Gallery of Mushrooms in Greek & Christian Art

Contents:

Please Upload and Caption Many More Images, It Is Easy to Find More
Selected Related Pages
Selected Research Links
Selected Images

This is a clean master page, as an entry point, with selected images, research links, & links to related pages.

Read the key terms ‘Greek’ & ‘Christian’ broadly, as: mushrooms in Hellenistic & Christendom art.

Please Upload and Caption Many More Images, It Is Easy to Find More

As an uploader of images of mushrooms in Christian art since 2002, I can say with certainty, people have barely begun to try to find and upload images — they need to do this. By comparing my image search results 2002 vs 2020, I can see the rate of uploads (slow), and the ease of finding more images (easy). It is easy to find images that aren’t on the web yet, but the rate of uploading such images has been slow. Therefore it is evident that people have barely tried to find such images; the hunt has barely begun.

As tired as I am of the old 2002 game, “spot the mushroom”, people do need to upload and caption articles as “mushroom christ”, “mushroom eden eve tree”, “mushroom tree christian psalter”, and gather such images in pages titled with the words “mushroom” and “christian” and “bible”, to appear in image searches.

Gallery of Mushrooms in Art

Gallery of Mushroom Photos

Articles Containing Many Images of Mushrooms in Greek & Christian Art

At My WordPress egodeaththeory Site

Defining “Compelling Evidence” & “Criteria of Proof” for Mushrooms in Christian Art
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/11/13/compelling-evidence-criteria-of-proof-for-greek-bible-mushrooms/

Canterbury Psalter Mushroom Inventory
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/12/13/canterbury-psalter-mushroom-inventory/

At My Egodeath.com Site

Christian Mushroom Trees
Gallery for my Plaincourault Wasson/Allegro article. Italian Pine tree photos, Psilocybe photos, a few Christian art images
http://www.egodeath.com/christianmushroomtrees.htm

The Entheogen Theory of Religion and Ego Death
Egodeath main article.
http://www.egodeath.com/EntheogenTheoryOfReligion.htm

At Other Sites

The Psychedelic Origin of Christianity
12 images
A gallery page, Sam Woolfe, 2013
https://www.samwoolfe.com/2013/04/the-sacred-mushroom-and-cross-by-john.html
https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/imagenes_biblianazar/biblianazar84a_02.jpg

Canterbury Psalter
At Ancient Psychedelia site which launched January 2019
~15 images at this one page:
https://www.ancientpsychedelia.com/canterbury-psalter/
Ancient Psychedelia : Alien Gods and Mushrooms Goddesses

Cybernetics in pre-modern Art in Greece, Egypt, Turkey
Cyberdisciple – Gallery of primarily Greek art from study travels
https://cyberdisciple.wordpress.com/2012/12/09/cybernetics-in-pre-modern-art-in-greece-egypt-turkey/

Mushroom in Christian Art, Chapter 3
see his other chapters too
John Rush
http://www.clinicalanthropology.com/mushroom-in-christian-art/mushroom-in-christian-art-chapter-three/

Links to Individual Images

A large Y-branching dual mushroom, depicting the central message revealed in gnosis, about branching
https://egodeaththeory.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/ade0d-thedarkchurchbyzantine11thcenturyfresco.jpg

Demeter holding out a mushroom to Persephone
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/fe/dc/6b/fedc6bf260b988a8c63dfd2b30e29ab0.jpg

in Brown’s book
https://psychedelicgospels.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/11.8-Chartres-62-St-Eustace-2.jpg

reads as culinary, no hints of mythemeland
https://mykosan.com/wp-content/uploads/ancient-romans-ate-mushrooms-aquileia-basilica-mosaic-1024×672.jpg

This image looks as if it’s pages from a book on the topic of mushrooms in art:
http://www.evolveandascend.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/815bnLB-gpL-1.jpg

Page with plans for a book on the topic of mushrooms in art:
Carl de Borhegyi – familiar to me somehow. Maya, not Western, mostly.
https://mayamushroomstone.wordpress.com/
This image URL is associated with the above:
https://mayamushroomstone.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/dionysus-the-greek-god-of-the-vine-and-winemaking-and-ritual-madness-and-religious-ecstasy.jpg
Stylized grape vines with mushroom-shape bunches.

