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"The story of Tatsiu Tewiyari"
16" x 16" #1 -- (JS21-93) José Benitéz Sanchéz
My favorite 16 is this one, which I called "Alice's Rabbit", now sold.

-- "The story of Tatsiu Tewiyari" --

This yarn tells a story is about Tatsiu Tewiyari, who was rabbit-person. Tatsiu, which means rabbit, was changed into a person, Tewiyari. He went to hunt the peyote and shot an arrow at a plant, which he mistook for being the peyote.

This plant is a large round cactus, with hair and spines on top of it, that really doesn't look like a peyote at all. It has the form of a bowl, aicutsi which is also a term used for a sacred bowl.

So the rabbit, sitting on a rock or a chair, shot several plants, called aicutsi with arrows and when he went back to Watetuapa, the edge of the ocean, he told the gods that he had had been to Wirikuta and shot several peyote with his arrows.

Now, Tatsiu Tewiyari made a calendar of knots, (each day a knot) represented by the four blue dots, that he brought back to Watetuapa. He also used the red rope, caunari, in which he should have made knots, to represent his sins. Although having sins, he claimed to be absolutely sinless, so that the rope in front of him has no knots.

Then he took out wiicuxaa, a long rope, to symbolize the range of the limits of the sacred area of peyote. Because he hasn't found peyote, but the aicutsi, the rope (white with pink dots, at each end) is laid around an aicutsi.

The real peyote is beyond these two large cactus represented by three flowers. They represent tutu tsinuwari, which is a term for the flowers of the peyote.

He also found an arrow attached to one of the aicutsi and brought it back to Watetuapa, claiming that was an arrow of Wirikuta. In his left hand he has a calabash-gourd, supposed to contain the sacred tobacco, but his was made from acorn, which he claimed to be his yacauy.

Instead of reaching Tate Matinierie (waterholes called our mothers who see us -- very important places to visit by peyote pilgrims hicuritame) he reached a spot near Uixu twenita (the sacred lake of the hawk). Today it is called Tatsui Kie, the house of the rabbit. That is symbolized by the cup in front of him, which contains a vision of peyote. He thinks he has seen the peyote, when in fact he only has seen aicutsi.

When he returned to Watetuapa, he was changed into a rabbit by Kauyumarie, for failing in his mission, and for lying about his going to Wirikuta.

Note: Watetuapa can be either the underworld, the world that existed before this world, without fire and light, or, as as it is this case, the ocean-side, the Pacific coast. This painting now resides near the Pacific coast again.

Below: Number 16x16-2
The Anger of Tatei Haramara
16 x 16-inch Huichol Yarn
by José Benitéz Sanchéz

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There is some border damage outside the orange trim on the bottom and right sides, which a frame will cover nicely

The original number, corresponding to the tape with JBS explanation is not on the picture, maybe hidden by the frame.

Here we see the anger of Tatei Haramara, our mother ocean. The oceans, when they can not be in peace, can not be in calm. This is the way it became, when Tatei Haramara’s death came. The oceans begun to move and movement has not ceased, since when she is angry, she moves a very great deal, the ocean shows her anger. Just with regards to the symbols that exist in the piece. Our mother is the one on the top, lying down in her death. The pieces of ocean, gathering when the earth has become solid, shown as dark ovals from her arm and leg.

The white part is the foam that create the rains, that come out of the ocean and one could identify the person at Haramara’s lower right as a mother of rain. She brings life to the earth, that is green. We see two animals, as messengers of rain.

The one to the left is imucui, a lizard or heelermonster (sic Gila Monster), also a symbol of corn. So the mother of rain could also be a mother of corn. The animal to the right either is a bird or an insect definitely a messenger of rain. The ocean is in movement, in fury. It creates the vapors that come from the waves and than become the rain on earth.

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The Story of Cawi Tewiyari -1975
16 x 16-inch Huichol Yarn
by José Benitéz Sanchéz

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This is the story of cawi tewiyari. Cawi is today the name given to a certain type of caterpillar that appears at the beginning of the rainy season. CaviTewiyari was this caterpillar in person (tewiyari = person) who here we see represented as a female at the lower center.

Cawi tewiyari is legendary as being the first one that laid the path to wirikuta clearly visible. When the Huichol are out there, in wirikuta they identify the railroad tracks and the train as being the train cawi with it's many feet and the road made by the train is the path in a certain symbolic sense...
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Cawi Tewiyari is legendary as being the first one that laid the path to Wirikuta clearly visible. When the Huichol are out there, in Wirikuta they identify the railroad tracks and the train as being the train cawi with it's many feet and the road made by the train is the path in a certain symbolic sense even before the train, Cawi Tewiyari laid the path directly to wirikuta. She is not a new figure that slipped into Huichol mythology when the railroad was built. Her concept is very much older! Cawi Tewiyari is a shaman on the highest level, when he knows everything. Cawi Tewiyari made it all the way from Watetuapa (antlers of Kauyumarie) , the ocean world at the east coast to Wirikuta (three flowers at the left margin). Then she passed through parietsie where also peyote grows (triangles) to tacauye jaapa or tacauye macavie, where our father the SunTawekame left his water (red spots coming from the bottom, right behind Tawi Tewiyari).

She laid out sacred bowls (about her head) and she left an arrow there. She used a very primitive primordial type of arrow with the name caxiriki. She then saw Uxa Tewiyari (man behind her), the plant, from which the yellow paint comes, the pigment used by the huichol to paint their faces with their peyote visions. She trays to speak with Uxa Tewiyari, but he doesn't answer. However, he touches her arrow and paints it where he touches it with yellow paint, as he admires the beauty of the arrow.

Cawi Tewiyari then goes on to reach Leunaxu (which is 'burnt peak'), the mountain, that rises over Wirikuta. She stands in front of Leunaxu at the beginning of dawn, represented by the different colors, (blue, black, brown) in the piece.

The peak of Leunaxu (right bottom corner) is formed by three arrows, the arrow of Tatewari, Taweviekame, and Pariya, the dawn. When she returns to Watetuapa, her arrow is still painted yellow by the touch of Uxa Tewiyari. Both are welcomed back by Kauyumarie, who recognizes their important functions in relation to the future way of the Huichol peyote pilgrimage.

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16 x 16-inch Huichol Yarn
by José Benitéz Sanchéz

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16 x 16-inch Huichol Yarn
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16 x 16-inch Huichol Yarn
by José Benitéz Sanchéz

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