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The Mazatec are an indigenous people who inhabit an area of the state of Oaxaca in southern Mexico, close to the border with Puebla and Veracruz.
The Mazatecan languages are part of the Popolocan family which, in turn, is part of the Otomanguean language family.
The Mazatecs' religion is a synthesis of both traditional beliefs and Christian beliefs brought by the Spanish conquistadors.
Mazatec tradition includes the cultivation of entheogens for spiritual and ritualistic use. Plants and fungi used for this purpose include morning glory seeds, psilocybe mushrooms, and Salvia divinorum or "Diviners' sage", a species of the Salvia (sage) genus with psychoactive properties.[1] This latter plant is known to Mazatec shamans as ska María Pastora, the name containing a reference to the Virgin Mary.[2]
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- Campbell, Lyle (1997). American Indian Languages: The Historical Linguistics of Native America (OUP paperback edition, 2000), William Bright (series general ed.), Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics, 4, New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-509427-1. OCLC 32923907.
- Comisión Nacional para el Desarrollo de los Pueblos Indígenas (CDI) (2004–2007). "Mazatecos - Ha shuta Enima". Información: Los pueblos indígenas de México. CDI. Retrieved on 2007-05-02. (Spanish)
- Mooney, James (1911). "Mazatec Indians". Catholic Encyclopedia (New Advent online reproduction) vol. X. New York: Robert Appleton and Company. Retrieved on 2007-05-02.
- Valdés, Leander J., III; José Luis Díaz and Ara G. Paul (1983). "Ethnopharmacology of ska María Pastora (Salvia divinorum, Epling and Játiva-M)". Journal of Ethnopharmacology 7 (3): 287–312. doi:. Retrieved on 2006-12-20.
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