What is nieri?

Nierik is a form of spiritual art used by people Huichol. Modern Nierika consists of pieces of colored yarns attached to a round or square pad, in decorated symbols or pictures embossed from the spiritual world. In recent years, Nieri has reached the cities of Mexico and from there to the outside world and captivated people with its deep beauty and complex. The beginning of about 7,000 or more than half of the population has been migrated to the Mexican city since the 1960s. Huichol has a rich oral tradition and resisted the acquisition of the West culture, retaining its own different language and religious traditions. This communication takes place through a strong ritual and beautiful USA symbols. Nierika is the most visible of this symbolic communication with the spiritual world.

Nierika is used not only to describe the real physical artifact, but is also Huichol the word for the deity. Nierika decorates variousThe sacred spaces in Huichol's life, from temples to sacred caves to the Xiriki shrine, each house has. Traditional Nierics can take many different forms, each with different roles. Nierics can be either square or round, with holes in the center. Square Nierika is considered to be prayer mats for ancestors, while the more common round of Nierika is considered to evoke a ancestor or God.

One traditional type of NIERIKA is known as Namma. In Spanish, it was often called ojo de dios or God's eyes. God's eye consisted of bars of sticks, which were woven with yarn, with the eye in the middle. Namma was built to look at the hole on Wednesday at the applicant when he prayed.

in the 60s. In 1962, in Guadalajara, several large Nierika formats were exhibited, which provided the public first sight ofThis amazing form of spiritual art. The first public Nierika was quite simple and was done in a relatively traditional style. Over the years, this Nieri has become increasingly complex and eventually achieved the state they have today, where the highest quality examples such as fine art are displayed in museums.

Nierics uses symbols and pictures from the Huichol Myth structure. Huichol uses Peyote ritualistically for a better sight of the spiritual world, and from these tasks it brings back images of the spiritual level that they will display in their art of Nierika. Nierika is a constant reminder of the nature of the reality that Huichol considers to be an endless expression of prayer and grasped towards the divine. Peyote is gathered as an expression of this prayer, enjoying a form of prayer, the spiritual world is walking in prayer, Nierika is created by prayer and exists as a physical prayer.