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Tonacacihuatl and Tonacatecuhtli, Lady and Lord of Our Flesh, are in charge of keeping this tree alive, nurturing the spirits that depend on it
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Tlazolteotl is also the great purificator, who cleanses all that is dirty and regenerates the cycles of life.
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The fruits of the harvest were offered to Tlaltecuhtli, Our Mother the Earth, in a festivity that was later fusioned with the Catholic tradition of All Saints Day, resulting in the Día de Muertos or Day of the Dead
Although it is obviously a non-precolumbian celebration, it does have a very ancient tradition behind it, for the days that in our calendar correspond to May were considered by our ancestors as dates of prayer and petition of rain
One of His nahualtin or spirit animals is the deer, which, like the Sun, jumps all over the sky.This painting of Tonatiuh is part of the art of the Tarot Yohualli Ehecatl. You can find Him as a print in my Etsy store!
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In the evening, however, He is defeated by the creatures of the night, who devour Him, and in death He descends to the Underworld, from which He emerges victorious at sunrise
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In the painting They therefore stand back to back, and yet are joined by a single spinal column, so that the two are revealed as being a single entity; male and female as one
In this painting the main Teteo appear intertwined to represent that They are all but faces of Ometeotl, and to remind us that all life is connected through Their love and generosity.
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Ometeotl, Dual Lord and Lady, are everything that exists. They are creator and creation, painter and painting, mother/father and son/daughter. They are all which we understand as reality, placed in time and space