From the bodies of the gods : psychoactive plants and the cults of the dead / Earl Lee.
- Lee, Earl, 1954-2015.
- Date:
- [2012], ©2012
- Books
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Publication/Creation
Rochester, Vt. : Park Street Press, [2012], ©2012.
Physical description
ix, 245 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references (p. 224-235) and index.
Contents
Surviving remnants of the cult of the dead -- Sacred oils, sacred foods -- The red corpse -- Ritual cannibalism and magic foods -- Cults of the dead in the modern world -- Hebrew and Christian ointments -- Hallucinations as history -- Plants from the bodies of the gods -- Signs of the cult of the dead -- Immortality -- The cult of the dead in Greece -- The goddesses of Crete -- Minoan graves -- Eating the dead -- The horns of consecration -- The double ax -- Awakening the bees -- Zeus and the human sack -- Dionysus and the Greek gods -- Dionysus and Osiris worship: Greek or Egyptian? -- Prometheus -- Adonis -- Jason and Jesus -- From the minotaur to Jesus.
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Location Status History of MedicineBVBAOpen shelves
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- 9781594774584
- 1594774587
- 9781594777011
- 1594777012