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Huichol
This nOde last updated May 11th, 2004 and is permanently morphing...
(4 Ix (Jaguar) / 17 Uo - 134/260 - 12.19.11.4.14)

A Shamanic people from Mexico.

"In Huichol, the term "nierika" refers to a portway between so-called ordinary and non-ordinary realities.  It is a passage way and at the same time a barrier between two worlds.  Nierika, a decorated ceremonial disk, is also said to mean mirror as well as the face of the deity"  - Hofman & Schultes

• 604 track _Be Nice_ MP3 by Huichol off of _Gaia 8_ compilation
• portrayed inaccurately in the film _Altered States_ (vhs/pal/ntsc)(1980)
  • they don't wear dreads, and they take peyote as a sacrament, not mushrooms.
• portayed in the film _Peyote Road_ (vhs/ntsc)

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