Fun fact. Osiris was the Egyptian God of magic mushrooms. They were said to sprout where his seed dribbled on the ground. Egyptian columns were representations of both his phallus and shrooms. Greeks copied the Egyptians, Romans copied the Greeks, and we copied The Romans. Because of Osiris' role as judge of the dead, columns were also put on courthouses. Whenever you see columns outside a courthouse, that's Osiris' phallus.

@RealUvane

8 ай бұрын

The Garden of Eden/paradise, is inside the Orion Nebula M42. Our solar system was born there.

@Animalis_Mundana

8 ай бұрын

@@RealUvane I thought it was in New Jersey.

@RealUvane

8 ай бұрын

@@Animalis_Mundana why?

@zanbudd

8 ай бұрын

@@RealUvane Since childhood, I’ve felt a strange pull toward the constellation Orion. Since the internet has such a variety of information, i run across interesting information - thank you for sharing 🙏🏼🦋

@Will-fj9gy

8 ай бұрын

Source?

"For I have dined on honeydew and drank the milk of paradise" Xanadu - Samuel Taylor Coleridge & later Rush.

@trailertrish2587

8 ай бұрын

Sweet Hostage with Linda Blair and Martin Sheen

@marksadventures3889

8 ай бұрын

@@trailertrish2587 never seen it sorry

@NealBones

8 ай бұрын

Big W for the Rush reference

@kellydalstok8900

8 ай бұрын

Coleridge’s drug was opium, though. That must be where his “slimy things with legs” came from. Though I also like Douglas Adams’s explanation in Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency.

@chrisharding5447

8 ай бұрын

@@kellydalstok8900 I've never seen any slimy legs on opiates....??

In modern times, it’s not uncommon for people to use honey to preserve mushrooms, or to put honey in mushroom tea to make it taste better. Also a properly made mushroom tea will not contain any pieces of mushroom, the active ingredients steep into the water and removing the flesh reduces stomach symptoms, which I’m sure a shaman would figure out. But since the mushrooms absorb a lot of the water, a smart person squeezes the filtered mushroom bits out to make sure all the potency is in the liquid. All of this could be easily done with stone age knowledge and technology. So then calling it a mead makes sense if that means a honey brew, a mushroom tea with honey is still a type of honey brew, and the reference to squeezing also makes sense. (The above is not intended for instructional purposes, no one should ever drink THAT kind of tea, of course…)

@man.inblack

8 ай бұрын

I assure you I will not be educated by your comment. 🫣

@bc2578

8 ай бұрын

@@man.inblack Someone who isn't me won't, either, I assure you.

@garymensurati1631

6 ай бұрын

Thank you 👍

@Val.Kyrie.

6 ай бұрын

Mushrooms are great for Parkinson's

@HellNoMoreBiden

6 ай бұрын

Your singing with the choir. I don't think preaching is correct

Mushrooms were kept in honey historically. There are even cave paintings of bee faced shamans with mushrooms growing everywhere out of their body.

@kaarlimakela3413

8 ай бұрын

Yikes.

@demetos5432

8 ай бұрын

Bee faced mushroom shaman circa 8000bc . Humans and mushrooms look what they can produce.

@sirseigan

8 ай бұрын

Would you be kind to provide a source to where I can read more about this bee faced shaman?

@ximono

8 ай бұрын

It's eerie! Search for "bee faced shaman" if you don't mind having weird dreams. Edit: Except it's fake, drawn by Terrence McKenna's wife. The actual cave painting in Tassili n'Ajjer only has four shrooms, on his shoulders and thighs. She must have been on shrooms when she drew the bee faced shaman.

@mermiez1

8 ай бұрын

That's still the way they sell them in Yucatan. Lol. Jar of honey with shrooms.

I just want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for choosing to create a friendly and inviting atmosphere in your videos while being an incredible storyteller. I'm currently on a healing journey due to religious abuse/trauma, and I've recently found your channel. You have helped me regain my love for mythology and ancient peoples, and your voice is incredibly soothing to listen to- similar to how Morgan Freeman could be speaking of watching paint dry, and most would buy an audiobook of it! Again, thank you for doing what you do- it helps people in ways you can't imagine ❤!

@Crecganford

5 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for your kind words, they are appreciated and I hope I can continue to make videos you enjoy.

I think it's important to realize, with regard to how the psychotropic stuff would give them subjective experiences, that the reason they held such personal and social power was precisely because they were thought to be objective experiences. These experiences were interpreted to give the same kind of information about reality as any day to day experience. I mention this because it's easy, I think, for modern people to make the mistake about religion that people in the past believed it to be subjective. Whereas in fact, they believed it to be just as objectively real as anything else they encountered, and that was why it held such power for them.

@Crecganford

8 ай бұрын

I do talk about this at the end of this video.

