Mazatec
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The Mazatec are an indigenous people who inhabit an area of the state of Oaxaca in southern Mexico, close to the border with Puebla and Veracruz.
The Mazatecan languages are part of the Popolocan family which, in turn, is part of the Otomanguean language family.
The Mazatecs' religion is a synthesis of both traditional beliefs and Christian beliefs brought by the Spanish conquistadors.
Mazatec tradition includes the cultivation of entheogens for spiritual and ritualistic use. Plants used for this purpose include morning glory seeds, psilocybe mushrooms, and notably Salvia divinorum or "Diviners' sage", a species of the Salvia (sage) genus with psychoactive properties.<ref>Valdés et al. (1983)</ref> This latter plant is known to Mazatec shamans as ska María Pastora, the name containing a reference to the Virgin Mary.<ref>Valdés et al. (1983)</ref>
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