Michael Hoffman 6:42 a.m. Feb. 24, 2026

Contents:

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• Public Test of Moral Fiber, Integrity, and Credibility: Do You Say This Looks Like a Tree Branch, or a Mushroom?
  • If You Answered “Tree Branch”
  • If You Answered “Mushroom”
• Public Test of Moral Fiber, Integrity, and Credibility: Do You Say This Looks Like a Tree, or a Mushroom?
  • If You Answered “Tree”
  • If You Answered “Mushroom”
• Public Test of Moral Fiber, Integrity, and Credibility: Do You Say This Looks Like Wheat Harvesting and Grain Distribution, or a Cubensis Grow Op and Dispensary?
  • If You Answered “Wheat Harvesting and Grain Distribution”
  • If You Answered “Cubensis Grow Op and Dispensary”
• Huggins, Mosurinjohn, & Ascough’s Dogged Avoidance of Perceiving Evidence for Psychedelic Eternalism
  • Although Their Desire for Legitimacy in the Eyes of Corrupt, Anything-But-Drugs Academia is Understandable, the Strategies Used by the Writers of This Pseudo-History Constitute a Kind of Religious Fundamentalism and Colonialist Violence Against Entheogen Scholars and Their Followers
• Dogged Entheogen Denier, Religious Fundamentalist Sharday Mosurinjohn
  • Asp-Dog Trying to Avoid Hearing about Non-Branching
  • Mushroom-Tree Next to YI Hand-Shapes
  • The Asp Serpent Tries to Avoid Hearing Wisdom & Divine Truth
• The Anything-But-Drugs Religions Journal, Now Hiring Prostitute-Scholars in the Post-Immortality Key, Pop Scholarship Era
• Greer Might Survive with Reputation Intact, Unlike Huggins, Mosurinjohn, & Ascough
  • Amanita Isn’t a Scheduled Substance, DUMBASS IGNORAMUS Christian Greer
• Greer’s Credibility Has Fallen to the Level of the Other Pathetic, Illegitimate, Compromised Deniers
• Ronald Huggins Is Required to Explain Why Wasson Replaced Standard Scholarly Citation and Evidence by Just . . . . Ellipses, When Both Panofsky Letters Were Crucially Relevant, Just as Huggins Treats Them
• Deniers of Mushrooms in Christian Art Have a Major CORRUPTION Problem, Joining Company with Wasson, Who Had an Extreme Conflict of Interest
  • Deniers Shamelessly Associate Themselves with Brazenly Fallacious Argumentation
• No Pseudo-Argument Too Atrocious for Deniers to Gladly Embrace, to Proudly Display to Anything-But-Drugs Academia’s Prejudiced and Crooked Cover-Up Agenda
• Shardogged Mosurinjohn, So Intent on Hanging onto This Anything-But-Drugs Narrative
  • The Strategies Used by the Writers of this Academia-Endorsed, Sanitized, Drug-Free Pseudo-History Constitute a Kind of Religious Fundamentalism
• Jesus Didn’t Exist as a Single, Identifiable Historical Figure Without Whom Christianity Couldn’t Have Started; and, Religions (Including Christianity) Come from None Other Than Psychedelics, Including Amanita Mushrooms
  • The Allegro Violation Prohibition that Academics Are Slaves Subject To
• Positive Mythicism vs. Negative Mythicism
  • Positive, Analogy-Mapping Mythicism vs. Negative, Eliminative Mythicism
• Where Positive Mythicism and Negative Mythicism Fit in the 4-Layer Onion Model of Core vs. Periphery Topics
• Outside the Gates of the City of Egodeath Theory
• Asp-Dog, Branch, and Flute, with Annotations
• Sharday Mosurinjohn’s Right Hand-Shape: YI’I’
  • Sacrifice of Isaac: Mushroom Thicket
• King Mushroom Demon: Powerful Double Y’III Hand-Shape
• Dancing Man (Salamander Bestiary)
• Analogy-Illiterate Huggins Argues “Dying or Poisoned, Rather than Tripping”, with No Awareness of Ego Death Analogy, the 3rd Option: He’s Disqualified, as “Those on the Outside”
• God Says to Adam “You Will ‘Die1‘ on That Day”
• Serpent Says to Adam “You Will Not ‘Die2‘ on That Day”
• Dancing Man Has the Classic Hand-Shape Pair, [Y’I, YI]! (or [Y’, YI])
• Dancing Man’s Hand-Shape Pair
• Asp-Dog, 2 Groups of Guys, and {rock ossuary}
• Motivation for this Page
• See Also

Public Test of Moral Fiber, Integrity, and Credibility: Do You Say This Looks Like a Tree Branch, or a Mushroom?

