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The peyote cult

Note 27 — THE ETHNOLOGY OF PEYOTISM

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The trip is made after the rainy season and the corn harvest (Lumholtz, Unknown Mexico, 2:127); the roasting of corn is of equal ritual importance with the hikuli-harvest and the deer-hunt: the three, indeed, deer, corn and peyote are symbolically the same (Lumholtz op. cit., 2:156, 279).

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