The Alebrijes were invented by revelations that my grandfather had when he got ill when he was 30 years old. No one could help him because medicine advances weren't available for Mexican poor people. His sisters tried to assist him but they didn't have success, they only could pry.

While he was in bed, unconscious, he was dreaming of a place, a different an estrange place, some kind of a Forrest, there were trees, animals, clouds, sky, rocks, etc.; my grandfather said that everything was in calm, he felt no pain and he was very happy walking down there.

Suddenly, rocks, clouds and animals turned into something estrange, some kind of animals, but, unknown animals. He saw a donkey with butterfly wings, a rooster with bull horns, a lion with eagle head, and all of them were shouting just one word, the word was "Alebrijes", every animal were shouting louder and louder: "Alebrijes, Alebrijes, Alebrijes!". The sound was terrible, was too noisy there, my grandfather wasn't able to stay there for a long time, he got a terrible headache and he ran through a stones road where a man was walking. My grandfather asked the man for help, he wanted to get out of there. The man told him that he shouldn't be there yet, the man said to my grandfather that he had to walk by that road and a few meters ahead, there was an exit. My grandfather ran and ran until he was in front of narrow window, he passed through that window and he woke up.

His family was so happy because they thought that my grandfather wouldn't be in good health anymore.

When my grandfather could get out of bed, he started to remember his dream and he wanted his family and everybody knows those animals, so he took a piece of paper and he molded those figures he saw. Then he painted them as he saw them in his dream.

Then he show his work to many people, mexican and foreign people, and he was invited at USA and Europe in order to exhibit his "alebrijes".

 My grandfather worked from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. everyday until the day after he died. He died on January 26, 1992, when he was 86 years old.

Now, Miguel Linares, Paula Garcia, and Ricardo Linares; go on with my grandfather's tradition: The Alebrijes.