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  • María Lionza 1, Héctor Méndez Caratini • Videos and Photography of Puerto Rico and Latin America
  • María Lionza
  • María Lionza 3, Héctor Méndez Caratini • Videos and Photography of Puerto Rico and Latin America
  • María Lionza 4, Héctor Méndez Caratini • Videos and Photography of Puerto Rico and Latin America
  • María Lionza 5, Héctor Méndez Caratini • Videos and Photography of Puerto Rico and Latin America
  • María Lionza 6, Héctor Méndez Caratini • Videos and Photography of Puerto Rico and Latin America
  • María Lionza 7, Héctor Méndez Caratini • Videos and Photography of Puerto Rico and Latin America
  • María Lionza 8, Héctor Méndez Caratini • Videos and Photography of Puerto Rico and Latin America
  • María Lionza 9, Héctor Méndez Caratini • Videos and Photography of Puerto Rico and Latin America
  • María Lionza 10, Héctor Méndez Caratini • Videos and Photography of Puerto Rico and Latin America
  • María Lionza 11, Héctor Méndez Caratini • Videos and Photography of Puerto Rico and Latin America
  • María Lionza 1
  • María Lionza 13, Héctor Méndez Caratini • Videos and Photography of Puerto Rico and Latin America
  • María Lionza 14, Héctor Méndez Caratini • Videos and Photography of Puerto Rico and Latin America

María Lionza, 1992

Color Series

María Lionza, Venezuela, 1992

The Venezuelan cult to María Lionza is a very popular healing movement with Indo-American ancestral roots. The cult combines a large number of syncretic influences (such as María Lionza being the representation of the Virgin Mary) and shamanistic rituals

Ricardo Viera
Lehigh University Art Galleries, Director / Curator
Bethlehem, PA
October, 2003