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Konyap

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Mushroom Use in Ancient History Greece Egypt 1
#22039948 - 08/03/15 09:37 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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http://blog.crazyaboutmushrooms.com/mushrooms-history-greeks-egyptians/
Last week, I published an article on this blog about how the Romans enjoyed eating wild-foraged mushrooms and may have used them in political murders. You see, I have a penchant for classical history and spent a lot of time in college studying up on the war-torn, chaotic, and fascinating Greco-Roman period, with a specific focus on the Peloponnesian War, which ravaged Greece for nearly 3 decades of the 5th century BCE. I also had a special fondness for the political convulsions of the late Roman Republic and early Roman Empire. I suppose these interests might indicate that I am a little bloody-minded, but I found it to be a very pleasurable academic pursuit in the wake of many years as a Dungeons and Dragons fanatic and avid reader of fantasy fiction.
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Concluding Thoughts On Greek And Egyptian Mushroom Use
I think it’s interesting to reflect on the fact that the Greek understanding of mushrooms is somewhat similar to our own in the United States. References to mushrooms in Greek literature are sparse, and where they do appear, they are surrounded by uncertainty and some degree of fear. It’s obvious that at least a few prominent Greeks enjoyed eating mushrooms, but the writings and lectures of other Greek thinkers discouraging mushroom consumption because of the possibility of poisoning speak loudly of mistrust of wild-gathered mushrooms in particular.
The Egyptians, on the other hand, seemed to have more parallels with the Romans, in that they both had a positive relationship with mushrooms and thought they were healthy prestigious food that were a signal of wealth and class. Maybe it’s the truffles; both cultures loved them, and it’s sort of hard to hate on mushrooms when you’ve got truffles in your back yard.
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dionysiandame
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Re: Mushroom Use in Ancient History Greece Egypt [Re: Konyap]
#22044007 - 08/04/15 07:14 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Thank you for sharing this! I've recently been reading The God Who Comes: Dionysian Mysteries Reclaimed and she speaks, albeit briefly, on the role of entheogens in the mystery traditions of pre-classical and classical Hellas. So your article is a nice piece of sync in my little fish bowl.
You've definitely given me some more good source material to seek out and consider.
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Konyap

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Re: Mushroom Use in Ancient History Greece Egypt [Re: dionysiandame]
#22044536 - 08/04/15 09:02 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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I honestly don't think the pyramid was built as a tomb
I'd expect it to be a colonization chamber more then a crypt
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jesuisravi
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Re: Mushroom Use in Ancient History Greece Egypt [Re: Konyap]
#22047202 - 08/05/15 12:27 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Just went to your site and read the article. Interesting.
MY feeling is this: If the Greeks had access to psilocybin mushrooms, sooner or later (being Greeks, it would have been sooner)they would have found a way to make good use of them.
-------------------- Most of my beliefs I acquired from my father and from John Wayne, and anything that wasn't ultra tough and ultra cool was to me ultra embarrassing. In fact, I lived in a state of near continuous embarrassment, never measuring up to the ridiculous standards I had accepted without question, applied to a framework of expectations neither I nor anyone else could meet.--J C Amberchele almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it. Destiny has no beeper; destiny always leans trenchcoated out of an alley with some sort of 'psst' that you usually can't even hear because you're in such a rush to or from something important you've tried to engineer. ” ― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
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Konyap

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Re: Mushroom Use in Ancient History Greece Egypt [Re: jesuisravi]
#22048118 - 08/05/15 03:42 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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I think the reason they aren't used today was because of all the man on man and child sex. If those cultures just hadn't offended the jews' so much then the jews might not have made up those stories about them while getting curb stomped by the romans lol
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jesuisravi
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Re: Mushroom Use in Ancient History Greece Egypt [Re: Konyap]
#22056455 - 08/07/15 02:10 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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It is never a good idea to get on the wrong side of the Chosen People. I am joking NOT.
-------------------- Most of my beliefs I acquired from my father and from John Wayne, and anything that wasn't ultra tough and ultra cool was to me ultra embarrassing. In fact, I lived in a state of near continuous embarrassment, never measuring up to the ridiculous standards I had accepted without question, applied to a framework of expectations neither I nor anyone else could meet.--J C Amberchele almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it. Destiny has no beeper; destiny always leans trenchcoated out of an alley with some sort of 'psst' that you usually can't even hear because you're in such a rush to or from something important you've tried to engineer. ” ― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
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