Fungi: twenty species, including the fly agaric (Amanita muscaria), death cap (Amanita phalloides) and Boletus and Agaricus species. Coloured lithograph by A. Cornillon, c. 1827, after Prieur..
Credit: Wellcome Collection. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Part 2 - Fungi Folklore of a four-part series on Mushrooms - Mystic, Magic and Mealtime
Mushroom symbolism and folklore plus culinary traditions and their magical properties
This series is inspired by Karmen Perez-Pineda, Founder of Cats with a Heart who will be interviewed in Part 3
Pt1:
Ethnomycology & Shamanism & Cave Art
Pt3: (Coming soon)
Interview with Karmen Perez-Pineda of Cats with a Heart about her amazing socially responsible initiative. Mushroom tips and health benefits. A look at psychedelics and psychiatry with Michael Pollan’s How to Change Your Mind: The new science of psychedelics. Plus the past and present female pioneers of psychiatry and psilocybin research.
Pt4: (Coming soon)
Some of my favourite artworks featuring mushrooms by artists including Ming dynasty Chinese artist Qiu Yang, Chinese-Canadian artist Xiaojing Yan, Beatrix Potter and Elsie Wakefield, Yayoi Kusama, Wangechi Mutu and more. Series conclusions.
The Self-Heal Fairy by Cicely Mary Barker
Fairy Carousel
Charles Edenshaw, (1839 to1920)
Fungus Man , carved in the late 1800s from British Columbia, Canada
illustration of Fungus Man plate
1890 lithograph of a toad smoking a cigarette under a toadstool by Theodorus van Hoytema (1863-1917)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Via: Prints of Japan)
Elephant God holding a mushroom. Outer walls of Lakshman Temple, Khajuraho
(Via: The “Kamasutra” temples of India: A case for the encoding of psychedelically induced spirituality)
Mushroom sculpture at the sanctum threshold of Jagdambi Temple, Khajuraho
(Via: The “Kamasutra” temples of India: A case for the encoding of psychedelically induced spirituality)
Zoroastrian wool textile (dated from the late 1st c. B.C. to the early 1st c. AD). Found in Mongolia covered with blue clay of the Xiongnu burial chamber. Made in Syria or Palestine, embroidered, probably, in north-western India and features a priest holding a mushroom over a fire in what is believed to be the making of hoaoma/soma
(Via: “We Drank Soma, We Became Immortal…”)
Maria Sabina in the R. Gordon Wasson article Seeking the Magic Mushroom - Life magazine article 1957
Maria Sabina in the R. Gordon Wasson article Seeking the Magic Mushroom - Life magazine article 1957
Fungus Man, argillite plate, carved, late 1800s, Charles Edenshaw (1839 - 1920) British Columbia, Canada. Depicts the Haida tribe of the Pacific Northwest and their myth of the origin of women. Featuring Ne-kilst-lass, a supreme being who is also known as Raven and in the stern is Fungus Man.
illustration of Fungus Man plate by Charles Edenshaw.
Toad from the Nintendo Super Mario universe based on amanita muscaria mushroom
Toadette from the Nintendo Super Mario universe
A Goomba mushroom from the Nintendo Super Mario universe based on a shitake mushroom.
1-Up mushroom from the Nintendo Super Mario universe.