Shipibo Healing Patterns 

While the shamans sing their Ayahuasca caros at night, people become aware of elaborate beautiful visual patterns. The next morning the women from the tribes concentrate on their work of embroidering and painting these patterns onto fabric. 

The various small motifs have meaning. For example: thinking man, soul of a child, star of the south, leaf of a medicinal plant, stream of rain, etc., and as such can be interpreted as a narrative. The overall pattern is inspired by the different layers of the skin (and insides) of the Anaconda Serpent, in the Shipibo cosmology an earth deity which sang all forms into existence at the beginning of time.