The Huichols, a Nation of Shamans
Author: Pablo De la Cruz
Publisher:
Published: 1996-01-01
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780943907161
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Author: Pablo De la Cruz
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Published: 1996-01-01
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780943907161
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Stacy B. Schaefer
Publisher: UNM Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 580
ISBN-13: 9780826319050
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first substantial study of a Mexican Indian society that more than any other has preserved much of its ancient way of life and religion.
Author: Carl Lumholtz
Publisher: Bruce I. Finson
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 250
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Stacy B. Schaefer
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 0826355811
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A beautiful ethnographic work. Schaefer deftly relates mythology, cosmology, family life, and economics within the spiritual practice and mechanics of weaving. There is clearly a preservation ethos underlying Schaefer's work, yet her depiction is not mournful, it is celebratory."--Ethnohistory
Author: Tom Soloway Pinkson
Publisher: Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
Published: 2010-01-29
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 1594773491
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Huichol tribes of the Sierra Madre in Mexico have thoroughly retained their ancient way of life. Their shamanic spiritual practices focus on living life in harmony with all things and offer a path path to healing both on a personal and a planetary level.
Author: Jesús González Mercado
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 40
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKJesús González Mercado was selected to be a shaman at the age of seven by Elder Brother Deer, who communicated with him after he had eaten honey that, unknown to him, contained the vision inducing pollen of the Kieri flower, a very potent and sacred native plant. According to Jesús, Elder Brother, the first shaman was divinely created by means of prayer and offerings of Kieri pollen. Forty years later, he and his wife were beset by illness. The shaman they consulted told Jesús that the sickness was punishment for neglecting the shamanic call of his youth. He said to them, "By singing your sickness will disappear," - a refrence to the highly prized power of their shamanic singing among the Huichol, as well as long and difficult initiation required to achieve it. Thus, Jesús and his wife made many pilgrimages, prayers, and offerings to the Pacific Ocean/Mother goddess to obtain her pardon and enlist aid in healing and ritual singing. Jesús, who is now 80 years old, has served the Huichols of Tuxpan as a shaman since 1976. Jesús' early calling and his related mythological revelations regar[d]ing Kieri, a lesser known but more ancient sacrament native to the Huichol homeland, have implications that should enable scholars to re-interpret historical and theological questions regarding the formative influences of Huichol culture.
Author: Barbara G. Myerhoff
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1976
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780801491375
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"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
Author: Carl Lumholtz
Publisher:
Published: 1898
Total Pages: 548
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: James Endredy
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2015-11-17
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 1620554623
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA rare in-depth look at the inner workings of Huichol shamanism • Describes the five sacred sites of the Huichol and their peyote ceremonies • Explains how the Huichol teachings of awareness, centered on the five points of attention, connect you to your true essence • Reveals the deep relationship between Huichol cosmology, Gnosticism, and Christianity, especially Jesus Christ and the Virgin Mary Taking place in the heart of the Huichol homeland in western Mexico, this book offers a rare in-depth look at the inner workings of Huichol shamanism, which is permeated with the use of the sacred peyote cactus. Outsiders are almost never allowed access to Huichol sacred sites and ceremonies; however, James Endredy, after years of friendship with Huichol families, earned the privilege nearly by accident. Swayed by persistent pleading, he agreed to take another gringo into the mountains to one of the Huichols’ ceremonial centers, and they were both caught. After trial and punishment, Endredy was invited to stay within the sacred lands for the festivities he had illegally intruded upon and found his initiation into the Huichol shamanic tradition had begun. Sharing his intimate conversations and journeys with the shaman he calls “Peyote Jesus,” the author explains how Huichol belief revolves around the five sacred directions, the five sacred sites, and the five points of attention. As Peyote Jesus explains, the five points of attention refer to dividing your awareness yet staying focused on your inner self. This is not a normal state of consciousness for most people, yet when we maintain these points of attention, we discover our true essence and move closer to God. Endredy undergoes dozens of spiritual journeys with peyote as he makes the pilgrimages to the five sacred Huichol sites with Peyote Jesus. He is shocked by his vision of the Virgin Mary while under peyote’s guidance and learns of the deep relationship--strictly on Huichol terms--between their cosmology, Gnosticism, and Christianity, especially Jesus Christ. Providing an inside look at the major ceremonies and peyote rituals of the Huichol, this unexpectedly powerful book reveals the key tenants of the Huichol worldview, their beliefs in the afterlife, and their spiritual work on behalf of all of humanity.
Author: Jay Courtney Fikes
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 0759120269
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.