Weaver: Gregorio Gutierrez
Materials and methods: criollo sheep wool hand dyed with natural dyes: Bèé (cochineal), Yagshii (mule fat) and Xiuhquilitl (indigo) . Handwoven on a Zapotec style loom of the 16th century adapted from European styles. Woven using a 7 threads per inch reed and wool rayon blend for warp.
Patterns and symbols: this design pattern represents the energy lines of the spirtual plane. Our ancestors understood that reality is more than we can perceive with our senses. They discovered that we have an energy field around our physical body similar to the magnetic field of the earth described by modern day science. Our ancestors spoke about energy lines that weave together all living beings on earth, they knew how to read and understand those subtle energy flows that connect us to the spirit world.
When one gets the shivers not for cold physical reasons but due to a psycological reason, something called an easthetic shiver, we are using those subtle ways of perceiving, this is what we call Repi Scha'à which translates as energy rise (as in electricity). One could feel aesthetic shivers when one deeply agrees with someone, when one realises and feels aligned with a collective goal, during ritual, while listening to music or when watching a film. Before street lighting was deployed in our village, everyone relied on this way of perception much more than we do. Biologically we needed to be aware to puff up our hair and survive but this same mechanism was used to communicate collectively with all living beings when the dark of the night reigns or when language fails to serve us a the medium to communicate. We now understand that a particle can behave as a wave and viceversa, that the energy contained in matter equals the mass times to the square of the speed of light and that electrons are not a single point of energy, but a probability in a cloud spectrum wheree they are likely to appear. Perhaps our logic brains need all the equations and meassurement pharaphenalia to understand physics that we can readily perceive if reset our preconceived ideas of how reality should look like. Perhaps, the natural intelligence embedded in our body can process quadrillions of bits per second and make sense of the complex world around us without the need to create supercomputers. The stelle of Coban puts the origin of the universe 28.285 cuadrillion plus years ago on the date 4 ajau 8 kumk, this is 2 trillion times more than the 13.8 billion years that we can measure light back in time with our current machines and equations.
