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Yolteotl is a Mexican enterprise beginning operations in 1998, our main activity is the buying and selling of handicraft, nationally and internationally, the selling of special services, such as cultural and commercial connections, among others. Yolteotl is a member of Vital Quality Group, enterprises with Vital Quality.
Vital Quality invites you to this project, mainly if you are an artisan, artisans' workshop manager, or if you represent an association or community of artisans.
Vital Quality will promote and commercialize your work or productive project in the national or international scope.
Vital Quality establishes ethic commercial alliances with the artisan, always respecting his particular way of proposing, commercially and traditionally, the handicraft, with a fair reward, this has always being a mutual growth and commercial balance with our affiliated.
Antecedents
Yolteotl (Divine Hearth of the Being and Doing)
One of the main humanistic legacies from the pre-Columbian Mexico to the rest of the world is that one named formerly as TOLTEQUITY (TOLTEQUIDAD) (TOLTECAYOTL). The Toltequity meant to be an accomplice of the Gods, and to make the things well done, and give them a transcendence sense. Then, the artist-artisan was well recognized, and was formerly thought as the TLAYOLTEUIANI (The One Who Turns With His Hearth All The Things Sacred) and to achieve it, he had to know how to inspire and invoke in himself the birth of a Yolteotl (Divine Heart of the Being and Doing).
The artisan, as a creator of the ancestral people's imaginary, is an Artist/Artificer, he is a TOLTECATL (a cosmic poet, skilled in dreams, a harmonic transformer of the natural world), because of his mental blue brightness, his geniality, his technical skill, his capacity to transmit sensations, concepts and new languages. Because of his mastery in the matter and his humility. Every artisan is a Yolteotl, who has a divine hearth and belongs to a great and cosmic divine hearth.
In the present Mexico, the TOLTECAYOTL is alive, in the artisan's work, with its divine hearth, which in every moment invents and re-invents new profundities and vital dimensions on its expression, inspired by always alive intuitions about the ancestral; the making of unique pieces gives to it a value that overpass tendency. The artisan is part of the cosmic art, which is a dream, art and eternity.
Here I leave the antique word, to go beyond my own one
"The Toltec were experimented people,
all their pieces were nice, all of them straight,
all of them well done, all admirable…
…what is called as a Toltec house, very well done
beautiful pieces on it appearance.
Painters, sculptors, and stone workers,
feather artists, potters, spinners,
These Toltec were certainly wise,
they used to dialogue with their hearth...
The Toltec, Quetzalcoatl's people,
They were very experimented.
Nothing was hard to do.
They cut precious stones,
They worked the gold.
And they made any kind of pieces of art
And wonderful feather pieces.
They were really experimented.
TOLTÉCATL:
The artist, the disciple, abundant,
multiple, restless.
The real artist: capable, gets trained, he is skillful;
dialogues with his hearth,
finds the things with his mind.
The joint of the Toltec arts,
Their wisdom, all came from Quetzalcoatl...
The real artist, takes all from his hearth;
Works with pleasure,
makes things with calm,
carefully, Works as a Toltec,
fixes things, works skillful, creates;
fixes things, makes them well done,
makes them to fit."**
Anthropologist Juan Carlos Cruz Elorza
jc@vitalquality.org
**The extracts/testimonies belong to the investigation on Nahuatl cosmovision of the Master Miguel Leon Portilla, Yolteotl of a town's memory.
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