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47 amazing blend of paganism
and Christianity, centering its
rites around the peyote cactus,
has spread among the Indians
till it now has a firm foothold
in more than forty tribes
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tfinvriy tom Ha Dtlawtc."
ttJ ,M. P!niIV. "EiKt art
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All lkvt f'rmt of K p'jroila re
lfl trt ttrtna muluiet, con-
Fifit, (Ur art iJat from l)a
(,H prjr'Ai cull, which wit orliii
ntlly a Ut r'liiMjt trimwny of
ll Airr.t and toma oihw Mrxi
r.tn trJt.
7U, xlti lira Uln Unm lha old religion
of tha Iri'Jitn't own inha.
AwJ Uilly, trma of tha thought and lym
U,jm of Oiriititnily ara LUndfd in.
Chrittitnity, it dml'ipt, ii not much mora
thin a iiionir. in ll miilura. It if conipic '
uout, Imt lurrfirial, Mr. IVtrullo finda. For
tm(iU, a efuofi it placed by tha pyota
liar a ftttura of courtfty to lh white min'i
church.
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Ctthniu: Ciiurju a .V-rju aiut a amnbr
.V&wim are loiaiM
l&ur aryvir cimrri biiiana. iiwnn,
iuf iti urir sua' vitCAtt frir "fl
tur ami ar rile f.irtian W 'na
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it7 t.Vnhf twrjta a 2jry i M
AnvruA Guvi a (or ani nra
Ta Vx. Pnriux Ltoaa rijtKBi
t & t7: "Tin cwauMrr a far ifca t-
r.vaaa .- Ka (itudrca.
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wrSifr Laea eaat a cXud waa lra.
Tary aaawd FLa Jta. Tar wtaca kVd
Ktt r! M vat ty Cod e Fi&n la Ua
circ Ha cejld.-ta.
"Tt "r Jwa diartad frcn tkia arctld. H
Inrk r? aj la rdi aor Father. TX'ri
aach torp tSual He VrJk He left wort wxh
Ear's oar Mother la u care ef her tij
firen acd Cod' that it. lha IadUa people.
The L-tt ap la reach ear Ftiei pryte.
the r-'xA it Ire. the third it water, tha foorth
it tlcqdt avf raia, the tha ayxjo, nath
lha ana. aad Utt ear Father."
Aarher India iheol-aa explaira cara
fiXy: "Cod pola power ia peyote. Yea tail
to the pTot aad eat it- It doe act help yoq
la (O I" hearea. It doea am put gaodneat bto
yoa. Coodneat it ia yoo. Cod pot it there.
Yea pray la Cod la be healthy."
Whetrxr peyote it the good teacher that fti
Indian ditciplet claim, or whether it it an in
idiout inUxKint with Lad iefluence on tha
Indian, it omethief tl white nun hat nerer
rttled.
IAELV.
J-'and
iF.LVE mto the literaiura on the tubject.
yoa ind it vrrthing with rtrong itata-
avnU and violent contradiction. Plenty bat
been written about peyote, but il ttill remain
for trientihe inreitijatiotH to produce enough
real factl to Mttle llie argumenu.
Objection to the Indian't ate of peyote be
gan almott at toon at tlie Spaniard! landed in
Meiico and art out to convert the aborigine!
to Christianity. Spanith prietta toon ctme up
on a unall but vital cult among the Aztec.
Thete Alect got religiout inipiration from
a pltnl they called tha "fleth of Cod." They
drank iu juicet and drifted off into intoxication
luting toRKtimet two dayt, the Spaniard! re
ported. In an ecttatic itate, torn of the Indian!
danced and ting. Other! lal rtolidly alone
and taw vitioni which they later deicribed to
the otlieri. Some were intpired to prophtiy
about wan or the weather.
Horrified by thete fuperititioua ritei, the
SpanMi mitiionariei pronounced peyote-eating
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Itt'a anirril pufcahed for ate ef Baajaeariea
in Trua m 1 760 auy be read these emttuaa
for the con.'enioeal:
"Hat ccoodo carae de gr3te?" (Hatt tao
eaiea tbe 2eih ef ms)
"Hat comado el peyste)" (Hut thoa eaten
the peye)
TlUT horrXrd aa the Spaaiab fa&era were,
- the peyoie nte of Mexico got littie
notice tor a long rime. The peyote cactus waa
not known far beyond ill beme grounda. alaeg
the Rio Crude River in Mexico and what it
now Texat.
Not bsuI about IS 50 did the old Mexican
peyote ritet begin to forge their powerful Ink
with Christianity and to tpread to diatant tribe.
The Native American Church got rU date
charier in Oklahacaa in 1918.
Ten yean ago. Dr. Paul Radin ttudied the
peyote tocietie of the Winnebago Indian ol
U'itcomia and exprnied tha view thai the cuk
wat waning. Now, Mr. Petrullo nodi il flour
iihing. growing. Some tribe are even culti
vating the small tpinelcM cacrui. the peyote.
Etfortt of mitiionarie and other to itamp
out peyote have met with little lucceu.
The Office of Indian Affair once gathered
an array of opinion from it doctor and iu
perintendent at the Indian reservation. A
typical verdict, from an Oklahoma agency phy
sician, laid:
"The effect on those who attend the peyote
feast! it thai of general depression followed by
idleness and laziness."
On the opposite side of the ledger are such
reports a that of the French pharmacist, Alex
ander Rouhier. He hat written 350-page
work on peyote, which arrives at the conclu
sion that the cactus is weakly poisonous, only
when Uken in large dose. He also disagree
with those who have called it habit-forming.
Mr. Petrullo, from hi investigation among
he Indians, believe that the harmful effects
of the peyote cactus have been itrested without
real proof that the plant wai harmful.