Peyote Hunt
Title | Peyote Hunt PDF eBook |
Author | Barbara G. Myerhoff |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | 292 |
Release | 1976 |
Genre | Huichol Indians |
ISBN | 9780801491375 |
"Ramón Medina Silva, a Huichol Indian shaman priest or mara'akame, instructed me in many of his culture's myths, rituals, and symbols, particularly those pertaining to the sacred untiy of deer, maize, and peyote. The significance of this constellation of symbols was revealed to me most vividly when I accompanied Ramón on the Huichol's annual ritual return to hunt the peyote in the sacred land of Wirikuta, in myth and probably in history the place from which the Ancient Ones (ancestors and deities of the present-day Indians) came before settling in their present home in the mountains of the Sierra Madre Occidental in north-central Mexico. My work with Ramón preceded and followed our journey, but it was this peyote hunt that held the key to, and constituted the climax of, his teachings."--from the Preface
Peyote hunt
Title | Peyote hunt PDF eBook |
Author | Barbara G. Myerhoff |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | 1974 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
People of the Peyote
Title | People of the Peyote PDF eBook |
Author | Stacy B. Schaefer |
Publisher | UNM Press |
Total Pages | 580 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780826319050 |
The first substantial study of a Mexican Indian society that more than any other has preserved much of its ancient way of life and religion.
Peyote Religion
Title | Peyote Religion PDF eBook |
Author | Omer Call Stewart |
Publisher | University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | 476 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780806124575 |
Describes the peyote plant, the birth of peyotism in western Oklahoma, its spread from Indian Territory to Mexico, the High Plains, and the Far West, its role among such tribes as the Comanche, Kiowa, Kiowa-Apache, Caddo, Wichita, Delaware, and Navajo Indians, its conflicts with the law, and the history of the Native American Church.
Review of B.G. Myerhoff, "Peyote Hunt."
Title | Review of B.G. Myerhoff, "Peyote Hunt." PDF eBook |
Author | Weston La Barre |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | 1974 |
Genre | Botany, Economic |
ISBN |
An Encyclopedia of Shamanism Volume 2
Title | An Encyclopedia of Shamanism Volume 2 PDF eBook |
Author | Christina Pratt |
Publisher | The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Total Pages | 312 |
Release | 2007-08-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9781404211414 |
Shamanism can be defined as the practice of initiated shamans who are distinguished by their mastery of a range of altered states of consciousness. Shamanism arises from the actions the shaman takes in non-ordinary reality and the results of those actions in ordinary reality. It is not a religion, yet it demands spiritual discipline and personal sacrifice from the mature shaman who seeks the highest stages of mystical development.
Unknown Huichol
Title | Unknown Huichol PDF eBook |
Author | Jay Courtney Fikes |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | 294 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | 0759120269 |
The culmination of 34 years of ethnographic fieldwork and archival research, this book offers ground-breaking insights into fundamental principles of Huichol shamanism and ritual. The scope and length of Fikes's research, combined with the depth of his participation with four Huichol shamans, enable him to convey with empathy details of shamanic initiation, methods for diagnosis and treatment of illness, and motives for performing funeral, deer and peyote hunting, and maize-cultivating rituals.