At the Folk Art Market on Saturday, Alice bought a Mexican wooden, painted deer - who, it was explained, symbolizes good luck - and so he seemed especially propitious. Digging around on line, I find that there may be more than this going on:
For the wixaritarie people who inhabit central Mexico and are more commonly known as huicholes, the deer is an animal that translates the language of the gods for men. For the huicholes, the deer is the first shaman or mara’kame that later becomes an interlocutor between the shamans and other gods. The deer is closely linked to two plants: its heart is a peyote – the animal and the plant are one in essence – and corn, which is a deer and is represented by its antlers. In this tradition there is an infinity of deer and the most important are the original five, which are located at the five cardinal points (the blue, red, white, black and yellow deer). The reproductive cycle of the deer is connected to the huicholes’ ritual calendar.
And that's before we get to all the positive significance that deer hold in other countries.
Moth, however, seems singly unimpressed, and really, thinks that she should be the center of attention.
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