Mythology

Between the documented shamanic traditions of Siberia and the speculative connections to ancient Greece lies a vast geographical middle ground: Central Asia. It was across this zone — the Eurasian steppe, the Iranian plateau, the mountains of Bactria and Sogdia — that cultures developed which may represent the missing link in Amanita muscaria’s journey from […]

The Eleusinian Mysteries were the most celebrated and most closely guarded religious ceremonies of the ancient Greek world. Held annually at Eleusis, near Athens, for nearly two thousand years, they promised initiates a transformative experience and a changed relationship with death. The identity of the kykeon — the ritual drink consumed at the heart of […]