plant
Mushroom
Mushroom as a plant people have named and used. Hidden net, sudden fruit, under-world — one living kind, not a single symbol.
Mushroom is used in Medicine.
Dioscorides’ De Materia Medica treats mushrooms and agarikon among fungal drug entries with cautionary food-drug speech. A named mushroom in that handbook, not fungus as a second entity for the same meeting and not a psychedelic dump alone.
from Pedanius Dioscorides · De Materia Medica, 1st century CE
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Nahua tradition
Mushroom appears in Nahua tradition.
Sahagún’s Florentine Codex records nanacatl in Book 11 plant chapters — named mushroom including intoxicating mushroom speech. A colonial-era Nahua ethnographic attestation, not a pan-Mesoamerican essence and not an unfiltered pre-invasion voice.
from Bernardino de Sahagún and Nahua collaborators · Florentine Codex, c. 1577
appears in · sourced · culturally specific
Roman religion
Mushroom appears in Roman religion.
Pliny’s Natural History seats mushrooms among fungi noted for food and danger in botanical speech. A named mushroom in that encyclopedia, not fungus as a second fungi id and not a fairy-ring dump.
from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE
appears in · sourced · documented
sources
- De Materia Medica · Pedanius Dioscorides
Dioscorides, De Materia Medica.
- Florentine Codex · Bernardino de Sahagún and Nahua collaborators
Bernardino de Sahagún, General History of the Things of New Spain (Florentine Codex).
- Natural History · Pliny the Elder
Pliny, Naturalis Historia.