TEARS OF SIHUACOATL. 2021.
Acrylic on canvas. 100x140 cm
This art-work the part of project "Another skin".
The paint is made in the author's technique of painting by Vasili Zianko based acrylic painting on canvas using a variety of textures, washes, the finest glazing, volumetric contours.
Sihuacoatl, Siucoatl (Spanish Cihuacoatl) - "Snake Woman", in the mythology of the Aztecs and other Indians of Central America is the goddess of the earth and childbirth, as well as the war.
Cihuacoatl is one of the oldest Mesoamerican deities and one of the main deities of the Aztec pantheon. She was also revered under the names Tonatsin or Tonantsin ("our mother"), Kilastli ("eagle") and Ilamatecuhtli. Cihuacoatl was the mother of the god Mixcoatl - Istac Micoatl "White Cloud Serpent", he was the deity of the Milky Way, the stars and the North Star. The legend says, Cihuacoatl left her son at a crossroads. She returntd later and found a sacrificial knife only, but her son was disapeared. Since then she has been wandering at the crossroads at night and has been mourning about Mixcoatl. She always wears a swaddled knife on her back instead of her son .
