teonanacatln.
/ˌtiːənɑːnəˈkat(ə)l/ Any of several hallucinogenic fungi, esp. Psilocybe mexicana, found in Central America. Also attributive.
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1875 H. H. Bancroft Native Races Pacific States II. 360 Among the ingredients used to make their drinks more intoxicating the most powerful was the teonanacatl, ‘flesh of God’, a kind of mushroom which excited the passions.
1915 Jrnl. Heredity 7 294/2 The writer has sought diligently for a fungus having the properties attributed to the teonanacatl.
1940 Amer. Anthropologist 42 439 The identity of teonanacatl was unknown for three centuries.
1953 J. Ramsbottom Mushrooms & Toadstools vi. 49 The Aztecs and Chichimecas were the earliest recorders of this teonanacatl.
1966 Listener 14 July 47/1 Another Mexican fantasy-producing drug that is used in religious ceremonial comes from the teonanacatl mushroom.
1975 R. W. Brimblecombe & R. M. Pinder Hallucinogenic Agents iv. 108 The active principles of teonanacatl, the sacred mushroom of Central America, are the alkaloids psilocin..and psilocybin... Most species of Psilocybe and a number of Stropharia and Conocybe species contain these compounds.
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