Gordon Wasson reads like an exciting scientific detective story. «The careful scholarship of the dedicated amateur mycophile R. I congratulate him on his feat.» (ROBERT GRAVES, Atlantic Monthly) «The argument of Wasson's Soma is as lucid as unanswerable the illustrations are wonderful, the quotations are numerous and telling. Wasson's work establishes, in our opinion convincingly, that among all the candidatures put forward for representing Soma, Amanita muscaria is by far the most plausible.» (CLAUDE LÉVI-STRAUSS, L'Homme) Wasson advances a revolutionary hypothesis on the nature of Soma, the implications of which are 50 widespread that ethnologists cannot leave the task of communicating it to Indian specialists only MI. This edition faithfully reproduces the text and all but two of the many color and black-and-white illustrations of the original, lavishly printed, deluxe edition. A section on the post-Vedic history of Soma is contributed by the Sanskrit scholar Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty. In his presentation he throws fascinating light on the role of mushrooms in religious ritual.
Wasson has aroused considerable attention in learned circles and beyond by advancing and documenting the thesis that Soma was a hallucinogenic mushroom -none other than Amanita muscaria, the fly-agaric that until recent times was the center of shamanic rites among the Siberian and Uralic tribesmen. One of the key enigmas of cultural history has been the identity of a sacred plant called Soma in the ancient Rig Veda of India. Seccond hand copy in good condition (almost like new) Portada y páginas interiores bien conservadas el lomo tiene tres pliegues marcados y de color amarronado. Ejemplar de segunda mano, pero en buenas condiciones.
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