Martín Nava Carrera's Page

Name of Organization, Institution, Company, or School:

martiniseco films

Focus of Study/axe de l'étude/foco de estudio

Cinematography

What languages do you speak?

español, little english

What did you film on 12.12.12?

the December 12 , around 6.1 million pilgrims from every corner of the country visit every year the Basilica of Guadalupe in Mexico City to commemorate the anniversary of the apparition of the virgin of Guadalupe (a marian aparition)
this celebration its a clear example of syncretism between catholicism and prehispanic cosmogony. its the biggest catholic celebration in the world,

The iconography of the Virgin is impeccably Catholic Miguel Sanchez, the author of the 1648 tract Imagen de la Virgen María, described her as the Woman of the Apocalypse from the New Testament's Revelation 12:1, "clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars, and she is also described as a representation of the Immaculate Conception. Yet despite this orthodoxy the image also had a hidden layer of coded messages for the indigenous people of Mexico which goes a considerable way towards explaining her popularity. Her blue-green mantle was the color reserved for the divine couple Ometecuhtli and Omecihuatl; her belt is interpreted as a sign of pregnancy; and a cross-shaped image symbolizing the cosmos and called nahui-ollin is inscribed beneath the image's sash.