10/01/2022
“Kauyumari” with labradorite and amethyst.
Have you ever heard the legend of Kauyumari, the “blue deer?”
“The Elders told us that long, long ago, in the Huichol mountains, the Grandfathers came together in order to discuss a situation. The people were ill, they had neither water nor food nor rain, and the earth was dry. They decided then to send out four youths with the task of finding food and bringing it to the community to share, no matter how much or how little they hunted. Each one of the youths represented the elements: fire, water, air, and earth.
The following morning the youths began their hunt, each one carrying their bow and arrows. They walked for days until, one afternoon, there jumped from behind a bush, a grand, fat deer. The youths were exhausted and hungry but when they saw the deer, they forgot everything and began to run after it, and did not lose sight of it. The deer looked at the youths and felt compassion for them. He let them rest a night and the next day he enticed them to continue their chase.
Many weeks passed before they arrived at Wirikuta (a desert in San Luis, sacred path of the Huicholes) and when the youths found themselves on the way to a hill, near mount Narices, they saw the deer jump in the direction of the place where the Spirit of the Earth dwelt. They swore they had seen the deer run in that direction and they tried to find it without success. Suddenly one of the youths shot their arrow and it found its mark inside the silhouette of the deer. But when they approached they found the figure of the deer was formed from pe**te cactus that were found in those lands and that shone brightly in the sun like emeralds looking all in one direction.
The youths were confused by what had happened, but decided to cut the plants forming the figure of Marratutuyari (deer) in order to take them to their people. After walking for many days they arrived at the Huichol mountain where everyone was waiting for them. They went straight to the Elders and told them their experience. The Elders began to distribute the pe**te among the people and after a while, no one felt hungry or thirsty anymore.
Ever since, the Huichol people revere pe**te which is Deer and Corn at the same time, their Spirit Guide. Therefore, each year since then, they make a pilgrimage, maintaining the route alive from the Huichol mountains to Wirikuta, in order to ask God for rain, food, and health for their people.”
Translated from: https://yoamocheran.wordpress.com/2013/02/07/leyenda-del-venado-azul/
