Abstract

GONZALEZ CHEVEZ, Lilián. Hueytlacatzintli: Enteógeno sagrado entre los nahuas de Guerrero. Cuicuilco [online]. 2012, vol.19, n.53, pp.301-324. ISSN 0185-1659.

An aspect that has been barely described until today in the Nahua culture of Guerrero, Mexico, is the use of powerful entheogens. Nowadays, Nahua healers of the northern and central area of the state maintain in secrecy the vital reference of their therapeutic activity: the entheogens. This work is centered in one of these resources: Hueytlacatzintli (Solandra guerrerensis) whose current function is to determine, under the guide of a ritual healer, who produces a witchcraft, what resources are involved in it, which are the noxious effects of the sorcerer's activity and how to liberate the victim; it is also used to locate lost objects, to request for its client a certain personal attribute, and to begin working as a faith-ritual healer or sorcerer. In fact, it is stated that by means of the ingestion of this entheogenic plant in a therapeutic process context, the patient is introduced to deity by the plant, that incites him/ her to be a devoted faith-ritual healer or sorcerer. In accepting the proposal, he/she will receive from the animic entity of the plant, by means of the allucinatory ecstasy, his diagnostic and therapeutic tools, his auxiliary spirits, the requests and prayers that will accompany him/her, and the ritual paraphernalia.

Keywords : entheogens; Guerrero; nahuas; Hueytlacatl; Solandra guerrerensis.