collection of their production. It measures 63.5x94cm or 25x37 inches, about 2 by 3 feet approximately. It was dyed with only natural dyes by my auntie and her son, they are expert natural dyers and dye mostly with cold based techniques. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe pattern is a traditional interpretation of our ancient symbols and patterns. If features the Nahual (medicine women or man) symbol as its main feature. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis 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, logic and mathematics. The nahual pattern is obtained by uniting the hands in a fist shape with the thumbs joined in the middle, just like a mudra. Can you see it? This pattern also looks like the spiral of the Fibonacci series, the golden ratio that is found everywhere in nature, from our fists to the growth of plants and the formation of clouds and galaxies. This inner spiral represents the inner journey of self discovery that we have to embark to find our true face and true heart. We call this symbol in our language \"Gareak Guiea\", literally the flowered greek key symbol. Archeologist named this patterns Grecas in Spanish language because they noted the similarity with greek patterns and symbols. This naming of the pattern denotes the Eurocentric approach to the understanding of our native ancient cultures. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen I talk about the Nahual pattern I like to illustrate the pattern with the life path of Maria Sabina, a world renowned healer from Huautla de Jimenez that used the sacred mushroom to heal people in her village. It took her a life time to reach the status of a healer; when she was a young child her parents died so because she was very poor she and her sister would forage edible wild plants in the forest to feed themselves. Her life pattern lead her to walk the path of the warrior to bring the best of her spirit and flower in the world. When she was an accomplished healer she could transition easily from the Nahual perception (spirit world) to the day to day world; in the spirit world she would communicate with her patients to find out the source of their illness and then come back to the tonal world (day to day language world) to administer the healing with the precise amounts of plants and rituals needed for healing. Most ancient governors in our culture were Nahuales, healers, seers and great man and woman full if knowledge. It was during the colonial times that the word nahual got transgressed into a negative connotations describing evil people that cause damage and illness by transforming into scary animals. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAll ancient governors in our culture were high Shamans trained in all the fine arts and advanced sciences of the time. The color red represents the blood of the earth necessary for life while the blue represents the cosmic elements needed for life on earth to be sustained. Effectively this rug represents a balance of heaven on earth, or may we say earth in heaven? The pattern is the Fibonacci sequence which many ancient cultures have studied and described before him and is the basic principle of the golden ratio. Geometry and poetry marry in the language of weaving to paint the underlying principles of life and the cycles of the cosmos. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"dixza","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":20813098254406,"sku":"","price":20000.0,"currency_code":"MXN","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0002\/0584\/8578\/products\/20200518_092206.jpg?v=1589812366"},{"product_id":"the-red-serpent","title":"The red serpent","description":"\u003cp\u003eSize: 80x150cm 2.6x5ft\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDyes: Cochineal dyes, tagetes lucida and pomegranates. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDyers: Leonor Lazo and Mario Bautista \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWeaver: Reynaldo López\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Diamond pattern comes from the skin of the rattle snake and represents knowledge, power, wisdom and medicine. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis rug depicts a stylized version of the eye of Bealguie'æ (Eye of the Plumed Serpent); this nested diamond pattern is known colloquially in our weaving community as shiísh, the pineapple. The scales make a diamond pattern found on the skin of the rattle snake; this diamond represents the balance of the four directions, the four elements and the four types of awareness found in the human experience: nahual (dreams, intuition), tonal (language, logic), snake (earthly) and bird (spiritual). Our ancestors carried out snake rituals where the bit of  snake would produce the most powerful visions on earth. In our tales and stories, snakes are great teachers often working with woman to save humanity. In our matriarchal culture women are the keepers of knowledge, medicine and power. In our language, the word for sister is my snake, Bealàa, my sister. This rug brings some of that snake medicine to your space and ceremonies. We recommend using this rug to meditate or lay down to connect with ancient snake knowledge. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"dixza","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31163835416646,"sku":"","price":14000.0,"currency_code":"MXN","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0002\/0584\/8578\/products\/20191115-115238.jpg?v=1573844064"},{"product_id":"red-agave","title":"Red agave","description":"\u003cp\u003eRuúr duúv (Agave frame)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSize: 80x150xm 2.6x5ft\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCriollo wool dyed with cochineal (red).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWeaver: Jacinto Gutierrez\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a classic rug pattern that hasn't changed much for hundreds of years. It depicts a frame of agaves surrounding the eye of the feather snake--the diamond pattern. This is a ceremonial rug that brings the spirit of our land into your place. Agaves take at least 7 years and up to several decades to mature; at this point the plant shoots up a stalk called Quiote up to the sky. This is why the mezcal made with agaves elevates our spirit to the heavens. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe eye of the feather snake represents the balance of the four types of awareness found in the human experience: Nahual (dreams, intuition); tonal (language, logic); snake (earthly) and bird (spiritual). When we balance these four awareness in our lives allows us to reach the feather snake state, a state where wisdom and love comes to us as represented by a butterfly in the center of the diamond. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"dixza","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31164119810118,"sku":"","price":13000.0,"currency_code":"MXN","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0002\/0584\/8578\/products\/20191115-095944.jpg?v=1573849589"},{"product_id":"the-path-of-the-warrior","title":"The path of the warrior","description":"\u003cp\u003e80x150cm - 2.6 x 5 ft\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCriollo wool dyed with aniline dyes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWeaver: Amalia Hernández\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis rug depicts lines of energy that run across the land and that conform the human energetic field. A teeth like pattern that reminds us that laughing and smiling is the source of all healing--we carry the medicine within us. The path of the warrior is about the internal journey of growth to discover our true face and our true heart. Warriors learn to embrace death as part of the duality of life but also endure a long battle to pursue a long and well lived and balanced life. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"dixza","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31164147302470,"sku":"","price":5700.0,"currency_code":"MXN","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0002\/0584\/8578\/products\/20191115-094446.jpg?v=1573850251"},{"product_id":"nasaatea-shaa-guiibaa-the-sky-is-really-happy","title":"Nasaàtea Shaa Guiíbaà- The sky is really happy","description":"\u003cp\u003e80x150xm 2.6x5ft\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCriollo wool dyed with native indigo (jiquilite)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWeaver: Cristina Domínguez\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis rug depicts the cycle of water: river patterns at the bottom, blue mountains that bring the rain for our milpa seeds (corn, beans and pumpkin) to grow in our fields. There is a blue eye of Bealguie'æ (Quetzalcoatl, the feather snake) in the middle to represent the ancient ghost dance taught by the feather snake, an ancient dance that survives as the feather dance in our tradition. When we dance we pray for the rains to fall on our land; in this way, we establish a direct connection between heaven. and earth. When the rains fall it doesnt only make our corn grow but it also feeds our spirit; it is as if there is an umbilical cord woven from our bodies right through the land, the milpa and up to the sky in tune with the water cycle.