psilocybin ones like on the pic are not lethal, however they may trigger schizofrenia which could have a serious impact and ruin lifes. ive seen that happen, and its not pretty. on the other side, it is one of the first mindinducing substances being used by mankind, and some narcoromantics even claim it was psilocybin mushrooms that made man conscious thousands of years ago. we were cavedwellers and nomades for aprox 1,5 million years and then almost suddenly we started agroculture, religion, lanuage, matematics, built temples and astronomy just some 8000 years ago in ancient sumer.
but that could ver well also just been alien vistors coming down and cloning our dna
and yes, mayan mytology is really interessting and obviously the shamans there were familiar with psilocobyn and even talked about how their gods came down from the stars, and showed them fhow to build temples
according to their mytology (if ive understood it correctly), their god (who currently is a member of this forum lol) is supposed to return in just little bit more than a year.
when it comes to amanita muscaria, be ware, because it will kill you by attacking the lever and the kiddnys within 48 houres after ingestion if you eat a propper amount without drying it first. it doesnt look at all like the liberty cap thou, it is after all the most recognisable mushroom in the forrest, the fly agaric. my ancestors (vikings) ate those during battles and for ritual use, but they made sure to dry them, so the nevrotoxins could transform into less toxic muscarin which has a psycoactive effect.
siberian reindeer hunters were apparantly the first ones to use fly agaric for ritual purposes and still does it today. after consumig they sat around a bonefire in the tent and watched the smoke going out of the "chimney" and some claim that christianity later picked up on this, hence st.claus has a red and white dress, rides with reindeers and comes down from the chimney, the 25 th of the december, the same time the ancients had their "return of the sun" ritual. sun turns the 21th then raises high over the horizon the 24/25th as we know.
sorry for hijackin, but its kinda interessting isn it
merry christmass