peyotl

The Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahagún, who first wrote of the plant in 1560, noted that peyotl was common food of the Chichimeca, for it sustains them and gives them courage to fight and not feel fear nor hunger nor thirst.

One River Wade Davis 1996

The Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahagún, who first wrote of the plant in 1560, noted that peyotl was common food of the Chichimeca, for it sustains them and gives them courage to fight and not feel fear nor hunger nor thirst.

One River Wade Davis 1996

According to Klüver the word “peyote” also refers to these hairs and is derived from peyotl, meaning cocoon in Nahuatl, the language of the Aztecs.

One River Wade Davis 1996

According to Klüver the word “peyote” also refers to these hairs and is derived from peyotl, meaning cocoon in Nahuatl, the language of the Aztecs.

One River Wade Davis 1996

But it makes you feel so bad afterwards. the mescal does, and you're sick with the peyotl; besides it always made that awful feeling of being ashamed much worse the next day.

Brave New World Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963 1932

The return to civilization was for her the return to soma, was the possibility of lying in bed and taking holiday after holiday, without ever having to come back to a headache or a fit of vomiting, without ever being made to feel as you always felt after peyotl, as though you'd done something so shamefully anti-social that you could never hold up your head again.

Brave New World Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963 1932

Not the least important item is that of their use of the intoxicant, _peyotl_, a decoction of which it appears played a prominent part in their ceremonies.

Nagualism A Study in Native American Folk-lore and History Daniel Garrison Brinton 1868

The _peyotl_ was not the only herb prized as a means of casting the soul into the condition of hypostatic union with divinity.

Nagualism A Study in Native American Folk-lore and History Daniel Garrison Brinton 1868

_ I have loved God with all my heart; but sometimes I have believed in dreams, and also I have believed in the sacred herbs, the _peyotl_, and the _ololiuhqui_; and in other such things

Nagualism A Study in Native American Folk-lore and History Daniel Garrison Brinton 1868

Of the two plants mentioned, the _ololiuhqui_ and the _peyotl_, the former was considered the more potent in spiritual virtues.

Nagualism A Study in Native American Folk-lore and History Daniel Garrison Brinton 1868