Ancient Psychedelia: Alien Gods & Mushroom Goddesses
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In St. Christopher’s Church in Montferrand-du-Périgord, France, St. Christopher is pictured with Christ above his head, as an actual mushroom (64j). (64j) St. Christopher with Christ Montferrand de Perigord c. 1200-1300 AD The Codex Aureus von Canterbury c. 700-800 AD, has a depiction of a saint sitting below an angel. The saint is sitting in a chair, on a red cushion with white spots, in the middle pillar, which makes up the stem, and the angel above is in the arch portion which supplies the imagery of the cap of the mushroom. (64k)  (64k) Codex Aureus von Canterbury c. 700-800 AD The Basilica di San Marco, in Venice, Italy, hosts an image titled “Agony in the Garden of Gethsemane,” c. 1200-1250 AD, which has Jesus in the Garden with what appear to be both cannabis plants and mushrooms growing on the hillside (67e). |
 (67e) Basilica di San Marco, Venice. Agony in the Garden of Gethsemane c. 1200-1250 AD More recently, in a church in Brazil, Igreja Nossa Senhora do Brasil, in San Paolo, c. 1940, we can see a very beautiful A. muscaria center stage (65c).  (65c) Igreja Nossa Senhora do Brasil. San Paolo - c. 1940 From the Sainte-Madeleine Church in Vézelay, France, c. 1130-45 AD, there are several stone sculptures on the pillars. A scene of the “Death of Absalom” features two mushrooms popping up (67a). The “Sacred Pagan Tree” is depicted about to be cut down, with a minister giving a warning to the fellow with the axe. The tree has a mushroom sprouting up on top (67b). Finally, “Profane Music and the Demon of Licentiousness” is pictured with a fellow playing a flute, a devil dancing, and two mushrooms growing up between them both (67c). |
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