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Mushrooms, Myth and Mithras: The Drug Cult that Civilized Europe

Argues that Roman Mithraism was a fly-agaric and haoma cult whose bull-slaying iconography encodes ritual intoxication transmitted to later traditions.

Author: Carl A. P. Ruck; Mark Alwin Hoffman; Jose Alfredo Gonzalez Celdran
Type: Book
Written: 2011
Edition: 2011
Publisher: City Lights Publishers
Language: English
Tradition: Mithraism
Identifiers: ISBN9780872864702

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