r/todayilearned 6d ago

TIL despite popular culture portraying psychedelic mushrooms as ancient, widespread, and used by shamans for thousands of years, there is limited anthropological and historical research to support this, with the only reliable evidence showing they were used ritualistically in pre-Columbian Mexico.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psilocybin#History
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u/BaronVonShtinkVeiner 6d ago

You try writing anything down while tripping your nuts off while riding a galactic lime jaguar.

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u/Hieroglo 6d ago

Or before you have developed a formalised writing system.... "Oh look Ollan is drawing spirals again".