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Colonization doesn’t just take land - it takes away truth. because art is a portal to the divine which tells no lies, it is often destroyed or diluted as an act of spiritual warfare. that is why artisans are valuable collateral during times of war. for the candelabras in particular, The prevailing narrative is that the they orginated in Izúcar de Matamoros, Acatlán in Puebla, and Metepec during the spanish invasion and subsequent conquest (1521) as a means to evangelize the indigenous people of mexico. while the use of symbols such as adam and eve, the garden of eden, and noah’s arc certainly came from that era, there is evidence that the tree of life was central to indigenous beliefs and practices long before then. there are tombs of ancient mayan kings from 600 AD with tree of life symbols on their sacophogus and surrounding tomb chambers. “At Palenque, and in numerous other Maya centers, the ultimate expression of this ability to escape the harrowing of the underworld was the World Tree. It was the central focus of the Maya’s journey into the afterlife and the principal token of the power to overcome death. Its blossoms symbolized the purity of the human soul. In ancient Maya art this tree could be represented as a ceiba tree, a cacao tree, a calabash tree, any number of other trees, or a stalk of maize. The actual species of tree makes little difference since each is a metaphor, representing the sacred power inherent in the fabric of the cosmos to allow kings, the sun, and all other mortal things to emerge from death to new life.” when invadors forced the artisans into missionary work , i believe they embedded this symbol of rebirth and renewal into the candelabras as a promise. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65e928f5568fe727d0e0a3b7/1728529145628-NWHZ4F8BNP4OS2TKWMXF/Candelabra1.jpg Blog - The eternal flame https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65e928f5568fe727d0e0a3b7/1728529145756-N2XDRG0KQKPKS7S8RWQ5/Candelabra2.jpg Blog - The eternal flame https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65e928f5568fe727d0e0a3b7/1728529146656-3T9H2R4FJ7W51EPFYNVX/Candelabra4.jpg Blog - The eternal flame https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65e928f5568fe727d0e0a3b7/1728529147032-PR5P1HKNF8GVJYMHCBFR/Candelabra5.jpg Blog - The eternal flame https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65e928f5568fe727d0e0a3b7/1728529147513-DNX52JPOOD7WN5ZPX6HL/Candelabra6.jpg Blog - The eternal flame https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65e928f5568fe727d0e0a3b7/1728529148211-QMIB7F9ZBQRQ181QBV5N/Candelabra7.jpg Blog - The eternal flame https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65e928f5568fe727d0e0a3b7/1728529324143-HY8HARGULZSDMAZQ1I4L/Candelabra3.jpg Blog - The eternal flame https://www.iamartifact.com/blog/gaia-the-grand-mother-of-greece monthly 0.5 2024-06-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65e928f5568fe727d0e0a3b7/3cbeb3b2-88a1-402e-b316-1231317875bb/GAIA+BLOG.jpg Blog - Gaia: The PRIMORDIAL GRAND MOTHER - Gaia birthed Uranus (the skies) Ourea (the mountains) and Pontus (the seas) by herself. She took Uranus as consort, and together they had the Twelve Titans – Oceanus, Coeus, Crius, Hyperion, Iapetos, Theia, Rheia, Themis, Mnemosyne, Phoebe, Thetys, and finally Cronus. They also had two more sets of children, the Cyclopes – Brontes, Steropes, and Arges, and the Hecatoncheires (giants with 50 heads and 100 arms) – Cottus, Briareos, and Gyes. 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