De La Inundacion

De La Inundacion means Of the Flood. According to the gallery that handled it, the work shows the world being reborn by the god of water.

One of its panels shows a sun with a face, above falling rain. In a yarn painting of the world before the flood by Tutukila Carrillo Sandoval, explained by Juan Negrín of the Wixárika Research Center from a conversation with the artist, Takutsi, Our Great Grandmother, saw the first appearance of the sun “as an omen that a deluge would engulf the earth though the world would emerge again.”

The anthropologist Héctor M. Medina Miranda, of CIESAS-Occidente, writes that the flood was brought by the five mothers of the rain, who take the form of serpents, as Nakawé, the earth goddess of fertility, does; her presence, he writes, recalls “una previa destrucción del mundo para su posterior reconfiguración” (an earlier destruction of the world for its later remaking).

Another panel holds an eagle with spread wings, and lizards are beaded in three of the four panels. In Juan Ríos Martínez's 1975 yarn painting Wirikuta II, explained by Negrín, Wirikuta is "the sacred land of the ancestors," the eagle is Tatei Werika Wimari, "Our Mother of the Skies," and the lizard, 'imukui, "is the messenger of Wirikuta to pilgrims who seek grace and knowledge there."