Best known for their ritual use of peyote, the Huichol people of west-central Mexico carried much of their original belief system into the twentieth century una

"Ramón Medina Silva, a Huichol Indian shaman priest or mara'akame, instructed me in many of his culture's myths, rituals, and symbols, particularly those perta

The first substantial study of a Mexican Indian society that more than any other has preserved much of its ancient way of life and religion.

Alphabetically listed entries identify and explain the characters, events, important places, and other aspects of South American and Meso-American mythology.

The Huichol (Wixarika) people claim a vast expanse of Mexico’s western Sierra Madre and northern highlands as a territory called kiekari, which includes parts