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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
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
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
Caapi and Niopo in “On Some Remarkable Narcotics of the Amazon Valley and Orinoco”
Richard Spruce on ayahuasca, yopo/paricá, and Amazonian medicine-men
c. 1870; published 1908
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Richard Spruce
Indigenous Knowledge, Ethnobotany
Nitrous Oxide and the Anaesthetic Revelation in The Varieties of Religious Experience
1902
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William James
Nitrous Oxide, Religion