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Tidbits from years gone by...

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El Arbol Loteria card

Loteria El Arbol
El Arbol de la Vida 2016
Arbol de la Vida estilo Huichol
Tree of Life
honoring the magnificent yarn art of Huichol Indians. A contribution to a Loteria Art Show at Arte de la Vida, 2016.
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Logos

Arte de la Vida Store Card
Arte de la Vida logo
Galeria Senita logo
Galeria Senita - now closed
Picture
Cruzando Fronteras Logo
Nuestra Hora con Lety
NFCG logo

A few (very) old website banners

yoeme carver 2011
Original website banner 2009: www.yoemecarver.com
Dioceses without Borders
La Pilita Museum
TIMC 2009
TIMC website banner 2009-10
Cruzando Fronteras web banner

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La Corua-Baboquivari-Mts
*  La Corúa  was a large water serpent that lived in springs of water and protected them. They say it had a cross on its forehead and cleaned the veins of water with its long fangs or tusks. It was a shy creature but could sometimes be caught sunning on the rocks of the spring.  According to Sonoran folk beliefs, if one killed the Corúa, the spring would dry up.  Vanishing water sources and  economic pressures have pushed the folklore of La Corúa  to the dustbin of history on both sides of the border, but La Corúa remains in the minds and memories of elders in the Pimería Alta.

Serpents have been sacred for millennia to indigenous peoples throughout the Americas and are respected as guardians of water sources and bringers of rain.

* Beliefs and Holy Places - A Spiritual Geography of the Pimeria Alta  -  James S. Griffith, University of Arizona Press, 1992

Background painting:  Baboquivari Peak - the monolith landmark defining the Baboquivari mountains southwest of Tucson. The center of Tohono O'odham cosmology, it is sacred and is the home of I'itoi, their Creator and Elder Brother. The peak is visible from Casa Grande in the northwest, south into Mexico.  (I'itoi is also the figure in the O'odham 'Man in the Maze' basket design.)

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