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"dixza","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31165074866246,"sku":"","price":10000.0,"currency_code":"MXN","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0002\/0584\/8578\/products\/20191115-094021_eebe1878-22ac-40f4-aea9-e8579329d185.jpg?v=1583260077"},{"product_id":"snake-medicine","title":"Snake medicine","description":"\u003cp\u003e80x150cm 2.6x5ft\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCriollo wool dyed with cochineal, native indigo and marigolds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWeaver: Estefania Martínez\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis rug depicts a stylized version of the eye of Bealguie'æ (Eye of the Plumed Serpent); this pattern is colloquially called in our weaving community as shiísh, the pineapple. The scales make a diamond pattern found on the skin of the rattle snake; this diamond represents the balance of the four directions, the four elements and the four types of awareness found in the human experience: nahual (dreams, intuition), tonal (language, logic), snake (earthly) and bird (spiritual). Our ancestors carried out snake rituals where the bit of  snake would produce the most powerful visions on earth. In our tales and stories, snakes are great teachers often working with woman to save humanity. In our matriarchal culture women are the keepers of knowledge, medicine and power. In our language, the word for sister is my snake, Bealàa, my sister. This rug brings some of that snake medicine to your space and ceremonies. We recommend using this rug to meditate or lay down to connect with ancient snake knowledge. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"dixza","offers":[{"title":"Blue","offer_id":32207817637958,"sku":"","price":10100.0,"currency_code":"MXN","in_stock":false},{"title":"White","offer_id":31166688821318,"sku":"","price":10100.0,"currency_code":"MXN","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0002\/0584\/8578\/products\/20191115-084144_bdee36af-2d66-4417-95a5-0d3ebf8db8f2.jpg?v=1575487505"},{"product_id":"the-three-sister-seeds","title":"The three sister seeds","description":"\u003cp\u003eSize: 80x150cm 2.6x5ft \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCriollo sheep wool dyed with natural dyes: mainly indigo and cochineal. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWeaver: Leonor Lazo\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe three sister seeds to make milpa (corn, beans and pumpkin) are woven into a diamond pattern that comes from the skin of the rattle snake. The feather snake god went to the under world to steal the very first corn kernels from the ants; we know that snakes and ants often share their nests. Up to this day, farmers can predict rain patterns up to 8hrs in advance by looking at red ant activity. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe eye of the feather snake diamond has a moth symbol in the middle to signify knowledge and wisdom brought by night and darkness. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere are mile patterns to remind us that laughing and smiling is the source of true healing; plants and rituals are there to help us start the healing process and uplift our spirit but ultimately the healing comes from within. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe mountain pattern is reminding us that mountains are the sacred elders of our planet and help us elevate our spirit to the sky while providing a lot of our earthly needs too. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"dixza","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31181336969286,"sku":"","price":8200.0,"currency_code":"MXN","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0002\/0584\/8578\/products\/20191115-083526_38d6ef3b-7769-42cf-9dee-bd745e4041a1.jpg?v=1575483295"},{"product_id":"river-smiles","title":"River smiles","description":"\u003cp\u003e2.6 x 5 ft\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNatural dyes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWeaver: Dionisio\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSmiling is the source of true healing, plants and rituals are there to help us start the healing process but the true healing comes from within and starts with a smile. The smile pattern is woven in a wavy pattern like the rivers. Be water my friend.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e#rugsinusa #usa\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"dixza","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31219447496774,"sku":"","price":10100.0,"currency_code":"MXN","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0002\/0584\/8578\/products\/20191129-121015.jpg?v=1575050292"},{"product_id":"the-teachings-of-the-desert","title":"The teachings of the desert","description":"\u003cp\u003eSize: 2.6 x 5ft\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDyes: pericón (yellow) and pomegranate for back ground. Aniline dyes for black. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e100% criollo wool.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWeaver: Dionisio \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe rug depicts the cycle of life and an arrange of cacti to remind us of the Teachings of Don Juan acquired during those long walks in the desert with the Nahual. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"dixza","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31233034780742,"sku":"","price":8300.0,"currency_code":"MXN","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0002\/0584\/8578\/products\/20191203-163432.jpg?v=1575433005"},{"product_id":"water-nahual","title":"Water Nahual","description":"\u003cp\u003eSize: 4.2 x 6.5 ft\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIndigo dyes on native criollo sheep wool. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWeaver: Mario Bautista Martinez\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis 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, logic and mathematics. The nahual pattern is obtained by uniting the hands in a fist shape with the thumbs joined in the middle, just like a #mudra. Can you see it? This pattern also looks like the spiral of the Fibonacci series, the golden ratio that is found everywhere in nature, from our fists to the growth of plants and the formation of clouds and galaxies. This inner spiral represents the inner journey of self discovery that we have to embark to find our true face and true heart. We call this symbol in our language \"Gareak Guiea\", literally the flowered greek key symbol. Archeologist named this patterns Grecas in Spanish language because they noted the similarity with greek patterns and symbols. This naming of the pattern denotes the Eurocentric approach to the understanding of our native ancient cultures. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen I talk about the Nahual pattern I like to illustrate the pattern with the life path of Maria Sabina, a world renowned healer from Huatla de Jimenez that used the sacred mushroom to heal people in her village. It took her a life time to reach the status of a healer; when she was a young child her parents died so because she was very poor she and her sister would forage edible wild plants in the forest to feed themselves. Her life pattern lead her to walk the path of the warrior to bring the best of her spirit and flower in the world. When she was an accomplished healer she could transition easily from the Nahual perception (spirit world) to the day to day world; in the spirit world she would communicate with her patients to find out the source of their illness and then come back to the tonal world (day to day language world) to administer the healing with the precise amounts of plants and rituals needed for healing. Most ancient governors in our culture were Nahuales, healers, seers and great man and woman full if knowledge. It was during the colonial times that the word nahual got transgressed into a negative connotations describing evil people that cause damage and illness by transforming into scary animals. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe diamond pattern represents the medicine of the snake. Snakes are the elders of the planet and hold the ancient knowledge, medicine and power. In our language, the word for sister is Bealaā, my snake.