Mazatec

The Mazatec are an indigenous people of Mexico who inhabit the Sierra Mazateca in the state of Oaxaca and some communities in the adjacent states of Puebla and Veracruz.

Mazatec
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Mazatec girls performing a dance in Huautla de Jimenez
Total population
~305,836
Regions with significant populations
Mexico (Oaxaca)
Languages
Mazatec, Spanish
Religion
Roman Catholic, and Traditional religion
Related ethnic groups
Popolocas

Language family

The Mazatecan languages are part of the Popolocan family which, in turn, is part of the Otomanguean language family.

Traditional religious rituals

Mazatec tradition includes the cultivation of entheogens for spiritual and ritualistic use. Plants and fungi used for this purpose include psilocybin mushrooms, psychoactive morning glory seeds (from species such as Ipomoea tricolor and Ipomoea corymbosa), and perhaps most significant to the Mazatecs, Salvia divinorum.[1][2][3] This latter plant is known to Mazatec shamans as ska María Pastora, the name containing a reference to the Virgin Mary.[2]

Notable Mazatecs

See also

Notes

  1. Jean Basset Johnson (1939) The elements of Mazatec witchcraft, Etnologiska Studier 9:128-150.
  2. Valdés et al. (1983)
  3. Osiris Sinuhé González Romero (2022-02-10). "Mazatec Shamanic Knowledge and Psilocybin Mushrooms". Chacruna. Retrieved 2022-04-15.

References

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