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Chungichnich

American Indian culture
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  • Bear Mother
    mythologies of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas
    / California

    …California, in ceremonies of the Chungichnich cults, contact with the highest god is achieved by smoking datura or jimsonweed, which produces visions of animals. The boys initiated into the cults regard the animals as their guardian spirits. This concept relates the cult activity with the most fundamental feature of Indigenous…

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    …California, in ceremonies of the Chungichnich cults, contact with the highest god is achieved by smoking datura or jimsonweed, which produces visions of animals. The boys initiated into the cults regard the animals as their guardian spirits. This concept relates the cult activity with the most fundamental feature of Indigenous…

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  • Bear Mother
    mythologies of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas
    / Southwest

    The Chungichnich cult was also known here but may have come within the mission period.

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    The Chungichnich cult was also known here but may have come within the mission period.

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