Revista Alteridades
Revista Alteridades
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Jaguar y chamán entre los mayashot!
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María del Carmen Valverde Valdés. Jaguar and Shaman among Mayans.
The jaguar is an animal that ever since Pre-hispanic times, has been associated to shamanic practices in Mesoamerica. In several Mayan areas, there are plastic representations from classical ages which show the ones who certainly were shamans carrying feline attributes. The author points out following testimonies of the moment of contact- that, one of the qualities of these characters was the ability to transform themselves into a jaguar. This article also analyses the different felid qualities that shamans obtain when they reach altered states of consciousness, comparing them with other points in Mesoamerica.
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El nahualismo y los tapahtiani-nahualmej de Cuetzalan, Sierra Norte de Pueblahot!
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Jorge César Vélez Cervantes. Nahualism and Tapahtiani-Nahualmej people from Cuetzalan, Puebla.
This article deals with a very accurate ethnographical description of several kinds of healers from the north mountains of Puebla. On one side, we find the “Tapahtiani” “the one who knows how to cure”; on the other side the “nahualmej” who presents a nahual nature with the possibility of transforming itself into an animal while asleep. Not all “tapahtiani” is a nahual nor all “nahualmej” is “tapahtiani”, the author points out. However, in some cases the “nahualmej” are required as “tapahtiani” in order to cure illnesses considered as “evil”, caused by harmful entities, airs or by “masakame”, a type of witch.
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La conciencia enteogénicahot!
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Cristián Vergara Oliva. Enteogenic consciousness.
The purpose of this article is to reflect upon a particular expression regarding the indigenous cosmovision centered on the mazateco shamanism, its relationship with the enteogenic and increased consciousness. In first place, the enteogeno notion is examined as well as the sense of the entomicological investigations and the historical sources for the study of the holy mushrooms in Mesoamerica, Then, The essential aspects of the shamanic phenomenon are described and the relationship between ecstasy and levels of increased consciousness is established.
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Tradiciones de chamanismo en la Mazateca Bajahot!
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Juan Pérez Quijada. Shamanism traditions on the low Mazateca area.
The Mazateca geography is full of places where spaces are opened for the cohabitation of ‘“enima”, different kinds of beings, specially the “chiconindú”, owners of places. The entrance to this world of reality might be unintentional and in certain cases, led by the consumption of “sito” a holy mushroom, which opens the doors to the spaces of consciousness where the mentioned beings appear. The meeting with the “chicones” is not always advantageous, it might produce serious troubles which need the participation of the “sinahé”, healers with shamanic features who can rescue the lost soul.
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