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The Tayrona and Fungi: Possible connections around a mushroom, fleur-de-Lis, and a bat cult in a pre-Hispanic indigenous tribe in Colombia

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Last updated: 03 Jan 2025

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Biodiversity and Conservation
Cultural Heritage and Microbes
Fungi

Abstract

The Tayrona were an indigenous tribe that lived in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta and its surroundings on the actual north territory of Colombia. The purpose of the present paper is to suggest the possibility of mushroom use in sacred rituals for spiritual purposes by the Tayrona in pre-hispanic Colombia, this obviously involving a mycological knowledge that would have included uses of fungi as nutritional edibles and medicinal sources. The uses of psilocybin producing mushrooms in the past and in present indigenous inhabitants in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Colombia is of the most ethnomycological importance and should be studied with rigor and discipline. Psilocybin in recent times has been proposed in medicine as a new way to threat anorexia, depression, anxiety, addictions, among other illnesses that affect human beings in modern times with positive results. There is a part in this document dedicated to psilocybin as a panacea of the future relating all these applications and uses to the Tayrona indigenous culture from pre-Hispanic Colombia and suggesting they had a knowledge of the brain functions and the effects of the mushrooms.

DOI

10.21608/mb.2024.357113

Keywords

Colombia, Goldsmihting, Indigenous, Medical, Psilocybe zapotecorum, Psilocybin

Authors

First Name

Juan Camilo

Last Name

Rodriguez Martinez

MiddleName

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Affiliation

Sociedad Colombianade micología

Email

sociedadcolombianademicologia@yahoo.com

City

Bogotá

Orcid

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Volume

9

Article Issue

1

Related Issue

47475

Issue Date

2024-06-01

Receive Date

2023-12-26

Publish Date

2024-05-30

Page Start

51

Page End

62

Print ISSN

2357-0326

Online ISSN

2357-0334

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https://mb.journals.ekb.eg/article_357113.html

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https://mb.journals.ekb.eg/service?article_code=357113

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357,113

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Original Article

Type Code

502

Publication Type

Journal

Publication Title

Microbial Biosystems

Publication Link

https://mb.journals.ekb.eg/

MainTitle

The Tayrona and Fungi: Possible connections around a mushroom, fleur-de-Lis, and a bat cult in a pre-Hispanic indigenous tribe in Colombia

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Article

Created At

23 Dec 2024