The Vision Serpent was a Mayan deity that allowed deceased relatives to be communicated with. It is exceedingly likely that sacraments were used to invoke this deity. The evoker was required to bleed him or her self and put the blood as an offering into to bowl from which the visionary serpent arose. This is common with the extended religious use of Morning Glories - This deity/entity demanded blood and was closely liked to beings such as the Flayed One. The exchange seems to have been one of "Light" for blood...
The Mayan word Bolom is what we call the Jaguar. Notice this Mayan head dress, it’s a composit of a Bolom, a Quetzal bird and three serpents one in the shape of a mushroom. It would appear that after Teotihuacán collapse the Mayan’s inherited their confusion. However, the Mayan mushroom stones which were also seen in the Olmec do preserve the basic symbolism of Mushroom culture. These stones were commonly found in caches of four. Certainly they would be set as property demarcations around discovered Wondrous Mushroom patches.
One new aspect that the Maya brought to the depiction of Psilocybin mushrooms in art was the profile. Instead of just showing us the earing cap and nipple (umbo) they added the profile; showing cap and stem displaying an even more recognizable bell shaped icon.
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