@blakewinter1657

8 ай бұрын

@@Crecganford Oh yes, I did listen to that, I just wanted to clarify!

@josephbenson6301

7 ай бұрын

I don't think it's a reach to say they didn't believe in those stories and gods and the mystical features of the world... they knew it. It was fact for them. That is very powerful.

@henryvonblumenthal7307

3 ай бұрын

Modern traditional Catholics like me believe in the objective reality of transubstantiation at Mass.

@taiyoqun

2 ай бұрын

​@@henryvonblumenthal7307first of all, I have nothing against you. Yet I have to use this scarce opportunity to use my favourite "insult": Theophage!

Also you might want to consider that chewing a mushroom up and spitting it would be a way to spread the spores, but of course they didn't know about the spores but they probably did notice that mushrooms would grow where they spit the chewed mushrooms.... Just a thought... Accidental early mycology attributed to an action maybe? (To the extremely toxic reply person) Mushroom farming is documented at earliest to be 1800 (1200AD) years ago. They didn't have microscopes until 1600's. No one knew about spores until post 1600's. They had serious trouble with spawn until the 20th century when it became a full blown science. In the 1800's it was recorded as being 1 out of 6 spawn flushing and all the others didn't or was contaminated. Even the 1000 year old Chinese records on mushroom farming assumed it was the mycelium in the soil, also the Japanese Shitake farms in the 1200's made and no mention of spores at all in the spawn process. So no. Ancient hunter gatherers did not know about spores at all, and it wasn't even mentioned in any ancient texts in any languages until post 1600's. The other clue is in the mythology, they spit into a vat and a "MAN" was created, and mushrooms are phallic in nature. They could have easily used a non-gendered word but they didn't in the mythology. So just another clue...

@user-vr8qd4hk6y

5 ай бұрын

Very interesting

14:06 This reminds me of a story from hinduism Garuda(the main eagle deity) was carrying a pot of amrutha(nectar, basically the drink which made gods live forever).. and while flying he spilt some onto the dried grass land below. There were a bunch of demons on the ground(in the form of snakes), and when they saw the nectar fall to the ground, the tried to lick it up from the land but instead the dried grass being sharp cut their tounges in half. This is also the reason why dried grass(again dried grass, not fresh grass, as the nectar fell on dried grass) is a very holy item used in rituals even to this day! i really love ur vids! thanks a lot for making them!

@leekestner1554

8 ай бұрын

The Greeks called that drink ambrosia. The two words 'ambrosia' and 'amrutha' are very close. I wonder if they are cognates.

@Jonnydoitall

8 ай бұрын

They are both thought to be descended from the PIE root *mer-² A couple English words from the same root would be words related to 'mortality', 'murder', &c. & the '*a-' prefix in each of the two words is a negation therof, so 'amrit' & 'ambrosia' are like the English word 'immortal,' but they refer rather specifically to the drink of immortals.

@john-ic5pz

8 ай бұрын

Syrian rue is a grass high in DMT any connection, I wonder?

@sandradermark8463

8 ай бұрын

Now I know why snakes' tongues are forked

@dr.k1012

8 ай бұрын

​@@sandradermark8463very niche knowledge but I hope you get to show it off someday ✌🏼

Spit can be used to jumpstart fermentation of alcoholic drinks as well. There are a few beverages still made in this way. I wonder if the very earliest meads were made in this way.

@kellydalstok8900

8 ай бұрын

I’ve seen this in a tv documentary about a tribe, where the women chewed plant roots and spat it in a vessel. It’s the enzymes in saliva that break down the starch.

@flamingdonut9456

8 ай бұрын

Sounds a bit grim, but very interesting.

@flamingdonut9456

8 ай бұрын

​@@kellydalstok8900interesting. Another thing to add to my "who on earth was the first person to figure this out?!" List.

@hermanhale9258

8 ай бұрын

I was thinking the plant could have been whatever they put in the drink to help fermentation along. For example, in modern baking, people sometimes use the potato or sugar. But the word "press" was mentioned as a written clue to what they were doing. Pressing juice out of some plant.

@AGoldschmidt

8 ай бұрын

@@kellydalstok8900 That would probably be the "chicha" in South America.

I have always wondered why all magical related stories or movies give so much power to just writting out things. I finally have a primordial context for the power in words and writting. Thank you.

@Cruxador

8 ай бұрын

Even today, our primary method of understanding the world is the scientific process, where documentation is absolutely critical and the main thing that elevates it above any other experimentation

@john-ic5pz

8 ай бұрын

words are a lens to focus our intent with. ime, it is focused intent that is the driving force behind "magik". ❤

@thekaxmax

8 ай бұрын

Writing ('spelling') was magical to the illiterate.

