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Soma
The divine mushroom of immortality
Robert Gordon Wasson
"One of the key enigmas of cultural history has been the
identity of a sacred plant called Soma in the ancient Rig Veda of
India. Mr. Wasson has aroused considerable attention in learned circles and
beyond by advancing and documenting the thesis that Soma was a
hallucinogenic mushroom --none other than Amanita muscaria, the fly-agaric
that until recent times was the center of shamanic rites among the Siberian
and Uralic tribesmen. In his presentation he throws fascinating light on the
role of mushrooms in religious ritual. A section on the post-Vedic history
of Soma is contributed by the Sanskrit scholar Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty.
This edition faithfully reproduces the text and all but two of the many
color and black-and-white illustrations of the original, lavishly printed,
deluxe edition.
"Mr. R. C. Wasson advances a revolutionary hypothesis on the nature of Soma,
the implications of which are 50 widespread that ethnologists cannot leave
the task of communicating it to Indian specialists only MI. Wasson's work
establishes, in our opinion convincingly, that among all the candidatures
put forward for representing Soma, Amanita muscaria is by far the most
plausible."
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CLAUDE LÉVI-STRAUSS, L'Homme
"The argument of Wasson's Soma is
as lucid as unanswerable; the illustrations are wonderful, the quotations
are numerous and telling. I congratulate him on his feat."
- ROBERT
GRAVES, Atlantic Monthly
"The careful scholarship of the dedicated amateur mycophile R. Gordon Wasson
reads like an exciting scientific detective story. Moreover, his willingness
to pursue the guest through the wide range of linguistics, archeology,
folklore, philology, ethnobotany, plant ecology, human physiology, and
prehistory constitutes an object lesson to all holistic professional
students of man."
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WESTON LA BARRE, American Anthropologist "
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