Persephone's Quest

Persephone's Quest Entheogens and the Origins of Religion

Paperback (01 Sep 1992)

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Publisher's Synopsis

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."

Book information

ISBN: 9780300052664
Publisher: Yale University Press
Imprint: Yale University Press
Pub date:
Language: English
Number of pages: 257
Weight: 390g
Height: 152mm
Width: 230mm
Spine width: 21mm