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Persephone's Quest : Entheogens and the Origins of Religion by R. Gordon Wasson; Stella Kramrisch; Carl Ruck; Jonathan Ott is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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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Author

R. Gordon Wasson; Stella Kramrisch; Carl Ruck; Jonathan Ott

Publisher

Yale University Press

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780300138146

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Religion, History

Rating

4.06 / 5 (62 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14