Format:
1 Online-Ressource (257 pages)
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illustrations
ISBN:
9780300138146
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0300138148
Series Statement:
Ethnomycological studies no. 10
Content:
This book discusses the role played by psychoactive mushrooms in the religious rituals of ancient Greece, Eurasia, and Mesoamerica
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
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Persephone's quest / R. Gordon Wasson -- Lightningbolt and mushrooms / R. Gordon Wasson -- The Mahāvīra vessel and the plant Pūtika / Stella Kramrisch -- The last meal of the Buddha / R. Gordon Wasson -- Carved 'disembodied eyes' of Teotihuacan / Jonathan Ott -- Poets, philosophers, priests : entheogens in the formation of the classical tradition / Carl A.P. Ruck -- Mushrooms and Philosophers -- The Wild and the Cultivated: Wine in Euripides' Bacchae -- The Offerings from the Hyperboreans.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0300038771
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Persephone's quest New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1986 ISBN 0300038771
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780300038774
Language:
English
Author information:
Wasson, Robert Gordon 1898-1986
