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Earliest evidence for magic mushroom use in Europe
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and we still think we can stop what people have been doing for almost 10,000 years
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Earliest evidence for magic mushroom use in Europe
06 March 2011
Magazine issue 2802.
EUROPEANS may have used magic mushrooms to liven up religious rituals 6000 years ago. So suggests a cave mural in Spain, which may depict fungi with hallucinogenic properties - the oldest evidence of their use in Europe.
The Selva Pascuala mural, in a cave near the town of Villar del Humo, is dominated by a bull. But it is a row of 13 small mushroom-like objects that interests Brian Akers at Pasco-Hernando Community College in New Port Richey, Florida, and Gaston Guzman at the Ecological Institute of Xalapa in Mexico. They believe that the objects are the fungi Psilocybe hispanica, a local species with hallucinogenic properties.
Like the objects depicted in the mural, P. hispanica has a bell-shaped cap topped with a dome, and lacks an annulus - a ring around the stalk. "Its stalks also vary from straight to sinuous, as they do in the mural," says Akers (Economic Botany, DOI: 10.1007/s12231-011-9152-5).
This isn't the oldest prehistoric painting thought to depict magic mushrooms, though. An Algerian mural that may show the species Psilocybe mairei is 7000 to 9000 years old.
06 March 2011
Magazine issue 2802.
EUROPEANS may have used magic mushrooms to liven up religious rituals 6000 years ago. So suggests a cave mural in Spain, which may depict fungi with hallucinogenic properties - the oldest evidence of their use in Europe.
The Selva Pascuala mural, in a cave near the town of Villar del Humo, is dominated by a bull. But it is a row of 13 small mushroom-like objects that interests Brian Akers at Pasco-Hernando Community College in New Port Richey, Florida, and Gaston Guzman at the Ecological Institute of Xalapa in Mexico. They believe that the objects are the fungi Psilocybe hispanica, a local species with hallucinogenic properties.
Like the objects depicted in the mural, P. hispanica has a bell-shaped cap topped with a dome, and lacks an annulus - a ring around the stalk. "Its stalks also vary from straight to sinuous, as they do in the mural," says Akers (Economic Botany, DOI: 10.1007/s12231-011-9152-5).
This isn't the oldest prehistoric painting thought to depict magic mushrooms, though. An Algerian mural that may show the species Psilocybe mairei is 7000 to 9000 years old.
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qwe
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and many others. terrence mckenna is a little more out there than most of the cool dudes who have been telling us about the importance of spiritual ethnomycology.
zekethemusicman
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I wouldnt be suprised if mushrooms had a key role in our evolution. theyve had a key role in mine![:\](https://bluelight.org/xf/BL_Images/Orig_Emoji/wrygrin.gif "wry grin :\")
sackynut
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^agreed. a lot of the great writers, and artists that are idolized in society today were druggies (Shakespeare, Lewis carol etc).
someone told me that the salem witch trials went on possibly because their rye bread grew some ergolines in it and everyone tripped out, but i dont know how true that is haha
someone told me that the salem witch trials went on possibly because their rye bread grew some ergolines in it and everyone tripped out, but i dont know how true that is haha
Mora Fiend
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^ There's an intresting sound bit suggesting that on Mudvayne's L.D. 50 album, suggesting that we are apes with a symbotic relationship to a mushroom.