Persephone's Quest: Entheogens and the Origins of Religion
Wasson, R Gordon
Persephone's Quest: Entheogens and the Origins of Religion - USA Yale University Press 1992 - 257
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."
9780300052664
Religion
Comparative Religion
History
General
291 WAS
Persephone's Quest: Entheogens and the Origins of Religion - USA Yale University Press 1992 - 257
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."
9780300052664
Religion
Comparative Religion
History
General
291 WAS
