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Study confirms Egyptians drank hallucinogenic cocktails in ancient
rituals
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-78721-8
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|u/gomicao - 1 day
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|"The new tactic was successful and revealed the vase had a cocktail of
|psychedelic drugs, bodily fluids and alcohol—a combination that Tanasi
|believes was used in a magical ritual reenacting an Egyptian myth,
|likely for fertility."   Anthropologists in the future finding a my
|little pony jar, filled with semen... "must have been a horse god of
|fertility."


  |u/danabot82 - 1 day
  |
  |I recommend the book The Immortality Key by Brian Muraresku. It's an
  |in depth investigation into ancient rituals involving psychedelic
  |beverages that were most likely the predecessor to the catholic
  |Eucharist. The church took what allowed people to experience the
  |divine, turned it into a placebo, then suppressed the original
  |versions through violent inquisitions.


    |u/Expensive_Square4812 - 1 day
    |
    |You recommend that book to OP? The guy who has a My Little Pony jar
    |full of semen? You think that guy reads books?


      |u/gomicao - 1 day
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      |I read books but the pages are glued together with my seed.


    |u/gomicao - 1 day
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    |That is interesting. I am a drug/psychedelics nerd. I personally
    |don't think anything they have analyzed is psychedelic or even
    |deliriant (like datura). But I guess the harmala alone is quite
    |active. MAOI's are what makes oral DMT in ayahuasca work. The
    |ayahuasca vine actually is the ingredient that contains the MAOI,
    |and not the DMT funny enough. This does make me wonder if an MAOI
    |would actually make something like lotus have a real effect vs the
    |fake "legal high" effect it is marketed as in this day and age.


    |u/meshuggahnaut - 14 hours
    |
    |I was super interested in the concept of this book when I heard
    |about it, but ultimately I found it to be completely insufferable.
    |Chapter after chapter of “Here’s a microscopic grain of completely
    |unprovable evidence that biblical figures dropped acid on the reg.
    |Could this mean that biblical figures dropped acid on the reg?”
    |That’s basically the whole book. I have no idea why it gets such
    |rave reviews but maybe I’m being overly cynical about it and missed
    |the point.


  |u/LocalWriter6 - 1 day
  |
  |I read the paper itself (not entirely cause like the scientist
  |explanation of how they found stuff gets progressively crazier-
  |wavelength science is absolutely insane) but at the end they mentioned
  |that the proteins found are not related to semen, but they are related
  |to: breast milk, blood and vaginal or oral mucus


    |u/gomicao - 22 hours
    |
    |Pregnant Gas Chromatography Mass Yoni Spectrometer


  |u/Chavran - 1 day
  |
  |When, in reality, little Timmy just had a thing for horses from a very
  |young age.


    |u/ArgonGryphon - 1 day
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    |He didn't say *my* my little pony jar. He said *a* my little pony
    |jar.


      |u/duffstoic - 1 day
      |
      |>"it's a dildo. Of course it's company policy never to, imply
      |ownership in the event of a dildo... always use the indefinite
      |article *a* dildo, never *your* dildo."


  |u/APeacefulWarrior - 1 day
  |
  |Was it found in the Motel Of The Mysteries? I understand that was
  |quite the impressive religious site.


|u/Doser91 - 1 day
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|Blue lotus powder that sits in a bottle of wine for a bit creates a nice
|little drink.


  |u/NearlyDicklessNick - 1 day
  |
  |What are the effects???


    |u/rufous1618 - 1 day
    |
    |If you’ve ever done MDMA it’s like the lite version of that.


      |u/zaphodp3 - 1 day
      |
      |If I have not?


        |u/MarcusXL - 1 day
        |
        |It's a nice mild sedation with some euphoria.  I've also smoked
        |Blue Lotus with cannabis, and they seem to potentiate each-
        |other.  Peganum Harmala (harmaline) is an MAOi and it can be
        |used to ingest DMT orally, so it's possible that using both
        |together changes or potentiates the effect of Blue Lotus.  You
        |can read trip reports on Erowid if you're interested in more
        |details. Here's the vault for Peganum Harmala (Syrian Rue).
        |Scroll down to "Experiences". [https://www.erowid.org/plants/syr
        |ian\_rue/](https://www.erowid.org/plants/syrian_rue/)


          |u/Tough_Money_958 - 1 day
          |
          |aint blue lotus very minor opiate? proper toke commonly turns
          |functional opi high to nod fest.


  |u/ChimpSlut - 1 day
  |
  |I fed into this about two years ago and felt nothing? Yet I keep
  |running into on Reddit and… I want to believe


|u/rutreh - 1 day
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|According to the original study they also found evidence for relatively
|large amounts of breast milk, oral/vaginal fluids and blood in the mix.
|So essentially it was a bunch of random mildly psychoactive plants (not
|hallucinogenic ones), wine, honey, spit, breast milk & blood. I think
|I’d rather pass on that.  The title of this thread and the article
|linked are a bit misleading I think. For one it was not hallucinogenic,
|and the whole bodily fluids thing seems like a pretty big weird thing to
|leave out.


