tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4524643454575245905.post4659414327907479673..comments2024-02-26T17:08:38.331-08:00Comments on EROCx1 BLOG: the mushroom godsEROCx1http://www.blogger.com/profile/11051580379620014288noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4524643454575245905.post-52951951422166092042011-07-20T10:17:27.605-07:002011-07-20T10:17:27.605-07:00Nice work but a quick note to your readers. You me...Nice work but a quick note to your readers. You mention that the Incas called them, (sacred mushrooms) teonanactl or 'flesh of the gods'. This should read Aztecs not Inca. In Nahuatl, the language of the Aztecs, the general word for mushrooms was nanacatl and that the intoxicating species, the Psilocybe mushroom, was called teonanacatl, a term Sahagun gives us, teo-, or teotl, meaning god, that which is divine or sacred, "the flesh of god" (Wasson, letter to Borhegyi, June 23, 1953).Carl de Borhegyihttp://mushroomstone.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4524643454575245905.post-78007535741801610332010-05-06T10:09:44.314-07:002010-05-06T10:09:44.314-07:00The idea that mushrooms may have played an importa...The idea that mushrooms may have played an important role in the development of Aztec and Mayan civilizations first came to the attention of the general public in 1957 when R. Gordon Wasson published an article written by my father Maya archaeologist Stephan F. de Borhegyi,in his ground-breaking book Mushrooms, Russia and History in 1957. In this article entitled "Mushroom Stones of Middle America," my father described and classified a number of mushroom-shaped stone sculptures that he had encountered in various private collections as well as in the collections of the Guatemala National Museum. <br /><br /> In 1961, my father, more commonly known as "Borhegyi" suggested, based on the discovery of a cache of nine miniature stone mushrooms excavated from a tomb at the highland Maya archaeological site of Kaminaljuyu, that mushroom stones might very likely have been venerated as the Nine Lords of the Underworld. He went on to propose that they might also be connected with a trophy head cult, human sacrifice, and ritual decapitation, with the last often occurring on the Mesoamerican ballcourt. Unfortunately, this promising line of inquiry ended with his untimely death in 1969. <br /><br />In the course of my studies I have discovered what I believe to be important links between mushrooms, the planet Venus, and an all-powerful creator deity. This deity in its earliest representations shared feline, serpentine, and bird-like features and has been called the Feathered Serpent by archaeologists. Over the years I believe this deity took on many additional guises and attributes, and became known by a great variety of names. I have elected to refer to him, as did the Toltecs and Aztecs, as Quetzalcoatl. I conclude that in whatever form and indigenous culture he appeared, he presided over a mushroom/Venus religious cult of underworld jaguar transformation that dominated Mesoamerica and extended far beyond its geographic, ethnic and linguistic borders. <br /><br />As a result of my study I am convinced that hallucinogenic mushrooms and veneration of the planet Venus were central to all aspects of Mesoamerican religion. I also believe Mesoamerica shared, along with many other New World cultures, elements of a Pan American belief system so ancient that many of the ideas may have come from Asia to the New World with the first human settlers.This belief system originated from ideas of death and rebirth derived from the agricultural cycle and was reinforced by the visionary experience of ingesting psychogenic mushrooms. I shall call this continuing thread the Mushroom/Venus/Quetzalcoatl religion.<br /><br />My study concludes that the ancient Mesoamericans, starting with the ancient Olmecs on down to the Maya, Toltec and Aztecs, believed that the consumption of hallucinogenic mushrooms, whether orally, anally through enemas, or by smoking, transformed the individual into a were-jaguar and opened a sacred portal into the underworld. Commonly depicted in association with ritual self-decapitation, the image of the were-jaguar was a metaphor for both the daily death, sacrifice, and rebirth of the Sun, and the journey each individual takes from death to rebirth. Passage through the sacred portal, linked esoterically to mushrooms, assured the decapitated of divine resurrection. <br /><br /><br />Carl de Borhegyi<br /><br />For more on this subject, my research site is... mushroomstone.comCarl de Borhegyihttp://mushroomstone.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4524643454575245905.post-34231520437306660022008-02-14T02:55:00.000-08:002008-02-14T02:55:00.000-08:00can we share um, mushroom stories? lsd stories? et...can we share um, mushroom stories? lsd stories? etc.<BR/> i'd like to hear more from others about their experiences.<BR/> i know these are Entheogens, and i see it in my daily life - even if i catch myself being bitchy, maybe i've learned a nicer way to tell the lady at the po to read the sign that says "no cell phones".<BR/><BR/>blessings, :L, drlauraLaurahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00959385250731213973noreply@blogger.com