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"dixza","offers":[{"title":"Blue-cream","offer_id":31268799545414,"sku":"","price":30000.0,"currency_code":"MXN","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0002\/0584\/8578\/products\/20190814-183233-01_b7a88df9-5f5b-4792-b7b7-90b7b69eacac.jpg?v=1576728500"},{"product_id":"valle-zapoteco","title":"Valle Zapoteco","description":"\u003cp\u003eSize: 2x3ft  60x100cm \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWeaver: Dominga\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese natural wool colors are achieved by combining white and black wool in different proportions. This design transcends the duality of black and white thinking and seeks for a blend of harmony and balance. The rug depicts the cycle of life and the eye of the feather snake encircled in a ritual of candles and smile stripes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe second rug is the last three sets of pictures, a rug from the same batch and almost exactly the same but not quite.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"dixza","offers":[{"title":"Rug 2","offer_id":31331379019846,"sku":"","price":4000.0,"currency_code":"MXN","in_stock":true},{"title":"Rug 1","offer_id":31331373776966,"sku":"","price":4000.0,"currency_code":"MXN","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0002\/0584\/8578\/products\/20200123-071731.jpg?v=1579799784"},{"product_id":"petronila-bag","title":"Petronila Bag","description":"\u003cp\u003e2 x 1.5 ft \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSynthetic dyes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePerfect for all day errands and travelling bag. We had fit a baby goat in these bags to do our farm errands ;-)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFree 15 shipping by MexPost, Mexican post office. Contact us to upgrade to FedEx 5 day shipping.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"dixza","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31340532301894,"sku":"","price":5300.0,"currency_code":"MXN","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0002\/0584\/8578\/products\/20200127-181828.jpg?v=1580218065"},{"product_id":"gal-nazaa-the-joy-of-life","title":"Gal Nazaá (The joy of life)","description":"\u003cp\u003eSize: 79 x 200 cm; 78.5 x 31 in;  2.5 x 6.5 ft.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMaterials: criollo sheep wool and aniline dyes. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWeaver: Dionisio \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis rug is festive rug that resembles thee music of weddings and the colorful fruits that we feast on when someone asks for the Bride's hand in marriage. Weddings are a big celebration in our culture, often 300 families will gather in community to help decorate, cook and serve the meals for each other. The spirit of community and fiesta is the essence of this rug and will bring color and joy to any space in your house. It is an idea size for under the sofa between a coffee table or right next to the bed. You can also drap it on a couch or hang it on a wall. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe rug depicts the symbols of the smile in the stripes, followed by rows of mountains and the seeds of the milpa (corn, beans and pumpkin). 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The rug has smile patterns and arrows to remind us to embrace life's struggles with a smile and taking the path of the warrior to find our hiegher self, our true face and true heart.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"dixza","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31364448747590,"sku":"","price":9500.0,"currency_code":"MXN","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0002\/0584\/8578\/products\/20200208_080359.jpg?v=1581202775"},{"product_id":"fish-tesselation-m-c-escher","title":"Fish tesselation, M C Escher.","description":"\u003cp\u003eSize: 80x150cm 2.5x5ft\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMaterials: criollo sheep wool spun in the mills of Tianguistengo, hand dyed and woven in San Miguel del Valle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"dixza","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31364479385670,"sku":"","price":7300.0,"currency_code":"MXN","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0002\/0584\/8578\/products\/20200208_080150.jpg?v=1581204033"},{"product_id":"nis-daou-peaceful-waters","title":"Nis daou, Peaceful waters","description":"\u003cp\u003eSize: 83x157cm; 32x62in; 2.7x5.1ft \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMaterials: criollo sheep wool milled in Tianguistengo, dyed at home with natural dyes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWeaver: Rosa\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePeceful waters means ocean in our Dixza language, this soft gradient of indigo dyes is relaxing and pleasing to the eye. The pattern is the eye of the Plumed Serpent woven with olive green and yellow dyed with Yauhtli (Tagetes Lucida), the olive green is achieved using naturally grey wool. Yauhtli is a sacred plant that produces visions (psychedelic) when smoked, the plant is also used as remedy for stomach pains and cramps like a wild chamomille. We recommend putting this rug on the flor and stepping on it barefoot as much as possible to absorb the medicine with the soul (sole) of your foot. The plumed serpent is a symbol of how heaven and earth meet in the human experience. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"dixza","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31364526243910,"sku":"","price":10100.0,"currency_code":"MXN","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0002\/0584\/8578\/products\/20220720_134726.jpg?v=1658343148"},{"product_id":"yagshii-river-nahual","title":"Yagshíi - River Nahual","description":"\u003cp\u003eSize: 4.2 x 6.5 ft\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIndigo dyes on native criollo sheep wool. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWeaver: Mario Bautista Martinez\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis 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, logic and mathematics. The nahual pattern is obtained by uniting the hands in a fist shape with the thumbs joined in the middle, just like a #mudra. Can you see it? This pattern also looks like the spiral of the Fibonacci series, the golden ratio that is found everywhere in nature, from our fists to the growth of plants and the formation of clouds and galaxies. This inner spiral represents the inner journey of self discovery that we have to embark to find our true face and true heart. We call this symbol in our language \"Gareak Guiea\", literally the flowered greek key symbol. Archeologist named this patterns Grecas in Spanish language because they noted the similarity with greek patterns and symbols. This naming of the pattern denotes the Eurocentric approach to the understanding of our native ancient cultures. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen I talk about the Nahual pattern I like to illustrate the pattern with the life path of Maria Sabina, a world renowned healer from Huatla de Jimenez that used the sacred mushroom to heal people in her village. It took her a life time to reach the status of a healer; when she was a young child her parents died so because she was very poor she and her sister would forage edible wild plants in the forest to feed themselves. Her life pattern lead her to walk the path of the warrior to bring the best of her spirit and flower in the world. When she was an accomplished healer she could transition easily from the Nahual perception (spirit world) to the day to day world; in the spirit world she would communicate with her patients to find out the source of their illness and then come back to the tonal world (day to day language world) to administer the healing with the precise amounts of plants and rituals needed for healing. Most ancient governors in our culture were Nahuales, healers, seers and great man and woman full if knowledge. It was during the colonial times that the word nahual got transgressed into a negative connotations describing evil people that cause damage and illness by transforming into scary animals. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe diamond pattern represents the medicine of the snake. Snakes are the elders of the planet and hold the ancient knowledge, medicine and power. 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The agave plant, in this case Espadín takes up to seven years to grow and reach maturity, after that it shoots up a stalk towards the heavens, this stalk grows relatively fast, I bet you could see it growing day by day powered by the sugars accumulated over time in the heart of the agave. This is why Mezcal made in the slow handcrafted ways tastes the best and gives you the Mezcal high, it doesn't get you drunk but makes you magical. Well, so this rug, it helps you elevate your spirit to the cosmos with the sacred geometry that is depicted by oposing energies and forms that complement each other: the union of heaven and earth in the human experience.