River smiles ritual rug

River smiles ritual rug2. 6 x 5 ft Natural dyes Weaver: Dionisio Smiling 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. #rugsinusa #usa

you would understand it as shamans or medicine woman / man

It is no surprise that if you want to ask for a favour to someone we say

We are what we eat so we are the corn people

Just 50 years ago when electricity and street lights were more uncommon

Doña Soledad had a very intense flu for about a week and she was just getting better

Our elders' perseverance and tenacity in keeping the ancient ways alive inspires the younger generations to keep cultivating that knowledge and to keep cultivating it

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The idea is that part of our lives is dictated by human behavioural patterns that we can predict and foresee but in spite of that we can never fully predict or understand

we are using those subtle ways of perceiving

makes a diamond shape to represent the window to the spirit world

the stalk of the plant could have been used to make the famous "Mayan trumpet" a kind of didgeridoo as depicted in Mayan mural paintings

People were marching in LA to free our kids in cages