If You Answered “Tree Branch”

You are on Team Popebanker, with 100% conflict of interest, and zero credibility.

Thank you for clearly letting the world know that you are on the side of censorship (Wasson p. 180), anything-but-drugs propaganda, and have made a career out of being paid to lie.

If You Answered “Mushroom”

You are sane and honest and have integrity.

• The Letcher-Panofsky Intelligence Test

Public Test of Moral Fiber, Integrity, and Credibility: Do You Say This Looks Like a Tree, or a Mushroom?

If You Answered “Tree”

You are on Team Popebanker, with 100% conflict of interest, and zero credibility.

Thank you for clearly letting the world know that you are on the side of censorship (Wasson p. 180), anything-but-drugs propaganda, and have made a career out of being paid to lie.

If You Answered “Mushroom”

You are sane and honest and have integrity.

Public Test of Moral Fiber, Integrity, and Credibility: Do You Say This Looks Like Wheat Harvesting and Grain Distribution, or a Cubensis Grow Op and Dispensary?

If You Answered “Wheat Harvesting and Grain Distribution”

You are on Team Popebanker, with 100% conflict of interest, and zero credibility.

Thank you for clearly letting the world know that you are on the side of censorship (Wasson p. 180), anything-but-drugs propaganda, and have made a career out of being paid to lie.

If You Answered “Cubensis Grow Op and Dispensary”

You are sane and honest and have integrity.

Huggins, Mosurinjohn, & Ascough’s Dogged Avoidance of Perceiving Evidence for Psychedelic Eternalism

Although Their Desire for Legitimacy in the Eyes of Corrupt, Anything-But-Drugs Academia is Understandable, the Strategies Used by the Writers of This Pseudo-History Constitute a Kind of Religious Fundamentalism and Colonialist Violence Against Entheogen Scholars and Their Followers

Ronald Huggins, Sharday Mosurinjohn, & Richard Ascough’s dogged avoidance of perceiving evidence for psychedelic eternalism: although their desire for legitimacy in the eyes of corrupt, anything-but-drugs academia is understandable, the strategies used by the writers of this pseudo-history constitute a kind of religious fundamentalism and colonialist violence against entheogen scholars and their followers.
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Dogged Entheogen Denier, Religious Fundamentalist Sharday Mosurinjohn

Sharday Mosurinjohn (the religious fundamentalist denier of mushrooms in mystery religions and Christianity, and perpetrator of colonialist violence who is overlooking Indigenous Shams by erroneously trying to write a book on psychedelics in Western Esotericism, instead) wrote and spoke on:

“We then explore how the dogged pursuit of evidentiary mirages contributes to the [pathetic, invalid, illegitimate, in-vain] project of establishing a western civilizational pedigree to dignify the use of stigmatized drugs and revitalize experiential religion.

“Although the desire for [fake] legitimacy and meaning is understandable [though foolish, erroneous, hopeless, and futile], the strategies used by the writers [not scholars or researchers] of this pseudo-history constitute a kind of religious fundamentalism [“and colonialist violence“].” PROJECTION MUCH?!

Asp-Dog Trying to Avoid Hearing about Non-Branching

Mushroom-Tree Next to YI Hand-Shapes

The Asp Serpent Tries to Avoid Hearing Wisdom & Divine Truth

“The Asp, or “aspido,” is a mythical creature in medieval bestiaries described as a snake that stops up its ears to avoid being enchanted by the music of snake charmers. It presses one ear against the ground and covers the other with its tail to ignore the charming, symbolizing a refusal to hear wisdom or divine truth.”

Web search: Asp blocks ear avoid musical enchantment

The Anything-But-Drugs Religions Journal, Now Hiring Prostitute-Scholars in the Post-Immortality Key, Pop Scholarship Era

I guarantee that the fake Sharday Mosurinjohn gang will advocate whatever position on mushroom-trees is approved by their slavemasters in the anything-but-drugs agenda/ commitment/ academics/ propaganda/ academia.