Selected Research Links

You can paste-in an image or a URL of an image, in a Web search engine such as Bing, to find other copies or croppings of the image if it’s online and crawled, to find info about it.

Image Search Links

High-Resolution Complete Canterbury Psalter
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f11.item
High quality images, can be zoomed in a great deal without loss of resolution.
The hanging-man image is on folio 62v:
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f134.item

Selected Images

Galleries of Images of Mushrooms in Greek & Christian Art

Dionysus’ Triumph

Thiasus – Wikipedia-Triumph of Dionysus on a fragmentary Roman mosaic (3rd century, Sousse Archaeological Museum)-SCEPTER
More complete image than from my main Egodeath article above:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiasus — good page, I need to copy/condense it
Direct image link:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/09/Triumph_of_Bacchus_-_Sousse.jpg — “Triumph of Dionysus on a fragmentary Roman mosaic (3rd century, Sousse Archaeological Museum)“

Full image

From Wikipedia

Four mushrooms above the four chariot-drawing tigers’ heads/necks, hidden/visible in the folds of the Maenad’s spirit-billowed cloth. {billowing} = altered-state spirit wind; an additional indicator of her altered state is her {unbound, loose hair}, depicting loose cognitive association binding.

Mushroom on the chariot of Dionysus, isomorphic with the mushrooms above each tiger drawing the chariot.

From Egodeath main article http://www.egodeath.com/EntheogenTheoryOfReligion.htm#_Toc177337640

http://www.egodeath.com/images/egodeatharticle/HighRes/DionysusVictoryChariot_HiRes.jpg

Identifying the Leopard-watering Bowl as Amanita

Article title:
Defining “Compelling Evidence” & “Criteria of Proof” for Mushrooms in Christian Art
Subsection title:
Mushrooms Hidden and Visible in Fabric Folds: Dionysus’ Triumph
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/11/13/compelling-evidence-criteria-of-proof-for-greek-bible-mushrooms/#mhavif
master copy of the present section:
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/11/13/compelling-evidence-criteria-of-proof-for-greek-bible-mushrooms/#Identifying-the-Leopard-watering-Bowl-as-Amanita

Photo by Michael Hoffman, the theorist of ego death, 10:10 a.m. October 10, 2010

On November 14, 2020, I positively identified the leopard’s bowl in the Dionysus triumph fresco as Amanita mushroom — not as a fleeting possible hypothesis to consider, like in 2006 with a sense of high uncertainty and skepticism (that was a preliminary, hypothesis-formation phase of the discovery process) — but this time as a conclusion that I commit to and stand behind.

I defensibly concluded that this image represents an Amanita, based on:

My own first-hand, close-up inspection and photographing of numerous Amanita specimens. My specimen-photo confirms that a rim can be formed, matching the leopard-fountain image, when the Amanita is upturned but not extremely upturned.
The wide stem; the proportions of stem and bowl.
The distinctive gills exposed on the outside.
The established mushrooms and mythology context of the mosaic.
In contrast to the striped tigers, this is a spotted feline, a leopard. The veil-remnant spots are not shown on top of the fountain, but the associated leopard has spots, like an Amanita cap, making the leopard a better choice of feline, to visually match the Amanita fountain, than a tiger would be.

Egodeath.com gallery in support of Plaincourault article

Folio 49

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f49.item.zoom

Christian Mushroom Trees
Section: Canterbury Psaltery Showing Cluster of Mushroom Fruiting-Bodies
http://www.egodeath.com/christianmushroomtrees.htm#_Toc134497563

From the Canterbury Psaltery, early 12th C. It appears in the book:
Celestial Treasury: From the Music of the Spheres to the Conquest of Space
Marc Lachieze-Rey & Jean-Pierre Luminet (2001), p. 178.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0521800404

twofold, basic Y branching, from upper left

Folio 49 Left – Parasols of Victory

*Psilocybe cubensis pair, Christian art*
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f49.item.zoom

Folio 49 Detail of Italian Pine (a Scroll at Top)

tree shrub cluster, from upper right

Psilocybe cubensis cluster, Liberty Cap mushrooms in cap, Christian art
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f49.item.zoom