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"dixza","offers":[{"title":"Variant 1 - Indigo and synthetic dye","offer_id":40617501655110,"sku":"","price":26000.0,"currency_code":"MXN","in_stock":true},{"title":"Variant 2 - Synthetic dyes","offer_id":40617501720646,"sku":"","price":22500.0,"currency_code":"MXN","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0002\/0584\/8578\/products\/20200527_170131.jpg?v=1590669719"},{"product_id":"guragu-tesselations-inspired-by-m-c-escher","title":"Guragu tessellations inspired by M C Escher","description":"\u003cdiv data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\" data-en-clipboard=\"true\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\" data-en-clipboard=\"true\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-pm-slice=\"0 0 []\" data-en-clipboard=\"true\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSize: 104x128cm; 41x50in; 3.4x4.1ft\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWeaver: Faustino Bautista\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMaterials: undyed hand spun wool from San Baltazar chichicapam \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eThis rug was made by our elders: the wool was hand spun by the grandmas in the town of Chichicapam and the rug was woven by Faustino, Doña Soledad's husband, she is the local Temazcal healer in town. I went to visit them to take this picture to highlight their work, elders are still very reluctant to having their picture taken but Don Faustino agreed to pose so that we can showcase their rugs online.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eDoña Soledad had a very intense flu for about a week and she was just getting better, this started before we had any known COVID19 cases in Oaxaca so we don't know what happened to her, most likely just a normal flu. I kept a safe distance from them of course and had my visit be warm and brief. I wanted to check on her since I knew she had some symptoms since the last time we went for a temazcal. She is doing well thanks to some temazcal, some medicines from the doctor and lots of herbal remedies.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eThis is a time when we need to remember to take care of our elders and show up for them. It is a time to reconnect with the earth and the ancient wisdom that our elders remember.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBenizaa (Zapotec) weavers started reproducing European art probably enticed by European travelers, it could have been that Europeans saw a similarity if Escher's tessellation series with our sacred geometric patterns that are fractal like patterns created thousands of years ago in our culture. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis lizard tessellation is made from an hexagon cut in different ways to make each part of the lizard so that at the end the figure ends up matching the jigsaw. The meaning of the lizard (reptile) is enigmatic, as many of Escher's work. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn the greater culture of the Anahuac our ancestors, in the myths of the Toltecs and Teotithuacans, our ancestors describe how the earth Goddess use to navigate the great waters like a giant reptile until the God Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca split her in half to create the earth and the moon. The continents then appear floating like a giant reptile on the Oceans. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn other tales, the elders narrate how in the journey after death (for those who die of normal deaths or on land, when their journey to Mictlan is almost finished, after many years of wandering and suffering, their bodies, stripped of flesh and heart by the Jaguar God are presented by Xochitonal (a giant reptile) that carries their bones to Mictlantecuhtli and Mictlantecihuatl, the Lord and Goddess of the underworld. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThese two stories show the ancient connection of the reptile to the land. Reptiles were the first animal to emerge from the ancient life in the oceans and started to colonize the earth and surely when we die the reptilian part of our brain might be the last part still pulsating with life and consciousness as we wake up to the world of the Underworld. In this light, M C Escher's work (shown in the last image) denotes this same journey of transformation, from the 2D sacred geometry to the 3D imagery and surrounding symbology of growth and transformation only to return the physical 3D to the abstract representation. And what are we but a physical expression of the sacred geometry encoded into our DNA. 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All ancient governors in our culture were high Shamans trained in all the fine arts and advanced sciences of the time. The color red represents the blood of the earth necessary for life while the blue represents the cosmic elements needed for life on earth to be sustained. Effectively this rug represents a balance of heaven on earth, or may we say earth in heaven? The pattern is the Fononacci sequence which many ancient cultures have studied and described before him and is the basic principle of the golden ratio. Geometry and poetry marry in the language of weaving to paint the underlying principles of life and the long cycles of the cosmos. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"dixza","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31547555020870,"sku":"","price":16500.0,"currency_code":"MXN","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0002\/0584\/8578\/products\/20200415_074232.jpg?v=1587011354"},{"product_id":"cosmic-macaw-meets-rattle-snake-nahual","title":"Rattle snake nahual meets Cosmic Macaw","description":"\u003cp\u003eWeaver: Marį Guíîn\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSize: 216x303cm; 85x119.5in; 7x10ft\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWeight: 7.7kg Threads per Inch: 7\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMaterials: fine merino wool worsted and dyed with Cochineal, Tagetes Lucida and Xiuhquilitl.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe colors in this rug are the primary colors that we use in our natural dye repertoire to derive many of the other colors we use in our rugs. This essential colors are the basic colors of the sunrise and the sunset and the colors that pigment the feathers of the Scarlet Macaw. The blue colors were dyed with our native indigo (Xiuhquilitl), indigo has been used in our continent since about 6000 years ago, as evidenced by a mummy's textile preserved in Perú. The yellow is dyed with Yauhtli (Tagetes Lucida, Pericón or Mexican tarragon) this flower is used medicinally to treat stomach aches and ritually to induce powerful visions. The red comes from Beé (cochineal) a domesticated bug that grows in the prickle pear cactus that transformed the politic and economic situation of sixteenth century Europe by producing a superb red dye that could last more than 500 years on Textiles. Using these three essential dye colors we could replicate the colors of the sunrise and the sunset. You can dye yarn with Yauhtli and overdye it with cochineal to get shades of orange to pale Mamey Zapote colors. With cochineal we can get all the shades or burgundy, red, scarlet, purples and pinks. The indigo can be dark night sky blue to light dawn blue to midday nitid blue. The boldness of these colors are the colors of the trees that hold the sky above our heads, the east has a red color, the north white, the west black and the south yellow; in the middle there is a green tree of life that unifies the four directions of the Universe. