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Ix Chel
Ek Balam
My name is Muluk, I am from the State of Mexico. I consider myself a lover of nature and love. I grew up being taught to appreciate and enjoy the smallness and greatness of nature. My paternal grandfather, my grandmothers and my father, Chuen (who is featured in the image below), cared for the earth in their particular way of seeing things.
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Being a woman in a world as beautiful as ours, full of secrets and mysteries that lie silently just for those who know how to look, is a great gift for me. Recognizing the nature of creativity in me as a fractal of the great creativity of the Mother Earth is amazing and vital. Being a woman in a society that ignores almost all of this, is a challenge, an adventure that I have decided to take.
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Latelty I realized that I was not alone in this journey, my father, Chuen, and many others are on this same road, sharing with me and protecting me, giving me support at any situation. So, we decided to give a name to our family, “The Rainbow Nation” “Nacel Arcoiris”. Nacel Arcoiris 13.20.33 was born 15 years ago as a Mayan galactic tradition group, but it was conformed like an Association since October 2018.
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Our mission is to share the ancestral knowledge in order to reconnect ourselves with Mother Earth, to help people in creating a more sustainable life, and to help others find healing in nature. We work with children, adults, and elders, with different communities, sharing with them in informal and formal education. We conduct reforestations, clean the waters, perform forest cleanings, put out forest fires, etc., but always join with ceremony, reminding others that the foundation of a harmonious life in all areas comes from the connection with Mother Earth. We also study and share the sacred Mayan counts.
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Please tell us what we are seeing in the images and what does it means?
On February 2013, we met Michaela, a medicine woman, who was introduced to us by Zuhari, another Mexican medicine woman. We have continued sharing knowledge and our work since then. In August 2016, Michaela, who has a foundation called the Whirling Rainbow Foundation based in Alaska, came to visit us again with a surprise—she brought the materials to create a heart (a big drum). Everything was possible thanks to the donations of the Great Mother Drum community, and they decided to gift us this because of our work in protecting Mother Earth. It was a surprise that many people whom we hadn’t met yet were giving us a gift.
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The ceremony for creating the drum lasted three days. One of the skins is Elk and the other one is Buffalo. It’s important to say that the animals died naturally and that this community had the permission to use the skins, which is why there were two of a different kind. In the ceremony, we performed a special meditation to determine the mission and name of the drum. We understood that its mission is to heal the waters (which was interesting because that same year, my father was asked to work in the government in the area of water culture). The other mission was resurrection, which means conducting ceremonies for newborns coming into this world and transcendence ceremonies for people passing away.
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It was profound because our first ceremony with Ixcheel after the initiation was for the transcendence of one of our rainbow group members. We never imagined that, and even more so because it was one of the youngest girls in the group. But then, we also had the opportunity for our first baby ceremony to be within the group. These ceremonies provided us with deep lessons.
The name Hurracan is for the Buffalo skin, the male one. In Mayan tradition, Hurracan is one of the world's creators, his name meaning "heart of the sky," transformation, and the energy of water. The drum represents the heart of our Mother Earth, so when you have a drum, you can say that it is your heart too.
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So we have been carrying Ixcheel Hurracan to all the waters we could, playing her in water ceremonies, and also connecting waters. My father received some water from the Hopi race, which runs from Alaska to Patagonia, sharing physical water in bottles. The water ceremony is for healing the waters, awakening the water spirit that, in some places, becomes sad due to pollution or human disconnection. We also physically clean the waters, picking up garbage, talking with the closest community, and teaching them how to keep it clean, use it properly, and be grateful for it.
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We have been in rivers, ponds, lakes, etc., but we were missing the social place, the temple of Ixcheel, and the cenotes. In Mayan culture, cenotes are very important and magical because they represent the underworld, the Xibalba, the deepest part of human and natural consciousness, where the Itzaes live—the spirits of the cenotes, also called the wizards of the holes. Sadly, we discovered that people were no longer performing ceremonies in the cenotes because they were afraid of the Itzaes.
So we made the tour for honoring the cenotes and the Itzaes, to connect with the underworld with the intention of awakening the deepest consciousness of humanity and reconnecting with nature. We also aimed to raise awareness about the pollution of cenotes and encourage people to take action to stop it.
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XCanché Cenote is important because it connects the three worlds: the underworld in the cenote, the human world in the middle, and the upper world in the sky by the pyramid. Additionally, in Balam Ek, we had Mayan sculptures with wings, which are not easily found, symbolizing the awakening of the ancestors. There were also masks of the sun and representations of Balam Ek, which is another name for Venus, signifying the unification of a male and a female star.
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Finally, regarding the importance of women in healing the water: we have four elements—fire and wind are considered male energies, while water and earth are female energies. The fifth element, love, is the unification of both. However, in today’s world, water and earth have been destroyed, wasted, and polluted, just as women have been mistreated. We need to find balance between male and female energy. It is up to women to awaken their sacredness and teach others this balance. In most cases, women are still teaching a male vision to new generations instead of teaching balance.
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This is why water ceremonies are so important—water exists within all of us, in every part of our being, in our cells, moving our crystals, our energy, our blood, our emotions—everything. Women working with water hold an incredible power of healing, for all the sacred feminine and the sacred masculine.
