Persephone's Quest

Persephone's Quest
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Publisher : Yale University Press
Total Pages : 260
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ISBN-10 : 0300052669
ISBN-13 : 9780300052664
Rating : 4/5 (664 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Persephone's Quest by : Robert Gordon Wasson

Download or read book Persephone's Quest written by Robert Gordon Wasson and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 employed by different native peoples, here joins with three other scholars to discuss the evidence for his discoveries about these fungi, which he has called entheogens, or "god generated within."


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