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eThe bird and the snake are very ancient symbols that illustrate a deep understanding of the forces of life that make our existence possible in this earthly plane of the four directions. There are nine levels of reality above our head and nine below our feet thus each plane in the design has thirteen steps to make a pyramid above and below (9+4=13). \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe diamond pattern represents the medicine of the snake. Snakes are the elders of the planet and hold the ancient knowledge, medicine and power. In our language, the word for sister is Bealaā, my snake. The Serpent constellation is located in the south plane and given its relation to the tilt of the milky way in the night sky our seers would make predictions about the rain patterns and the future of our people. \u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis 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, logic and mathematics. The nahual pattern woven in the middle of the Diamond is obtained by uniting the hands in a fist shape with the thumbs joined in the middle, just like a mudra. Can you see it? This pattern also looks like the spiral of the Fibonacci series, the golden ratio that is found everywhere in nature, from our fists to the growth of plants and the formation of clouds and galaxies. This inner spiral represents the inner journey of self discovery that we have to embark to find our true face and true heart. We call this symbol in our language \"Gareak Guiea\", literally the flowered greek key symbol. Archeologist named this patterns Grecas in Spanish language because they noted the similarity with greek patterns and symbols. This naming of the pattern denotes the Eurocentric approach to the understanding of our native ancient cultures. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv color=\"rgb(35, 39, 54)\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhen I talk about the Nahual pattern I like to illustrate the pattern with the life path of Maria Sabina, a world renowned healer from Huatla de Jimenez that used the sacred mushroom to heal people in her village. It took her a life time to reach the status of a healer; when she was a young child her parents died so because she was very poor she and her sister would forage edible wild plants in the forest to feed themselves. Her life pattern lead her to walk the path of the warrior to bring the best of her spirit and flower in the world. When she was an accomplished healer she could transition easily from the Nahual perception (spirit world) to the day to day world; in the spirit world she would communicate with her patients to find out the source of their illness and then come back to the tonal world (day to day language world) to administer the healing with the precise amounts of plants and rituals needed for healing. Most ancient governors in our culture were Nahuales, healers, seers and great man and woman full if knowledge. It was during the colonial times that the word nahual got transgressed into a negative connotations describing evil people that cause damage and illness by transforming into scary animals. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv color=\"rgb(35, 39, 54)\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt is through the language of weaving that the ancient teachings got preserved and they still help us continually analyse our existence trapped where the sky and the underworld kiss each other. These timeless patterns and symbols are built into our bodies, into the growth of plants and the formation of galaxies, they remind us of our cosmic origin and the awareness that we are pure energy always transforming never stagnant. The universe that creates itself to know itself. It is believed that the ancient Nahuales would know exactly when they were going to die, they were probably in such good tune with their bodies or were willing to give up their lives for a bigger cause that for them death was just another stage of the process of life. The Nahual spirits like enlightened spirits, is believed to return to the sun, depicted as the Quincunce (five pointed cross) inside the diamond, this little diamond also represents the journey of the sun in each point: sunrise, midday, sunset, underworld journey and rebirth in a new sunrise. The middle red dot represents the balance of the four directions, when there is balance there is light and clarity in our life. 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Handwoven on a Zapotec style loom of the 16th century adapted from European styles. Woven using a 7 threads per inch reed. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDesign, patterns and symbols\u003cspan\u003e: the first stripes represent smile and laughter that are the source of healing. The central diamond figure represents the Eye of the Feathered snake, the balance of our awareness between the spirit world, the earthly needs, the Nahual (intuition) and tonal (logic) awareness. This diamond has the life cycle of the Nahual growing from it showing us the path to become a person that keeps knowledge and wisdom. Many seeds are dotted neatly around this central figure, these seeds are all the plants we sow in our milpa food system (corn, beans, squash, amaranth, chillies, chia seeds...etc). The border of this central figure represents agaves from which we make Nisduuvbadou, the calming water from the agaves, known as Mezcal, our sacred spirit drink. 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The Gutierrez family takes pride in exploring and creating new patterns and styles rooted in tradition that have spread among other weavers within our village. This #pattern is a play on the #Quincunce, the fifth pointed cross that finds its center in the balance and harmony of the four directions. Our ancestors understood that the perfect balance of elements, for instance, earth, fire, water and wind; create the fifth element: steam. We use this understanding to carry on the #temazcal #healing ritual and architecture in which the four elements dance to create the steam that will transfer that plants medicine into our bodies. The buildings in the sacred site of Dain Beaāz (#MonteAlban) are arranged in this way honoring the fifth direction. In fact, I have the hypothesis that the buildings of Liuū Baà (#Mitla) were also giant temazcal chambers were our ancestors did #groupceremonies and #visionquest. \u003cbr\u003eI often tell people, you don't need #drugs to have #visions, just #stare at our rugs long enough 😉\u003cbr\u003eMay this time of #covid19 and #slowingdown bring much needed #introspection into what is important in our #lives. Let's remember that #death is our best #advisor. 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In our understanding of life we understand the importance of mountain ranges in the weather patterns and the energy interactions they create in the edges of ecosystems. Thanks to the Northern Sierra a lot of the humidity of the Cold fronts coming from the Gulf of Mexico gets trapped forming the cloud forests of the higher mountains. The mountain range also offers protection from hurricanes giving us just the \"tails\" of gentle rains. It is also the reason why the clouds move in a certain pattern around the vortex of the Central valley of Oaxaca. 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He showed up to our house yesterday offering his latest creation at a discounted price because business is low, I told him I might be able to sell his rug online so here it is! Support our young weavers and buy native made rugs, not IKEA's rugs that steal our patterns and symbols.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this rug we have the smile pattern that is woven in there to remind us that laughing and smiling is the source of all healing. Then a mountain pattern, mountains are the natural altars of the planet, they help us elevate our bodies and spirit towards the heavens. Then we have the first section with Agave patterns on the side, we consider agave the Queen of all plants because it gives us fiber, food and spirit (Mezcal). This first section also has a diamond stripe that represents the path of the flowered serpent (Quetzalcoatl) towards the flourishing of the spirit. There is a lot of seeds dotted around this section that represent all the seeds that nourish our bodies, we make milpa with corn, beans and squash; but we also plant superfoods in between, i.e. amaranth, chia seeds, chillies and flowers in what was the very firs food forests of the continent. The center pattern in this first section represents the moth that flies at night, reminding us of the wisdom and learning that comes with night and dark times.  The next row is the life cylce pattern that I talk about in my youtube videos. The pattern in the center has a lyfe cycle symbol that can be seen in the walls of the church of our village, our ancestors left them there to remind us of our true face and our true heart. 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Mario has a repair bike shop as a side business but even that gig is slow these days. His wife buys our corn to make tortillas to sell in the local market, we get freshly hand made soft tortillas in return every morning. We are happy to help put their work out there in the internet. 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The ancient believe system of the Mexica people teaches that the universe was split in two parts to create the current world, the goddess Cipactli was pulled by the brothers Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca to make the earth and the sky and in order to keep them from collapsing again they planted four trees in each corner of the world with a central tree in the middle.