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Zaki

Zaki is a term used by the Otomi to refer to the life/will force inherent in all things. [1]

Syncretic Terms

Notes

Otomi Shaman's help clients manipulate will by providing Zaki figures. One Otomi shaman gives a women whose husband deserted her a zaki portrait. The portrait is placed on an altar with a candle, and is used to focus the women's will on the return of her husband. [2]

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Footnotes

  1. Dow, James. The Shaman’s Touch. Salt Lake City, Utah: University of Utah Press, 1986.
  2. Dow, James. The Shaman’s Touch. Salt Lake City, Utah: University of Utah Press, 1986.