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What is the Virgin of Guadalupe wearing?In: Arts and Crafts |
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Her blue cloak, covered with stars, resembles one worn by Tonantzin, the Aztec goddess of earth, fertility and rain. It represents the heavens. Blue symbolizes fidelity, divine love and truth.
- The black sash she is wearing follows the Aztec custom that she is with child. En cinta is the Aztec expression.
- She stands on a crescent moon, indicating she is greater than the god of night, the moon god.
- The cherub angel is believed to represent a new era. Some interpret its posture as signaling the end of one time and the beginning of another.
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