@zzztopspin

8 ай бұрын

It was perhaps more than just "writing and spelling", for, even the illiterate could understand that the literate were "reading", and taking the magic of meaning from the runes and communicating it to an audience of potentially dozens. It was the transference of meaning that the letters allowed, that even an illiterate person could have identified - that is to say, the way crecganford puts it, is that the magic is only in the letters if the person reading them has taken the magic of understanding into themselves @@thekaxmax

@HiopX

7 ай бұрын

and don't forget the magic potions

There is a story from Croatia about Woden being pursued across the sky on horseback by demons and froth falling from his horse's mouth from which the fly agaric mushroom grew.

@hermanhale9258

8 ай бұрын

Funny it is the horse's mouth and not Odin's mouth. Actually a cow flying and dropping cow patties that magic mushrooms sprang from should be in a myth somewhere.

@SunRabbit

8 ай бұрын

So what is the Croatian name for Odin/Woden? In Czech we have Svarog, Veles, Radhost, but I'm not aware of anything that sounds like Odin.

@hermanhale9258

8 ай бұрын

@@SunRabbit They used to say Odin had no counterpart in the rest of Indo-European myth.

@SunRabbit

8 ай бұрын

@@hermanhale9258 Sounds about right.

@shanegooding4839

7 ай бұрын

@@SunRabbit Germans live in Croatia too. They are a minority with their own elected representative. I think they're called Danubian Swabians. I probably should have said Wotan rather than the Anglo-Saxon Woden.😄

Thanks that was really interesting. I read an article that said that Ireland grows a lot of Liberty Cap mushrooms. Taking Liberty Caps was a folk ritual at wedding celebrations.

@gee4947

6 ай бұрын

No wonder their weddings and wakes are so legendary lol 👍

@mukhumor

6 ай бұрын

@@gee4947 yeah, something like that..😋

I enjoy my mushrooms made into a tea. A gram or 2 or 3 of dry fungi in a blender with a cup of teas worth of hot water and a squeeze of half a lemon. Blend and seep for a couple minutes. Filter through mesh strainer. Add honey and milk to taste. Thats my recipe for ambrosia

@reichelsperspective6210

5 ай бұрын

**Referring to gourmet fungi.**

All of this creating people with spit makes me think of oral swabs and the fun and frightening things we are learning to do with DNA.

I‘m glad you named the elephant in the room. Since I found your channel with every single video I thought there where surely some psychedelic experiences included but you never hit this topic. I thought this was a pity but on the other side I understood because it is a hard topic if you want to be a reliable scholar. All the more I’m happy you did it and I think you did a great job. As I mentioned in one of my earlier comments I could imagine that there’s a connection between the use of psychedelics and the earliest snake and serpent myths. I have no personal experience with ayahuasca but it’s said that there are often visions including a snake-like being. Perhaps other psychedelics do this too.

My friend is a lecturer on philosophy of mind and metaphysics at Exeter University. This is right up his alley...

Henbane has been used in beer brewing. The gardens where henbane was grown were dedicated to Wotan/Odin. The german name for Henbane is Bilsenkraut, which is why we still have the beer Pilsner... Mead made with Henbane, or perhaps even with its much more potent sister Belladonna Atropa, is in my mind a much more likely candidate for the Mead of Poetry than mushrooms. Thank you for a wonderful KZread channel!

@Crecganford

8 ай бұрын

And thank you for watching and taking the time to comment, it is appreciated.

@jodytrush20

8 ай бұрын

henbane has scopalomine in it

@hellequingentlemanbastard9497

7 ай бұрын

Pilsner Beer comes from the Czech Town of Plzen, they were the first to make a "Blond" beer, everywhere else all the beers had been "dark" in colour.

@duckpotat9818

7 ай бұрын

Nightshades result in an unpleasant, confused and delirious state. I think some psychedelic is much more likely.

@chrisquirke5235

7 ай бұрын

Pilsner lovely beer

In the Peruvian jungle there is a fermented drink called Masato that is made by the communal chewing and spitting of yucca (a root kind of like a potato) into a bowl that is then fermented with other stuff for a couple of days

@ximono

8 ай бұрын

In Bolivia, old women chew corn (maize) and spit into a bowl for it to ferment into "chicha". I know because I was tricked into drinking it.

@at_3831

6 ай бұрын

Masato is what Timothy Albariño drank aT a welcoming ceremony into a Peru village recently

Great lecture. The runes having no power without mead makes me think of chaos magic...

@Crecganford

8 ай бұрын

Indeed, I hope that makes sense.

One magic mushroom that Scandinavian shamans were known to use up to recent times is Fly Agaric (the red and white variety). It still appears sometimes on Christmas cards, which would be otherwise odd, because they don't appear that time of the year.

@ximono

8 ай бұрын

Yet almost nobody knows or talks about it in today's Scandinavian societies. Except the myth that vikings ate it and went berserk, which I highly doubt. It was obviously very important to our ancestors. StoneAgeMan has a good video on it.

