Soma, like with all things, doesn't fit into a neat tidy box or definition. Like humans stupidly keep trying to get everything to fit into. Same goes for the kykeon of the Greek mystery schools. The burning bush, and many other things having to do with connection to the divine, the spirit quest, and pretty much damn near everything else that there is.
It depends on the location and season and conditions and probably also whatever festival or holy day was what's happening at the time. I've read the rig-veda and the other vedas and the upanishads and Mahabharata and Ramayana and all kinds of other stuff from India as well as a lot I was text from other places around the world. And incidentally, I went to the Kerala Ayurveda Academe for two years. Ayurveda is the oldest medical practice on the planet from ancient India and still viable today and its main deal besides making your food your medicine is plant medicine. No matter what they say about Sumaria being old. everything that there is happened in India first by a few thousand years.
But that's another story. Sorry.
Anyway. it's pretty clear that it's amanita that is the main some of that they're talking about in the rig Veda. but it's not just the amanita muscaria. They talked about the red ones the orange ones the yellow ones the brown ones the green ones the gold ones the white ones. I have come to understand which amanita's they are talking about in various verses in the rig-veda, in large part anyway. Sometimes they're clearly talking about the amanita muscaria. sometimes they are very clearly talking about the pantherina. Then there is also some tech in there about the death cap and destroying angel. I'm not going to go into that part but there is a way to use these too. and it's not for everybody, obviously. But it's been done and it isn't that difficult to figure out. But it's not just amanita but it IS also the ephedra in large part too. And not just that. it's also psilocybin. its datura. it's cannabis
among other things.
What stands out the most for it being the amanita is the parts about pressing the Soma between tablets to squeeze the milk out and the milk runs down the troughs into the bucket and you scoop it out with your cup. It's got to be a clay cup or wooden cup so that the amanita spores stick into the porus cup. you can drink the juice, the milk, that is, and then it's just like in the Christian, for lack of a better word for it, idea of the holy Grail. You can see the symbolic tech, sort of, depicted in the Catholic imagery of the chalice on the altar with a cloth over the top of the chalice. this is how the holy Grail is created. Keeping in mind that like all other things the Grail is not just this one thing.. you get the milk of the mushroom into your cup, or one way that we do it is we just put juice in the cup and then put dried amanita's in behind it. let it soak for a while strain out the juice and drink it. Then spread the amanita fragments around the inside of the cup. put a filter over the top and the mycelium grows into the cup and then dries and then every time you use it after that the mycelium grows more, putting more medicine into it. it gets stronger and stronger each time. With the descriptions of how they processed the Hindu Soma, it would get very much stronger because the tablets that they pressed the Soma with were clay or wood. Porus. So were the board or trough it ran down and so was the bucket that it always collected in and so were the Cups they scooped it out with. so all of these would have been, after a while covered in mycelium and as of juice flowed through it it would be getting stronger and stronger all the time. And I don't know of any plant that would work the same way.. plus the descriptions and the effects that they describe are also very much in line with the mushrooms. But that is not to say that amanita were the only thing. like I said, right at the top of the list is ephedra. And that is pretty widely known and agreed on. But also there's psilocybin. why do you think Krishna has blue skin, plilocybin/psilocin oxidizes blue. He wears a hat that looks like a liberty cap. wears a peacock feather in his cap that looks like a liberty cap, and hangs around and has sex with the gopis or cowherd girls out in the cow fields. This is why Lord Shiva's cow Nandi is so sacred. because of the holy shit that comes out of the holy cow that grows the holy psilocybin mushrooms. For the same reason the is the scarab sacred in Egypt. Because the sundisk it holds between its pinchers is not only the sundisk but it's a dung ball because the scarab is a dung beetle. Inside that dung ball are psilocybin mushroom spores. And the scarab is blue (psilo) and its wings form two hemispheres of its wings like your brain. Symbolism upon symbolism. understanding symbolism is the key to everything when you're dealing with these ancient writings and concepts.
The sacred lotus that grows in Egypt also grows in India.
On some of the ancient walls in Egypt the lotuses are carved and painted but along with the lotus sometimes it is the datura flower that is depicted on the walls in Egypt being beamed into people from the eyes of the god.
In India the datura is sacred to Lord Shiva as is marijuana. it is said that he smokes them both all day long just to keep from destroying all of us foolish mortals.
From my extensive studies of all of the world's religions it is clear that the amanita is what is behind every one of them in a very large way.
In the Vatican the pope and his Cardinals and all the rest of them all dress like the amanita's in red and white. Vatican itself is got amanita's just everywhere all over it in the art The fountains the paintings of stained glass windows. Does a stained glass window their depicting Jesus at the well which is a funny story. Jesus hanging out by a well when some slutty girl comes up to get a drink of water and he talked her into not drinking the water from the well but drinking it from his spicket. Which is clearly a reference to amanitas. And as Jesus says, drink and drink again. meaning you drink it and then you piss it and then you drink it. this is the reason why there's that little kid pissing in the fountains everywhere in paintings and fountains in depictions of streams everywhere where there's a party in ancient Greece and Rome. walking on water turning water into wine even the Lowe's in the fishes in the gathering of the bread afterwards are all about amanita's because Miami need a mycelium will grow on grain it's just as much as it will into wine and all it takes is one little piece to continue it growing into whole bunch more just like any other mushroom culture growing on grains. Burning bush also is clearly an amanita because I know for a fact that a great many of the people that I have given amanitas to especially pantherinas and come back to me telling me how they now believe in God because they ended up talking to him face-to-face while I'm being has. LOL. I wonder how many of you in the group here have talked to God because of amanita.
The Greek mystery School and the Kykeon is another that is obviously not just one thing. That's a mystery School psych the still stands the wall relief of Persephone and Demeter admiring a liberty Cap. and in the field right next door , in the right season grow liberty caps still. It is a different part of the season there's a guy growing in the field that is infected with ergot fungus, from what you make LSD or back then, ergot wine. Around the mystery school girl acacia trees from which you can extract DMT. On the ground underneath of them Syrian rue plants to grow which is an MAO inhibitor making the DMT into a form of ayahuasca. In the same area opium poppies grow very well as well as datura. With the burning bush also besides anemone looking like it's on fire without being consumed, and making you talk to God, in the same area acacia trees grow there too. and if there's a forest fire in an acacia Grove the nearby people are going to be breathing in DMT.
In the Bible you have the HIGH priest talking to the most HIGH after sticking their head in the tent some links was billowing clouds of the HOLY SMOKE. Clint that they used to make the holy smoke was called kanna bosem..... cannabis. Easy code to break there.
What is the native Spirit quest? You got in the woods you some sacred plant stay awake for 3 days and then you see the great White Buffalo or something. Ephedra is a good candidate for that one for sure. But lots of those plants would do the same trick.
So when it comes to symbolic language expanding your parameters would you get a lot of good in understanding. Plus eating a lot of amanita's seems to open up the teachers to all that plant world very well.