Biidau Guciù: the great spirit of lightning/thunder water

Biidau Guciù: the great spirit of lightning/thunder waterSize: 60x100cm Weaver: Juan Mendoza Juain Rubez Price: $200USD Materials and methods: criollo sheep wool hand dyed with colorfast aniline dyes using an exhaustive method. Handwoven on a Zapotec style loom of the 16th century adapted from European styles. Woven using a 7 threads per inch reed. Design, patterns and symbols. This rug in inspired in the representations of Biidau Guci known as Pitao Cocijo in the literature. Bii (wind, spirit) dau (divine,

this body or the nature around us for free but was an act of sacrifice fromt the divine and so we must take utmost care of it and always strive to maintin the balance of all the subtle esscences that make life possible

represented by the curling of this stepped spiral

some have a double life cycle pattern with one pointing downwards to the underworld telling of a life story that had also developed with the lords of the underworld in darkness of existence

Chish beuu could be interpreted as "with the word of blessing/permision from the moon" because we know how that the moon governs liquids on earth and Mezcal or Pulque being a sacred elixir

it gets you magical

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Materials and methods: merino fine yarns and criollo sheep wool hand dyed with indigo (blues)

There are stripes that represent rivers

it means that which gives live and rises: Yaá (high)

There is also a teeth like pattern that reminds us that smiling and laughing is the source of true healing

for instance

cochineal) for the red