Garæk Guieæ: flowered Greek key

Garæk Guieæ: flowered Greek Key

Size: 80x158cm 2.6x5.1ft

 Master weaver: Mario Bautista Martínez.

Materials and methods. Fine merino and angora wool blend natural dyed with cochineal. Hand woven on a Zapotec floor loom of the 16th century style. Woven using an 8 threads per in reed and a rayon wool blend for warping.  

Design, patterns and symbols: 

This pattern is the pattern that comes from a sea snail. The sacred geometry of the spiral was recognized by our ancestors and therefore was chosen as the symbol for the nahual (shaman, medicine person) and also the symbol of Venus and Quetzalcoatl (the feathered snake). This spiral symbol is found in the growth of plants and the formation of clouds and galaxies in the sky, a perfect guide to navigate heaven and earth energies, a pattern that helps us explore the outer and the inner world.  

The symbol is created when we join our hands with our fingers curled up into a fist and united by the thumb. I like to think of this as an ancient hand gesture to balance our ways of perception, like a mudra. 

The left side of our body is called Rubæz in Dixzā language, it means the side of the jaguar, the emotions, dreams and intuition that connects us to nature, to the spiritual/dream world, our femenine side. 

The right side of our body is called Nalî, it translates as that which is straight, meaning logical way of thinking and perceiving the world, the awareness we used to perceive the awake world and understand it with language, logic and mathematics. 

Our ancestors excelled at the art of perception in both worlds, they bridged their superb intuitive powers with detailed logical observations that allowed them to understand the nature of the human spirit and the cycles of the cosmos. 

This makes a perfect rug for meditation, for ceremony, prayer or as an altar cover or hanger in a special place in your home or work space. Stare at it for a few minutes and then close you eyes and meditate in the balance of the left and right side of our awareness, go beyond that duality and create a third state from which all conflict is dissolved and harmony is achieved.