# 5 - Andean Cultures: Paracas, Nazca & Mocha

The Peruvian cultures had an intimate knowledge of the sacrament Psilocybin.  Paracas and Nazca peoples depicted flying peoples with mushrooms in their hands.  Interestingly the two cultures shared the bird head band, symbolic of spiritual fight.  Notice that the far left Paracas artwork hold a blue capped gold stemmed mushroom.  Notice also that the figures feet are those of a Jaguar.  Directly at left is a golden statue of the Peruvian Moche culture.

The Moche culture lived in the Peruvian mountains and left for us a rich cache of sacramental art.  Here we have a drinking vessel that was no doubt filled with the crushed seeds of one of the two Morning Glories.  The seeds were plentiful and easily transported, the Franciscan missionaries were beside themselves in regards to this fact.  This vessel uses the handle spouts as the flowers design while the tendrils signify that it is Morning Glories.  The Humming bird is one of two creatures that frequent these species of Morning Glories, the Butterfly is the other closely associated symbol for Morning Glories.  

The Moche like the Olmec, were well aware of the Amanita muscaria mushrooms as well.  So, naturally artwork remains from each culture showing is sacramental use.  Amanita muscaria is a tricky species to use and it isn’t recommended.  It is said that the active ingredient ibotenic acid in Amanita muscaria must be transformed by heat or possibly drying into Muscimol in order for the experience to be a mystical one.  Our research has shown that the state produced by these mushrooms when properly prepared is very like the description and nature of Star Trek’s Mr. Spock’s.  The heart, or empathetic nature dies for the duration of the experience and pure cold logic prevails.  Nothing like the nature of empathetic heart overflowing Psilocybin, save perhaps in its intensity and in the canyon like follow of depth of thought.

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# 3 - The Earliest Mesoamerican Culture - The Olmecs

As far back as 1500 BC the Olmec Indians of Mesoamerica linked Psilocybin with the big cats (Lions in Europe & Jaguars in Mesoamerica & Tigers in Asia) This Olmec artwork shows the Jaguar with the symbol of the “bell” of Psilocybin around its neck.  Because of the association in visual similarity bells have universally been linked to heavens bell.  This is the reason why the prophet Zechariah wrote “In that day there will be inscribed on the bells of the horses.  “HOLY TO THE LORD.” 

In this early map (lower right) we see two species of Psilocybin, one with a Jaguar head—possibly the Landslide species Psilocybe caerulescens.  The other species with a bird on it—no doubt the “little bird” mushrooms talked so fondly of by Maria Sabina—a species know as Psilocybe mexicana. The Eagle, chosen perhaps because it is the mightiest of the birds just as the Jaguar was the king of the forest.  Here the Eagle holds the symbolic sea shell—the Scallop.  Universally used like the Bell to represent Psilocybin in public display without giving away its esoteric meaning.  The tell tail sign is the way the shell curves back on itself just like the actual mushrooms do.  Natural Scallop shells do not do this… Besides the ribs of a scallop look like gills which add to this shells universal choice…

-See Mylo Xyloto Album “Up With The Birds”

 

The Olmec had two religious camps—the priests dedicated to the Way predominately taught by the Mushrooms and the priests of the Feathered Serpent or Morning Glory.  Here we see a shaman priest sitting in a spiritual serpent, the basket held in hand and the symbolic basket above represent the containers in which these Morning Glory seeds were held.  The most basic symbol for these LSD like seeds of what the Aztecs called “Green Snake Plant” is a an “x” in a square.  You could say “X” marks the spot if you were a pirate, or you could say “X & Y” if you enacting a ColdPlay comment.  In either case the archeological evidence for the existence of both Psilocybin and the hallucinogenic Morning Glories among the Olmec is testified by the “Pot Shard Record.”  You see the Olmec were no dummies they knew they could sell their religions sacraments (shocker) to their neighbors.  The pot shards were found to be either “Ware-Jaguar” pots or across the valley were “Fire Serpent” potshards.  Even though there is a long standing disagreement between the Mushroom Priesthood and the Morning Glory Priesthood, there was certainly plenty of priests who walked on both sides of the spiritual aisle—the right and the left handed path as you will see.

 

This Olmec clay figure head clearly belonged to the Feathered Serpent or Morning Glory camp—as the serpent tendril is set over the ajna chakra or third eye.  Interestingly, this third eye location is set in front of the Pineal Gland, that unique sensing organ that sets the circadian rhythms and is responsible for the internal signal to start or nocturnal dreams (see Melatonin).  The grin gives suspicion to the wary spectator...  Incidentally, the Pineal Gland derives its name from the pine cone which it is similar in shape too, a symbolic link that will show up again and again in various cultures.  Because Morning Glories like LSD contain a short circuit mechanism or "Credit Card Chemistry" they provide massive Serotonin up front but later depletion of 5HTP can result in massive failures of spiritual logic or heart smart reasoning - ie cutting out hearts on temples...  

Incidentally, I took this shot in the British Museum - A totally amazing place once you know your symbols... Next we will examine the Teotihuacan culture and follow the tracks of these three mysterious chemistry's as they first form and then perhaps destroy the culture which built the largest pyramid in the New World...

