Peyoteism and the Origins of Caddo Religious Thought

The Caddo Indians practiced a vibrant peyote religion long before John Wilson (Moonhead) or Quanah Parker re-ignited the Native American Church. Moreover, research has show the importance of the peyote plant to the Caddo long before any European contact. The peyote religion at the time of the Spanish mission in Texas was full of songs and dances in honor of one known today as (Aah-hi-u kuu-i'-ha) or Father Above, translated to mean home where God lives. Although Swanton proposes that the Hasinai medicine men used peyote "at the beginning of the eighteenth century" (a reference to Friar Hidalgo's Spanish account) how long had they been using this plant before any written records?</jats:p

Reply to: Stratigraphy, Facies Architecture and tectonic Implications of the Upper Devonian to Lower Carboniferous Campwyn Volcanics of the Northern New England Fold belt

Discusses stratigraphy, facies architecture and tectonic implications of the Upper Devonian to Lower Carboniferous campwyn volcanics of the northern New England Fold Belt. Ignimbrites and volcanic compositions; Lower and upper facies associations; Biostratigraphy and evidence for Middle Devonian rocks; Sedimentary provencance and plaeoccurent data; Supra-subduction zone magmatism