History of Ethnobotanicals

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ii. History of Ethnobotanicals

20-70 pages, [Evening Glory, Elpo, Bancopuma, SnozzleBerry, Entropymancer]

The work on a thorough monograph concerning the history of ethnobotanical use has been started, see this thread. The idea is to demonstrate the antiquity and pervasiveness of entheogen use and the integral role they played in the societies who used them. This monograph will be available in the Nexus eBook.

Entropymancer will write the monograph with the help of the community. My thought is to divide it into two sections. The first will treat ancient use that we have archaeological of very old written records of; the second will treat the written records of the rediscovery of these ancient traditions by western cultures. A brief summary of relevant data on each plant that is mentioned will be included as an appendix.

The group consists of

Writer: Entropymancer

Research: Evening Glory, Elpo, SnozzleBerry, Entropymancer

Proofreading: Bancopuma, SnozzleBerry

Please post in the mentioned forum thread if you'd like to contribute! The more folks who help with the research, the quicker this thing will get written.

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Nexus eBook Structure:

+ Antiquity

+ The Era of Rediscovery

+ Appendix I: The Ethnobotanicals

Chapter Content

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Bibliography

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• Ott, Jonathan. 1996. Pharmacotheon (2nd ed). Natural Product Co., Kennewick, WA.
• Sahagún, Bernardino de. 1982. [i]Historia General de las Casas de Nueva España[/i]. Editorial Porrúa, México City, Mexico.
• Rätsch, Christian. 2005. [i]Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants[/i]. Park Street Press: Rochester, VT. Translated by John R. Baker with Annabel Lee and Cornelia Ballent. Foreword by Albert Hofmann. Originally published in German, 1998. AT Verlag Aarau / Switzerland.
• Hernández, Francisco. 2005. [i]Rerum Medicarum Novae Hispaniae Thesaurus, seu Plantarum, Animalium, Mineralium Mexicanorum Historia[/i]. Rome.
• Durán, Diego. 1977. [i]Book of the Gods and Rites and the Ancient Calendar[/i]. Civilization of the American Indian series (Vol. 102). University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK. (Translated and edited by Fernando Horcasitas and Doris Heyden. Original in Spanish, 1574-1576)
• Acosta, José de. 1604. [i]The Natural and Moral History of the Indies[/i]. Val. Sims, London. Translated by Edward Grimston. Original in Spanish, published 1590 in Seville.
• Clavijero, Francisco Xavier. 1807. [i]The History of Mexico: collected from Spanish and Mexican historians, from manuscripts and ancient paintings of the indians, illustrated by charts, and other copper plates, to wich are added, critical dissertations on the land, the animals, and inhabitants of Mexico[/i]. Joyce Gold, London, England. Original in Spanish, published 1780 as [i]La Historia Antigua de México[/i]. Translated by Charles Cullen.
• Schultes, Richard Evans. 1941. [i]A Contribution to Our Knowledge of [/i]Rivea corymbosa[i], the Narcotic ololiuqui of the Aztecs[/i]. Harvard Botanical Museum, Cambridge, MA.
• Alarcón, Hernando Ruiz de. 1984. [i]Treatise on the Heathen Superstitions That Today Live Among the Indians Native to This New Spain[/i]. University of Oklahoma Press, London, England. Translated and edited by Andrews, Richard J. and Ross Hassig. Original in Spanish, 1629. Includes Pedro Ponce's [i]Brief Relation of the Gods and Rites of Heathenism[/i].
• Serna, Jacinto de la. 1656. [i]Manual de Ministros de Indios para el Conocimiento de sus Idolatrias y Extirpación de Ellas[/i]. Mexico City, Mexico.
• Ponce, Pedro. 1984. [i]Brief Relation of the Gods and Rites of Heathenism[/i]. In Alarcón: [i]Treatise on the Heathen Superstitions That Today Live Among the Indians Native to This New Spain[/i]. University of Oklahoma Press, London, England. Translated and edited by Andrews, Richard J. and Ross Hassig. Original in Spanish circa 1629.
• Aguirre Beltrán, Gonzalo. 1955. [i]Medicina y Magica[/i].Mexico D.F., Mexico.

Research Notes

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Books that have been suggested as useful

If you have one of these books, we'd appreciate if you could take very shorthand notes on the crucial details (mostly the where, what, and how) they provide on entheogen use in history

• Christian Rätsch - The Sacred Plants of our Ancestors ISBN 0-9720292-1-4
• Peter C. Rogers - Ultimate Truth, Book 1 ISBN 1438979681
• T. B. Roberts - Chemical Input—Religious Output: Entheogens
• T. B. Roberts (editor) - Psychoactive Sacramentals: Essays on Entheogens and Religion