                                                                                                 Until Then,

God Bless Each & Every One Of You-

Matthalamew

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# 1 - Start Here: The Three Main 'Cultural Universal' Psychedelics - A Review

The Truth is said to set us free.  Free from what?  Hate, fear, war, violence, oppression.  Instead of looking at all the differences we have and all the reasons why Religions can not get along - lets dig into history and see what they all have in common.  Surely this will bring us together in a world that has no peace.  We must start with the three Cultural Universal Psychedelics: Psilocybin, Amanita muscaria & the LSD-like Morning Glories.  Below is a picture of the largest and most commonly found Psilocybin mushrooms - Psilocybe cubensis:

Psilocybin mushrooms have a profound number of associated symbols throughout human history, many of them are still popular in modern culture.  From left to right we have the Lily Cross, made up of for joining lilies—the Lily being an exoteric symbol for Psilocybin.  God Himself, aside from claiming the title of “I Am” what I am, claimed that He “was the Rose of Sharon, the Lily of the Valleys” -Song of Songs.  The Fleur-de-lis, symbol of the Saints, goes marching back much further than France or Freedom Fries.  As mentioned in ColdPlay’s “Us Against The World” - who doesn’t want to be there when the ‘lightning strikes and the Saints Go Marching In?’  The Golden Apple also is traced back to Psilocybe mushrooms as is discussed in the Greek traditions.  The Circumpunct is probably the oldest universal symbol for the cap of these wondrous mushrooms, seen in ancient Hebrew art as well as Buddhism and the Mystery Religions.  Jesus, for whom a great body of Christians died and were martyred was traditionally (though very privately) held to be the Eucharist “my body is real food and my blood is real drink.”  Honey too was a traditional medium for preserving Psilocybin and also a profoundly common way of eating these potent mushrooms.  Honey esoterically became symbolic for Wisdom.  The Capstone on the back of the one dollar bill has been debated over for some time.  Its design is traced back to Free Masonry and the Mystery religions, yet the original Great Pyramid is missing its Capstone and Jesus was called the Capstone…  Old fashion keys were made with the cross section of a mushroom cap in their handle and Psilocybin having the power to unlock the doors to the kingdom of heaven within deserves this title too.  The Scallop shell when properly represented is symbolic of these sacred capstones as well as with Venus/Love and the Morning & Evening Star.  The Jewish, Arabic & East Indian “Hand of God” the Chamsa and Hamsa respectively are derived from this same Philosophers Stone.

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Amanita muscaria like Psilocybe Mushrooms and the Morning Glory Family has been given lots of names and titles.  Some of the major names associated with this mushroom are “The Red Bull of the Mountain,”  “The Red Dragon” which in Chinese tradition has reindeer antlers.  “Santa Claus,” the “Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, and via goddess worship  is linked to both the constellations of Taurus & The Venus of Willendorf.”

Among the ancient East Indians, the use of Amanita muscaria arrived and took hierarchical form when the Aryans showed up in the Indus Valley.  The Caste System was set up with the Brahman's, ritually using the “Red Bull” and suppressed the Dravidian peoples under their lordship.  The age of Taurus is one of the twelve zodiac signs of Astro-theology.  Roughly from 4000—2000 B.C., the age of Taurus saw a proliferation of Bull symbolism, from the Pharaoh Narmer who was represented as a bull to Sargon, conquer of Mesopotamia and the triple bull horn crown.  The energy or spirit behind Amanita muscaria is shockingly logical, it hold no detectable emotion.  Tied to the Siberian tradition of Reindeer, the Asiatic Red Dragon still has the antlers related to the custom of consuming the flesh of reindeers intoxicated with A. muscaria.  Saint Nicholas, with his red and white outfit and flying reindeer surely come for this custom though they are thought to be much later.  A ‘red nose’ after all is associated with “wine and spirits.”  The fact that Satan, lord of the flies is called the Red Dragon in Revelation works well with very old Christian customs that depict Amanita muscaria as the forbidden tree.  In Neolithic times, goddess worship became popular and among certain ‘brotherhoods’ the ‘V’ symbol is know to represent the five stages which lead us back to this pre-deluge state.  The Venus of Willendorf was once painted all red and the head has the look of A. muscaria.

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The symbolism surrounding the LSD like Morning Glories is vast and many of its icons are universal.  Above we have just some of these archetypal images, from left to right Hunab Ku—the Mayan deity whose symbol is the combination of the morning glories light and dark circular flower with butterfly antenna and the donative's spiral tendril.  The Feathered Serpent or winged dragon, the humming bird and butterfly were more commonly Mesoamerican associations while the Unicorn was an East Indian association as the Morning Glory Argyreia nervosa.  It was the Unicorn’s magical spiral horn that created this association. Uni-corn or grain of oneness.  The Conch shell was universally used to symbolize the Morning Glories both because its flower looks like the spiral conch and because when you cut its “horn” off there the tendril shape appears.  The snake eating its tail also crops up as an occult symbol for the Morning Glories, most like because of associations with the earliest secret societies “the Brotherhood of the Serpent” & the “Brotherhood of the Dragon.”  -See Bill Cooper’s Mystery Babylon series for details.  The Spiral and the Serpent are very much universally associated with the hallucinogenic Morning Glories and if in fact the “serpents head which is crushed” in Genesis is a subtle revelation that it was the spirit of Morning Glories that seduced Eve—then the circle is complete.  For you will see that the Mortar and Pestle is used universally to crush the heads/seedpods of what the Aztecs called “The Green Snake Plant.”

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Now you have every thingyou need to know about the three Psychedelics which most impacted Religion and by doing so History.  Each Psychedelic had a variety of symbolic representations which were used to create a more or less universal symbolic language.  Those who spoke the language either belonged to the Mystery Schools (a shady group), Priests (such as in ancient Israel) or were initiated by these Sacraments themselves.  Now we begin the journey of examining human history in light of this knowledge to the ends that we can determine what the nature of these spiritual tools by their teachers and culture values.  Surely someone will bring up cultural relativism here, but I assure you human motives are the same world wide.  Heart's cut out on alters are not a good sign.  Let's begin with the Mesoamerican histories...

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