F. U., fake & phony scholars for sale.

Huggins, Mosurinjohn, Ascough, & Greer: congrats for swindling control of a special issue of the Anything-But-Drugs Religions journal.

An Aztec Narcotic (Safford 1915) – Sharday Mosurinjohn is the next Safford: We looked real hard, under our real hard biased prejudiced lens, and successfully avoided seeing mushroom, because our slavemasters tell us that is the correct thing to not see.

Sharday Mosurinjohn (the religious fundamentalist, dogged denier of mushrooms in mystery religions and Christianity, and perpetrator of colonialist violence) is writing a book seeing psychedelics in Western Esotericism, because Wouter Hanegraaff paved the way and took the heat, for her.

Greer Might Survive with Reputation Intact, Unlike Huggins, Mosurinjohn, & Ascough

But Greer is IGNORANT AS A ROCK:

Amanita Isn’t a Scheduled Substance, DUMBASS IGNORAMUS Christian Greer

Wasson, Hofmann, and Ruck defied legal prohibitions and scholarly decorum and used Amanita.

Christian Greer, newbie to the field, making his entrance by throwing fists randomly, hitting himself

Greer’s Credibility Has Fallen to the Level of the Other Pathetic, Illegitimate, Compromised Deniers

There went all your credibility, Newbie Greer. Read a book, before presuming to enter a field.

Greer continues making a laughingstock of himself:

“Wasson, Hofmann, and Ruck ([1978] 2008: 34) repudiated “armchair” scholarship and instead defied legal prohibitions and scholarly decorum by experimenting with Amanita muscaria themselves as a means of testing their hypotheses.

“They even went so far as demanding their detractors do the same before passing judgment on their arguments.”

— Ignoramus Christian Greer, toxic parasite dumbass: Amanita isn’t a scheduled substance.

How about you learn a little about the field you presume to invade, FALSE ACCUSER dumbass?

GTFO of the way, there’s serious scholarship to continue being done here.

Christian Greer and Charles Stang conceded that we must PLAN on finding SOME Christians used psychedelics; they are ready to debate “mainstream”, I won that already, along with the Browns.

Mainstream is what I declare it to mean: high-quality Christian practice, say 1%, is what counts as influential therefore main, in best churches and manuscripts best paintings and best art.

If 99% not psychedelics, they define “low quality” Christianity, not “mainstream” but in a stupid headcount way, with no significance here.

A redemption arc for Huggins Mosurinjohn & Ascough exists: the Egodeath Apology Form for Deniers of Mushrooms in Christian History.

Ronald Huggins Is Required to Explain Why Wasson Replaced Standard Scholarly Citation and Evidence by Just . . . . Ellipses, When Both Panofsky Letters Were Crucially Relevant, Just as Huggins Treats Them

Huggins, Mosurinjohn, Ascough, and Greer have to explain the replacement of writing/publishing/citation, replaced by just ellipses: . . . . by Popebanker Wasson on p. 180 of SOMA.

Page:
Soma: Divine Mushroom of Immortality (Wasson, 1968)
Article section:
SOMA p. 180 (More Cussing, Fewer Annotations, Dec. 2, 2024)
https://egodeaththeory.org/2026/02/18/soma-divine-mushroom-of-immortality-wasson-1968/#somap.-180-more-cussing-fewer-annotations-dec.-2-2024

Deniers of Mushrooms in Christian Art Have a Major CORRUPTION Problem, Joining Company with Wasson, Who Had an Extreme Conflict of Interest

Deniers Shamelessly Associate Themselves with Brazenly Fallacious Argumentation

Foraging for Psychedelic Mushrooms in the Wrong Forest: The Great Canterbury Psalter as a Medieval Test Case (Ronald Huggins, 2024), https://egodeaththeory.org/2024/11/23/huggins-foraging-psychedelic-mushrooms-wrong-forest/ & https://www.academia.edu/118659519/Foraging_for_Psychedelic_Mushrooms_in_the_Wrong_Forest_The_Great_Canterbury_Psalter_as_a_Medieval_Test_Case

Huggins puts forth AS IF substantive argumentation:

• This exact mushroom branch in Day 3 panel is a tree branch, somehow, so, no mushrooms.
• This exact mushroom in Day 4 panel is a tree, somehow, even though it has no branches; so, no mushrooms.
  🎩🐰👉 “Hey, look over there at the smaller plants between the trees!”
• Panofsky’s censored-by-Wasson letter 2 (simply see the drawer at Harvard) argues that branches prevent mushroom-trees from meaning mushrooms, even though we art historians describe mushroom-trees as “emphatically mushroom shaped” (censored by Wasson).
• This enables us to make-up a “rule” for the purpose of declaring that mushrooms are “ruled out” (a phony “rule” pretending to be about each instance, but covertly about the entire class of all mushroom-trees) and with Panofsky’s branches argument in hand, we are able write down some words (congratulations, you get a medal 🥉), in a section called “Conclusion” (ie, “Arbitrary Sweeping Declaration of Commitment to Prejudiced Presupposition“) saying, “IF” a mushroom-tree has any tree features at all (which they ALL do BY DEFINITION – are you a dolt, on this “special”, taboo topic?),
  We must ignore the mushroom features, because there are also tree features.

IS THIS SUPPOSED TO BE AN ARGUMENT, OR A PUBLIC DECLARATION OF FAITH COMMITMENT?

No Pseudo-Argument Too Atrocious for Deniers to Gladly Embrace, to Proudly Display to Anything-But-Drugs Academia’s Prejudiced and Crooked Cover-Up Agenda

The deniers shamelessly associate themselves with fallacious argumentation.

No argument is too atrocious for deniers to gladly Embrace and firmly associate themselves with, to proudly display to Anything-But-Drugs Academia’s prejudiced and crooked agenda.

Popebanker Gordon “Perfect Conflict of Interest” Wasson, Soma, 1968, p. 180, ellipses covertly replacing Panofsky’s citation of Brinckmann’s book and Panofsky’s two attached “emphatic” mushroom-shaped trees – while in the very same paragraph, chastising and insulting mycologists for having failed to “consult”(?) art authorities who never wrote, published, or cited anything (except the “noted”, ie. censored, exception of Brinckmann’s “little” book) on this “special”, taboo topic. https://egodeaththeory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/img_5225.jpg

The prostitute Gordon . . . .🔍🧐🤔🤬 Wasson, perfect conflict of interest.

The long awaited Hopkins 2015-2025 faceplant at finish line MASSIVE CONFLICTS OF INTEREST p. 17-18.

Who’s next?

Shardogged Mosurinjohn, So Intent on Hanging onto This Anything-But-Drugs Narrative

The Strategies Used by the Writers of this Academia-Endorsed, Sanitized, Drug-Free Pseudo-History Constitute a Kind of Religious Fundamentalism

these writers’ dogged pursuit of evidentiary mirages … project of establishing a western civilizational pedigree to dignify … drugs … the desire for legitimacy … the strategies used by the writers of this pseudo-history constitute a kind of religious fundamentalism … the psychedelic hypothesis is fundamentally flawed … erroneous view of history … This myopia is rooted in colonial violence … the multi-year history of the rejection of the manuscript … is emblematic of the way … scholars fail to communicate around psychedelic history … The persistence of the belief that ancient Western religions were fundamentally psychedelic [is] … a myth … so intent on hanging on to this narrative

Psychedelics, Eleusis, and the Invention of Religious Experience (Sharday Mosurinjohn & Richard Ascough, 2025)

Jesus Didn’t Exist as a Single, Identifiable Historical Figure Without Whom Christianity Couldn’t Have Started; and, Religions (Including Christianity) Come from None Other Than Psychedelics, Including Amanita Mushrooms

The Allegro Violation Prohibition that Academics Are Slaves Subject To

Academic prostitutes are not permitted to assert the pair (don’t cross the streams!):

• Jesus Didn’t Exist as a Single, Identifiable Historical Figure Without Whom Christianity Couldn’t Have Started.
• Religions (Including Christianity) Come from None Other Than Psychedelics, Including Amanita Mushrooms.

Allegro was wrong in his smear, that Christianity at the very beginning (only!) was a disgusting fungus sex-cult. But:

Allegro was correct that Christianity came from psychedelics.

Allegro was correct that Jesus Didn’t Exist as a Single, Identifiable Historical Figure Without Whom Christianity Couldn’t Have Started.

