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Egyptian art -- showing datura?
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John Uebersax
2008-12-16 21:20:28 UTC
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Hello Group,

This link will display a photo with the following caption: Tuth-Shena
in awe of the god Horus, who emits rays of _Datura_ [a psychoactive
plant, aka Jimson weed]

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Can anyone identify this picture -- where it comes from? (I mean in
Egypt, not in what book does it appear, although that also might help
identify the scene.) I'd like to getter a better quality image of the
scene, preferably in color.

Thanks,

John U.
JTEM
2008-12-17 06:18:23 UTC
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Post by John Uebersax
Can anyone identify this picture -- where it comes from?
Not me, but this contains a cite:

http://shrani.si/f/41/d4/4auHVH7r/21-v03.pdf
Post by John Uebersax
 (I mean in Egypt, not in what book does it appear,
although that also might help identify the scene.)
The actual image comes from "Ethnobotany," By Richard
Evans Schultes, Siri Von Reis, and is available on Google...
or at least a good portion of it. The specific part you're
interested in appears to be a paper by William A. Emboden
Jr.

There's a much larger copy of the image here:

http://shrani.si/f/41/d4/4auHVH7r/21-v03.pdf

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