AMANITA MUSCARIA (PART I)

It had been raining all night and the grass was soaked, the bright green stood out in contrast to the reddish oak leaves that covered the ground wherever my steps took me. It was a clear morning, without a single cloud, despite the icy wind that, in gusts, came from the north. A gust finishes stripping the low branches of a chestnut tree giving my sight a curtain of leaves that end up at the foot of a birch tree and, there, among the yellows and reds of the dry leaves, I seem to see her. A wide red hat speckled with white on a thick stem. Yes, she has found me... Perhaps the oldest of the hallucinogens and also the most used. The earliest documented record is of Siberian tribes using Amanita as an intoxicant. She's possibly the Vedic drug from India, called Soma. A Koryak legend (Eastern Russia) tells that the hero Great Raven captured a whale but wasn't strong enough to return her to the sea. So the god Vahiyinin spat on the land and wapaq spirits sprang up. When Great Raven ate wapaq he became so strong that he could return the whale to the sea and prayed to Vahiyinin that wapaq spirits would always grow on the earth. Wapaq was the Amanita Muscaria... If you want to know more about the uses of Amanita throughout history, wait for the second part of the post... Text in Collab @fornleidh

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