Herlinda Flores Badillo

María Sabina's Prayer

September 18, 2025 Herlinda Flores Badillo

María Sabina became well known around the world for her great shamanic power and because people were intrigued by her and her relationship with hallucinogenic mushrooms, or niños santos (saint children), as she called them. The present chapter analyzes María Sabina’s prayers/chants – nijmi – in her mother tongue, Mazatec. Their anaphoric structure, commonly used by poets of this tradition, was...