The Allegro Violation Is True, Even Though Allegro Is Not an Entheogen Scholar and Needs to be Sidelined and Retired from Focus in Pop or Academic Scholarship.

Even though Allegro’s motive was to abuse anthropology and entheogen scholarship to smear the Church with a disgusting sex-cult fungus.

Positive Mythicism vs. Negative Mythicism

Not that I GAF about the mere negative ahistoricity of religious founder figures.

Positive, Analogy-Mapping Mythicism vs. Negative, Eliminative Mythicism

YouTube channel Derek Lambert: MythVision, an often puerile and beginners’ YouTube channel, has not constructive, positive mythicism, but merely eliminative, unprofitable, negative mythicism:

“Jesus didn’t really exist; end of analysis.”

Where Positive Mythicism and Negative Mythicism Fit in the 4-Layer Onion Model of Core vs. Periphery Topics

Outside the Gates of the City of Egodeath Theory

MythVision-type, negative mythicism is further out beyond my “outer periphery” of giving a F, in my 4-layer onion model of GAFness for my Egodeath theory of psychedelic eternalism and mytheme analogy.

1. Inner Core. – my 1997 core theory spec.
2. Outer Core.
3. Inner Periphery – Positive mythicism: what are the altered-state eternalism-driven control-transformation dynamics that are represented by analogy by the Jesus Christ, king on the cross, cave-resurrected figure?
4. Outer Periphery.
   Outside the Gates of the City of Egodeath Theory:
5. Beyond Outer Periphery – Negative mythicism, negative ahistoricity: Jesus didn’t really exist; end of analysis.

Asp-Dog, Branch, and Flute, with Annotations

Sharday Mosurinjohn’s Right Hand-Shape: YI’I’

Her Right hand comes close to forming same as asp-dog, I’YI’ = YI’I’. Features:

• Notable: R Index cut by L pinkie. Splayed apart from 3 fingers.
• Notable: R Thumb cut by R Middle.
• R Middle: all 3 segments displayed.
• Notable: R Ring is cut via cross-behind under R pinkie.
• R Pinkie: all 3 segments displayed.

Thumb is strangely grouped with the 3 fingers.

We cannot say the pinkie is cut; all 3 segments shown. So, any Y or Y’ branching motif must be achieved via Middle & Ring.

More precise than the annotation, is: I’I’II’I, can we force any to Y?

Her Right hand-shape is like Abraham’s ram caught in thicket, a YI confused mess.

My 75% serious viable analysis, justification for saying YI’I’:

• Splayed Index visually cut = I’.
• Thumb visually cut, occluding the base segment = I’.
• The 3 Fingers grouped as “branching”: consider as Y, to match asp-dog.
  • Middle: 3 segments shown; not cut.
  • Ring: base and tip shown, mid segment occluded/cut.
  • Pinkie: 3 segments shown; not cut.
    Per last night’s latest, segment-based rules, that’s considered I, often contrasted with 3 cut fingers, forming Y’.

This is artificial, forced, biased analysis toward a pre-set goal, like Mosurinjohn & Ascough make up fake pseudo-arguments to reach their Anything-But-Drugs Academia-mandated, pre-set “conclusion” of:

Do not ever see mushrooms in Christian art, or else you lose your “competent scholar” designation among the cabal.

Don’t even THINK of publishing that Jesus didn’t exist and Christianity came from psychedelics.

That Allegro Violation is Not Allowed in academia, for reasons of cultural politics.

Sacrifice of Isaac: Mushroom Thicket

Forms the sequence:

• cut & splayed apart from 3 fingers
• cut
• not cut
• cut
• not cut

Her Left hand forms a powerful Y’III, like the Right and debatably the Left hand of Mushroom King, Great Canterbury Psalter folio image f145 row 2 Right.

King Mushroom Demon: Powerful Double Y’III Hand-Shape

Dancing Man (Salamander Bestiary)

Analogy-Illiterate Huggins Argues “Dying or Poisoned, Rather than Tripping”, with No Awareness of Ego Death Analogy, the 3rd Option: He’s Disqualified, as “Those on the Outside”

Ronald Huggins’ 2022 article “Dizzy, Dancing or Dying?”

