The Peyote Cult
by Weston La Barre
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About this eBook
- Author
- La Barre, Weston, 1911-1996
- Title
- The peyote cult
- Original Publication
- Hamden, CT: The Shoe String Press, 1959.
- Credits
- Tim Lindell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- E011: History: America: America
- Subject
- Peyotism
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 77791
- Release Date
- January 26, 2026
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Untitled
- 2.PREFACE — Note to the Reprint Edition
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.ILLUSTRATIONS
- 5.THE PEYOTE CULT — INTRODUCTION — FOOTNOTES:
- 6.BOTANICAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF PEYOTE — BOTANY — ETHNOBOTANY — Names for Peyote — Etymology of Peyote — Identification of Peyote — PHYSIOLOGY OF PEYOTE INTOXICATION — FOOTNOTES:
- 7.THE ETHNOLOGY OF PEYOTISM — NON-RITUAL USES OF PEYOTE — RITUAL USES OF PEYOTE — Huichol — Tarahumari — Comparison of Mexican Peyote Rituals — Mescalero Apache and Transitional Forms of Ritual — Kiowa-Comanche Type Rite — Comparison of Mexican, Transitional, and Plains Peyotism — FOOTNOTES:
- 8.COMPARATIVE STUDY OF PLAINS PEYOTISM — FOOTNOTES:
- 9.PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF PEYOTISM — FOOTNOTES:
- 10.HISTORICAL INTERPRETATIONS — THE PRE-PEYOTE MESCAL BEAN CULT — HISTORY OF THE DIFFUSION OF PEYOTISM — FOOTNOTES:
- 11.APPENDIX 1: PEYOTE IN MEXICO — FOOTNOTES:
- 12.APPENDIX 2: PEYOTE AND THE MESCAL BEAN — FOOTNOTES:
- 13.APPENDIX 3: PEYOTE AND TEO-NANACATL — FOOTNOTES:
- 14.APPENDIX 4: “PLANT WORSHIP” IN MEXICO AND THE UNITED STATES — CACTI — NON-CACTI — FOOTNOTES:
- 15.APPENDIX 5: CHEMISTRY OF PEYOTE — FOOTNOTES:
- 16.APPENDIX 6: PHYSIOLOGY OF PEYOTE — ACTION OF THE INDIVIDUAL ALKALOIDS OF LOPHOPHORA WILLIAMSII — ACTION OF PAN-PEYOTL — PEYOTE AS APHRODISIAC AND ANAPHRODISIAC — THERAPEUTIC USES OF PEYOTE — USES IN PSYCHIATRY — PEYOTE AS A DRUG — FOOTNOTES:
- 17.APPENDIX 7: JOHN WILSON, THE REVEALER OF PEYOTE — FOOTNOTES:
- 18.APPENDIX 8: CHRISTIAN ELEMENTS IN THE PEYOTE CULT — FOOTNOTES:
- 19.APPENDIX 9: THE NATIVE AMERICAN CHURCH AND OTHER PEYOTE CHURCHES — FOOTNOTES:
- 20.BIBLIOGRAPHY
- 21.EXPLANATION OF PLATES — PLATES
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