of the senses’ in divination. The divinatory use of this 
composite in an infusion and by smoking was discovered 
a few years ago and revealed by Thomas MacDougall 
in the Garden Journal of the New York Botanical 
Garden, July-August 1968 issue. Until now the practice 
Fig. 11 
Inflorescence of Calea zacatechichi? 
has been reported only among the Chontal of Oaxaca. 
Since the plant occurs widely in central Mexico, may we 
assume that the Nahua in the Valley of Mexico were 
also familiar with its virtues’ It will be observed that in 
this instance, as well as in all the others, the carvings 
on the statue bear no relation in size to the flower or 
mushroom that is represented: each flower is magnified 
to fill suitably the space allotted to it. 
In Nahuatl the hallucinogenic experience was temivoch, 
the ‘Howery dream’. This fits in with our thesis: wochitl 
meant ‘flower’ but by extension also ‘divinatory plant’ 
or the flower of such a plant, and included among those 
‘flowers’ we find wochinanacatl, the hallucinogenic mush- 
room. In poetry and sculpture it seems that the second- 
ary meaning often eclipsed the primary sense. 
[ B24 | 
