Sacred Sites

Journey to Ancient Sacred Sites

Journey: Outer Journey - The Horizon

This day leads us into the mountains of the Sierra Norte of Oaxaca, visiting places where ancient presence can still be felt in the landscape and where local communities continue to care for and renew their ancestral traditions.

Our first stop is San Pedro Nexicho, home to a pre-Hispanic sacred site and once one of the most important entrances into the Sierra Norte. The community has created a small museum where many of the objects discovered at the site are preserved, offering a glimpse into the lives, rituals, and movement of the people who once crossed these mountains. Visiting this place invites us to reflect on the Sierra not as a remote region, but as a vibrant corridor of exchange, pilgrimage, and connection.

From there, we continue to Santa Catarina Lachatao, where we visit the sacred Hill of the Jaguar — a place that has regained importance through the dedication and remembrance of the community. Today, the site is once again honored through equinox celebrations and collective gatherings that reconnect with ancestral traditions.

This place is especially meaningful to us, and over the years we have held many ceremonies here. Standing on the hill, surrounded by mountains and sky, there is a sense of continuity — a feeling that sacred places never truly disappear; they wait to be remembered.

This is not simply a visit to archaeological sites. It is an invitation to encounter living memory — where landscape, community, ceremony, and ancient wisdom continue to meet in the present.

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