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Some people have certain visionary abilities and a limited ability to heal; however, even these people must complete themselves through a prescribed period of commitment before they are considered ready to be mara’akate. The ultimate test seems to be the consistent ability to control what is seen, to use the powers at will, and to show results when called on to heal or act. A shaman who has success in curing develops a reputation, and people seek out him or her. Respected shamans are often called upon to sing at ceremonies.
1 Years later, Eligio and I were driving through the green fields of sugarcane outside Tepic. Ahead of us loomed the extinct volcano called Sanganguey, or Cerro de Abeja—the Hill of the Bee. The lava core jutted out of the surrounding green slopes like the stinger of a giant bee. I asked Eligio whether the Huichol knew any stories about the mountain. “The earth is alive,” he began. “It is a living person. We call that person Nakawe. The volcanoes are her breath. ” ···· 25 26 ❖ the shaman’s mirror Let us look for a moment at how the world works from a Huichol point of view.
The Huichol are part of a wide band of Uto-Aztecan language speakers that extends from southern Idaho through the southwestern United States along the western Sierra Madre and the Pacific Coast to the Valley of Mexico, with isolated groups as far south as Costa Rica and Panama (Hill 2001, 913). The Huichol’s closest linguistic relatives are the neighboring Cora, followed by the Nahua (and formerly the Aztecs) of central Mexico (Grimes and Hinton 1969, 795; Hill 2001, 930). The geographic origins of the Huichol are bound up in the larger question of the origin of Uto-Aztecans generally.