Prehistoric Europeans Took Poppies and Mushrooms in Prayer

Mysterious Universe ^ | 5-14-2014

[Renfield]

Ping

[JoeProBono]

[ifinnegan]

This sort of thing has been known for a long time.

Pagans have always done this.

When the Old Testament talks about witchcraft it uses a word that means drugs, we got our words pharmacy, pharmaceuticals etc.. from it’s root.

Philip K Dick wrote a book about an Episcopal priest who became so obsessed with the idea that the original Host was actually a hallucinogenic mushroom found in cave in the Middle East that he went out looking for it and was never found again, or died looking for it. The book is called The Transmigration of Timothy Archer and was based on a Bishop Pike.

[ClearCase_guy]

Perhaps it’s time we start looking beyond just ‘eating’ like a caveman.

It's not science when the agenda is so blatant.

[Georgia Girl 2]

A litte Peyote or Syllacibin makes a vision quest move along a whole lot smoother. :-)

[tacticalogic]

When the Old Testament talks about witchcraft it uses a word that means drugs, we got our words pharmacy, pharmaceuticals etc.. from it’s root.

I always found it somewhat puzzling the giving the ambiguous meanings of pharmakeia, they chose "drugs" over "poisons".

[TigersEye]

Cannabis seeds are highly nutritious but they are not psychoactive so she can scratch that one off of the list.

[lee martell]

This brings back reading all those novels about Carlos Castendeda, and the teachings of Don Juan.

[MUDDOG]

art in the Alps depicting the use of hallucinogenic mushrooms

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Renfield.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Renfield. Whoops, wrong list.

[bert]

Priestly elites were drunks and stoners

[Salamander]

I thought it said puppies.

Stoopid iPhone.

[Bigg Red]

Far from being consumed for hedonistic purposes, drug plants and alcoholic drinks had a sacred role among prehistoric societies.

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Well, when every waking moment is consumed with keeping body and soul together, I don’t think one has the luxury of being drunk and stupid.

[Bigg Red]

Good point.

[Verginius Rufus]

Puppies were consumed in ritual dinners in ancient Sardis (the capital of Lydia until it was conquered by Cyrus the Great).

See Crawford H. Greenewalt, Ritual Dinner in Early Historic Sardis (University of California Press). Greenewalt cites an older book by H. Scholz, Der Hund in der griechisch-roemischen Magie und Religion, which I have not seen. Greenewalt also cites Isaiah 66.3, which seems to refer to some kind of ritual killing of dogs.

[SunkenCiv]

I thought it was “poopies”, and wondered why the big deal?

[Verginius Rufus]

Herodotus tells how the Massagetae threw a plant on the fire (apparently marijuana) and became intoxicated from the smoke, comparing it to wine in Greece (1.102). He also tells how the Scythians threw cannabis seeds on the fire; the fumes would make them shriek with delight (4.75). He regards that (the fumes from the seeds) as how they got clean instead of bathing with water.

[Salamander]

BLEAH!

Don’t wanna read ~that~.

:-\