  |u/zomboy1111 - 1 day
  |
  |Definitely not hallucinogenic and also weird af. But implies that the
  |ancient Egyptians weren't scared to put anything in their drinks.
  |There is also a theory that the ancient Egyptians had their own form
  |of ayahausca. Perganum harmala is a strong MAO inhibitor. Essentially
  |a step away from creating some form of ayahausca.


    |u/Tough_Money_958 - 1 day
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    |Maybe harmala could not be called proper hallucinogenic but people
    |have reported strong trippy effects off of it.


      |u/AWonderingWizard - 9 hours
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      |This is assuming the urn wasn’t just meant to be the container for
      |the inhibitor, and would be mixed/taken as needed?


|u/IamAlso_u_grahvity - 1 day
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|Should it matter to anyone, my title came from a secondary source which
|might be more readable: https://phys.org/news/2024-11-egyptians-drank-
|hallucinogenic-cocktails-ancient.html


|u/purplegladys2022 - 1 day
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|Probably made for some really interesting conversations with their cats.


|u/rtreesucks - 1 day
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|Substance use is part of human culture, it's crazy how the world
|persecutes drug users just for existing and wants to genocide drug
|users.


  |u/contactspring - 1 day
  |
  |Only from drugs that aren't being profitable for the connected.   For
  |example marijuana is illegal, but Marinol is fine.   Or Eat is
  |illegal,  but Welbutrin is commonly prescribed.


|u/LearnAndTeachIsland - 1 day
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|We've been getting stoned for all of human history, until the religions
|became a big thing.  Edit: yes I know plenty of mythology and spiritual
|entities had used and continue to use drugs.  The major big religious
|groups are what the reference is to above.   There will always be
|outliers kids.   For more check out Michael Pollan's How to Change Your
|Mind


  |u/Nothereforstuff123 - 1 day
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  |Tbf, there are plenty of religions where people take psychedelics


  |u/gcbofficial - 1 day
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  |This is a bad take. Plenty of religions have used and have been
  |theorized to use hallucinagens.


    |u/Acmnin - 1 day
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    |He means the Abrahamic religions that ruled the west after they
    |destroyed pagan temples.


  |u/Edgedamage - 1 day
  |
  |Can't control the masses, if they are expanding their minds with gifts
  |from nature.


    |u/Sunny_McSunset - 1 day
    |
    |Can't control religion if everyone has seen god.   (if you've ever
    |done high doses of psychedelics, there's a few sections in the Bible
    |that are very clearly just trip reports. If you were trying to
    |describe fractals without the word for "fractal" you'd probably say
    |"wheels within wheels covered in eyes," and "ladder to heaven.")


|u/TrevCat666 - 1 day
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|Study confirms every ancient culture did this and many still do.


|u/lesath_lestrange - 1 day
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|>”There’s no research out there that has ever found what we found in
|this study,” Tanasi said. “For the first time, we were able to identify
|all the chemical signatures of the components of the liquid concoction
|contained in the Tampa Museum of Art’s Bes mug, including the plants
|used by Egyptians, all of which have psychotropic and medicinal
|properties.”  Recognized psychotropic drugs today are things like SSRIs
|and anti-depressants.  These are not hallucinogenic.  Psychedelic drugs
|are drugs that cause changes in mood, perception, and cognition.   These
|are the hallucinogens.


  |u/JimblesRombo - 1 day
  |
  |"psychotropic" is a broad word that covers any substance that causes
  |changes in subjective experience. not all hallucinogens are
  |psychedelic, and some psychedelics are only very mildly
  |hallucinogenic, and all of the above are all psychotropic


    |u/lesath_lestrange - 1 day
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    |I should’ve clarified, hallucinogens are a sub-category of
    |psychotropic drugs.  The researchers here found psychotropic drugs.
    |The article, and this Reddit post, are incorrect to claim that these
    |psychotropic drugs are hallucinogenic, they have conflated the
    |terms, nothing in the article indicates that these were
    |hallucinogenic.


        |u/lesath_lestrange - 1 day
        |
        |We can agree on this all day, but can you tell me the difference
        |between “conjecture” and “evidence reported by the researchers?”
        |The title is sensationalistic.


  |u/space_monster - 1 day
  |
  |They found harmine and harmaline (MAOIs), plus blue lotus which is a
  |psychoactive alkaloid. MAOIs are used in Ayahuasca to enable dmt to
  |cross the blood-brain barrier, so it's possible they were onto
  |something quite interesting.


    |u/OrphanDextro - 1 day
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    |Yeah. Blue lotus might be more useful than originally imagined.


  |u/Oldfigtree - 1 day
  |
  |The paper clearly states that they found evidence of P. harmala, and
  |explain “The seeds of this plant produce high quantities of the
  |alkaloids harmine and harmaline, which induce dream-like visions,
  |considered of the oneirophrenic kind”.  Thats a hallucinatory state,
  |so the title seems valid to me.


|u/Blue_Greymon07 - 1 day
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|Look up the blue water lily. Crazy stuff


|u/DaRusty_Shackleford - 1 day
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|I just assumed this my entire life.


|u/AllUrUpsAreBelong2Us - 22 hours
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|Some say that people got into agriculture to get grains to make bread.
|Other say that people got into agriculture to get grains to make beer
|and bread was a side effect of using the spent grains.


|u/luttman23 - 15 hours
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|Explains a few of their gods