@yomom5548

8 ай бұрын

Real fun rabbit hole you've just spotted.

@sweis12

6 ай бұрын

The fly algeric mushroom produces a very similar "high" to the more common psylosibin mushrooms, but using completely different compounds (ibotenic acid and muscimol) that work on completely different receptors than psylosibin. It's almost like the mushrooms know what they want to show us and it doesn't matter what methods they have to use to show us.

@albertknight1971

6 ай бұрын

Why due think Santa's red and white, prezzies round the tree, and he's Raindeer can FLY. Resurrects in 3 day's aswell, Cures the sick and is lovely for turning Grape into " WINE ".

@albertknight1971

6 ай бұрын

Amanita Muscaria was eaten by the raindeers, the Shamans drink the urine, the tribesmen drank the Shamans, shite rolls downhill.

34:10 Psilocybe cubensis (formerly Stropharia cubensis;) does love dung, sometimes grows directly on it. It can be found in warm countries around the world. Shown in the picture is Psilocybe semilanceata, often called "liberty caps". These generally don't grow directly on dung, but in the grass of pastures. I think they are the most likely candidate in european cultures north of the alps.

@strophariusmusic

7 ай бұрын

To all the dealers thinking this is a good place to advertise: I'll keep reporting every single one of you.

@Newhorizons..

7 ай бұрын

They grow on wood chip, called wavy caps in the u.k

@andrewcanady6644

6 ай бұрын

@@strophariusmusic Why?

@strophariusmusic

6 ай бұрын

@@andrewcanady6644 Because a remark or even a discussion is not a place for advertising. I perceive "get drugs here" messages as spam - especially since yt relays them to me as notifications, because they're in reply to my comment. Also their authors are probably feds trying to get unsuspecting curious minds to commit actual felonies.

@andrewcanady6644

6 ай бұрын

@@strophariusmusic Copy that.

Hey Jon, I found your channel recently and have been binging your videos non-stop. I've learned so much and just cannot get enough! The topics you cover are wonderfully fascinating. I feel incredibly privileged to live in a time when information sharing is this easy and even more so to find people such as yourself and the content you make. I'm an academic myself, though in an entirely unrelated field (molecular genetics of disease), and I hugely appreciate the openness and integrity with which you approach teaching. Please, please, please keep the content coming! p.s. please also keep reminding us to like your videos. I always forget to do so until you mention it!

@Crecganford

8 ай бұрын

Thank you, and I do keep forgetting to say “Like”, and so will endeavour to correct this.

@sinkpehnarossfire454

8 ай бұрын

@@Crecganford 🌎: " 🙂 "

It's been decades for me, but I do recall a definite sense of expanded consciousness. Not hippy-trippy stuff, but certainly a different perspictive of things.

I have always wondered why milk & honey is referenced so often in the biblical texts. It is used for baby food, to reference a special land & I think as a drink given. It makes more sense if a tradition existed prior to the Abrahamic writing and possibly contemporary to. Very nice work here. I truly enjoy discovering here ✌️💗🤘

@Crecganford

8 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for that comment.

@markdeegan7268

8 ай бұрын

Well done

@slthbob

8 ай бұрын

Neither milk nor honey spoiled across the history of human civilization... modern milk does... that nugget of discontinuity between then and now is just one.

@kariannecrysler640

8 ай бұрын

@@slthbob Where did you get the idea milk didn’t spoil?

@slthbob

8 ай бұрын

from the raw milk I have in my fridge right now silly... it turns to buttermilk and cheese... you have only experienced the modern world of opulence and opportunity my friend... where if milk gets chunky it is bad @@kariannecrysler640

I wonder if the "Honey" in the honey mead could be the actual ingredient, as I recall, bees that feed from the rhododendrons tend to produce what is called Mad Honey that has a strong psychedelic effect on those who drink it. Perhaps there was another plant like the rhododendron that also gave the honey in those days the same or maybe even more potent effect? Could be a different plant per region yet all having the same effect.

@LPRH246

8 ай бұрын

Oleander Honey

@williamboisdenghien2849

8 ай бұрын

You can be bedridden or even die from it. Mithridates used that to his advantage against the Romans. Butting honeybees along roads with rhododendrons to ensure that their honey would be toxic at that time of the year when the Roman soldiers passed by and collected it. The ill soldiers where subsequently eliminated.

@zanbudd

8 ай бұрын

There are stories of Himalayan Mad honey - you might look into it. Please don’t try oleander honey tho - wouldn’t want you to die.

@kellydalstok8900

8 ай бұрын

Rhododendrons aren’t native to Europe.

@jon...5324

8 ай бұрын

very unlikely, whereas we know mushroom honey has been a thing for a very long time

I got my name from a book my older brother gave me called “Brave New World” I was starting high school, at the time I didn’t know the full impact it would have on my life but I’m thankful I read that book. - SOMA

@arturhashmi6281

8 ай бұрын

You should read "the Doors of perception" by the same author - Aldous Huxley, it is one of the first great book about psychedelics in western culture also band "the doors" took their name from the title

@soma1990

8 ай бұрын

@@arturhashmi6281 thanks for the suggestion!

