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Persephones Quest : Entheogens and the Origins of Religion
Overview
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 used by different native peoples, here joins with three other scholars to discuss his discoveries about these fungi, which he has called entheogens, or 'god generated within.'
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780300052664
- ISBN-10: 0300052669
- Publisher: Yale University Press
- Publish Date: July 1992
- Dimensions: 9.25 x 6.14 x 0.76 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.9 pounds
- Page Count: 257
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