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Mazatec

Indigenous People of Mexico

Field	Value
group	MazatecHa Shuta Enima
image	[[Image:Huautla de Jimenez.jpg	249px]]
caption	Mazatec girls performing a dance in Huautla de Jimenez
population	~305,836
popplace	Mexico (Oaxaca)
rels	Roman Catholic, and Traditional religion
langs	Mazatec, Spanish
related	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.

Some researchers have theorized that the Mazatec, along with Popoloca speakers, once inhabited the lowlands of the Papaloapan basin, but were driven into the adjacent highlands by the expansion of Nahuas.

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. This latter plant is known to Mazatec shamans as ska María Pastora, the name containing a reference to the Virgin Mary.

Notable Mazatecs

María Sabina
Julieta Casimiro

Notes

References

Wauchope, R. (2015). Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volumes 7 and 8: Ethnology. United States: University of Texas Press. pg 325
[[Jean Basset Johnson]] (1939) The elements of Mazatec witchcraft, Etnologiska Studier 9:128-150.
Valdés ''et al.'' (1983)
Osiris Sinuhé González Romero. (2022-02-10). "Mazatec Shamanic Knowledge and Psilocybin Mushrooms".

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