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Artist: Modesto Rivera Lemus Calling to the Eagle Goddess Size: 12" x 12" (30 cm x 30 cm) Price: $350 USD Modesto Rivera is the artist and co-author of the book When Animals Were People (Cuando los Animales eran personas) published by Clear Light Press. He lives in the Santiago River area, and is in the process of becoming a shaman. His yarn painting has an unusual glowing quality in its use of colour, which only the best artists are able to achieve. The painting shows a man leaving offerings of candles and prayer arrows at a sacred site. He enters into communication with the spirits who live at that site, and attracts the spirit of the Eagle Goddess which is the power ally of the gods.

Artist: Modesto Rivera Lemus The Power Radiated by the Deer Size: 8"x 8" (20 cm x 20 cm) Price: $275 USD The deer spirit is the power ally of the shamans. In this painting, Modesto shows its kupuri or life-energy, radiating outwards, as it enters into communication with the spirits of the sacred sites.

Artist: Cesilio Carrillo Jimenez Vision of Peyote in Wirikuta Size: 23 1/2" x 23 1/2" (60 cm x 60 cm) Price: $1,200 USD Cesilio Carrillo Jimenez is one of the most senior and respected of the yarn painters. He has been painting since the 1960s, and currently lives in San Andres where he is taking on positions (cargos) in the temple structure. Cesilio has made repeated trips to Wirikuta--the sacred land where the peyote cactus grows--in the process of becoming a mara'akame or shaman. This painting is one which represents a vision experienced in Wirikuta, as the desert seems to blossom and come alive with a carpet of peyote flowers. This painting has been published as an illustration in the book, Yarn Paintings of the Huichol by Hope MacLean.

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Last Update December 2006
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