Teakata
©Juan Negrín 1977 ~ 2004 All rights reserved
Teakata Detail
©Juan Negrín 1977 ~ 2004 All rights reserved
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| This is the altar inside of the shrine of the ancestor of Fire, Tatewari. In front of the idols are offerings of arrows (urute), candles (katixa), gourd bowls (xukurite) and the shaman’s baskets (takuatsite) with the arrows (muvierite) used for healing. The pilgrims have deposited a votive gourd (xukuri), made of a squash gourd, on a flat and round carved stone (tepari) with the symbols of Our Mother Young Eagle Girl, Tatei Werika Wimari, who represents the shrine of Fire and Sun in Teakata, the sacred ceremonial center of Our Ancestor Fire in the canyons of the Huichol Sierras. The devotees have filled the bowl with peyote (hukuri) that they gathered from their last pilgrimage to the sacred holy land in the east and they have also attached maize seeds with wild bee’s wax; a candle and an arrow are placed at the center of the bowl. The open shaman’s baskets of the pilgrims with their plumed-arrows and in one case, a multi-colored reptile can be seen placed around the bowl. | |