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eFor the Mayans, this tree is called Ya'ax'che which is a ceiba tree that has nine levels in the branches of the sky, four levels in the existential plane of the earth (as in the four directions) and nine levels in the underworld.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eIn Benizaa culture we have also have a Ceiba species of tree from which our spirit is tethered to in the sky before we are born and under which we are buried to start our journey back to the sky after our mortal dream. My grandfather used to say that on the earth we should walk the path of the warrior, always doing our best to uplift our spirit and transform the earthly matter into beautiful art. The only true time to rest is when we are resting under the shade of the Yaag Chei.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eThe tree of life was represented in Ancient times with a cosmic bird sitting on top of it and a snake or crocodile in its roots at the base of the trunk. This duality represents the original two aspects of creation, the sky energy and the earthly one. In his book the Cosmic Tree, Frank Desmedt describes the 'Astronical' explanation of this duality. The Mayans made precise observations of how the galaxy appeared in the Sky, to the south it points to the Serpent constellation and to the north to the Canis Major which in our cultures has the shape of a Macaw bird.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eOur grandparents always observed the night sky. I remember, my grandmother always making predictions about the rain pattern by looking at the position of the stars and the tilt of the milky way. In fact, the word for Milky way in Benizaa language is the same word for corn plant, this is because the growth of our corn plants is intimately joined with the subtle astronomical phenomena in the sky.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eSo in this light, we cannot ever just talk about the earth alone, we must remember that the tree of life has its branches in the heavens and roots in the underworld. When you see the Serpent descending on the steps of the Chichen Itza sacred site, it is announcing the beginning of the rainy season, just like the snake like lightning storms that prelude the big rains. The rains permeate the earth and sprout the seeds of life and this water will travel to the depth of underground rivers and water tables only to evaporate again and complete the water cycle. Every aspect of the ancient world was cyclical and had a reason to be; from the heavens, the surface world and the underworld. With respects to the current world situation, we have come at a time in history where we need to radically transform our way of life to respect and restore the life support systems of the earth. What aspects of our live need to be buried underground and be transformed into a new way of life? May we transition from an ecocidal modernity to a restorative society that seeks the elevation of the human spirit and needs to focus more on the immaterial aspects of life that make our lives more worth living. During this great slowdown of the industrial and economic machinery we are turning back to slow, small and sustainable living. We are seeing a great rebalancing of nature's energy flows. This virus doing some work for the underworld, like the great crocodile monster that takes our dead bodies to the lord and lady of the underworld. Like the composting of nutrients that will allow other seeds to be reborn and live the mortal dream once again. 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Tiśina comes from a family of notable California Native Traditional Basket Weavers of Yosemite. Her family's basketry work has been featured in The Smithsonian Museum, Heard Museum, among others \u0026amp; has been coveted by collectors world wide. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis is the very first rug we have woven together as a symbol of weaving our cultures together, her people still gather and process acorns in the ancestral ways. My people gave up acorn processing for corn cultivation, but in the sacred mountain where our village was founded there are still acorn\/corn grinding holes around a site that has several types of oak trees growing near by. I have learnt that we must remember our ancient knowledge to have the connection with the land in case Climate Chaos or another human caused crisis turns into many of the cataclysms that destroyed the previous four world inhabited by humans in our cosmology. Self sufficiency and and self reliance will be key, our corn fields last year produced only 20% of the corn that my grandfather used to harvest. Even the Oak trees did not produce much acorn due to the low rains of the season, but as a perennial tree they have a much better advantage and a necessary conection must be woven. \u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMy mom and I dyed some yarns following Michel Garcías Mango recipe described in his DVD Natural Dye workshop II: colors of the Americas on wool fibers using sustainable methods. I bought this DVD at a yarn shop in California, to find out our people were featured in it. There is a lot of irony in the circlings of life. Our people in our community are so secretive about their methods and techniques within our village given the competition within families to produce and sell rugs but we are so willing to share our knowledge with the outside world as a way to make a name for ourselves and get recognised. I love the work of Michel Garcia and praise the work he is doing for preserving and expanding the knowledge of Natural dyes, but I have to say I did not feel so comfortable seeing how he showed some of our techniques after he learnt them from local families in our village. Time and time again Europeans have showed up here to gather plants, extract knowledge and totally appropriate it as theirs, so it is a careful walk on treacherous lands. He did mostly a good job pointing out to European methods and his own version of each method. Ironically, given the fact that some of the plants that we used historically as mordants are not cultivated or tended for in the wild anymore so we end up using alum as a mordant which is the European Method. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe times we are living on the earth call for great action to change our Ecocidal behaviour to restorative actions that balance our relationship with the life support systems of the earth. Like the Native Turtle Islanders and Cem Anahuac people say, in times of struggle we all become the rainbow people and come together in unity and harmony to face the big challenges of life. Many streams of native culture are coming together to reunite in larger streams and rivers to bring together the breath of our ancestors and create a song and a prayer so lound that the earthlings will synch and awake to care for our mother earth again. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis rug is about the color blue, dyed with Xiuhquilitl (our native indigo). The blue represents all these streams of water that are reuniting and coming together from all the four corners, each stream is bringing its own hue, texture, saturation, contamination, trauma, nutrient, lack of nutrient...etc but in the union of them all there is the immensity and calmness of the big Oceans that we call Niisdou, which literally means the calm and immense waters. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Dixza","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31707668086854,"sku":"","price":14500.0,"currency_code":"MXN","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0002\/0584\/8578\/products\/20200516_100224.jpg?v=1589641735"},{"product_id":"matisse-tote-bag","title":"Matisse tote bag","description":"\u003cp\u003e53x51cm; 21x20in \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCriollo sheep wool hand dyed with aniline blue. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis item is available on pre-sale. Buy now. Delivery time 2 to 3 weeks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe tote bag has a cotton liner with 8 different sized pockets with zippers to keep your belongings organised. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eThe Blue Nudes is a series of color lithographs by Henri Matisse made from cut-outs depicting nude figures in various positions. Restricted by his physical condition after his surgery for stomach cancer, Matisse began creating art by cutting and painting sheets of paper by hand and supervised the creation of the lithographs until his death in 1954.