White sage, bears, and territory: contemporary indigenous religion among the Chumash

Paldam, Ella

doi:10.1080/13537903.2018.1535374

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What Makes Ceiba Magical?1

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“…An excellent example of this mutability is the use of both silver sage (Salvia argentea L.) and the botanically unrelated sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) as purifying plants falling under the same common conceptual category of 'sage', a potential Spiritual Keystone Species in parts of North America (Paldam, 2018).…”

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Ceiba pentandra (Malvaceae) and associated species: Spiritual Keystone Species of the Neotropics

Tareau¹,

Greene²,

Odonne

et al. 2022

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Among the 18 species included in the Ceiba genus, in the Malvaceae (Bombacoideae) family, Ceiba pentandra L. Gaertn. is not only the tallest and most widespread, but also occupies the most prominent place in Neotropical cosmovisions. In this ethnobotanical review, we compare perceptions and uses of Ceiba and related species across indigenous and Afro-descendant cultures ranging from the Caribbean to the Argentinian Chaco. Ceiba's widely-shared role as axis mundi, (particularly in Amazonia) psychopomp and shelter of major forest spirits makes it a perfect example of a Spiritual Keystone Species, a new concept inspired from Cultural Keystone Species and defined here for the first time.

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confidence: 99%