WordNet
sacred mushroom
n. the button-shaped top of the mescal cactus; a source of psilocybin [syn: mescal button, magic mushroom]
Usage examples of "sacred mushroom".
The gi-i-wa puffball of the Mixtecs, the sacred mushroom known as teonancatl (divine flesh) by the Aztecs, the tree fungus of the Yurimagua of Peru, the hex potion ayahuasca distilled by the Zaparo from the banisteriopsis vine as described by Villavicencio (1858) - all can be said to produce alkaloid exudates similar, chemically, to that obtained from Atropa belladonna.
Tezmec would mix a blending of these leaves with certain other plants and with the sacred mushroom that grew in the mountains.
This is the god of in-toxication, taking in the sacred mushroom (cf.