Earliest evidence for magic mushroom use in Europe

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EUROPEANS may have used magic mushrooms to liven up religious rituals 6000 years ago. So suggests a cave mural in Spain, which may depict fungi with hallucinogenic properties - the oldest evidence of their use in Europe.

The Selva Pascuala mural, in a cave near the town of Villar del Humo, is dominated by a bull. But it is a row of 13 small mushroom-like objects that interests Brian Akers at Pasco-Hernando Community College in New Port Richey, Florida, and Gaston Guzman at the Ecological Institute of Xalapa in Mexico. They believe that the objects are the fungi Psilocybe hispanica, a local species with hallucinogenic properties.

Like the objects depicted in the mural, P. hispanica has a bell-shaped cap topped with a dome, and lacks an annulus - a ring around the stalk. "Its stalks also vary from straight to sinuous, as they do in the mural," says Akers (Economic Botany, DOI: 10.1007/s12231-011-9152-5).

This isn't the oldest prehistoric painting thought to depict magic mushrooms, though. An Algerian mural that may show the species Psilocybe mairei is 7000 to 9000 years old.

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[mr_terrorman]

Per i più pigri l'ho tradotto io... :wink: :
Gli europei usano funghi psicoattivi per animare rituali religiosi sin da 6000 anni fa. Così suggerisce una pittura murale in una grotta in Spagna che dovrebbero rappresentare funghi con proprietà allucinogene - è la più antica testimonianza del loro utilizzo in Europa.

Il dipinto murale di Selva Pascuala, in una grotta vicino alla città di Villar del Humo, è dominato da un toro. Ma è una fila di di oggetti fungiformi ad attirare l'interesse di Akers Brian del Pasco-Hernando Community College di New Port Richey, Florida, e di Gaston Guzman dell'Ecological Institute of Xalapa in Messico. Essi ritengono che tali oggetti potrebbero essere Psilocybe Hispanica, una specie locale dalle proprietà psicoattive.

Come gli oggetti rappresentati nel murale, la psilocybe Hispanica ha un cappello a forma di campana sormontato da una cupola - un anello intorno al fusto. "i gambi possono variare da dritti a sinuosi, come fanno nella rappresentazione murale", dice Akers (Economic Botany, DOI: 10.1007/s12231-011-9152-5).

Però questa non è la più antica raffigurazione preistorica di funghi magici. Appaiono funghi di specie Psilocybe Mairei in una pittura murale in Algeria che risale a 7000-9000 anni fa.

 

[chessman]

EUROPEANS may have used magic mushrooms to liven up religious rituals 6000 years ago. So suggests a cave mural in Spain, which may depict fungi with hallucinogenic properties - the oldest evidence of their use in Europe.

The Selva Pascuala mural, in a cave near the town of Villar del Humo, is dominated by a bull. But it is a row of 13 small mushroom-like objects that interests Brian Akers at Pasco-Hernando Community College in New Port Richey, Florida, and Gaston Guzman at the Ecological Institute of Xalapa in Mexico. They believe that the objects are the fungi Psilocybe hispanica, a local species with hallucinogenic properties.

Like the objects depicted in the mural, P. hispanica has a bell-shaped cap topped with a dome, and lacks an annulus - a ring around the stalk. "Its stalks also vary from straight to sinuous, as they do in the mural," says Akers (Economic Botany, DOI: 10.1007/s12231-011-9152-5).

This isn't the oldest prehistoric painting thought to depict magic mushrooms, though. An Algerian mural that may show the species Psilocybe mairei is 7000 to 9000 years old.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg2 ... nline-news

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