Thanks Jon. Cant wait to watch this later mate

@Crecganford so Wonderful to Listen to Your Voice! There are those who have a wealth of information to share yet lack a voice from which such stories flow. Thankful for This!!!💜🖤💫

I've heard many trip reports about psychedelics like the Psilocybin mushrooms and their health benefits, I also heard it helps one get through addiction and depression. I'm just wondering where or how I can get my hands on them cause I'll love to give it a try, I'm passing through a state of terrible depression lately

@katlinkate

8 ай бұрын

Once I took shrooms on accident they were in a chocolate bar and my fat ass thought it was regular chocolate

@userconspiracynut

8 ай бұрын

[adamsflakesx] Ships psychedelics

@albert.robles7

8 ай бұрын

​@@userconspiracynuthow can I reach out??

@albert.robles7

8 ай бұрын

Is it Instagram?

@userconspiracynut

8 ай бұрын

Yeah, he has variety of stuffs like mushrooms, LSD, DMT, MDMA, even the chocolate bars

Every time I have a question you answer it. Sometimes before I know what I'm asking. You are an absolute legend. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

I have those same Folio Society editions in the background! (Egyptians, Hittites, Babylonians, Assyrians etc). Beautiful books.

@Crecganford

7 ай бұрын

Yes, they are, I love books, but Folio Society books, they are at a different level.

Good on ya for covering this

The picture you displayed of The P. Cubensis is a Liberty cap. Liberty caps don't grown out of dung unlike Cubes. Very interesting discussion!

There is a very strong case to be made that the psycoactive ingredience could have been a plant of several of the Solanaceae, aka Nighshade, family. A case just as strong if not even stonger then the case of Psilocybin. This "nightshade case" can also be connected to Rig Veda and later hindu rituals where the practioner asks for forgivness for loosing the Soma recepie. It can also be traced in Avesta, Through greek drug use and ritual practices (however not Demeter but within the Dionysus cult). You can continue tracing this through archelogical findings all over europe, greek texts, herblore and folklore - even medival recepie of beer. It has even held a significant and well documented place within historical medicine in the ancient world (Greek, Roman and Arab medical authors all knew the plants well). Based on descriptions of the user under the influence, archelogical findings and mentions in seversl different historic texts as well as research into the active compounds and various interesting "coincidenses", I would suggest that the actual drink was not made up of one single ingredience, as it so often is presented, but rather a mix of several in an effort to counter-out some quite nasty side effects. One such compound could possibly perhaps maybe have been a source of ephedrine for example. So even though I agree with the "framework" presented I do not automatically draw the same conclusion of psilocybin mushrooms as this video does. And although it is a great video I wished alternative theories were presented as well, or at least a stronger case were made for psilocybin as the single psycoactive component.

Great video! Recently found you channel, and I have really enjoyed it so far. Such a breath of fresh air! Thank you!

@Crecganford

8 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!

Absolutely wonderful story teller!! Outstanding engagement, charming and warm

@Crecganford

7 ай бұрын

Thank you.

When I discovered the pyramid mound and learned about the painted faces on rocks, I began to see the mushrooms and the mammoth, and was compelled to try magic mushrooms to see if it has anything to do with ancient art. The Mammoth Effigy’s are also mushrooms, because the Pooh of those giant mammals created those mushrooms. It 100% has to deal with our consciousness and Stone Art.

Wow. Just this morning, I was looking up whether anyone makes and sells mead these days. Turns out my own state, Michigan, is a leader in the production of the ancient drink. I can't wait to try one as simple as the original.

@ximono

8 ай бұрын

Mead can be so many different things. From disgustingly sweet "cider" to extremely dry "wine" to just like a beer. Congratulations, you've just discovered a new category of alcoholic beverages with an ABV of 3.5 to well over 20 :)

I'll just say a few things about Sarcostemmas. There are a number of species spread over a rather larger area than the one mentioned here. They have leafless, snake-like stems, 5 petaled flowers that look like stars, well the way stars are commonly depicted, including on the ceilings of Egyptian tombs. Their seed pods look like pairs of horns. To confuse matters they've now been included in the genus Cynanchum, based on DNA evidence. They belong to the Apocynaceae (dogbane) family (a lot of older books put them in the Asclepiadaceae which is now included in the Apocynaceae). Many of this family also have snake-like stems, star-like flowers and horn-like seed pods. This family includes the genus Pseudolithos, which is endemic to north-east Africa and bare a suspicious resemblence to Cushite pyramids.

Maybe it's just me, but i feel there is some synchronicity in this video being presented to us at this time of year.

