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Figure 8a |
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Figure 8a |
This series of predynastic Egyptian figurines beginning on the far left in Figure 8a were sculpted to personify psilocybe primordia, like those on the far right in the same figure.
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Figure 8b |
The predynastic Egyptian figurine on the right in Figure 8b has a conspicuous cleft defining its two legs, because it was sculpted to personify a toxic Lawn Gallerina with an identical cleft, like the one on the left in the same figure;
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Figure 8c |
The ball-stage psilocybe primordium on the left in Figure 8c (with a cleft visible on its lower right side) strikingly resembles the three progressively more personified figurines to its right, because these figurines were sculpted to personify the development of a similar primordium;
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Figure 8d |
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Figure 8e |
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The studded A. muscaria cap on the left in Figure 8e strikingly
resembles the Cretan figurine4 in the center of the figure and the Hittite
artifact from Ortakoy on the far right of the same figure, because these figurines were
modeled after such a cap. In fact, the little protuberance on the Hittite artifact is
clearly indicative of an "umbonate" A. muscaria.
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Figure 8f |
The phallic figurine on the bottom left in Figure 8f was evidently sculpted to personify a phallic-stage psilocybe primordium, like those sprouting from a cake of growth media on the right in the same figure. The figurine therfore has a flat-headed variant (above it), evidently designed to show the psilocybe cap developing from its primordium.
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Figure 8f |
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Predynastic, Egyptian, "reclining" figurine on the left in Figure 8f was designed to personify a psilocybe growing angularly from a dung ball, like the psilocybes growing angularly from the dung ball on the right in the same figure, as were petroglyphs found at El Hosh, Upper Egypt in Figure 8f (below). The Egyptians therefore revered the dung beetle for the part it played in the psilocybe life-cycle.
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Petroglyphs of developing psilocybes from El Hosh, Upper Egypt, which Huyge theorized were "fish traps."(From Winkler, Rock Drawings of Southern Upper Egypt). Figure 8e |