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Huichol beadwork

A YouTube video re Jalisco craft workers. The gila monster is a Huichol beaded symbol.

 

www.warpaths2peacepipes.com/native-american-symbols/gila-...

 

Note the embroidered eagle, snake, nopal symbol of Mexico’s oral history of its capital city.

A Mexican eagle perched on a.cactus with a snake in its mouth. It depicted the story of choosing where to establish the Aztec central city which eventually became Mexico City.

Mito de la fundación de México-Tenochtitlán. El Dios dijo: "...donde encontraren un águila sobre un nopal devorando una serpiente..." / Myth of the foundation of Mexico-Tenochtitlán. The God said: "... where you find an eagle on a cactus devouring a snake

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Uploaded on June 5, 2023