In this article, we analyze the worldview of the Wixárika people in terms of their care of nature, or “Mother Earth”. We do so by accompanying them in their sacred spaces and daily life in order to identify their beliefs, rituals, and their relationship with caring for nature, so as to elaborate an intercultural proposal to mitigate climate change. A qualitative ethnographic methodological design is applied, and cases of patriarchal Wixárika families are selected as key informants, with whom we conducted dialogue workshops, in-depth interviews, and ethnographic observation of rituals in sacred places. The results show that the Wixárika ethnic group bases its worldview on rituals that visit the five important cardinal points of their culture located in the east, west, north, south, and center of the western region of Mexico. These, in turn, are home to elements of their worldview such as the sun (Tayau Tau), the sea (Haramara), corn (Icu), peyote (Hicuri), deer (Maxa), and fire (Tatewari). From their perspective, the planet and life arise through the relationship between the sea and the sun, which gave birth to snakes that evolved into rivers, animals, and human beings that passed through sacred places. We conclude on the importance of recovering the worldview expressed in the rituals of this tribe in order to build an intercultural proposal on the preservation of the biodiversity of nature, or “Mother Earth”, and to limit climate change from a deep ecology perspective
