Introduction to the Mycolatrical Origin of Egyptian Religion: Why Identifying the Many "Mushroom-like Objects" in Egyptian Art as Mushrooms Can Explain Those Objects and Ancient Egyptian Religion Far Better than Egyptologists Have (original) (raw)
The entheomycological origin of Egyptian crowns and the esoteric underpinnings of Egyptian religion
Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 2005
In this paper, I theorize that the Egyptian White and Triple Crowns were originally primordia of the entheogenic Psilocybe (Stropharia) cubensis, which an Egyptian tale known as Cheops and the Magicians allegorically explained grew on barley, and that Osiris was the God of spiritual rebirth because he personified this and other entheogenic mushrooms. I go on to theorize that the plant known commonly as the Eye of Horus, which the Egyptians included in cakes and ales designed to spiritually rebirth the living and the dead, was an entheogenic mushroom cap entirely analogous, if not identical, to Soma. Finally, I explain why so many scholars failed to discern these identities and relationships for so long.
AEC Egyptology Newsletter 4 (01.06.2008)
The Director’s Edito - “Mummies are not museum “objects” - The “Sarcophagus Project” - The 5000 photos of plants species of Egypt-mark exceeded !- Our predecessors in the study of “The Plants of Ancient Egypt”: Georg A. Schweinfurth (1836-1925). Gifts from our sponsors ! - Follow up...and Arpag Mekhitarian. Encaustic and “Fayum Portraits”…an introduction.
AEC Egyptology Newsletter 2 (08.04.2008)
The Director’s Edito - The “SARCOPHAGUS PROJECT” accepted! - Over 1250 connections to our website since its opening! - The press talks again about us! - The Flora of Ancient Egypt (FoAE) in progress...- Our predecessors in the study of “The Plants of Ancient Egypt”: Carl Sigismund Kunth (1788-1850) - Gifts from our sponsors ! - Follow up - “Pharmacy in Ancient Egypt” conference - University of Manchester (U.K.)
Evans, L. The Good Shepherd’s flock: Insights from ancient Egyptian art. In: Warfe A.R., Gill J.C.R., Hamilton C.R., Pettman A.J., and Stewart D.A. (eds), Dust, Demons and Pots: Studies in Honour of Colin A. Hope (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 289), ISBN: 978-904-294-136-6 (Leiden: Peeters, 2020).
"Monstrous Shapes of Every Species": The Iconography of the Egyptian Divine World
The rich iconography associated with ancient Egyptian gods is replete with animal imagery, what Virgil described as "monstrous shapes of every species." Worship of animals and mixed human-animal forms came under ridicule by certain Greco-Roman authors and it has continued to confuse interpreters into modern times. In this lecture, we will discuss some the menagerie of Egyptian divine iconography focusing on the Oriental Institute Museum collection, what it meant and why it was used, in order to lay a foundation for understanding the Egyptian philosophical tradition.
AEC Egyptology Newsletter 8 (15.12.2008)
The Director’s Edito - “Reconstructing the art of ancient Egyptian sarcophagus making!” -Reconstruction of ancient Egyptian blue in Yerevan University - Reconstructing ancient Egyptian natural pigments - Reconstructing an ancient Egyptian gesso for sarcophagi’s background layer - Should you wish to help us... -Advances in Egyptology No. 1, Call for contributions!
AEC Egyptology Newsletter 14 (25.03.2010)
Edito: Academic acknowledgment in a fifth scientific discipline! “AGORA” will be screened by students as testing ground on ancient “Egyptian” art. The major cost savings of the “Point of Synthesis” academic shift! Prof. Richard Wilkinson made an Honorary Member of our centre. Silent appearnce of a copy of von Hohenburg's very rare Thesaurus Hiroglyphicorum. Advances in Egyptology No. 1 (2010) printed & revised deadline for No. 2! (2011)
AEC Egyptology Newsletter 10 (15.02.2009)
The Director’s Edito - "Thank you Mr Obama for returning its Letters of Nobility to “history” ...and therefore to the task of “historian”; A new philosophy for the partial oblivion of... history; The Times Higher Education recent article on the instrumentalisation of ...history; British Museum’s major discovery of degraded oil in ancient Egyptian pigments; Set of pigments just discovered in KV63 (Valley of the Kings, Tomb 63) !; Similar ochre use in Armenian Erebuni (scientific correspondence); The use of glue in ancient Egypt (scientific correspondence); Acknowledgments and please become a supporter of our centre!
Rethinking Ancient Egypt: Studies in Honor of Ann Macy Roth
2024
Throughout her career, Ann Macy Roth has regularly returned to well-known ancient Egyptian material and visual culture and shed new light on it by employing different approaches and methodologies. In this way, her research has led to new interpretations and readings of ancient Egyptian beliefs and practices while illustrating the importance of and need for continual questioning and re-examination within Egyptology. This volume brings together papers from around the world that follow her tradition of rethinking, reassessing, and innovating. It is intended to honour Roth's significant career as a scholar, mentor, and teacher and to celebrate and continue her dedication to analyzing ancient Egypt from novel perspectives.