66. 
67. 
69. 
70. 
guage, when confessing their penitents, whether these persist in using the Sacred 
Mushrooms. R.G.W. 
Nahuatl poem. “Dolor en la Amistad.” (c. 1600) Anonymous. Translated 
by Angel Maria Garibay. No 37 in Xochimapictli, coleccién de Poemas 
nahuas. Mexico City, 1959. 
One of the poems in this Nahuatl anthology mentions expressly the Sacred Mush- 
rooms. Others in the same collection use xochi, “flowers”, in a sense that suggests it 
was a metaphor used for the mushrooms. This possibility is reenforced by Molina’s 
lexicon, where xochinanacatl is translated by honguillos que embeodan, “little mush - 
rooms that inebriate’’. R.G.w. 
Otomi lexicon. 1640 Ms., copied from r6th-century ms. now lost. See en- 
tries under hongo que emborracha and hongos que enbelezan. Biblioteca Nacional 
de México. 
This lexicon places the use of the Sacred Mushrooms among the Otomi Indians. 
R.G.W. 
. Pérez DE ZAMORA Asarca, Pepro. “Relacidn de Teticpac.” (1580) Papeles 
de Nueva Espafia, Geografia y Estadistica. Madrid: Franscisco del Paso y 
Troncoso, 1905. VoLIV, p rt. 
This report places the use of the Sacred Mushrooms in the Valley of Oaxaca, 
among the Zapotecs. R.G.W. 
Porot Vun. Anonymous Quiché Text. English version translated by Delia 
Goetz and Sylvanus Griswold Morley. Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma 
Press, 1950. See p 192, reference to mushrooms. 
The context is enigmatic, but at least the mushroom citation occurs in a passage 
that unmistakably relates it to a religious use. R.G.W. 
SAHAGUN, BERNARDINO DE. 
(1) Historia General de las Cosas de Nueva Espaiia. (16th century) 
(a) Bk IX, Chap viii; Flor Codex, fol 3 1r-31Vv. 
(b) Bk X, Chap xxix, Sec 2; Flor Codex, fol 122v. 
(c) Bk XI, Chap vii, Sec 1, par 70 in Nahuatl text; Flor Codex, fol 
129QV-130r. 
(d) Bk XI, Chap vii, Sec 1, par 74; Flor Codex, fol 130v-1318. 
(c) Flor Codex, illus 516, in Paso y Troncoso; also in Entry 1, 
fig 14, p 234; and in Entry 2, fig 1, p 32. 
(2) Paralip6menos de Sahagtin, translated by Angel Maria Garibay. 
Published in Tlalocan, Vol I, No 3, 1947, pp 239, 247. 
(3) Schultze-Jena, Leonard. Gliederung des altaztekischen Volks in 
Familie, Stand, und Beruf. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1952. pp 
26-27, 36-37, 58-59, 242-243, 243-244. 
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