MOONDANCE
The Origin
Take your time to delve into the history, origins, mythology and details of this Ancient Ceremony, our Moondancen prayer. Everything you find here opens a new path of deep transformation and understanding. All of this knowledge was left by our ancestors and passed on with care to support our growth today.
The first circle originated in Mexico in 1992 with a group of women following their dreams, visions and the study of the Borgia Codex (anthropological foundation of the Moondance prophecy).
The circle of the Moondance (“Danza de la Luna”) is the Heritage of an ancient tradition that gifts us the legacy of grandmothers from all corners of the earth, like grandmother Isabel Vega, may she rest in peace, and our dear grandmother Tonalmitl, both Founders of the first circle called “Danza de la Luna Xochimeztli”.
Both of them realized their work through their direct experiences for many years and put together all these experiences, traditions, visions, studies and teachings for this lineage and philosophy, to also form today’s rules of the Moondance that help us all to participate in unity and harmony.
Through this circle, the “Danza de la Luna Xochimeztli”, further circles in different countries of the world ( Mexico, Argentina, the Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, etc) were brought into being. This also includes the “Danza de la Luna Atlachinolli Meztli”, which opened in June 2018 in Austria/Europe.
In 2016 the idea to bring the Moon Dance in Austria was born. In June 2017 the time had come for this vision to materialize by inviting grandmother Tonalmitl (woman of knowledge, guardian of millenary traditions, president of the current circle of “Danza de la Luna Xochimeztli”) and Xiuhcoatl and Ameyaltzin (grandmother dancers of the moon dance, guardians of the lineage of the grandmother Tonalmitl) by our sister Antara (moon dancer of Danza de la Luna in Mexico, resident in Austria), to know the place and to convoke women and men who understood this ancestral ceremony and its wisdom. Thus was born the moon dance circle Atlachinolli Meztli.
Atlachinolli is a compound word from the Nahuatl language and means:
Atl = water, creator of life, from water we come, without water there is no life.
Tlachinolli = that which burns; water that burns itself; beautiful water that represents our blood.
Atlachinolli originates from the composition of the medicine of water with heat, creating steam, which is our great medicine in Temazcalli, which has the ability to heal us. Water with fire, at once two opposite and complementary elements that create life through movement.
