mandalas burned on leather1

Mandalas are made lovingly by hand, praying for the ancestors, they are open ways to receive the healing of generational tradition.
They are made in a circular form, because they represent the wheel of medecine, the four directions, the oldest dross knowen to men. The braids on them are grandfather braids on the center, The wood is wet and then weaved into a circle, while chanting, then leather is put around the wood to cover it. t5he leather in the center is burned designs of Native Art to represnt different pro tecting spirit animals. Sacred Space is to be in the Cosmic's beloved's presence now and forever united.

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Film & Animation

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• Art of Uxmal
• mandalas
• leather burnings

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Big Sue is holding the mandala in the bus