From the bodies of the gods
Subtitle: psychoactive plants and the cults of the dead
By: Earl Lee
Publisher: Park Street Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Rochester, Vt
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781594774584; 9781594777011
Subjects: Cannibalism; Human sacrifice; Funeral rites and ceremonies; Religious aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.         and index.
Table of contents: title: Surviving remnants of the cult of the dead; title: Sacred oils, sacred foods; title: The red corpse; title: Ritual cannibalism and magic foods; title: Cults of the dead in the modern world; title: Hebrew and Christian ointments; title: Hallucinations as history; title: Plants from the bodies of the gods; title: Signs of the cult of the dead; title: Immortality; title: The cult of the dead in Greece; title: The goddesses of Crete; title: Minoan graves; title: Eating the dead; title: The horns of consecration; title: The double ax; title: Awakening the bees; title: Zeus and the human sack; title: Dionysus and the Greek gods; title: Dionysus and Osiris worship: Greek or Egyptian?; title: Prometheus; title: Adonis; title: Jason and Jesus; title: From the minotaur to Jesus.