Mushrooms, Russia and History by Valentina Pavlovna Wasson

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About half an inch broad, spiring a little at the toppe, and being of a whitish colour, with a long stalke, of the thicknesse of ones little finger: this is called the foolish or the fooles Mushrome. [P. 1321] What was and is this fool's mushroom that Albertus Magnus mentioned and Clusius described and the peasants of central Europe invoke in their old saws ? 239 CHAPTER FIVE Our only good clue lies in the paintings that Clusius made, now preserved in Leiden: for Clusius the Narrenschwamm was, beyond a doubt, the amanita vaginata.

In Mazatec the pitch at which successive syllables are uttered is of primary semantic importance. This is what makes communication by whistling or humming simple. The Chinese is a tonal language too, but the 'contour' tones of Chinese are basically different from the 'registered' tones of constant pitch in the language of the Mazatecs. When the Mazatec muleteer initiates a whistled conversation with a friend some distance away, the key that he adopts sets the key for his friend's answer 248 THE SACRED MUSHROOMS OF THE NAHUA and the whole conversation follows in that key.

For hands he has claws. One foot is unformed or malformed, perhaps a splay foot. 1 In this French word and in this picture we find blended the recurring themes of our book - Satan portrayed as le Bot, a demonic mushroom, and offstage, by metaphoric transfer, the toad called le hot that constitutes the third of our unholy trinity. The second illustration offers us three elements - mushrooms, a man eating mushrooms, and behind and over him a ghost. The reader will notice that the I. Malformed and bestial feet characterize various Aztec divinities.

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