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"Before Wasson nobody took the mushrooms only to find God. They were always taken for the sick to get well."<ref>Estrada, Alvaro. Maria Sabina: Her Life and Chants. Translated by Henry Munn. Santa Barbara, California: Ross-Erikson, 1981. p. 73. </ref> | "Before Wasson nobody took the mushrooms only to find God. They were always taken for the sick to get well."<ref>Estrada, Alvaro. Maria Sabina: Her Life and Chants. Translated by Henry Munn. Santa Barbara, California: Ross-Erikson, 1981. p. 73. </ref> | ||
'''Aztecs:''' Psilocybin and jimson weed used by Aztec Priests " Certain priests engaged in prophesies and the interpretation of visions: these could be induced by psychotropic plants - jimson weed, Psilocybe mushrooms, or peyote cactus buttons." | '''Aztecs:''' Psilocybin and jimson weed used by Aztec Priests " Certain priests engaged in prophesies and the interpretation of visions: these could be induced by psychotropic plants - jimson weed, Psilocybe mushrooms, or peyote cactus buttons."<ref>Townsend, Richard f. ''The Aztecs''. London: Thames & Hudson, 2009. p. 206.</ref> | ||
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Psilocybin Mushrooms are Connection Supplements popular amongst ancient Mesoamericans, but forced under ground by the the western Church when it participated in the colonization of America's native people.[1]
List of Connection Supplements
Connection Supplement > 5-MEO DMT, Ayahuasca, Cannabis, Chloroform, DMT, Datura, Haoma, Kaneh Bosm, Kava, Ketamine, Kykeon, LSD, MDMA, Maikua, Manna, Nitrous Oxide, Peyote, Psilocybin Mushroom, Santa Rosa, Soma, Tobacco, Yaqona
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Mushrooms visualized as little male or female beings, elves, duendes, tricksters, saint children, the blood of Christ..[2]
Allow one to speak with the Lords of the Mountains, the beings who are the masters of all things.[3]
"It was not only the gold and natural riches of Anahuac, the culture and art of Mesoamerica that astonished the Spanish priests and conquistadors who arrived in this land in the sixteenth century: the native medicines (comprising a "marvellous collection" of hallucinogenic plants) were also the objects of attention, study, and condemnation."[4] Hallucinogenic practices were seen as "demoniacal" an the practice was forced underground in most cases, but survived in Huautla, in Sierra Mazatec.
Mushrooms have the power to cure, and also give "the mystical force that creates the elevated, esoteric language of the shaman." [5]
Seen as teonanacatle - Flesh of the Gods.
Were given great respect by elders.
"...Sometime later I knew that the mushrooms were like God. That they gave wisdom, that they cured illnesses, and that our people, since a long time ago, had eaten them. That they had power, that they were the blood of Christ."[6]
Mushrooms provide contact with the Little One Who Springs Forth.[7]
"Before Wasson nobody took the mushrooms only to find God. They were always taken for the sick to get well."[8]
Aztecs: Psilocybin and jimson weed used by Aztec Priests " Certain priests engaged in prophesies and the interpretation of visions: these could be induced by psychotropic plants - jimson weed, Psilocybe mushrooms, or peyote cactus buttons."[9]
Footnotes
- ↑ Estrada, Alvaro. Maria Sabina: Her Life and Chants. Translated by Henry Munn. Santa Barbara, California: Ross-Erikson, 1981
- ↑ Estrada, Alvaro. Maria Sabina: Her Life and Chants. Translated by Henry Munn. Santa Barbara, California: Ross-Erikson, 1981.
- ↑ Estrada, Alvaro. Maria Sabina: Her Life and Chants. Translated by Henry Munn. Santa Barbara, California: Ross-Erikson, 1981. p. 32.
- ↑ Estrada, Alvaro. Maria Sabina: Her Life and Chants. Translated by Henry Munn. Santa Barbara, California: Ross-Erikson, 1981. p. 23.
- ↑ Estrada, Alvaro. Maria Sabina: Her Life and Chants. Translated by Henry Munn. Santa Barbara, California: Ross-Erikson, 1981. p. 23.
- ↑ Maria Sabina quoted in Estrada, Alvaro. Maria Sabina: Her Life and Chants. Translated by Henry Munn. Santa Barbara, California: Ross-Erikson, 1981. p. 40.
- ↑ Estrada, Alvaro. Maria Sabina: Her Life and Chants. Translated by Henry Munn. Santa Barbara, California: Ross-Erikson, 1981. p. 47.
- ↑ Estrada, Alvaro. Maria Sabina: Her Life and Chants. Translated by Henry Munn. Santa Barbara, California: Ross-Erikson, 1981. p. 73.
- ↑ Townsend, Richard f. The Aztecs. London: Thames & Hudson, 2009. p. 206.
