Feast of the Jaguars: Mayan artist’s ‘End of Days’ show contemplates 2012
An illustration of the great flood by Mayan artist Carlotta “Tita” Giangualano. In the village where she grew up, Carlotta “Tita” Giangualano was known as the granddaughter of the witch. Other children in Coba – a town of 1,200 located amidst the Mayan ruins in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo – were told not to play with her. The old Mayan ways had all but passed from common knowledge, and though many people considered Tita’s grandma, Mila, as the village’s healer and spiritual leader, others feared her. Tita ended up spending most of her time with Mila, who was raising the little girl. The old woman thus passed on her knowledge to her granddaughter. “I faced the difficulties of the ignorance of the people in the area we lived in because I was the granddaughter of the witch, or the bruja – you know, they didn’t let kids play with me,” Giangualano said in an interview this week. “But this was in my favor, because I had more attachment with my grandmother. Through her, I learned astronomy, astrology, herbs – all kinds of things that actually some of the people were not allowed to have.” Carlotta "Tita" Gianggualano. Her grandmother knew things that had been passed on generation to…
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