La Marchanta is the first of 5 designs that we affectionately call "Las Nenas", commissioned to our very talented friend Fernando Aponte, better known asFlushDelayto be the one of the images of our new storethe pachuquena.

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She represents Mexican food and nature, with her head wrapped in flowers, chile earrings, and a garland of cactus and corn attached to the center by "La Cruz de Quetzalcoatl", or Macuilxochitl (Five-Flower), a philosophical symbol that represented the four directions of existence: Quetzal-Coatl (Heaven and Earth) and Tonal-Nahual (Feminine/Lunar-Masculine/Solar) whose combination gave rise to the 5th direction: the balancing center.