13 MEXICA HEAVENS
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Series of 13 skulls - ceramic vases, based on the 13 heavens (ilhícatl) of the Mexica cosmogony.
Skull- vase, glazed ceramic 2021 Unique piece Sixth heaven of the Mexica cosmogony, a place where darkness moves, where the night extends to the 4 hemispheric directions. Residence of Tezcatlipoca, god of providence, the invisible and ubiquity.
Skull-vase, glazed ceramic, 2021. Unique piece. Seventh heaven of the Mexica cosmogony, a place where the sun rises and shows its face. Blue or green region, residence of Huitzilopochtli, god of war and will, lord of the sun and fire, ruler of the south.
Skull-vase, glazed ceramic, 2021 Unique piece Eighth heaven of the Mexica cosmogony, the place where storms arise. Celestial residence of Mictlantecuhtli and MictecacÃhuatl. Place where obsidian knives creak. Skull dedicated to Itzpapálotl (obsidian butterfly). Its appearance refers to a butterfly that carries obsidian blades on its wings, making it acquire a symbol of fury and regeneration.
Skull-vase, glazed ceramic. Unique piece. First heaven of the Mexica cosmogony, where the moon and clouds move and various gods dwell. From this place came the beneficial and necessary water for life on earth.
Skull-vase, glazed ceramic. Unique piece Second heaven of the Mexica cosmogony, the place where the constellations move.
Skull-vase, glazed ceramic. Unique piece Fifth heaven of the Mexica cosmogony, where comets and smoking stars move. A hole in the sky inhabited by the fiery serpents that comets create.
Skull-vase, glazed ceramic, 2021. Unique piece Ninth heaven of the Mexica cosmogony, a place where light moves. White region, residence of Quetzalcoátl, where the Tzitzimime hide, stellar entities that usually descend during eclipses. The Mexica thought that they were demon stars, they appear around the sun in a total eclipse. Quetzalcoátl, god of life, light, wisdom and knowledge, lord of the day and of the winds.
Skull-vase, glazed ceramic, 2021 Unique piece Tenth heaven of the Mexica cosmogony, eastern place of the sun. Yellow region residence of the sun god Tonatiuh.
Skull-vase, glazed ceramic, 2021 Unique piece Eleventh heaven of the Mexica cosmogony, a place where heat moves. Residence of Xiuhtecutli and Xantico that with their rays of heat express the fire of creation. Xantico, goddess of the hearth and home, lady of the volcanoes.
Skull - vase, glazed ceramic, 2021. Unique piece Twelfth heaven of the Mexica cosmogony, a place where the gods move. Residence of the creator gods, the Tezcatlipoca, an eminently eternal place where the gods remain and are projected to be in other places. They take faces and mask themselves to be others by being themselves. Place where they are born, reborn and transformed, feeding in their quality of eternal beings.
Skull-vase, glazed ceramic, 2021 Unique piece Thirteenth and last heaven of the Mexica cosmogony, place of duality. Residence of Ometecuhtli and OmecÃhuatl, primordial couple origin of the entire generation of gods and the creation of existence. Place where the generating principle of things is conceived, where everything exists.
Calavera-florero, cerámica vidriada, 2021. Pieza única Treceavo y último cielo de la cosmogonÃa mexica, lugar de la dualidad. Residencia de Ometecuhtli y OmecÃhuatl, pareja primordial origen de toda la generación de dioses y de la creación de la existencia. Lugar donde se concibe el principio generador de las cosas, donde todo existe.
Skull-vase, glazed ceramic, 2021 Unique piece Thirteenth and last heaven of the Mexica cosmogony, place of duality. Residence of Ometecuhtli and OmecÃhuatl, primordial couple origin of the entire generation of gods and the creation of existence. Place where the generating principle of things is conceived, where everything exists.