Great video. Thanks for the work you did to provide this.

@Crecganford

8 ай бұрын

And thank you for watching it.

"Spit" is one of the Ultraconserved Words in Euroasiatic (which you've covered before and pointed out "worm/wyrm"). If you're going with Dionysus = Jesus, then it's interesting his death/rebirth sequence starts in Gethsemane, which means "olive press."

Awesome topic! Looking forward to watch it later.

Totally unrelated to the subject, I really enjoy your voice, accent and delivery. They remind me of the voice of an author whose books I have been enjoying in audio format lately which are read by the author. His name is Robert Rankin. I hope this does not offend you. I really enjoy his voice, his stories and his delivery. I listen while my hands are otherwise occupied. He makes me laugh, and, by association, your voice makes me smile. I hope you are not blood enemies.

@Crecganford

8 ай бұрын

I love Robert Rankin's books, a good balance between Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett, I'm looking forward to his new book which should be out any day now!

Happy to find you!

Good to see you again! 😊

Mead! I just had some mead recently, but not with shrooms. 😅 And i enjoyed my cuppa coffee while listening. Always enjoy your intellectual, aural libations and insights into the shared human history, anthropology, and religious beliefs.

@Crecganford

8 ай бұрын

Thank you!

The Mead of Poetry is in my unschooled opinion a sweet tea drawn from the wood chips of the Sassafras tree ... spiked with "Sally". "Sally" is pressed from the Sassafras tree/ leaves as an oil. Native Americans draw a tea from Sassafras woodchips. They call this sweet tea "Kvfi". AKVA-Við. Brew of Vision. Look into it Jon. I have a little kicker for you ... Sassafras comes in red and white variations ;)

Good video, thanks man

Another good one. Thank you

Very interesting subject to talk about. 😊 always a pleasure to watch your videos brother.

@Crecganford

8 ай бұрын

Thank you

Amazing video as always. I'm a Biology grad student in India and I am almost certain that the drink did not contain Ergot as a significant active ingredient. While Ergot produces compounds that can be used to make El Es Dee (:(KZread censorship) it itself is not psychoactive in a similar fashion , much like potatoes don't get you drunk like V0dka. Although some ergot would have definitely ended up in it if they used grains in the fermentation, it wasn't a major ingredient IMO Amanatia Muscaria, Psil0cybin mushrooms and cannab!$ or some combination sounds more like likely.

I knew a little about the importance of Mead, I heard the Honeymoon/ Mead relationship and the Norse Mead, the drink of Gods and Giants. Listening to you, I always learn something new!!!!

Wonderful story; tough time to be alive :) Thanks for all the wonderful information!

Thank You . That was Awesome!❤

nice work,thx mate.

Simply fascinating!!

Kvass now is made from a fermented grainsoup. You find this in most (nord?) Slavic countries ; Very refreshing

Fascinating - thank you.

From the 'glacier blood' reference you made, I was reminded of red bacteria in glaciers. I have just looked into it. 'Sphingobacteria' is one of the aerobic bacteria found in these glaciers and, I just found, it is also one of the key flavour profilers in a Chinese wine called 'Huanjiu'!

@Crecganford

8 ай бұрын

Well I have learnt something new today, thank you!

Always one of my favorite topics 🙏

The intoxication of poetry, magic spell invocation, the Channeling of Spirits. Mead is sweet like the poets song.

The difficulty of attempting to transfer the wisdom of these hallucinogens in modern times is the lack of societal cohesion and context around it. Sure it can be pursued individually but interpretation of the experience, the actual wisdom supposedly being sought, is pretty random and not necessarily useful in a broader social sense. It runs the risk of adding to a user's sense of separation, the very thing that helps drive a search for that wisdom in the first place. Even for those who experience an immediate feeling of kinship with others from the hallucinogenic trip, it's still deeply individualistic.

@quixotiq

8 ай бұрын

This.

Incredible the etymology of madhu, thanks for another great video.

Always nice to hear real facts that arent misguided. One of my favorite channels 😊

@Crecganford

6 ай бұрын

Thank you for your kind words, I do my best to keep it all unbiased and academic.

Thanks 😊 enjoyed your video Sir ❤️😌. Looooove a great story. So glad I found you. Subscribed already 😁. Going directly to next story title catching my fancy love to you, and the comment section family, from Texas ❣️🤠😎

@Crecganford

7 ай бұрын

Thank you for your kind words.

I can't seem to google the story, but as I recall, in the middle east in a desert, they found brewing vats of a mead and drug mix and analyzed some of the still detectable chemicals present. If anyone can find that story, that would be cool.

Really interesting, thank you.

@Crecganford

8 ай бұрын

Thank you for watching.

Fascinating stuff!

@Crecganford

8 ай бұрын

Thank you.

