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Persephones Quest: Entheogens and the Origins of Religion Paperback - 1992

by R. Gordon Wasson; Stella Kramrisch; Carl Ruck


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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 used by different native peoples, here joins with three other scholars to discuss his discoveries about these fungi, which he has called entheogens, or 'god generated within.'

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  • Title Persephones Quest: Entheogens and the Origins of Religion
  • Author R. Gordon Wasson; Stella Kramrisch; Carl Ruck
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reissue
  • Pages 257
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
  • Date July 29, 1992
  • ISBN 9780300052664 / 0300052669
  • Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.25 x 6.14 x 0.76 in (23.50 x 15.60 x 1.93 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 87051547
  • Dewey Decimal Code 291
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