THE SHAMANS’ WAY
From Mexican Sierra Madre to the peyote’s deserts, along a magic path.

Huicholes, a Maya population living in Mexico, thanks to their isolation and their proud and independent character, survived any invasions alive during the centuries keeping their religion, language and habits. They are one of the few populations who still use peyote, a hallucinatory cactus with magic introspective power, during their ceremonies. For centuries they have been running over again their fathers’ paths. And now they still cross middle-north Mexico’s mountains and deserts, a 400 kilometers’ way, to reach Real de Catorce plans, the mythical Wirikuta, their population’s craddle. Here their Gods were born and here peyote grows.
This photographic service follows the path of their legendary pilgrimage, showing the shamans during their ancient ceremonies. It presents their works of art inspired by their visions, their holy territories and San Luis Potosì State psychedelic deserts.

See also: The Shamans' Way (first part)