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Status of Ololiuhqui in Mexico
Notes on the
Present Status of
Ololiuhqui and the
Other Hallucinogens
of Mexico
R. GORDON WASSON
from Botanical Museum Leaflets, Harvard University,
Vol. 20, No. 6, Nov. 22, 1963, pp. 161-212.
Picietl | Peyotl | Teonanacatl
Pipiltzintzintli | Ololiuhqui | Tlitliltzen
Picietl, peyotl, teonanactl, and ololuihqui- these were the four great divinatory plants of
Mexico at the time of the Conquest. We give the names in Nahuatl, the lingua franca of that time, spoken
as a mother tongue by the Aztecs and many other peoples. By 'divinatory' we mean plants that served in
Middle American cultures as keys to knowledge withheld from men in their normal minds, the keys to
Extra-sensory Perception, the Mediators (as the Indians believed) between men and their gods. These
plants were hallucinogens, psychotropic agents, psychotomimetics, if we must use the only words of
contemporary science.
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