[dinodino]

No way it was a mushroom. I'm no Coptic studies guy, but I don't buy this for a minute. Are you suggesting that all the headresses of this shape are modeled after A. muscaria?

[muawiyah]

It started out as a mushroom. The face of a man was carved into it. The "headdress" is an artifact, not part of the original object. The body of the Sphinx was constructed by the taking away of blocks of stone to be put into the pyramids.

It's always about narcotics. You knew that didn't you?

Ancient religions commonly relied on hallucinogenics and psychotropics.

This is all about SOMA.