Martha
is the Co-Author, along with your host, William
Douglas Horden, of The Toltec I Ching, which
was recently published by Larson Publications.
The Toltec I Ching recasts the I Ching in
the symbology of the Native Americans of ancient
Mexico and includes original illustrations
interpreting each of the hexagrams. Its subtitle,
64 Keys to Inspired Action in the New World
hints at its focus on the ethics of the emerging
world culture.
Martha
is also a mural painter, a performer in popular
theater, and a researcher/ lecturer of the
Nahuatl pre-Hispanic codices of Mexico. She
was vice-director of the Mascarones Theatre
Group for 32 years, and designed and co-founded
the Nahuatl University pyramidcampus in Ocotepec,
Morelos, Mexico. She apprenticed under master
muralist David A. Siqueiros, Guillermo Monroy
in the Fine Arts Institute, and, more recently,
under Chicanamuralist Judith F. Baca. She
conducts inter-national Nahuatl Culture seminars
in Mexico and lectures at the University of
California, Los Angeles. She is also an artist
in residence at the Social and Public Art
Resource Center (SPARC) in Venice, California,
and is a per-forming and visual arts teacher
for children in a Spanish total immersion
school in SantaMonica, California.
