Mother Ayahuasca

Mother Ayahuasca — Madrecita, in the Spanish of many mestizo Amazonian traditions, or Rainha da Floresta ('Queen of the Forest') in the Portuguese of the Santo Daime church — is the personified spirit of the ayahuasca brew, encountered by many experiencers as a distinctly feminine, maternal, and pedagogically-minded intelligence. She is one of the most consistently reported plant-teacher figures across traditional and modern ceremonial ayahuasca use, and one of the clearest examples of a deva or plant-spirit encounter in the contemporary psychonaut literature.

Ayahuasca itself is a decoction of the Banisteriopsis caapi vine (the source of MAOI beta-carbolines) combined with plants containing DMT — most commonly Psychotria viridis (chacruna) in the Peruvian tradition, or Diplopterys cabrerana (chaliponga) elsewhere. Amazonian shamanic traditions (curanderismo, vegetalismo) have used it for centuries, if not millennia, in ritual healing and divination contexts. The Brazilian syncretic Santo Daime church, founded in the 1930s, integrates the brew into a Christian-Umbanda framework in which Mother Ayahuasca is explicitly identified with the Virgin Mary, and the ayahuasqueros traditions of Peru maintain their own long-standing understandings.

Experiencers commonly describe Mother Ayahuasca as arriving with an unmistakably maternal quality — stern, loving, sometimes fierce, always with the traveller's growth as her evident concern. She is often reported as speaking (telepathically, or through sudden flowering thoughts) in the voice of a grandmother or a caring older woman, guiding the visitor through visions that seem custom-tailored to whatever they most need to see. The purgative aspects of the ayahuasca experience — the vomiting and diarrhoea traditionally called la purga — are widely reported as felt to be part of her active cleaning of the body and psyche, not as side effects to be endured.

Sources:
Wikipedia — Ayahuasca
Wikipedia — Santo Daime