Dizzy, Dancing or Dying? The Misappropriation of MS. Bodl. 602, fol. 27v, as ‘Evidence’ for Psychedelic Mushrooms in Christian Art
Ronald Huggins, 2022
https://www.academia.edu/74021123/_Dizzy_Dancing_or_Dying_The_Misappropriation_of_MS_Bodl_602_fol_27v_as_Evidence_for_Psychedelic_Mushrooms_in_Christian_Art_
https://egodeaththeory.org/2024/12/12/dizzy-dancing-dying-huggins-2022/

God Says to Adam “You Will ‘Die₁‘ on That Day”

God says to Adam: You will surely die on that day you eat tree of knowledge. Which type of death, though? God is correct, in the sense of: you do die ego death on the day you eat tree of knowledge; you do not die bodily death on that day.

Die[1] = Ego death.

Die[2] = Bodily death.

The serpent and God were not in disagreement; they were talking about two different senses of ‘death’.

Like how myth & mythic art talks past outsiders such as Huggins.

Serpent Says to Adam “You Will Not ‘Die₂‘ on That Day”

The serpent says to Adam: You will not die on that day you eat tree of knowledge, but will gain wisdom. Which type of death, though? The serpent is correct, in the sense of: you do die ego death on the day you eat tree of knowledge; you do not die bodily death on that day.

Against Hatsis and his buddy-in-corruption Huggins:

Dancing Man artist is aware of “poisoned, dying”, in the salamander myth, but ego death; psilocybin is like poison for Possibilism branching-thinking.

You have disqualified yourselves, Hatsis and Huggins 2022, you are not qualified to comment on mythic art, since you are ILLITERATE at analogies describing psychedelic transformation; eternalism-driven control transformation that leaves us knowing I, Y, and Y’.

Dancing Man Has the Classic Hand-Shape Pair, [Y’I, YI]! (or [Y’, YI])

Dancing Man’s Hand-Shape Pair

[9:50 Feb. 24, 2026] In the course of making fun of Greer’s boundless ignorance, in the Dancing Man facepalm image, I noticed, based on my analysis refinement yesterday (in which I extended my YI hand-shape analysis down to the ultimate fractal level of inventorying each and every finger segment and whether splayed apart), practiced on f109 earlier today:

• Lower hand: IY’ (all joints of pinkie shown = I)
• Upper hand: IY’ (Index displays all 3 joints, and is splayed separately from 3 fingers)
• The resulting hand-shape pair: the classic combination [Y’I, YI].

If read lower pinkie as “cut” (though nothing is blocking it – unlike the 3 fingers), hand is Y’, giving: [Y’, IY] – which is good, in that all 3 are present asserted:

• I metaphysically
• Y phenomenologically
• Y’ metaphysically

Asp-Dog, 2 Groups of Guys, and {rock ossuary}

Motivation for this Page

Greatest Hits passages.

I keep copypasting this group of sections into multiple pages. Need a page where I can easily find this so I can copypaste it into every article I write.

See Also

WHAT HAVE YOU TO SAY FOR YOUR CORRUPT AND COMPROMISED TEAM THAT YOU ASSOCIATE YOURSELF WITH, HUGGINS? Bad Company

• Erwin Panofsky’s Letters to Gordon Wasson, Transcribed
• Tree Stylizations in Medieval Paintings (Brinckmann 1906)
• Soma: Divine Mushroom of Immortality (Wasson, 1968)
• Cultural Politics Corrupts Entheogen Scholarship: Indigenous Shams Do NOT Have “Psychedelic Wisdom” (Psychedelic Eternalism)
• By Writing “Wasson’s conclusion”, Ruck Leaked that Wasson Knew that Mushroom Trees Mean Mushrooms
• Despicable Wasson, Enemy of Entheogen Scholarship
• Art Matching Panofsky’s Description of Mushroom-Trees Sent to Wasson: “Miniature, 990, Mushroom-Like Shape” & “Glass Painting, Thirteenth Century, Emphatic Mushroom-Like Crown”
• Wasson Has Contributed Less Than Nothing to Entheogen Scholarship

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Web search: Asp blocks ear avoid musical enchantment – “The Asp, or “aspido,” is a mythical creature in medieval bestiaries described as a snake that stops up its ears to avoid being enchanted by the music of snake charmers. It presses one ear against the ground and covers the other with its tail to ignore the charming, symbolizing a refusal to hear wisdom or divine truth.”