The sacred landscape of Tatei Jaramara (Our Mother Sea, Goddess of the Five Corns) is the southern tip of a 250 km coastal strip called Turanita, which means the place of the Mother Deer, in reference to the female deity of the deer. It is along this strip that the Huichol people recognize their roots. According to origin myths, both the ancestral deities—the cacauyaris—and the human ancestors of the Huichol emerged here.

In primordial times, when darkness reigned over the Earth, five generations of ancestral beings emerged from the sea and settled near Tatei Jaramara, before the first pilgrimage to Huiricuta. As for their human ancestors, the Huichols claim that they arrived from the sea in reed boats, survivors of an island that sank after a meteorite collision.

The Tatei Jaramara region represents the sea. For the Huichols, the sea is associated with the underworld, "the place where the Sun deity dies every evening and descends into the sea for his journey underground back to his birthplace. This is where the Huichol people initially travel after death to reunite with their relatives in a celebration before returning to their former community for a final farewell and then departing for Huiricuta." The Huichol people make offerings to Tatei Jaramara and visit this area not only to venerate the place of origin of their ancestral deities, but also to perform rituals that bring rain to the Huichol Sierra. This ritual, described by Carl Lumholtz around 1895, remains unchanged to this day:

"In extreme cases, when rain is urgently needed, the Huichols may resort to the following ingenious method to attract clouds: Water is taken from a sacred spring in the Hikuli country, two hundred miles to the east, towards the Pacific Ocean, and the spring is replenished with an equal amount of water from the western sea. According to the Huichol conception, the water will feel strange in its new environment and will want to return to its original home. It has no other way to travel than by rising in the form of clouds, and it must pass over Huichol territory, where the two clouds meet and, due to their impact, fall in the form of rain."

Tatei Jaramara, both Our Mother Sea and Goddess of the Five Corns, represents the five individual deities of each color of corn: Tatei Jaramara Muyahue, first sea of clear blue water; Tatei Jaramara Mutuza, second sea of white water; Tatei Jaramara Matazaiye, third sea of yellow water; Tatei Jaramara Memuriayuve, fourth sea of black water; and Tatei Jaramara Xure, fifth sea of red water.

Sacred sites:

• Huaxiehue.
• Tatei Nihuetsica.
• Xiriqui.
• Tatehuarí.