La Medición del Sol

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Size: 28″x 17″ Oil on Woven

I remember, when I was accompanying my grandfather to cut coffee, before he started the work, he always asks Mother Earth for permission for his stay, and then he cleaned and sowed a straight stick and that according to that he could measure the time. “I very curious, I asked him and why does he plant a dry stick?” The elders of the community still maintain extensive information about the Mayan culture. The measurement of the sun is one of the great examples of history. According to them, before they used the Mayan cross to measure time, and that showed them the time according to the movement of the sun and that it caused a shadow on the ground with which they affirmed the passing of the day