Heh, nice stoner reference, particularly since the link's screwed up! :^D
Posted on 11/16/2024 10:04:42 PM PST by SunkenCiv
A University of South Florida professor found the first-ever physical evidence of hallucinogens in an Egyptian mug, validating written records and centuries-old myths of ancient Egyptian rituals and practices. Through advanced chemical analyses, Davide Tanasi examined one of the world's few remaining Egyptian Bes mugs.
Such mugs, including the one donated to the Tampa Museum of Art in 1984, are decorated with the head of Bes, an ancient Egyptian god or guardian demon worshiped for protection, fertility, medicinal healing and magical purification. Published in Scientific Reports, the study sheds light on an ancient Egyptian mystery: The secret of how Bes mugs were used about 2,000 years ago...
Tanasi, who developed this study as part of the Mediterranean Diet Archaeology project promoted by the USF Institute for the Advanced Study of Culture and the Environment, collaborated with several USF researchers and partners in Italy at the University of Trieste and the University of Milan to perform chemical and DNA analyses. With a pulverized sample from scraping the inner walls of the vase, the team combined numerous analytical techniques for the first time to uncover what the mug last held.
The new tactic was successful and revealed the vase had a cocktail of psychedelic drugs, bodily fluids and alcohol... The concoction was flavored with honey, sesame seeds, pine nuts, licorice and grapes, which were commonly used to make the beverage look like blood.
(Excerpt) Read more at phys.org ...
New Kingdom stuff. All the good stuff from the Old and Middle Kingdom was long forgotten.
I'm writing a book now centering upon the beliefs of a particular low-dose stoner of the early-mid 20th Century, and how his efforts to curtail human population growth to protect the environment have backfired ecologically to the point of a biological catastrophe, one that continues sight unseen.
It is strange to me what we call a "lotus" species varies so strongly from water lilies to dry-land fabaceae. One wonders why.
Bes was the common ancient Egyptians’ household deity. During the New Kingdom, and Late Kingdom particularly during Roman times, that the images and uses became larger and more commonplace.
Heh, nice stoner reference, particularly since the link's screwed up! :^D
Maybe they forgot it because they were high. ;^)
Here is a link to a 3D model of the Bes mug: https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/bes-mug-49935b7b1a3f459497cd10ee880231ff
Also check out our FR’s selection of NDE topics. :^)
A low-dose stoner trying to curtail human population... he’d be too lazy to cross the room for a condom, talk about failing to achieve goals...
;^)
Here is a link to the paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-78721-8
Our analyses revealed traces of Peganum harmala, Nimphaea nouchali var. caerulea, and a plant of the Cleome genus, all of which are traditionally proven to have psychotropic and medicinal properties.
Peganum harmala would be Rue tea. They trip on it to this day IIRC.
He directed the invention of "the pill," which (at the rate things are going) will eventually substitute Islam for Western Civ.
Now that's backlash.
Or should I have said just, "Civ."
Bodily fluids: “...This includes fluids like breast milk, mucous fluids, and blood.”
I believe the Caprocratians or Phibionites (who claimed to be Christian Gnostics) of Egypt used something similar.
And NO, I won’t tell you what it was.
Ah, thank you. I did an intranet search and now see why Bes was not included in books I have read.
He is one of those.... Male prosperity gods that was not spoken of in polite company.
Later on one of his followers started the first male prosperity ministry.
Hey, none of this would have happened in a fictional world if *I’d* been running things... ;^)
I knew those Tanna Leaves were magic!!!!.........
Vegas was never the same when they did the Dan Tanna Leaves episode.
Maybe they forgot it because they were high. ;^)
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Either that or the passage of 2,000 years. They didn’t have Prevagen then.
They had it, but the media told them it was only for veterinary medicine.
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