During the last conversation I had with my grandmother before her death, I asked her about an inscription that I saw carved on a stone in a tortillería (the place where tortillas are made by hand and sold) near her house. She told me that, that cross with circles on each side was a symbol of fertility, life, and wealth, which referred to the four ends of the universe, which support the earth and the sky.

My maternal family is Nahua, a culture whose memory and identity are increasingly dissolved not only in Tlaxcala, the place where we come from but in my own family. My grandmother had never told me about this symbol before, even though its meaning was important to her parent's profession, who used to farm corn and sell pulque.

Corn, and pulque, seed and drink, both surrounded by mysticism, two important elements of Tlaxcala’s food system whose cultivation and extraction process was governed by an agricultural ritual cycle surrounded by stories. This region is a place with an incredible diversity of native corn, in parallel, pulque led to an economic boom and even an architectural canon is being taken advantage of by tourism.

This series is divided into two chapters, the first one is dedicated to corn, and the second to pulque. This project is about the knowledge that my grandparent's generation possessed and now is being forgotten, their practices and their stories, the calendar accounts organized by groups of twenty days; the days in which the devil wallows in the corn furrows, dances, offerings, and snakes that brought the rain, drunk opossums that protect pulque, weather shamans, lunar cycles and the observation of the cosmos, the stars, and the clouds.