Mushroom stones

Stephan F.de Borhegyi Miniature Mushroom Stones from Guatemala, American Antiquity, Vol. 26, Number 4, page 498-504, April 1961.) return... 

Wasson has taken photographs of a young girl grinding the mushrooms (also the Ipomoea seeds or the leaves of Salvia divinorum) on a grinding stone, in a posture identical to that found on the famous Guatemalan "mushroom stones," dating back twenty-five hundred years. 

R. Gordon Wasson is not sure whether he or his wife was the first to put into words a hypothesis they came to agree on sometime in the 1940s— that as far back as 6,000 years ago, there were cultures that worshipped mushrooms. The discovery of the twenty or so mushroom stones seemed to be confirming evidence that the mushroom was the symbol of a religion, like the cross promulgated by Christians, the crescent moon by Moslems and... 

Two views of a "mushroom stone in the Namuth collection of the pre-classic Meso-american period (1,000-500 B.C.). The figure emerging from the stipe is conjectured to be that of a young woman over a grinding stone or metate. 

Albert Hofmann with mushroom stone. (Photo by Christian Ratsch)... 

Photo from Persephone s Quest-Four Mushroom Stones... 

Various Mushroom Stones (appnax l Ft tall - IOOO G.C. toSOOA.D.) [mages from Plants of the Gods by Schultes Hofmann... 

These hallucinogenic mushroom use dates as far back as the earliest recorded history can relate. Ancient paintings of mushroom-headed humanoids, dating back to 5,000 B.C. have been found in caves on the Tassili plateau of Northern Algeria. Ancient Central and South American cultures built temples to mushroom gods and carved many statues classified as mushroom stones. These stone carvings, in the... 

Mayer, KH. vyjjK. The Mushroom Stones. ofMesoamerica.Acoraa.Books,Ramona, CA. Archivfur Ydlkerkundez[Pg.274]

OHi, K. and M.E. TORRES (Eds.) 1994. Piedras-Hongo. Museo de Tabaco y Sal, Tokyo, Japan. Spanish/Japanesc text with numerous mushroom-stone illustrations. 

De Borhegyi, S.E. 1961. Miniature mushroom stones from Guatemala American Antiquity 26(4) 498—504. 

De Borhegyi, S.E. 1962. The Enigmatic Mushroom Stones of Ivkso-America. Middle... 

Lowy, B. 1971. New records of mushroom stones from Guatemala Mycolofia 63 (5) 983-993. 

Lowy, B. 1980. Ethnom]rcological inferences from mushroom stones, Maya codices, and Tzutuhil legend RevistaJReview Interamericana 10(1) 94-103. 

D. Jacomet of Paris, and four additional color plates, including watercolors ofen-theogenicmushr(X)msbyM. Boryandof accessories to the mushroom rite by co-author V.P. Wisson. Also includes a chart, Mushroom Stones of Middle America byS.F. DeBorhegyi. Originally priced at U.S. I25, the price was doubled to 250 shordy after publication, and the book has since commanded as much as 6500. 

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