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Galeria Panajachel
Title: Inchup Ya´
- QUIERO TOCAR EL AQUA
installation
I am saddend by the water
The blue, the silver
Inchup Ya` quiero tocar el aqua
At once the water darkened,
and then a north wind arose and
a whirlpool formed in the water,
which shook the surface of the lake
and then the power was visible
It wasn´t long before it was full
Xa jub'a' xrajo' richin ta
xnoj
The ancient Maya were polytheists,
and for them the most
important gods
were those related to agriculture,
since their
entire existence depended on it.
The most important was the god
Chac.
According to mythology,
he inhabited the four cardinal
points,
each one associated with a colour:
the north with red,
the south with yellow,
the east with white
and the west with
black.
There are representations
of the rain god in
which
he appears emerging from the jaws of a reptile;
in another he
appears
with a snake in his hand or sitting on it.
Another rain
god is Itzmaná, who
was the son of Honobku,
the superior god to
whom men had no access.
The most important was the god Chaac.
Like other Maya gods,
Chaac is both one and manifold.
A large
part of the most
important Maya book, the Dresden Codex,
is
dedicated to the Chaacs,
their locations and activities.
The properties of water have fundamental
meanings for life on earth.
These physical, chemical, electrical and optical properties
are
based on the structure of the water molecule.
In nature, water does
not occur as a pure substance,
it practically always contains
dissolved substances
(mainly ions of salts),
even if possibly in
hardly measurable concentrations.
Such dissolved substances change
the properties of water.
Under normal conditions, water is a
liquid. It is the only
known substance that exists in all three
classical states of aggregation.
Water is life, it is often said.
Louis Pasteur proved that:
Life can only come from life.
Both things are true.
Water means life, but above the water
hovers the spirit of God!
Galeria, Panajachel
see book
exhibitions and projects 2021
Galeria Panajachel
Title: Inchup Ya´
- QUIERO TOCAR EL AQUA
installation
I am saddend by the water
The blue, the silver
Inchup Ya` quiero tocar el aqua
At once the water darkened,
and then a north wind arose and
a whirlpool formed in the water,
which shook the surface of the lake
and then the power was visible
It wasn´t long before it was full
Xa jub'a' xrajo' richin ta xnoj
The ancient Maya were polytheists,
and for them the most important gods
were those related to agriculture,
since their entire existence depended on it.
The most important was the god Chac.
According to mythology,
he inhabited the four cardinal points,
each one associated with a colour:
the north with red,
the south with yellow,
the east with white
and the west with black.
There are representations
of the rain god in
which he appears emerging from the jaws of a reptile;
in another he appears
with a snake in his hand or sitting on it.
Another rain god is Itzmaná, who
was the son of Honobku,
the superior god to whom men had no access.
The most important was the god Chaac.
Like other Maya gods,
Chaac is both one and manifold.
A large part of the most
important Maya book, the Dresden Codex,
is dedicated to the Chaacs,
their locations and activities.
The properties of water have fundamental
meanings for life on earth.
These physical, chemical, electrical and optical properties
are based on the structure of the water molecule.
In nature, water does not occur as a pure substance,
it practically always contains dissolved substances
(mainly ions of salts),
even if possibly in hardly measurable concentrations.
Such dissolved substances change the properties of water.
Under normal conditions, water is a liquid. It is the only
known substance that exists in all three
classical states of aggregation.
Water is life, it is often said. Louis Pasteur proved that:
Life can only come from life.
Both things are true.
Water means life, but above the water
hovers the spirit of God!
Galeria, Panajachel
see book