d e l f i n a M u N
AKARA HUITZILCUICANI
Delfina Mun Akarâ Huitzilcuicani is a visionary who’s paintings and voice interweave expressing the healing, transformation and great mystery of praying with the sacred plants and animals of our Mother Earth. She shares her study of the ancestral voice in traditional ceremonies, with roots in her homeland, Puelmapu, and enhanced by her studies in the Amazon rainforest.
Bringing the prophecy of the Condor and the Eagle, where the north and south meet in one prayer, she highlights the importance of spiritual alliances, sharing her voice with reverence, remembrance and recultivation of ancestral tradition and indigenous culture.
Keeper of the Teocali Quetzalcoatl altar, Delfina educates through ritual practices and profound expressions of spirit. She travels throughout Abya Yala - Anahuak praying for the waters, preserving culture and land, as an activist with deep love for the people of the earth and the lands that formed her. She is currently releasing her second musical album and supporting indigenous projects across the continent, as a co-founder of the non-profit Xinachtli.
In the Amazon Rainforest, she organized 7 art workshops in indigenous villages (including in the Yawanawa Sacred Village, Shanenawa Shanekaya village, Huni Kuin Kayatibu and Boa Vista) between 2018-20 for the promotion of indigenous artists, culminating in international group exhibitions such as The Botanical Mind: Art, Mysticism and the Cosmic Tree at the Camden Arts Centre. Currently, she is aiding in the development of homes, water system and community structures for the Madha peoples in the Amazon.
In alliance with the Mexicatl people and as an active guardian of the Teocali Quetzalcoatl NAC, Delfina’s activism involves the preservation of land, sacred plants and waters in Northern Mexico, where she travels frequently to aid in areas that are endangered by agriculture and developments.
Delfina’s visionary paintings have been exhibited around the world, and in 2021 she released her first music album called “Pájaro”, with 10 original compositions. She has participated in international festivals and cultural events, sharing the eternal voice of the women of Abya Yala.
Receiving different names from relatives across the land, in the Amazon the Huni Kuin call her Ikuani: the one who embraces many, as the rainforest lovingly embraces all. The Madha relatives call her Akarâ, a woman carrying the arts of healing. In the North she received the nahuatl name Huizilcuicani: the Singing Hummingbird, sung and called to the four directions in the lands of the Quetzal.
La Madre, 2020
“One of the gifts received in this moment of silence in this enchanted forest is this song. When the world entered this crisis I found myself going back to an eternal and ancestral place... Mother Earth. Always coming back to the arms of the great mother... whenever there is confusion or darkness, going back to this sacred nature and all the answers come, bringing light. Walking through life as a traveller... years of seeking through the four corners of the world and always coming back to the same place: to finding the whole universe in the flight of a bird, the sound of a cricket, the flow of a river. In that nature I feel complete, and this song speaks of the many faces and identities a woman can have, and of so many women from different cultures I have met. Because the energy of the of the mother can take many shapes, but the essence is one.”