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Newsgroups: alt.psychoactives
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> Does anyone know anything about S. divinorum?
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> (Mexican Mint)
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> I know that the Mazatecs used it for medicinal purposes,
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> but i havent been able to find out what kind of stuff
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> that they did with them.
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> I also have had a hard time digging up any articles on it,
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> i've found one that cites a couple others, but thats about it.
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I'll do my best. Hope you don't already have this information. Before
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me, I have a copy of _The Psychedelic Reader_ (selections from _The
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Psychedelic Review_), Edited by Gunther M. Weil, Ralph Metzner, and
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Timothy Leary (University Books. New Hyde Park, New York - available
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via your local interlibrary loan; mine's from Johns Hopkins):
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"All of these attributes fit the _hojas de la Pastora_ that the Mazatecs
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generally use as a divinatory plant. In September 1962 we gathered
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specimens of the _hojas de la Patora_, and they were found to be a
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species new to science: Epling and Jativa named it _Salvia divinorum_.
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Among the Mazatecs I have seen only the leaves ground on the _metate_,
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strained, and made into an infusion. The colonial records speak of an
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infusion made from the roots, stems and flowers. But this is not
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incompatible with our information about _Salvia divinorum_: the Mazatecs
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may confine themselves to the leaves of a plant that has the divine
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virtue in all its parts. I suggest that tentatively we consider
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_pipiltzintzintli_, the divine plant of pre-Conquest Mexico, identical
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with the _Salvia divinorum_ now invoked in their religious supplications
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by the Mazatecs." (170)
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"And here we revert to the miraculous plant that we think is the _Salvia
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divinorum_, called (as we believe) in Nahuatl _pipiltzintzintli_, in the
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records of the Inquisition dating from 1700. This is obviously related
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to the name for the sacred mushrooms used by Marina Rosas. Dr. Aguirre
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Beltran translates it as 'the most noble Prince' and relates it to
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_Piltzintli_, the young god of the tender corn. In the accounts of the
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visions that the Indians see after they consume the sacred food -
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whether seeds or mushrooms or plant - there frequently figure
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_hombrecitos_, 'little men,' _mujercitas_, 'little women,' _duendes_,
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'supernatural dwarfs.' Beginning with our maiden at her _metate_, here
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is a fascinating complex of associations that calls for further sutyd
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and elaboration. For example, are these Noble Children related
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perchance to the Holy Child of Atocha, which gained an astonishing place
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in the hearts of the Indians of Middle America? Did they seize on this
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Catholic image and make it a charismatic icon because it expressed for
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them, in the new Christian religion, a theme that was already familiar
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to them in their own supernatural beliefs?" (182)
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