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8×10” archival print on 130lb paper, fits 8×10 mat and frame with 5×7 opening. Mat and Frame not included.
Holy Mother of The Fourth Sun
The most Piscean of the Aztec pantheon, Chalchiuhtlicue—She of the Jade Skirt—is the goddess of lakes, rivers, springs, and the shimmering lifeblood of the earth. As the consort of Tlaloc, god of rain, she governs not just the waters that nourish crops and sustain life, but also the floods that cleanse and destroy. She is both life-giver and ender of epochs.
According to Mexica cosmology, Chalchiuhtlicue presided
over the Fourth Sun, an age brought to ruin not by war or fire, but by grief. When Tlaloc questions the fidelity of her love she wept with such anguish that her tears flooded the earth. The mountains disappeared beneath waves, and her human children—innocents of the heart—were transformed into fish. Hers is a divine sorrow so vast that it re-shaped the world.
In the image of La Virgen de Guadalupe, we witness an echo
of Chalchiuhtlicue’s divine essence. Though she is cloaked in
Catholic form, many of her visual elements are rooted in the semiotic memory of the original people of the Land.
Chalchiuhtlicue has not been erased—she has traveled across time, hidden in plain sight, she is eternal.
$5 from each print sold will be donated to CHIRLA
8×10” archival print on 130lb paper, fits 8×10 mat and frame with 5×7 opening. Mat and Frame not included.
Holy Mother of The Fourth Sun
The most Piscean of the Aztec pantheon, Chalchiuhtlicue—She of the Jade Skirt—is the goddess of lakes, rivers, springs, and the shimmering lifeblood of the earth. As the consort of Tlaloc, god of rain, she governs not just the waters that nourish crops and sustain life, but also the floods that cleanse and destroy. She is both life-giver and ender of epochs.
According to Mexica cosmology, Chalchiuhtlicue presided
over the Fourth Sun, an age brought to ruin not by war or fire, but by grief. When Tlaloc questions the fidelity of her love she wept with such anguish that her tears flooded the earth. The mountains disappeared beneath waves, and her human children—innocents of the heart—were transformed into fish. Hers is a divine sorrow so vast that it re-shaped the world.
In the image of La Virgen de Guadalupe, we witness an echo
of Chalchiuhtlicue’s divine essence. Though she is cloaked in
Catholic form, many of her visual elements are rooted in the semiotic memory of the original people of the Land.
Chalchiuhtlicue has not been erased—she has traveled across time, hidden in plain sight, she is eternal.
$5 from each print sold will be donated to CHIRLA