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"Ramón Medina Silva, a Huichol Indian shaman priest or mara'akame, instructed me in many of his culture's myths, rituals, and symbols, particularly those pertaining to the sacred untiy of deer, maize, and peyote. The significance of this constellation of symbols was revealed to me most vividly when I accompanied Ramón on the Huichol's annual.


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A portrait of Ramón Medina Silva, Bruce Rimell, 50cm x 70cm, 2010. Ramón is here depicted deep in trance, gazing at his peyote visions. Ramón was born, probably in the mid-1920s, in the Huichol community of San Sebastian in the Sierra Madre Occidental. His Huichol name was Ürü Temai, 'Young Arrow', and while his grandfather was a notable.


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The paintings were purely decorative until 1965, when Ramón Medina Silva, a shaman and artist, started to incorporate Huichol myths, legends and creation stories into his pictures.


ARCHAIC VISIONS VISIONARY ART EXHIBITION

"Ramón Medina Silva, a Huichol Indian shaman priest or mara'akame, instructed me in many of his culture's myths, rituals, and symbols, particularly those pertaining to the sacred untiy of deer, maize, and peyote. The significance of this constellation of symbols was revealed to me most vividly when I accompanied Ramón on the Huichol's annual ritual return to hunt the peyote in the sacred.


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The film, produced in 1969, records the vital fifth journey of the Huichol shaman Ramón Medina Silva as he leads a small band of novices to gather the sacred peyote at Wirikúta, the home of Huichol ancestor deities. The peyote cactus is essential to Huichol spirituality and cultural survival. The film has been widely acclaimed for its verity.


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"In 1965, Ramón Medina Silva, a Wixárika living in Guadalajara who claimed to be a shaman apprentice, became a primary guide to Furst and his colleague.


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For some time I had been working with a Huichol mara'akame, or shaman priest, named Ramon Medina Silva. One afternoon, without explanation, he interrupted our sessions of taping mythology to take a party of Huichol friends and myself, to an area outside his home. It was a region of steep barrancas cut by a rapid waterfall cascading perhaps a.


ARCHAIC VISIONS VISIONARY ART EXHIBITION

In 1965, Ramón Medina Silva, a Wixárika living in Guadalajara who claimed to be a shaman apprentice, became a primary guide to Furst and his colleague Barbara Meyerhoff. In describing his holistic belief system to the anthropologists—which included hallucinogenic visions based on deities such as Our Elder Brother Deer,.


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Ramón Medina Silva and his wife, Guadalupe de la Cruz Ríos. While recording indigenous mythological narratives as told by Medina Silva, Furst prompted him to illustrate the sacred stories. This innovation ultimately reshaped both outsider and insider understandings of yarn paintings, and Medina Silva


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Ramón Medina Silva was a great shaman and deeply proud of his culture's traditions and heritage, but sadly died young defending his people. He was instrumental in transforming the traditional Huichol folk art of yarn decoration into the visionary expressions of yarn painting, and originated the practice of Huichol shamans depicting their.


Ramon Medina poses during a press conference as part of the Bolas de

It opens Aug. 14 and runs through Dec. 4 and highlights early works by Ramón Medina Silva, which are filled with vivid depictions of the Wixárika cosmos. Since the 1960s, Wixárika artists have garnered international acclaim for their "nierakate," paintings composed of colorful yarn attached to wooden boards with beeswax. Inspired by.


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Silva, Ramón Medina (193?-1971) - Huichol (Wixáritari) shaman (mara'akame) and artist whose narrative yarn paintings depicting peyote visions were made famous by anthropologist Peter Furst. Furst collaborated with Barbara Myerhoff, and both anthropologists worked closely with Silva in their ethnographies of Huichol shamanism .


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Ramón Medina Silva (1930s-1971) was a Wixarika mara'akame (shaman), who led and participated in the annual Wixarika pilgrimage to Wirikuta, the high desert where the sacred hikuri (peyote plant) grows.. Ramon Medina Silva (Mexican) Title The Life Force of Peyote Date ca. 1965-1971 Object Type Paintings Medium Yarn, wax, and board.


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Ramón Medina Silva was a mara'akáme of the Huichol people who also recorded his visions in yarn paintings: indeed, arguably he was the inventor of the visionary yarn painting genre. It was while gazing deeply into a book featuring his artworks and myth narratives one winter evening whilst living in Japan in 1997, that I made the momentous.


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Ramon Medina Silva: Huichol shaman jumping the ravine (Meyerhoff). Conversation between Richard de Mille RdeM and Barbara Meyerhoff BGM (DeMille 1980 341-54): RdeM: I suppose his biggest trick on you was feeding your waterfall story right back to you. BGM: That was a very interesting incident. I mean, it never crossed my mind that his.


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"How One Goes Being Huichol. ," by Ramon Medina Silva, perhaps the best known of all Huichol mara'akdte (shamans), conveys an inside (or emic) view of what it means to be Huichol (pp. 186-205). To what extent Medina should be taken as "representative" may concern some readers, but when focusing on questions of identity, he is an excellent choice.

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