Zapotec, Mixtec and Mazatec women, Mexico, by Thomas Aleto

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Zapotec, Mixtec and Mazatec women, Mexico, by Thomas Aleto
Mescaline vision art
...Veladas. Curandera, Maria Sabina. 🍄
...Mushroom Ceremony of the Mazatec Indians of Mexico.
Coleus blumei was used by the Maztec indians in the same fashion of Salvia divinorum. It's phytochemistry is unique and does not contain the
#Tatamandona #RedIPA, found this one in a #Mezcal shop in the center of #Oaxaca #City. In memory of #MariaSabina the healer of the #MagicMushrooms #Mazatec who lived in the Sierra Mazateca of southern Mexico. Her practice was based on the use of psilocybin mushrooms. #Psilocybe #mexicana #cervezaMexicana #cervezaartesanal #Beerart (at Oaxaca City) https://www.instagram.com/p/BsWIDxWgHAv/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1114f6av4srx
Lost this book over 2 yeas ago and found it right before my trip to the west coast. Starting from the beginning because why not. Sometimes we have to start from the beginning, I guess I seem to do that a lot. ;) Gordon Wasson was a banker(maybe CIA backed even, the theories are more complex then this book will tell) & honestly I care less about his vision and history but more about what Carl A P Ruck have to say and Hoffman too. Wasson opened the flood gates for white people to pounce down into Mexico and steal(appropriate) and reduce sacred, religious ceremony of the Mazatec people's to a mere trip. White people have a thing of 'ruining' sacred plants and medicine and profiting of them. Tobacco anyone? Ok, but in all honestly ethnomycology in all it forms is rad. Because we aren't taught anything about mushrooms in general, and coming to a realization that we have such a deep history of use with them for food, medicine and ceremony only makes my love and passion for them stronger. Because it's in our DNA and we share this with EVERYONE. Across continents and cultures. It's beautiful. Thank you Fungi for connecting us #smugtownmushrooms #mushrooms #mycology #fungi #psilocybe #amanitamuscaria #sacredmushroomandthecross #radicalmycology #thedearlittlethingsthatleapforth #ergot #eleusina #eleusis #eleusianmysteries #mazatec #carlruck #rgordonwasson #alberthoffman
Huipil are traditional clothing worn by indigenous women in Oaxaca. This traditional garb eventually became a symbol of Mazatec society in the 1960s, following Wasson’s publication on Magic Mushrooms in the Life magazine. An image of Maria Sabina wearing a huipil, a local Shaman from a Mazatec community, was published against her wishes and made her recognizable to outsiders despite Wasson’s attempt to anonymize her.