Potential identification of an entheogenic plant species on the Chu Silk Manuscript
Time and Mind January 2, 2021 B. Pothier 1 citation
ABSTRACT The ‘Chu Silk Manuscript’, or ‘Zidanku Silk Manuscript 1ʹ, estimated to date back to 300 BCE, and considered to be the earliest known Chinese manuscript containing illustrations, features the depiction of plants on its four corners. Although there is an academic consensus in considering these plants as ‘mythical trees’, my study suggests that some of the plants depicted present...