no it's definitely aya. the director knew the shamans in the video, he had spent time with them previously and worked with them to create this movie. they are of the Shipibo tribe who definitely use aya, not peyote.
I know nothing of the director, or his intentions but I
have seen the whole movie, it takes place in America, the New Mexico/Califonia desert, in the old "wild west", during the end of the gold rush. There is a tribe of
American Indians (chiricwa -
I spelled it wrong, no doubt) who have a secret, hidden,
Peyote garden inside of a mountain in the desert, that can only be gotten to by swimming to the bottom of a small lake & going though an underwater tunnel under the mountain. The men of the near by town think the Indians have a secret gold mine and plan to steal it from them etc... The main "
bad guy" knows there is no gold, he believes that drinking the Indians magic tea will give him super powers etc...
There is much dialog about the Indians & "
scalping" etc... throughout the movie.
There is also a short scene near the end of the movie where they show the garden, with
peyote buttons & stalks of
San Pedro Cati growing. It's actually right before the scene we're talking about here, where the "evil white guy" (played by Michael Madsen) has just discovered the peyote or, "
gold" & he and the hero of the movie "
battle it out" in their minds after drinking the peyote tea, or "
gold".
I've drank aya a number of times & those scenes
are very reminiscent of where a strong Ayahuasca experience can go. Maybe that's the only psychedelic experience the director had to draw from, for these effects. The movie is about
American Indians &
peyote though.
I've never taken peyote, or any kind of mescalin, can someone who has experience with both mescalin & ayahuasca say weather or not these effects are more like one or the other?
BTW, that "shaman" is an actor from New Zealand, named Temuera Morrison, who has been in a large number of movies that have nothing to do with Ayahuasca or Peyote. He played Jango Fett in the new Star Wars movies for crying out loud.
en.wikipedia.org
Cheers
WS
