Title: Rock crystals & peyote dreams : explorations in the Huichol universe /
Authors: Furst, Peter T.
Publisher: University of Utah Press,
Year: 2006
Subjects: Huichol Indians Social life and customs.; Huichol Indians Religion; Huichol mythology.; Mexico Social life and customs.
Contents: Introduction -- "How one goes being Huichol" -- The chasm between the worlds -- "Hunting the deer peyote to find our life" -- Kiéri and the solanaceae : nature and culture in Huichol myth and ritual -- The magical birth, life, and make-believe death of Kiéri the sorcerer -- Who are the Huichols, anyway? -- Huichol traditions of the soul -- How the world was destroyed by water and Dog woman gave birth to a new human race -- The half-bad Káuyumari : a Huichol version of the pan-Native American trickster-culture hero -- Child saint into child shaman, Cathedra into 'Uwéni : how the Huichols adapted and transformed some Catholic icons into their own -- Afterword.