The Shaman Meets The Poet: María Sabina And The Curative Powers Of Language
January 1, 2009 Viviana Díaz Balsera 1 citation
Maria Sabina embodies a Mesoamerican tradition of preserving pre-Hispanic sacred practices while observing the dominant Christian pantheon. Historians and cultural anthropologists believe pre-Hispanic healers and sorcerers may have also acted as official priests. Hallucinogen use may have occurred in private, elitist religious feasts where the Cantares mexicanos were produced. Spanish colonization deeply intervened in Mesoamerican sacred constructs with Catholic Christianity.