UID:
edocfu_9959230674102883
Format:
1 online resource (256 pages) :
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illustrations
ISBN:
0-300-13814-8
Content:
This fascinating book discusses the role played by psychoactive mushrooms in the religious rituals of ancient Greece, Eurasia, and Mesoamerica. R. Gordon Wasson, an internationally known ethnomycologist who was one of the first to investigate how these mushrooms were venerated and employed by different native peoples, here joins with three other scholars to discuss the evidence for his discoveries about these fungi, which he has called entheogens, or "god generated within."
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Description based upon print version of record.
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Front matter --
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TABLE OF CONTENTS --
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS --
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Prelude --
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CHAPTER 1. Persephone's Quest --
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CHAPTER 2. Lightningbolt and Mushrooms --
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CHAPTER 3. The Mahavlra Vessel and the Plant Putika --
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CHAPTER 4. The Last Meal of the Buddha --
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CHAPTER 5. Carved 'Disembodied Eyes' of Teotihuacan --
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CHAPTER 6. Mushrooms and Philosophers --
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CHAPTER 7. The Wild and the Cultivated: Wine in Euripides' Bacchae --
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CHAPTER 8. The Offerings from the Hyperboreans --
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Notes on the Essays in this Book
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-300-05266-9
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-300-03877-1
Language:
English
DOI:
10.12987/9780300138146
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