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Stephen R Berlant

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The entheomycological origin of Egyptian crowns and the esoteric underpinnings of Egyptian religion.

Journal of Ethnopharmacology November 14, 2005 Stephen R Berlant 17 citations

In this paper, I theorize that the Egyptian White and Triple Crowns were originally primordia of the entheogenic Psilocybe (Stropharia) cubensis, which an Egyptian tale known as Cheops and the Magicians allegorically explained grew on barley, and that Osiris was the God of spiritual rebirth because he personified this and other entheogenic mushrooms. I go on to theorize that the plant known...