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Politics : Should God be replaced?
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From: average joe2/8/2007 11:03:38 AM
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Mexican Abduction Art

This example of Mexican naive art hangs in my hallway. I had it matted with black velvet and framed in ostentatious gold. It’s an example of a retablo or votive painting that is commissioned when someone wants to thank a particular saint for saving them from disease, accidents, or other misfortune.

Roughly translated with my limited skills, the text reads:

Mr. Gonzalo Salinas Cruz gives thanks to Saint Martin of Porres for saving me from death when a Martian attempted to abduct me when I came out of the cantina [bar.] Mr. Fermin Luna Sambrano/ March 9, 1987.

The second name is probably the artist’s. One thing I find interesting and curious are the white dots or lights over Sr. Cruz’ head. Is it an iconographic representation of drunkenness, or does it have some religious meaning? On the right is presumably a portrait of the penitent sinner and a standard representation of the Saint. The “martian” descends in a cone of greenish light. He has the requisite bug eyes, but they’re turned upwards, like teardrops. He’s fairly stocky as well.

If the guy actually did see an alien after getting stinking drunk, I stand corrected in my assumption that no one has ever hallucinated a close encounter under the influence of alcohol. Maybe he was drinking mezcal, which is made from a cactus with hallucinogenic properties. According to some researchers, this might actually give it some legitimacy as a real encounter.

What I’d really like to see is a painting of Saint Martin zapping the alien back to wherever it came from.

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