Mexico gifts

Pomegranate first appeared in Persia (4000 b.c. to 3000 b.c.) and gradually moved toward China, India (100 b.c.), North Africa, Europe, Mexico (1521), and the U.S. (1792). Pomegranate is one of the first fruits cultivated by humans. In Greek mythology, the pomegranate symbolized death and fertility in ancient Chinese culture, it was a symbol of immortality. One of the earliest cultivated fruits, it is also called a gift from God in the Bible and also in the Koran. 

The medicine—the gift—was a variety of psychoactive mushrooms that the Indians in ancient times called teonandcatl. The man from New York, a Wall Street banker by the name of R. Gordon Wasson, had come to Mexico to confirm his belief that the legend of teonanacatl was... 

Robert Gordon Wasson (1898-1986), scholar, world traveler and ethnomycologist who rediscovered the teonandcatl cult of the indigenous people of Mexico and brought the gifts of this ancient religion to the modern world. 

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Reko, B. P. 1934. Das mexikanische Rausch-gift Ololiuqui El Mexico Antiguo 3(3-4) 1-7. First psychonautic bioassay of drug. 

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