[1]\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eBlue Nude IV, the first of the four nudes, took a notebook of studies and two weeks' work of cutting-and-arranging before the resulting artefact satisfied him. In the event, Matisse finally arrived at his favorite pose, for all four works—intertwining legs and an arm stretching behind the neck. The posture of the nude woman is like the posture of a number of seated nudes made in the first years of the 1920s, ultimately, the posture derives from the reposed figures of Le bonheur de vivre.[2] The second in the series, Blue Nude II, was completed in 1952.[1]\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eDespite the flatness of paper, the cut-outs reflect Matisse’s earlier sculptures in their tangible, relief-like quality, especially the sense of volume created by the overlapping of the cut-outs. Blue Nude I, in particular, can be compared with sculptures such as La Serpentine, from 1909.[3]  Blue Nude I has been a favourite one among Zapotec weavers. \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dixza","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31709883138118,"sku":"","price":5300.0,"currency_code":"MXN","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0002\/0584\/8578\/products\/20200516_120106.jpg?v=1589669326"},{"product_id":"yaag-chei-tree-of-life-and-sacres-macaw","title":"Yaag Chei - Tree of life and sacred Macaw","description":"\u003cp\u003eSize: 66x103cm; 26x40.5in\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA collectors tapestry piece woven by my cousin Justino Martinez Mendoza using hemp warp, wool weft mixed with henequen all dyed with natural dyes. Justino is an multiple award winning weaver, his wall in the sacred room of his house is plastered with state and national awards, he is definitely a rising talent in the Zapotec weaving community. Many local rug dealers seek his work and international textile collectors are adding his weavings to their private collections. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis tree of life depicts the Military Macaw (Aris Militaris) a sacred bird that would communicate the rain patterns and predict future harvests. This Sacred Macaw is depicted in Eastern wall of the Red Temple in Cacaxtla, Tlaxcala. The bird was depicted landing on a cocoa tree that emerge from a blue serpent next to the corn plant; in this scene there is an elder Jaguar Nahual who is taking part of this energy flow of the water (color blue). We know that this species of Macaw is in the endangered species list and is a key indicator species of the health of our ecosystems. Our elders left prophecies that there will be days where the corn will not be able to grow and produce enough grain to feed our people, just like the Macaw bird we depend on the balance of the water cycle for our milpa to flourish and the tree of life to keep alive. We are going to rely on the deep roots of the tree of life to survive climate change. We ask developed countries to stop monocultures and turn to agroforestry for the production of food for the world population, this is the only way to sustain the balance of heaven and earth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOur food systems should be designed to feed not just humans but the whole environment, and in doing so our allies join us in keeping these balance. The other little birds depicted we call Maíin Ru'u Zaa, the birds next to the clouds, we believe that these birds fly around the clouds and gather them for the rain to fall. The wood pecker appears in Myths and stories as the character that digs into the harder bodies and stuffs to find the teachings and treasures of creation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis rug is inspired in the ancient understanding of the tree of life common to many cultures around the world. The ancient believe system of the Mexica people teaches that the universe was split in two parts to create the current world, the goddess Cipactli was pulled by the brothers Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca to make the earth and the sky and in order to keep them from collapsing again they planted four trees in each corner of the world with a central tree in the middle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eFor the Mayans, this tree is called Ya'ax'che which is a ceiba tree that has nine levels in the branches of the sky, four levels in the existential plane of the earth (as in the four directions) and nine levels in the underworld.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eIn Benizaa culture we have also have a Ceiba species of tree from which our spirit is tethered to in the sky before we are born and under which we are buried to start our journey back to the sky after our mortal dream. My grandfather used to say that on the earth we should walk the path of the warrior, always doing our best to uplift our spirit and transform the earthly matter into beautiful art. The only true time to rest is when we are resting under the shade of the Yaag Chei.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eThe tree of life was represented in Ancient times with a cosmic bird sitting on top of it and a snake or crocodile in its roots at the base of the trunk. This duality represents the original two aspects of creation, the sky energy and the earthly one. In his book the Cosmic Tree, Frank Desmedt describes the 'Astronical' explanation of this duality. The Mayans made precise observations of how the galaxy appeared in the Sky, to the south it points to the Serpent constellation and to the north to the Canis Major which in our cultures has the shape of a Macaw bird.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eOur grandparents always observed the night sky. I remember, my grandmother always making predictions about the rain pattern by looking at the position of the stars and the tilt of the milky way. In fact, the word for Milky way in Benizaa language is the same word for corn plant, this is because the growth of our corn plants is intimately joined with the subtle astronomical phenomena in the sky.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eSo in this light, we cannot ever just talk about the earth alone, we must remember that the tree of life has its branches in the heavens and roots in the underworld. When you see the Serpent descending on the steps of the Chichen Itza sacred site, it is announcing the beginning of the rainy season, just like the snake like lightning storms that prelude the big rains. The rains permeate the earth and sprout the seeds of life and this water will travel to the depth of underground rivers and water tables only to evaporate again and complete the water cycle. Every aspect of the ancient world was cyclical and had a reason to be; from the heavens, the surface world and the underworld. With respects to the current world situation, we have come at a time in history where we need to radically transform our way of life to respect and restore the life support systems of the earth. What aspects of our live need to be buried underground and be transformed into a new way of life? May we transition from an ecocidal modernity to a restorative society that seeks the elevation of the human spirit and needs to focus more on the immaterial aspects of life that make our lives more worth living. During this great slowdown of the industrial and economic machinery we are turning back to slow, small and sustainable living. We are seeing a great rebalancing of nature's energy flows. This virus doing some work for the underworld, like the great crocodile monster that takes our dead bodies to the lord and lady of the underworld. Like the composting of nutrients that will allow other seeds to be reborn and live the mortal dream once again. May the earth heal and may the cosmic awareness of our higher purpose in life illuminate our governors and society for the great rebalancing of the forces of life.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dixza","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31718680526918,"sku":"","price":30700.0,"currency_code":"MXN","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0002\/0584\/8578\/products\/20200516_122526.jpg?v=1589815445"},{"product_id":"nahual-de-la-tierra","title":"Nahual de la tierra","description":"\u003cp\u003eSize: 130x200cm; 4.2x6.5ft\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWeaver: Mario Bautista Martinez \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMaterials: worsted fine wools double ply in its natural colors. The tan was dyed with aniline.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis rug represent the cycle of life of Nahuales, or Beni Guiea as we call them in Dixzaā language, you would understand it as shamans. All ancient governors in our culture were high Shamans trained in all the fine arts and advanced sciences of the time. This earthy colors represents those nahuales that protect our earth from unconscious humans. For example, many hunters around our village speak the tales of an elder dressed with a deer hides and antlers that protect the deer herds in our mountains.  