The Wise woman of the Sacred Mushroom The Life of Maria Sabina, told by Mexican Wise in her language, the mazecheque, is a document in the present on a millennial tradition: the one who, before the conquest, used hallucinogenic mushrooms for therapeutic or divinatory rituals. Alvaro Estrada, himself from Huautla and Mazatec, was able to obtain without intermediary the speech of Maria Sabina. Interviews were held from 1975-1976. Translated from Spanish by Michel Bidard The divine fungus of immortality: R. Gordon Wasson, a pioneer of ethnomycinology, presents, in the foreword, his assumptions about the cult of the sacred mushroom, and evokes his meeting with Maria Sabina in 1953. Translated from English by Vincent Bardet. This Autobiography of Maria Sabina was written to keep a testimony of the history and thought of the Mazatec Wise woman, beside which journalists and writers from various countries passed, certainly, but passed only superficially; and for a document to remain for ethnologists, ethnomyologists, ethologists, ethologists, or more simply from an audience that does not always have, in front of the indigenous religion, the respect it should command. The text we will read is the result of a series of interviews we had with Maria Sabina from September 1975 until August 1976; throughout this year my professional activity, which obliged me to reside in Mexico City, alternated with visits to Huautla, to chat with Maria Sabina. I had the privilege of being a native of Huautla and speaking the native language of the Mazatecs. However, the exchange was not easy. Of course, I kept the magnetic tapes on which the words of the Mazatec Wise woman were recorded. But to facilitate reading, I failed to reproduce here the questions I was reading at Maria Sabina.