Our earliest eye-witness account of its use is by a Pole, Adam Kazmierski, in 1658, among the Ostyak of the Irtysh River (a tributary of the Ob), and Ugrian people of the Finno-Ugrian family. The available records about its religious rôle are adequate to reveal its main properties but fall short of what we would have them be in the light of the proposal made in this paper. Description: At Danbury, Connecticut, where his book SOMA: Divine mushroom of immortality was written. Tribes that are concentrated in the valleys of the Ob and the Yenisei, and then, after an interruption, other tribes in the extreme northeast of Siberia.Īpparently, some of these tribesmen scarcely knew alcohol until the Russians introduced it in the 16th and 17th centuries, but the fly-agaric had been their precious possession long before then. As far back as our records go, it has been the Sacred Element in the shamanic rites of many tribes of northern Siberia. The fly-agaric is inebriant but not alcoholic. Here we have a SIGNED Limited Edition of Soma: Divine Mushroom of Immortality (Ethno-Mycological Studies No. This is the first time that a mushroom has been proposed in the Soma quest. The mukhomor of the Russians, the fausse orange or tue-Mouche or crapaudin of the French, the brilliant red mushroom with white spots familiar in forests and folklore throughout northern Eurasia. My candidate for the identity of Soma is Amanita muscaria Quel, in English the fly-agaric, the Fliegenpile of the Germans.
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