Madre Luna

Illustration Credit: Daniel Sosa, Ki’kotemal

Mother Earth rising, as seen from Mother Moon. (Photo Credit: NASA)

Learning about backstrap weaving and the Moon at the Ki’kotemal School. (Photo Credit: Vicki Galiano Blanco, Yakanal)

Learning about the phases of the Moon at the Ki’kotemal School. (Photo Credit: Isabel Hawkins, Yakanal)

Lunar astronomy workshop in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. (Photo Credit: Willy Barreno, Ki’kotemal)

Greeting the water at the Chikabal Lagoon, Guatemala. (Photo Credit: Nicola Wagenberg, The Cultural Conservancy)

Fog beauty at the Chikabal Lagoon, Guatemala. (Photo Credit: Diana Hernández Hernández, Yakanal)

Mother Moon. (Photo Credit: NASA)

Yucatec Maya traditional embroidery with floral designs and Ixchel, Mother Moon, made by one of the participants from the Yucatan. (Photo Credit: Isabel Hawkins, Yakanal)

Preparing the ceremonial offering at the Chikabal Lagoon, Guatemala. (Photo Credit: Nicola Wagenberg, The Cultural Conservancy)

Flower offering for the Chikabal Lagoon, Guatemala. (Photo Credit: Verónica Sacalxot, Ki’kotemal)

Chikabal Lagoon on the top of a volcano, Guatemala. (Photo Credit: Nicola Wagenberg, The Cultural Conservancy)

K’iché Maya woman from Guatemala demonstrates the use of a native plant to make soap. (Photo Credit: Isabel Hawkins, Yakanal)

Young women of Mother Moon (Acoma Pueblo, New Mexico, USA, left, and Ticul, Yucatán, México, right). (Photo Credit: Nicola Wagenberg, The Cultural Conservancy)

Ixchel, the goddess of the Moon, who is patroness of midwives, weaving, and traditional medicine. (Statuette by Patricia Martín Morales, Yucatec Maya from Muna, Yucatán, México. Photo Credit: Isabel Hawkins, Yakanal)

Elder from Kawaika (Laguna Pueblo), New Mexico, U.S., left, compares traditional designs with a Yucatec Maya grandmother from Xul, Yucatan, Mexico, right. (Photo Credit: Isabel Hawkins, Yakanal)

Zapotec women from Oaxaca, Mexico present the results of their investigation on natural pigments. (Photo Credit: Nicola Wagenberg, The Cultural Conservancy)

Mother Moon participants meet in Guatemala in 2019. (Photo Credit: Diana Hernández Hernández, Yakanal)

More than 300 color hues are obtained from cochineal and indigo. (Photo Credit: Verónica Sacalxot, Ki’kotemal)

Zapotec elder demonstrates the production and use of natural pigments by her cooperative of indigenous women in Oaxaca. (Photo Credit: Sandy Hernández Aquino, Yakanal)

Plants, insects, and minerals are combined with lime juice, salt, and other elements to create natural pigments and a wide range of colors. (Photo Credit: Isabel Hawkins, Yakanal)

K’iché Maya grandmother from Zunil, Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. Her song entreats the Moon not to die. (Photo Credit: Verónica Sacalxot, Ki’kotemal)

The Mother Moon project in Oaxaca is focused on natural pigments, medicinal plants, and the work of traditional midwives. (Photo Credit: Isabel Hawkins, Yakanal)

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