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Soma Hymns in the Rigveda
RV 8.48 and 9.113 on soma, immortality, and light
c. 1500-1000 BCE; translation 1897
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Ralph T. H. Griffith
Religion, Psychoactive Plants

Eighth Colloquy: Bangue
1563; Portuguese edition 1891
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Garcia de Orta
Medicine, Cannabis
Ololiuhqui, Peyotl, and Teonanácatl in the Florentine Codex
Sahagún’s Book 11 on herbs that intoxicate
c. 1577
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Bernardino de Sahagún
Indigenous Knowledge, Ethnobotany
Hongos monteses in Durán's Historia de las Indias de Nueva España
Mushrooms, coronations, and the feast of revelations
c. 1581; published 1867
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José F. Ramírez
Indigenous Knowledge, Ethnobotany

Inquisition Edict against Peyote
19 June 1620
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Irving A. Leonard
Prohibition
Ololiuhqui and Peyote in Idolatrías y supersticiones de los indios
Colonial anti-idolatry texts on divination, healing, and visionary plants
1629-1656; published 1892
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Pedro Ponce de León
Indigenous Knowledge, Ethnobotany

Franz Xaver Veigl on Ayahuasca in Maynas
c. 1768–1785 (exact date unclear)
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Franz Xaver Veigl
Ayahuasca