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The Peyote Cult
Language: en
Pages: 328
Authors: Weston La Barre
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 1975 - Publisher:

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"This is the classical study of the background of the Mexican and American Indian ritual based on the plant that produces profound but temporary sensory and psy
Peyote Religion
Language: en
Pages: 476
Authors: Omer Call Stewart
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 1987 - Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

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Describes the peyote plant, the birth of peyotism in western Oklahoma, its spread from Indian Territory to Mexico, the High Plains, and the Far West, its role a
The Peyote Cult
Language: en
Pages: 76
Authors: Paul Radin
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-08-20 - Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub

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Peyote has never been a drug for thrill seekers. The small, hard cactus is difficult to obtain. It tastes vile, ingestion normally leads to painful vomiting, an
The Peyote Cult
Language: en
Pages: 188
Authors: Weston La Barre
Categories: Indian mythology
Type: BOOK - Published: 1938 - Publisher: New Haven : Published for the Section of Anthropology, Department of the Social Sciences, Yale University, by the Yale University Press ; London : Oxford University Press

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The Peyote Road
Language: en
Pages: 296
Authors: Thomas C. Maroukis
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-11-08 - Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

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Despite challenges by the federal government to restrict the use of peyote, the Native American Church, which uses the hallucinogenic cactus as a religious sacr