Origin of Huichol art
The origin of Huichol art lies in an ancient tradition, physical transcription of the images displayed by the Huichol shamans; induced by ingestion of peyote (hikuri), their sacred cactus, allowing them to cross the threshold of the unknown and thus relate to the divine. These works of art Huichol are made with beads or thread (yarn), each carries symbolic motifs, stories Huichol Huichol culture and legends of their cosmogony that we provide an overview of the Huichol society.
Initiation ritual art: Belonging to the specific religious practice of an indigenous group, the Huichol art is different from the contemporary art usually found in museums and galleries dimensions. The Huichol world, is divided into three worlds: the mythology, the Huichol holds that life began in the ocean; the reference to corn, where daily life and develops Huichol traditions and that has to do with mysticism, which reveals the Huichol Huichol art world and its rituals that distinguishes them and give them identity as Huichol community.
While the origin of this fascinating ethnic Huichol is uncertain, what is indisputable is that during the period of the conquest, many survivors of various indigenous peoples mainly Huichol fled into the Sierra Madre Occidental to escape the wake of destruction left by the Spanish troops.
The Huichol art is a form of writing, as through the creations, the Huichol tell us their stories and myths. In each Huichol crafts leave a piece of your life. Currently, one can say that no other ethnic group in Mexico that conserve so deeply their beliefs, cults and traditions as the Huichol.
The Huichol world, is divided into three worlds: the mythology, the Huichol holds that life began in the ocean; the reference to corn, where daily life and develops Huichol traditions and that has to do with mysticism, which reveals the Huichol Huichol art world and its rituals that distinguishes them and give them identity as a community Huichol.
Ancestors born: The Huichol Art has an enigmatic beauty that takes us through mythical roads and brings us closer to the beginning of time in the Huichol culture, but not just Huichol myths drawn by the Huichol artists performing drawing them into yarn or thread in Huichol religion, the world exists thanks to the visionary experience of the Huichol started and its effort to get the "nierika" or "gift of seeing". Thus for the Huichol Huichol artistic creation it has a cosmological dimension.
For the Huichol, the world has a sacred dimension to which the mara'akame (shaman) penetrates through sleep, establishing a link between the world of the gods and profane.
