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Amanita Muscaria (Fly Agaric)

 


 
Plant Info:

 
Amanita muscaria is brightly colored fungus that's familiar to everyone from the illustrations found in fairy story books. Amanita muscaria is commonly found in autumn in Birch woods or under Pines. Amanita muscaria are the most eye-catching mushroom with its large caps of scarlet or deep red, mottled with conspicuous white warts. Associated with magic and the fairy kingdom because this other-worldly looking fungus is perhaps the oldest hallucinogenic plant known, having been in recorded use for over six thousand years. Amanita muscaria or as its commonly called Fly agaric mushrooms have been adopted by many cultures, in the northern hemisphere and worldwide to transport the person eating Amanita muscaria to visionary realms. Fly agaric mushrooms are believed to have been employed as a shamanic aid by the Vikings and is known to be used by the tribesmen of Siberia.
 Amanita muscaria is also known as Fly Agaric, Fly Death, Toad Stools, Siberian Fly Agaric or Russian Amanita, Washington State Amanita, European Amanita, Soma and many others. Its distribution is from Alaska, Siberia, Scandinavia, Central Europe, North America, Australia, Mexico and the Philippines. Amanita’s sometimes occurs in the form of fairy rings or witches rings, small circles in which, it was assumed the witches or fairies would dance at night. Fly Agaric Mushrooms grows only in symbiosis with birch and/or pine trees, Amanitas are found in artic, temperate, and even tropical climate zones.
 
Buy dried Amanita Muscaria here.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Mythology:


 

Fly Agaric is thought by many to be the Soma mentioned in the Rig Veda and in writings by the Aryans 3500 years ago. I won't go into they mythology in depth on this website since R. Gordon Wasson has written extensively about it. Please visit this link to read his views here.

 

Siberian shamans ate Amanita Muscaria in order to enter a clairvoyant trance state and mobilize their shamanic powers of healing. Amanita muscaria are also ingested when they wish to communicate with the souls of their ancestors or to contact spirits. One to three Amanita mushrooms appear to be the usual traditional dose with initial Amanita effects being felt in about twenty minutes. It was the practice of Siberian and other tribes to recycle the urine of someone who had already eaten Amanita muscaria, and thus, because a substantial amount of active substances in it remained unchanged, it could be used for later or given to someone who could not afford to buy Amanita muscaria.

 

 Links to Amanita Muscaria Mythology:

 

 http://http://www.takeourword.com/urine.html

 

http://http://rbedrosian.com/soma.htm