Mazatec

The Mazatec are an indigenous people of Mexico who inhabit the Sierra Mazateca in the state of Oaxaca and some communities in the adjacent states of Puebla and Veracruz.
Language family.
The Mazatecan languages are part of the Popolocan family which, in turn, is part of the Otomanguean language family.
Post-colonial period.
The Mazatecs' religion represents a syncretism of traditional beliefs with Christian beliefs brought by the Spanish conquistadors.
Traditional religious rituals.
Mazatec tradition includes the cultivation of entheogens for spiritual and ritualistic use. Plants and fungi used for this purpose include psilocybin mushrooms, psychoactive morning glory seeds (from species such as "Ipomoea tricolor" and "Turbina corymbosa"), and perhaps most significant to the Mazatecs, "Salvia divinorum". This latter plant is known to Mazatec shamans as "ska María Pastora", the name containing a reference to the Virgin Mary.