# Shamans and their journeys to the spirit world, tied to trance and peyote

> Still possible: The mural shows shamans and their journeys to the spirit world, made in connection with trance states that may have been induced with…

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# Shamans and their journeys to the spirit world, tied to trance and peyote

The mural shows shamans and their journeys to the spirit world, made in connection with trance states that may have been induced with plants such as peyote.

**Still possible** Answers **1** question0

## Where it stands

**Still possible** Two pieces of evidence for, none against. It needs two reviews to be accepted.

## What it predicts

- Plants used for trance are found in deposits of the painting period and are recognisable in the imagery.
- Figures with shamanic attributes are central in the composition.

## What would rule it out

- No trance plants are present in the deposits of the period the mural was painted.
- The figures read as shamans prove, on a tested reading, to be other beings (deities, ancestors) with no ritual specialist shown.

## Evidence 2 for · none against

[Hallucinogenic plants, including peyote, in Lower Pecos deposits](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/white-shaman-mural/evidence/EVD0DCKRHKM0NFT/hallucinogenic-plants-including-peyote-in-lower-pecos)

Suggestive

FOR

[The long-standing reading of Pecos River figures as shamans](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/white-shaman-mural/evidence/EVD0DCKRHZ4AVQB/the-long-standing-reading-of-pecos-river-figures-as-shamans)

Suggestive

FOR

[Boyd's own view joins the two readings](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/white-shaman-mural/evidence/EVD0DCKRJGN3KY3/boyds-own-view-joins-the-two-readings)

Suggestive

NEUTRAL

## The questions it answers

[What does the White Shaman mural depict?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/white-shaman-mural/questions/QST0DCKPKDCPP15/what-does-the-white-shaman-mural-depict)

Open3 answers, none ahead

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