Just a note that I really enjoy your well researched video. Thank you. 2:15

@Crecganford

8 ай бұрын

Thank you for taking the time to let me know, it is appreciated.

Well timed ma dude .

🤔 This is pretty interesting. Although how it could be lost is pretty understandable. I’ve worked tech support. Even with written instructions, people can still bungle things very badly. The staff sounds like it could be quite hard to make. In preliterate societies it must’ve been quite difficult.

Well done. A scholarly presentation on a somewhat sensitive subject handled with rational expertise.

@Crecganford

8 ай бұрын

Thank you much

Kvas is a Rusian drink, called - brew. Also, Mead: there is a brewed drink, other, than kvas, called - Meadovuha. It's a brewed honey, i.e. in Rusian, you can call it: Kvashenaya Meadovuha (Kvased Mead => Brewed Honey).

The Runes (the Futhark) were common to all the Germanic peoples, going back to Gothic, Old English, and very Old Norse (the Elder Futhark of 24 runes was abandoned for the 16 runes of the Younger Futhark about AD 850, for some damn reason). Also “Odin” is a simple Norse version of proto-Germanic *Wodenaz, with the initial W in front of the “right” sort of vowel being swallowed in the North Germanic tongues, and the “az” shifting to “ar”, then being dropped.

@Crecganford

8 ай бұрын

I am very much aware of all this, and have a great video on where Odin's name probably came from, going back before Wōđanaz.

What I find interesting is the similarity between descriptions of near death experience and mushroom trips and other similar hallucinogens.

@thekaxmax

8 ай бұрын

same part of the brain activated. There's good evidence that near death experiences are entirely hallucinations, which backs this up.

Fascinating!

@Crecganford

7 ай бұрын

Thank you.

I came to realize that Odin means "one" in most Slavic languages. When the Christianity came to Bohemia, of course the priests had to use the words for gods existing before; so surely they first took the name for god for them and then they discredited the previous ones. So, strangely, in our translation of Bible God is also called "Hospodin". The first part of the word is close to "hospitality", but rather meaning a manager in the sense of (I think in Greek it is "economou", referring to the caretaking rather than power). Soundwise also close to English "husband" in the sense of the guy who cares about the house, fields and property. The second part of the word strangely says "Odin" - but we have to remember that it might also mean rather "God Odin", meaning One God.

This is the second of your videos that I have watched and mostly completely enjoyed, I'm even considering subscribing I rarely do, please provide more citation on the origins of the myth concerning the Eucharist of Christ being psychedelic... As always citations are appreciated in scholarly presentations. Many thanks to you and your team, almost persuaded 38:23

@tsmart9478

6 ай бұрын

@@ZUSOTRIP-lnstagram... I searched Google and found nothing that matches the text , who is the author, please and thanks have a great day

The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross is a very interesting dive down this type of rabbit hole.

@akidodogstar5460

8 ай бұрын

Yes I referenced that book today also.

@kellydalstok8900

8 ай бұрын

I read it when I was too young to properly understand it. I wish I still had the book.

@hermanhale9258

8 ай бұрын

@@kellydalstok8900 I think it is online.

fascinating post and comments....👍👍

My favorite video so far. 🤔👍

Thanks!

@Crecganford

8 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!

Hmmm...as I'm watching this I'm listening to the bubbling of the Pinot Noir grape mead - so called pyment, fermenting in the background. Might just call it Kvasir's Blood. I've made Dansk Mjød's Viking Blod clone numerous times as well as their Odin's Skull. Cheers from Denmark! 🍷🍷

Wonderful. Thank you. ✌️❤️💪

There is also the importance attched to mead by monastic orders, both in the UK, and widespread across Europe.

Oh how delightful!!

A few years ago I I came to the conclusion that writing made our ability to memorize information redundant and the world has been screwed ever since. Without strong memories we're forced to use faith and more than necessary, we end up relying on others for accurate information instead of ourselves with our weak pathetic memories.

@rocketxiv4980

8 ай бұрын

this sounds like the debate that was had when Thoth considered teaching mankind the secrets of the emerald tablet, such as new forms of reading and writing one of the gods said exactly this that writing will make us forget, outsourcing our memory to those who can control and change it for their own purposes

You r the boss !!!

On the thought concerning magic, poetry, and mead, I spent a few decades consuming awareness altering, concoctions while associating an almost religious, maybe I could even say it was religious, at least in the sense that this music, and these lyrics that I filled my reality with while taking my '20th century mead', was done in a very regular and faithful manner. It was no doubt spiritual. During those decades, I would go to certain places, at specific times of the year, and I would meet with, celebrate, and share with the same large group of people, all surrounding, and delighting in the same rhythms, stories, songs, artists. We rejoiced in, and shared our spiritual experiences together. Most of us would only ever meet either at the gatherings, and celebrations, or find each other on our 'pilgrimage' to those important places. Many of us would hitchhike, or find other alternative methods of travel, on our way to gather and share. For many of us, it could have been considered pilgrimages to the fire & drums that would burn and beat for days on end. What I am finding interesting at this moment, is that the magic did not stay at the place of gathering. It came with us. It's still with me today. A decade now, since I have found myself consuming our 'mead', but when I hear those rhythms, songs, or I think about those other-worldly experiences, if I sing or strum those melodies, the magic still fills me. Many of us found something primal and so human, this spiritual place that we shared. I believe these are places that we have been finding and celebrating, since possibly before we were Homo Sapiens.

