🧓 Siberian shamans reportedly wear red-and-white dotted garments to mimic the mushroom, and in winter their yurts get buried under snow as they descend through the smoke hole to deliver Amanita. Solstice rituals bring conifers indoors with dried mushrooms hung above the hearth as ornaments 🍄❄️
Siberian shamans said to deliver Amanita through yurt smoke holes at winter solstice
Key facts
- The video describes Siberian shamans wearing red-and-white garments patterned with dots to mimic the mushroom
- Yurts in Siberia are said to become buried in winter snow, with shamans descending through the smoke hole to deliver Amanita to the community
- Winter solstice rituals are said to involve bringing coniferous trees inside and hanging dried Amanita above the fireplace or on the tree as ornaments and stocking stuffers
- The mushroom's appearance in fairy tales is said to mark the transition from the ordinary to the extraordinary
Sources
Visionary Plants and Ecstatic Shamanismpenn.museum
the earth spirits are the fly agaric, Amanita muscaria; the fly agaric served shamans in Siberia, ,as an ecstatic inebriant.Fly
Let's travel with Amanita Muscaria - Mediummickaeleskinazi.medium.com
Amanita muscaria was used for shamanic purposes (medicine, communication with gods, divination, and maintaining collective myths).
The Influence of Hallucinogenic Mushrooms on Christmasffungi.org
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