Cosmovisión

Graphic Myriam Ouazzani

“En un principio, toda agua (o sangre) que circula

en el mundo proviene del mar, de la diosa madre que

se (auto)sacrifica arrojándose contra la roca blanca

de San Blas para revivir como el rocío y las nubes

que se levantan al cielo”

—El agua en la cosmovisión wixarika, Johannes Neurath

It was a woman first—

Marvelous in depth and majesty

Where water blends with the sky

 

Oh the motion of the clouds

(inhale exhale)

the Earth takes in a breath—

its soul

 

The Earth was young and tender

Innocent as she was—

Still warm from the womb

 

White steam—

Our human and serpent Mother

Lifeforce in one entity

 

Mother is staring into the east

The ancestral Gods know it

She breaks against herself