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Psychedelic tea rites continue in Brazil village

(3 Aug 2016) A village deep in the Amazon jungle of western Brazil is continuing the traditions centered around an ancient psychedelic tea known to locals as Holy Daime. The Ayahuasca brew is sacred to Ceu do Mapia villagers, who use it in rituals that blend together Indian beliefs with Roman Catholicism. Reaching the small village is possible by canoe, after sliding through parts of the Purus river. People here believe the drink heals the body and expands the mind. The Cult of the Holy Daime was started in 1930 by a descendant of slaves. It wasn't until the early 1980s that rubber tapper Sebastiao Mota de Melo, nicknamed Godfather Sebastiao, took hundreds of followers deeper into the forest to create a new village that would live by the Ayahuasca tea doctrine. Melo passed away in 1990, but his wife, who is now 91, still heads the sect with her two sons. Brewing the sacramental tea is a ritual in itself. Men chant as they follow a steady rhythm to bang sledgehammers on jungle vines called Jagube. In a giant pot, a man cooks the juice that comes out of the hammered vines and mixes it with a plant with hallucinogenic properties named Psychotria viridis. On a recent evening, villagers gathered to celebrate the Brazilian harvest. Women wore shiny white crowns on their heads, green sashes over their shoulders and green belts around their waist. The men and women lined up in two separate rows to drink the tea and sing together prayers and psalms in a large circle. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...