When hunters hunt with disrespect to the seasons or just harm animals the Nahual shows up to scare them and even stops their riffles from working. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEffectively this rug represents a balance of heaven on earth, or may we say earth in heaven? The pattern is the Fibonacci sequence which many ancient cultures have studied and described before him and is the basic principle of the golden ratio. Geometry and poetry marry in the language of weaving to paint the underlying principles of life and the long cycles of the cosmos. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis 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, logic and mathematics. The nahual pattern is obtained by uniting the hands in a fist shape with the thumbs joined in the middle, just like a #mudra. Can you see it? This pattern also looks like the spiral of the Fibonacci series, the golden ratio that is found everywhere in nature, from our fists to the growth of plants and the formation of clouds and galaxies. This inner spiral represents the inner journey of self discovery that we have to embark to find our true face and true heart. We call this symbol in our language \"Gareak Guiea\", literally the flowered greek key symbol. Archeologist named this patterns Grecas in Spanish language because they noted the similarity with greek patterns and symbols. This naming of the pattern denotes the Eurocentric approach to the understanding of our native ancient cultures. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen I talk about the Nahual pattern I like to illustrate the pattern with the life path of Maria Sabina, a world renowned healer from Huatla de Jimenez that used the sacred mushroom to heal people in her village. It took her a life time to reach the status of a healer; when she was a young child her parents died so because she was very poor she and her sister would forage edible wild plants in the forest to feed themselves. Her life pattern lead her to walk the path of the warrior to bring the best of her spirit and flower in the world. When she was an accomplished healer she could transition easily from the Nahual perception (spirit world) to the day to day world; in the spirit world she would communicate with her patients to find out the source of their illness and then come back to the tonal world (day to day language world) to administer the healing with the precise amounts of plants and rituals needed for healing. Most ancient governors in our culture were Nahuales, healers, seers and great man and woman full if knowledge. It was during the colonial times that the word nahual got transgressed into a negative connotations describing evil people that cause damage and illness by transforming into scary animals. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe diamond pattern represents the medicine of the snake. Snakes are the elders of the planet and hold the ancient knowledge, medicine and power. In our language, the word for sister is Bealaā, my snake.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Dixza","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31772117762118,"sku":"","price":33300.0,"currency_code":"MXN","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0002\/0584\/8578\/products\/20200528_070858.jpg?v=1590674001"},{"product_id":"nahual-de-la-tierra-1","title":"Nahual de la Tierra","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSize: 6.5 x 10 ft; 2x3m \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAniline dyes on native criollo sheep wool. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eWevaers: Mendez family workshop\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis 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, logic and mathematics. 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When she was an accomplished healer she could transition easily from the Nahual perception (spirit world) to the day to day world; in the spirit world she would communicate with her patients to find out the source of their illness (emotional trauma, dark spirit, viral infection...etc) and then come back to the tonal world (day to day language world) to administer healing with the precise amounts of plants and rituals needed for healing. Most ancient governors in our culture were Nahuales, healers, seers; people in pursuit of knowledge. It was during the colonial times that the word nahual got transgressed into a negative connotations describing evil shape shifters that cause damage and illness by transforming into scary animals. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe diamond pattern represents the medicine of the snake. Snakes are the elders of the planet and hold the ancient knowledge, medicine and power. In our language, the word for sister is Bealaā, my snake.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Dixza","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31885387300934,"sku":"","price":50800.0,"currency_code":"MXN","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0002\/0584\/8578\/products\/20200519_165704.jpg?v=1592259324"},{"product_id":"mariachi-poncho","title":"Gabino Barrera Poncho - Red","description":"\u003cp\u003eOur Goodfather Juan Gonzalez reached out to us after seeing our poncho post to help sell some of their woven creations. This is a classical Mariachi poncho that his father used to weave and his great grandparents too, this design is true to the style and proportions of those original ponchos of the early 1920s - 1940s when the first synthetic dyes were introduced to our village and México was experiencing a National and Cultural revolution. \u003cbr\u003ePlease, do yourselfe a favor and stop looking silly buying those mass produced fake Mexican blankets and fakebMexicanbPonchos for 5 de Mayo; you look ridiculous mofing our culture and heritage with your fake moustaches and ignorance. 😉😁🤠🌵🐎\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBack in the days the patterns on our clothes told the whole ancestral lineage of our people and the visions of the future for ourselves and the community. These 1900's ponchos embraced the same idea and the more intricate they got the more they signified satus and wealth (sadly so) but also great achievements in the fight for freedom during the Mexican Revolution, our grandparents gave their lives so that we could retain our autonomy and ancestral lands. Only great leaders and captains wore the Eagle design poncho as it was since the ancient times with the eagle warrior outfit. \u003cbr\u003eThis is a time to drop our silly games and really stand up for freedom and justice. People were marching in LA to free our kids in cages, the news about the sexual abuse to our children and their parents is duscusting and traumatizing. If it were any other country the USA and their allies would have invaded them already and claim their natural resources as payment. \u003cbr\u003eWe come up north to do the work not so many are eager to do from farming and growing your food, cooking and serving, bringing music and dance and even our brightest Engineers and Scientists come to build this country only to be met with discrimination and utter abuse. \u003cbr\u003eOur ancestors have been trading with the first nations as far up as Utah so in a strict sense we have ancestral right of pass to work and trade even before the USA dream was even conceived in someone's mind. \u003cbr\u003ePut on your authentic Mexican poncho and join the cause.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis poncho has stripes with the smile pattern which remind us that laughing and smiling is the source of all healing; science confirms that when we smile our brain releases a cocktail of hormones and chemicals that are good for our health. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe interlaced pattern is the pattern that we create when we hold each others hands in circle to create community. Having kept our ancestral land and a strong community are the biggest treasures our ancestors left to us; we manage the land as a community, we take care of the infraestructure needs of the village as a community. 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We also have dots that represent the seeds we have been planting to nuture our body and spirit, we do not plant monocultures we make the milpa (corn, beans and squash) food systems embedded in local agroecosystems.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere are many ancient stories of wise turtle people that kept ancient knowledge alive and had the power of vision. The earth's crust is often represented with the turtle shell that brings music and thunder that announces the rains. 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