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Copyright © 2011 by Carl A. P. Ruck, Mark Alwin Hoffman, José Alfredo González Celdrán

Images from M. J. Vermaseren, Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae, 1956, 2 volumes, are reproduced with the gracious permission of the publisher Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague.

Cover photo by Andreas Praefcke. Mithras Relief (tauroctony) depicting Mithras killing a sacred bull, from Aquileia, second of 2nd century AD. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. Inv. No. I 624.

Cover illustration by von Albin Schmalfuß, 1897. Fliegenpilz (Amanita muscaria).

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Ruck, Carl A. P.

Mushrooms, myth, and Mithras : the drug cult that civilized Europe /

Carl A. P. Ruck, Mark A. Hoffman, José Alfredo González Celdrán.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 292) and index.

ISBN 978-0-87286-470-2 (alk. paper)

1. Mithraism. 2. Hallucinogenic drugs and religious experience. 3. Amanita muscaria—Religious aspects—Mithraism. I. Hoffman, Mark Alwin.

II. González Celdrán, José Alfredo, 1963–III. Title.

BL1585.R83 2009

299'.15—dc22

2008037005

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