This is a brand new scarf - never been worn.

The Virgin of Guadalupe is the most famous saint in Mexico - the patron saint of Mexico, in fact. Known as the "Virgen Morena" - the brown skin virgin- Guadalupe was supposedly first encountered on the Hill of Tepeyac in what is now Mexico City only a few short years after the Spanish Conquest, by an Aztec Indian, Juan Diego, who was told to go and tell the bishop to build a temple on the spot where he first saw her. It happens that this spot is the same location where the temple of Tonantzin ("Our Lady" in the Aztec dialect, Nahuatl) was located. Tonantzin, on the other hand, was the recreation of an earlier Mother Goddess of the Indians who had been in the Valley of Mexico long before the arrival of the Aztecs.

The image is based on that from the Tilma de Juan Diego - the garment where the image first miraculously appeared. Juan Diego is shown in the lower left hand side of the picture.

In Spanish, a scarf that one wears around ones neck is known as a "paņo". These are also used in Mexican magic, known as "brujeria", and also in the ritual magic of Cuban practitioners of Santeria. Matachines dancers also use "paņos" such as this as part of their costumes.

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From Fausto's Art Gallery in Ojinaga, Chihuahua.

Shipped from Presidio, Texas USA

A Tarahumara Indian matachin dancer with a
Virgin of Guadalupe paņo

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