Note 93 — THE ETHNOLOGY OF PEYOTISM
Reading edition
The basic rite is practically free from Christian symbolism. Some call the sage under the fetish a “cross”; some leaders make a cross under the water-bucket or in the water with feathers at midnight. Mooney wrote that “many of the mescal eaters wear crucifixes ... the cross representing the cross of scented leaves ... while Christ is the mescal goddess.” But all crosses are not necessarily Christian. See Appendix 8.