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maria sabina - mushroom ceremony of the mazatec indians of mexico - death is not the end - vinyl

New Copy

Genre: World - Misc

1. Chjon Nka
2. Chjon Nca Catain
3. Santo...Nana
4. Papa Papai
5. Na? Ai-Ni Tso
6. Ji ñai na
7. Jan Jesu Cri
8. Ji ñai
9. San Pedro
10. Soso Soso
11. Name of Plants
12. Pedro Martinez
13. Don't Be Concerned, Old One
14. Birds
15. Humming, etc
16. Soft Singing
17. Finale

Death Is Not The End reissues Mushroom Ceremony of the Mazatec Indians of Mexico. LP edition limited to 300 copies only.

Recorded on the night of July 21/22, 1956 by V.P. & R. Gordon Wasson, these are rough and ready field recordings featuring the voice of Maria Sabina (1894-1985) a Mexican curandera who would perform healing vigils known as veladas in Huautla de Jimenez, Oaxaca where all participants would ingest psilocybin mushrooms (Maria's "holy children"), as a sacrament to open the gates of the mind and communicate with the sacred.