Pre-1800 / Before 1799
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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
Source
Ralph T. H. Griffith
Religion, Psychoactive Plants
Chavin de Huantar
Ritual architecture, psychoactive plants, sound, and authority in the Early Horizon Andes
ca. 1200-500 BCE
Archaeological Site
Unknown
Sound, Architecture
Hymn to Demeter
c. 650–550 BCE (this translation published 1914)
Ancient Text
Homer
Exhortation to the Greeks, ch. II
c. 195 CE (this translation 1867/1885)
Ancient Text
Clement of Alexandria
Cueva del Chileno
A high-Andean ritual bundle with direct chemical evidence for multiple psychoactive plants
905-1170 CE
Archaeological Site
Unknown
Archaeology, Material Culture
Teonanácatl, "carne de Dios"
c. 1541 (published 1858/1914)
Manuscript
Toribio de Benavente
Psilocybin
Eighth Colloquy: Bangue
1563; Portuguese edition 1891
Source
Garcia de Orta
Medicine, Cannabis
Ololiuhqui, Peyotl, and Teonanácatl in the Florentine Codex
Sahagún’s Book 11 on herbs that intoxicate
c. 1577
Source
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
Source
José F. Ramírez
Indigenous Knowledge, Ethnobotany
On the Herb Called Ololiuhqui
1615
Book
Francisco Hernández
Inquisition Edict against Peyote
19 June 1620
Source
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
Source
Pedro Ponce de León
Indigenous Knowledge, Ethnobotany
Strahlenberg on the Koryaks and Fly-Agaric
1736 (German original 1730)
Book
Philip Johan von Strahlenberg
The History of Kamtschatka
1764 (English translation; Russian original 1755)
Book
James Grieve
Franz Xaver Veigl on Ayahuasca in Maynas
c. 1768–1785 (exact date unclear)
Source
Franz Xaver Veigl
Ayahuasca