Earth now is symbolic only of the nation within a nation we wish to build. The sun also symbolizes the dawn of our self-awareness, the revolution in the mind we so desperately need. The united farm workers flag is symbolic of first manifestations in 1965 of our current social movement. Man and woman symbolize the core of any society, the family unit. In this case, the Raza family is what kept us together in adversity.
Society is seen as a four-head monster of apocalypse, oppression and universal troubles of mankind.
It is seen as we see it and live it. Society is thus a personification of oppressive evil now confront by social change which is good. Aztlan is an Indian term for the land of the southwest, land of Spanish grants, area of our first beginnings, land of our greatest population concentration in five states. Colors of this mural represents the five human races and the colors of earth in the southwest.