Nevertheless, modern culture has seemingly little to do with its wild origins, but in seeing our ancestors as the ecstatically-inspired people who composed the Vedas, rather than as the savages we often pretend prehistoric people to have been, we can reconnect with our roots and discover what they may still have to reveal us. The red, white-spotted mushroom, and other psychedelics such as Psilocybe Cubensis and Cannabis, may have catalysed the development of language and gnosis which permitted and shaped the development of agriculture, the rst civilizations, and eventually our modern day culture. The identity of Soma helps in understanding what may have happened to the ancestors of the Aryans, the Proto-Indo-Europeans, from whom present day Indo-Europeans inherit their languages and some of the founding myths of their cultures.
There has been a lot of debate as to the botanical identity of Soma, but if we make the assumption that Amanita Muscaria was the original Soma plant of the Aryans, the composers of the Vedas, who brought it from their original home to India during their migrations southwards then following the track of the mushroom leads us back into the time when the Vedas began to be composed: the Upper Paleolithic. The Rigveda, probably the oldest sacred text still in use today, praises in many of its hymns Soma as both an elixir, a plant and a god.
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