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Persephone's quest : entheogens and the origins of religion
- Title
- Persephone's quest : entheogens and the origins of religion / R. Gordon Wasson [and others].
- Publication
- New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1986.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | BL50 .P473 1986 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Wasson, R. Gordon (Robert Gordon), 1898-1986.
- Description
- 257 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm.
- Summary
- This book discusses the role played by psychoactive mushrooms in the religious rituals of ancient Greece, Eurasia, and Mesoamerica.
- Series Statement
- Ethnomycological studies ; no. 10
- Uniform Title
- Ethno-mycological studies ; no. 10.
- Subject
- Religion
- Mushrooms, Hallucinogenic > Religious aspects > History
- Hallucinogenic drugs and religious experience
- Hallucinogenic drugs and religious experience > Greece
- Plants > Religious aspects
- Mushrooms, Hallucinogenic > Cross-cultural studies
- Religion
- religion (discipline)
- Plants > Religious aspects
- Mushrooms, Hallucinogenic
- Hallucinogenic drugs and religious experience
- Mushrooms, Hallucinogenic > Religious aspects
- Religionswissenschaft
- Aufsatzsammlung
- Greece
- Genre/Form
- Cross-cultural studies
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographies.
- Contents
- 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.
- ISBN
- 0300038771
- 9780300038774
- 0300052669
- 9780300052664
- LCCN
- 87051547
- OCLC
- ocm18130458
- 18130458
- SCSB-1726972
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library