Motif
Compound preparation of plant stimulants or narcotics
compound_preparation_of_plant_stimulants_or_narcotics
A motif of the Sacred Substance and Divine Intoxication family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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1 traditions
amazonian
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The North-West Amazons: Notes of Some Months Spent Among Cannibal Tribes CHAPTER VII / CHAPTER VIII / CHAPTER IX / CHAPTER X; lines 4829-4909 confidence: high
Coca leaves are picked, fire-dried, pounded in small tree-trunk mortars with lime from palm-leaf ashes, baked clay from under the fire, and cassava flour; the passage compares this to Sierra coca mixtures with unslaked lime or Chenopodium Quinoa ashes and notes neck-pouch storage.
Coca, parica/niopo, and tobacco are each processed through drying or soaking, pounding, and admixture with materials such as ashes, lime, clay, cassava flour, or cassava starch.
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