I wonder if what ancient peoples called "soma" in Vedic texts might've been fly agaric mushroom? Scholars have puzzled over this for millennia. The evidence is fascinating but contested - linguistic clues, effects described, regional availability.

I wonder if what ancient peoples called "soma" in Vedic texts might've been fly agaric mushroom? Scholars have puzzled over this for millennia. The evidence is fascinating but contested - linguistic clues, effects described, regional availability.