Mazatec

An Indigenous People of Mexico

Ethnic group

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

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.

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 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

Notes

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

References

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CDI [Comisión Nacional para el Desarrollo de los Pueblos Indígenas] (2004–2007). "Mazatecos - Ha shuta Enima". Información: Los pueblos indígenas de México (in Spanish). CDI. Archived from the original on 2007-06-09. Retrieved 2007-05-02.
Karttunen, Frances E. (1994). Between Worlds: Interpreters, Guides, and Survivors. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. ISBN 978-0-8135-2030-8. OCLC 28150669.
Mooney, James (1911). "Mazatec Indians". Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. X (New Advent online reproduction ed.). New York: Robert Appleton and Company. Retrieved 2007-05-02.
Valdés, Leander J., III; José Luis Díaz; Ara G. Paul (1983). "Ethnopharmacology of ska María Pastora (Salvia divinorum, Epling and Játiva-M)". Journal of Ethnopharmacology. 7 (3): 287–312. doi:10.1016/0378-8741(83)90004-1. hdl:2027.42/25229. PMID 6876852.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)