Note 55 — THE ETHNOLOGY OF PEYOTISM
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Sahagún, Historia general, 3:241 (Chichimeca); Prieto, Historia y Estadistica, 119-20, cites a Maratine Indian (Tamaulipecan) peyote song referring to war. Arlegui, in Urbina, El Peyote y el Ololiuhqui, 26; see also Rouhier, op. cit., 12, note 3, 96, 331, note 3; Alegre, in Urbina, op. cit., 26; Preuss, Die Nayarit-Expedition, 39. The Morning Star is the principal Cora god (Lumholtz, Unknown Mexico, 1:511, see also Handbook of the American Indians, 1:348a). Elder Brother among the Huichol is the god of wind and hikuli (Lumholtz, Symbolism of the Huichol, 42). The Tarahumari dance yumari for the Morning Star (Lumholtz, Unknown Mexico, 1:344). In the Plains the drum-lacing signifies the Morning Star. Spier (Yuman Tribes, 165) writes: “[The battle leader’s] song first described the morning star, ‘big star,’ which in some unidentified way is connected with war. Just what was his function in battle was not ascertained.” He also dreamed he saw cacti fighting like men.