Editing Mazatec

{{Short description|Indigenous People of Mexico}}
{{for|the languages|Mazatecan languages}}
{{Infobox ethnic group|
|group=Mazatec<BR>'''''Ha 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=[[Mazatecan languages|Mazatec]], [[Spanish language|Spanish]]
|related=[[Popolocan languages|Popoloca]]s
}}
The '''Mazatec''' are an [[Indigenous people of Mexico]] who inhabit the [[Sierra Mazateca]] in the state of [[Oaxaca (state)|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 River|Papaloapan basin]], but were driven into the adjacent highlands by the expansion of [[Nahuas]].<ref>Wauchope, R. (2015). Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volumes 7 and 8: Ethnology. United States: University of Texas Press. pg 325</ref>

==Language family==
The [[Mazatecan languages]] are part of the [[Popolocan languages|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 mushroom]]s, psychoactive [[morning glory]] seeds (from species such as ''[[Ipomoea tricolor]]'' and ''[[Ipomoea corymbosa]]''), and ''[[Salvia divinorum]]''.<ref>[[Jean Basset Johnson]] (1939) The elements of Mazatec witchcraft, Etnologiska Studier 9:128-150.</ref><ref name="auto">Valdés ''et al.'' (1983)</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Osiris Sinuhé González Romero |date=2022-02-10 |title=Mazatec Shamanic Knowledge and Psilocybin Mushrooms |url=https://chacruna.net/mazatec-shamanism-and-psilocybin-mushrooms/ |access-date=2022-04-15 |website=Chacruna |language=en-US}}</ref> This latter plant is known to [[Mazatec shamans]] as ''ska María Pastora'', the name containing a reference to the [[Blessed Virgin Mary|Virgin Mary]].<ref name="auto"/>

==Notable Mazatecs==
*[[María Sabina]]
*[[Julieta Casimiro]]

== See also ==
{{Portal|Indigenous peoples of the Americas}}
* [[Indigenous peoples in Mexico]]
* [[Mixtec]]

== Notes ==
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== References ==
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* {{cite book |author=Campbell, Lyle |author-link=Lyle Campbell |year=1997 |title=American Indian Languages: The Historical Linguistics of Native America |edition=OUP paperback edition, 2000|series=Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics, 4 |others=[[William Bright]] (series general ed.)|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|location=New York |isbn=978-0-19-509427-5 |oclc=32923907}}
* {{cite web|author=CDI [Comisión Nacional para el Desarrollo de los Pueblos Indígenas] |author-link=Comisión Nacional para el Desarrollo de los Pueblos Indígenas |year=2004–2007 |title=Mazatecos - Ha shuta Enima |url=http://cdi.gob.mx/index.php?id_seccion=305 |work=Información: Los pueblos indígenas de México |publisher=CDI |access-date=2007-05-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070609231402/http://cdi.gob.mx/index.php?id_seccion=305 |archive-date=2007-06-09 |language=es |url-status=dead }}
* {{cite book |author=Karttunen, Frances E. |author-link=Frances Karttunen |year=1994 |title=Between Worlds: Interpreters, Guides, and Survivors |location=New Brunswick, NJ |publisher=[[Rutgers University Press]] |isbn=978-0-8135-2030-8 |oclc=28150669 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/betweenworldsint00kartrich }}
* {{cite encyclopedia |author=Mooney, James|year=1911 |title=Mazatec Indians |encyclopedia=[[Catholic Encyclopedia]] |url=http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10093a.htm  |edition=New Advent online reproduction |volume=X |location=New York |publisher=Robert Appleton and Company |access-date=2007-05-02}}
* {{cite journal |author=Valdés, Leander J., III |author2=José Luis Díaz |author3=Ara G. Paul |year=1983 |title=Ethnopharmacology of ''ska María Pastora'' (''Salvia divinorum'', Epling and Játiva-M)|journal=Journal of Ethnopharmacology|volume=7|issue=3|pages=287&ndash;312|doi=10.1016/0378-8741(83)90004-1 |pmid=6876852|hdl=2027.42/25229 |hdl-access=free}}
 
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==External links==
*[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10093a.htm Article from the Catholic Encyclopedia]

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