Art of the Huichol Indians
Author: Kathleen Berrin
Publisher:
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13:
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People of the Peyote
Author: 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.
Peyote Hunt
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
Visions of a Huichol Shaman
Author: Peter T. Furst
Publisher: UPenn Museum of Archaeology
Published: 2007-01-12
Total Pages: 124
ISBN-13: 9781931707978
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe brilliant visionary yarn paintings of the shaman-artist Jose Benitez Sanchez emerge transformed into two-dimensional form from fleeting, sublime visionary experiences triggered by the complex chemistry of the divine peyote cactus. Benitez's visions are of the Huichol universe in Mexico's rugged Sierra Madre Occidental, as that world came into being in the First Times of creation and transformation and in the ongoing magic of a natural environment that is alive and without firm boundaries between the here and now and the ancestral past. Modern yarn paintings—more than 30 in the University of Pennsylvania Museum's collection are illustrated here—have their roots in the sacred art of communication with numberless male and female ancestors and native deities, related in the two remarkable Huichol origin myths also presented here to shed some light on Native American culture and provide some understanding of the religious experience that informs it.
Huichol Art and Culture
Author: Melissa S. Powell
Publisher:
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780890135631
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA deeply observant extended homage to orchard farmer Evelyn Curtis Losack and her village of Corrales, New Mexico.
Huichol Mythology
Author: Robert M. Zingg
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2015-08
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 0816532036
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBest known for their ritual use of peyote, the Huichol people of west-central Mexico carried much of their original belief system into the twentieth century unadulterated by the influence of Christian missionaries. Among the Huichol, reciting myths and performing rituals pleases the ancestors and helps maintain a world in which abundant subsistence and good health are assured. This volume is a collection of myths recorded by Robert Zingg in 1934 in the village of Tuxpan and is the most comprehensive record of Huichol mythology ever published. Zingg was the first professional anthropologist to study the Huichol, and his generosity toward them and political advocacy on their behalf allowed him to overcome tribal sanctions against divulging secrets to outsiders. He is fondly remembered today by some Huichols who were children when he lived among them. Zingg recognized that the alternation between dry and wet seasons pervades Huichol myth and ritual as it does their subsistence activities, and his arrangement of the texts sheds much light on Huichol tradition. The volume contains both aboriginal myths that attest to the abiding Huichol obligation to serve ancestors who control nature and its processes, and Christian-inspired myths that document the traumatic effect that silver mining and Franciscan missions had on Huichol society. First published in 1998 in a Spanish-language edition, Huichol Mythology is presented here for the first time in English, with more than 40 original photographs by Zingg accompanying the text. For this volume, the editors provide a meticulous historical account of Huichol society from about 200 A.D. through the colonial era, enabling readers to fully grasp the significance of the myths free of the sensationalized interpretations found in popular accounts of the Huichol. Zingg’s compilation is a landmark work, indispensable to the study of mythology, Mexican Indians, and comparative religion.
Unknown Mexico
Author: Carl Lumholtz
Publisher:
Published: 1902
Total Pages: 590
ISBN-13:
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Author: James Endredy
Publisher: Bear Cub Books
Published: 2003-10-31
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9781591430162
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA contemporary adaptation of an indigenous Huichol teaching tale, illustrated with traditional yarn drawings by Huichol artisans • Shares the hidden treasures of a nature-based indigenous culture • A teaching tool for multicultural studies for children ages 6 to 9 • Explains who the Huichol people are and the symbolism of the images used by the artists The Huichol Indians live in the remote regions of the Sierra Madre Mountains of western Mexico, where geographic isolation has allowed them to retain their culture and spiritual traditions in the face of colonization. Their nature-based way of life makes no distinction between the sacred and the secular, and they express their reverence for the powers of the earth by regarding all elements in nature as family. The Journey of Tunuri and the Blue Deer is a modern adaptation of a traditional Huichol story depicting a young child finding his (or her) personal task in life by connecting with the powers of nature. The story is told through the experiences of young Tunuri, who becomes lost in the woods. He meets the magical Blue Deer--a messenger between the worlds of mortals and deities--who introduces Tunuri to Father Sun, Mother Earth, and others in the natural world, while leading him back to his human family. Through this lovely tale and the vivid illustrations done in the medium of traditional Huichol yarn drawings, children can learn about their place in the sacred web of life.
Unknown Huichol
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.
The White Shaman Mural
Author: Carolyn E. Boyd
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2016-11-29
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 1477310304
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFolded plate (1 leaf, 39 x 61 cm, folded to 19 x 16 cm) in pocket.