The Russians have a drink made from bread called "kvass". My wife and son like it, but I never could get a taste for it. It is not alcoholic though.

Imo, probably because I heard it somewhere, mushrooms are also the "manna" mentioned in the old testament that would appear in the morning and collected by the early risers, in the "desert" during the Exodus. And the lazy late risers would miss out on collecting the manna because it would be gone (until the next flush).

So all my friends really are justified in saying I drop a lot of wisdom and deepities when drunk. 😂 Very well done video. I think I'll sub and look at your other videos. I think I'll be happily entertained if they are of this well done writing and research.

35:00 Bhang, Amanita Muscaria, Opium and alcohol are still consumed in parts of India for ritual purposes. Although only bhang is commonplace (nowadays atleast).

Oh thank you soooooo much for doing the subs this way!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey Cregan! So, just to interpret the symbols in the story, the character made from spit whose head contains all knowledge - that is a personification of the mushroom. It sprouts after rain (the spit from heaven) and you have to crush it to get the juice out. The giants in the story are the same - one is drowned and one is crushed. They're making mushroom tea with honey. You have to picture the dwarves as very tiny - the mushrooms are huge to them. Hence why you see fairies and dwarves sitting on toadstools or living in mushroom houses all over European folklore. Also, I believe the churning of the cosmic ocean in Vedic myth parallels the myth of Odin turning into a snake through the mountain. In the Vedic story a snake is wrapped around a mountain and used to churn the ocean of milk. So they're likening the soma ritual to the creation / turning of the universe, pretty cool.

@DavidLightbringer

8 ай бұрын

I've had notes on the poetry / cosmic churning comparison for a couple years, I just haven't been able to get back to making videos for Mythic Concepts

@DavidLightbringer

8 ай бұрын

I also think it's important to remember that a fair amount of reindeer shamanism has infiltrated Norse myth, mostly via the Sami but perhaps also with earlier contact between PIE folks and Siberian hunter gatherers, and the Odin mythology in particular reflects this. That's why Odins transcendence is so tree-centric, I have to think. Mushrooms tended to grow at the base of certain trees, and I'm wondering if that has something to do with Odin looking down from Yggy to see the runes, and why he falls from the tree and then gains knowledge. Another Odin - Siberian shamanism connection is his horses. Sleipnir and Yggdrasil are both "horses" that allow Odin magical transit of the realms, and both are rooted in the classic idea of the shamans drums representing the hoofbeats of an invisible horse the shaman rides into the spirit world. The shaman is seen as crossing the barrier between life and death on such journeys, so the metaphor of the gallows being the horse of the hanged fits well as an additional metaphor for shamanic transcendence. But yeah hanging around trees and riding horses into the spirit world, that's classic Siberian shamanism. I think in many cases we are looking at PIE people's, who have their own psychedelic rituals, wandering into lands and assimilating with people who have their own psychedelic rituals, and the ensuing cultural fusion gives some of these "soma rituals" local flavor. Different mushrooms and mind-altering plants grow in different regions. So for example the Indo Aryans and Indo Aryans who migrated through the mountains of the BMAC encountered rishis who had psychedelic drink rituals already, and that's where the ephedra / cannabis concoctions come from which many think are "Indian soma."

@Crecganford

8 ай бұрын

You've written far too much for me to respond to it all, but thank you for all your thoughts. There are various ways of interpreting the story and language, and it is important we consider similar stories from related cultures to build a better picture of what it all means. For example not all fairies are small, some are monstrous beats, trees have less importance outside of Europe, and were a key factor in the delay of migrations from the Near East and Steppe into Europe, and so stories external to this may give an earlier, more raw form of story. Good luck with your research and notes.

The fact that it is so consistently associated with a honey beverage suggests to me that it is not the psilocybin we know today, but a different species, though probably related. Something that would not have its full effect if not prepared in this way, or perhaps even something small in size that grows within the honey itself.

@thekaxmax

8 ай бұрын

I'd say the mead is for flavour; a lot of psychoactives are rather bitter.

You are very interesting !!

@Crecganford

6 ай бұрын

Thank you.

Watching this while smoking weed was like having a magic reunion with a wizard or something. Trully amazing!

...my aunt drinks Courvoisier cognac "to calm my nerves"...So this all makes lots of sense to me now!