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Persephone's Quest: Entheogens and the Origins of Religion

paperback – July 29, 1992
by Wasson, R. Gordon
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ISBN-13: 9780300052664 ISBN-10: 0300052669
Publisher
Yale University Press
Binding
paperback
Published
July 29, 1992
Weight
2.3 lbs
Dimensions
1.90×15.60×23.50 cm

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Persephone's Quest: Entheogens and the Origins of Religion by Wasson, R. Gordon. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780300052664.

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."