02774nam 2200625Ia 450 991097485270332120250319144232.09780300138146030013814810.12987/9780300138146(CKB)1000000000477787(EBL)3420291(SSID)ssj0000220024(PQKBManifestationID)11192133(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000220024(PQKBWorkID)10142875(PQKB)10547812(DE-B1597)485125(OCoLC)1121055884(DE-B1597)9780300138146(Au-PeEL)EBL3420291(CaPaEBR)ebr10192311(OCoLC)923591125(MiAaPQ)EBC3420291(EXLCZ)99100000000047778719871118d1986 uy 0engurun#---|u||utxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierPersephone's quest entheogens and the origins of religion /R. Gordon Wasson ... [et al.]New Haven Yale University Pressc19861 online resource (256 pages) illustrationsDescription based upon print version of record.9780300052664 0300052669 9780300038774 0300038771 Includes bibliographies.Front matter --TABLE OF CONTENTS --LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS --Prelude --CHAPTER 1. Persephone's Quest --CHAPTER 2. Lightningbolt and Mushrooms --CHAPTER 3. The Mahavlra Vessel and the Plant Putika --CHAPTER 4. The Last Meal of the Buddha --CHAPTER 5. Carved 'Disembodied Eyes' of Teotihuacan --CHAPTER 6. Mushrooms and Philosophers --CHAPTER 7. The Wild and the Cultivated: Wine in Euripides' Bacchae --CHAPTER 8. The Offerings from the Hyperboreans --Notes on the Essays in this BookThis 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."ReligionReligionsReligion.Religions.200Wasson R. Gordon(Robert Gordon),1898-1986.205243MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910974852703321Persephone's quest4336952UNINA