Mazatec

<h2 id="language-family">Language family</h2>
<p>The <a href="/facts/Mazatecan_languages/VnKEazCT">Mazatecan languages</a> are part of the <a href="/facts/Popolocan_languages/D0eCRP8V">Popolocan family</a> which, in turn, is part of the <a href="/facts/Otomanguean/6GfAjgxG">Otomanguean</a> language family.
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<h2 id="traditional-religious-rituals">Traditional religious rituals</h2>
<p>Mazatec tradition includes the cultivation of <a href="/facts/Entheogens/6boCAmyy">entheogens</a> for spiritual and ritualistic use. Plants and fungi used for this purpose include <a href="/facts/Psilocybin_mushroom/tJ29VHJY">psilocybin mushrooms</a>, psychoactive <a href="/facts/Morning_glory/ePrQH3uB">morning glory</a> seeds (from species such as <i><a href="/facts/Ipomoea_tricolor/lxxk1AXX">Ipomoea tricolor</a></i> and <i><a href="/facts/Ipomoea_corymbosa/GSdzoCy3">Ipomoea corymbosa</a></i>), and <i><a href="/facts/Salvia_divinorum/c1RTXx7b">Salvia divinorum</a></i>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a> This latter plant is known to <a href="/facts/Mazatec_shamans/9Bm61zTm">Mazatec shamans</a> as <i>ska María Pastora</i>, the name containing a reference to the <a href="/facts/Blessed_Virgin_Mary/cq3fKofl">Virgin Mary</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a>
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<h2 id="notable-mazatecs">Notable Mazatecs</h2>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/Mar%25C3%25ADa_Sabina/GNtpQmv0">María Sabina</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Julieta_Casimiro/kmRXW1W8">Julieta Casimiro</a></li></ul>
<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2>
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<li>Indigenous peoples of the Americas portal</li></ul>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/Indigenous_peoples_in_Mexico/ChgUdWdQ">Indigenous peoples in Mexico</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Mixtec/AjH5XkqE">Mixtec</a></li></ul>
<h2 id="notes">Notes</h2>

<ul><li><a href="/facts/Lyle_Campbell/qL3Qlvhe">Campbell, Lyle</a> (1997). <i>American Indian Languages: The Historical Linguistics of Native America</i>. Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics, 4. <a href="/facts/William_Bright/fAjQwune">William Bright</a> (series general ed.) (OUP paperback edition, 2000 ed.). New York: <a href="/facts/Oxford_University_Press/CYyTzzWG">Oxford University Press</a>. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-0-19-509427-5. <a href="/facts/OCLC_(identifier)/Yqad8waq">OCLC</a> <a href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/32923907">32923907</a>.</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Comisi%25C3%25B3n_Nacional_para_el_Desarrollo_de_los_Pueblos_Ind%25C3%25ADgenas/KQ3nK01v">CDI [Comisión Nacional para el Desarrollo de los Pueblos Indígenas]</a> (2004–2007). <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070609231402/http://cdi.gob.mx/index.php?id_seccion=305">"Mazatecos - Ha shuta Enima"</a>. <i>Información: Los pueblos indígenas de México</i> (in Spanish). CDI. Archived from <a href="http://cdi.gob.mx/index.php?id_seccion=305">the original</a> on 2007-06-09. Retrieved 2007-05-02.</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Frances_Karttunen/mFHgHNYt">Karttunen, Frances E.</a> (1994). <a href="https://archive.org/details/betweenworldsint00kartrich"><i>Between Worlds: Interpreters, Guides, and Survivors</i></a>. New Brunswick, NJ: <a href="/facts/Rutgers_University_Press/Y1UYJcap">Rutgers University Press</a>. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-0-8135-2030-8. <a href="/facts/OCLC_(identifier)/Yqad8waq">OCLC</a> <a href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/28150669">28150669</a>.</li>
<li>Mooney, James (1911). <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10093a.htm">"Mazatec Indians"</a>. <i><a href="/facts/Catholic_Encyclopedia/GKufVzBf">Catholic Encyclopedia</a></i>. Vol. X (New Advent online reproduction ed.). New York: Robert Appleton and Company. Retrieved 2007-05-02.</li>
<li>Valdés, Leander J., III; José Luis Díaz; Ara G. Paul (1983). "Ethnopharmacology of <i>ska María Pastora</i> (<i>Salvia divinorum</i>, Epling and Játiva-M)". <i>Journal of Ethnopharmacology</i>. 7 (3): 287–312. <a href="/facts/Doi_(identifier)/muM9Etpq">doi</a>:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016%2F0378-8741%2883%2990004-1">10.1016/0378-8741(83)90004-1</a>. <a href="/facts/Hdl_(identifier)/rdebSxmC">hdl</a>:<a href="https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42%2F25229">2027.42/25229</a>. <a href="/facts/PMID_(identifier)/JlHAvMHt">PMID</a> <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6876852">6876852</a>.{{cite journal}}:  CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)</li></ul>

<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li><a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10093a.htm">Article from the Catholic Encyclopedia</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>Wauchope, R. (2015). Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volumes 7 and 8: Ethnology. United States: University of Texas Press. pg 325 <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>Jean Basset Johnson (1939) The elements of Mazatec witchcraft, Etnologiska Studier 9:128-150. <a href="/wiki/Jean_Basset_Johnson" target="_blank">/wiki/Jean_Basset_Johnson</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>Valdés et al. (1983) <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:4"><p>Osiris Sinuhé González Romero (2022-02-10). "Mazatec Shamanic Knowledge and Psilocybin Mushrooms". Chacruna. Retrieved 2022-04-15. <a href="https://chacruna.net/mazatec-shamanism-and-psilocybin-mushrooms/" target="_blank">https://chacruna.net/mazatec-shamanism-and-psilocybin-mushrooms/</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:5"><p>Valdés et al. (1983) <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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