ololiuqui

Mexicans crush ololiuqui fruits into a beverage drunk on quiet nights to create a potent hallucinogen.

The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

Mexicans crush ololiuqui fruits into a beverage drunk on quiet nights to create a potent hallucinogen.

The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

Mexicans crush ololiuqui fruits into a beverage drunk on quiet nights to create a potent hallucinogen.

The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

It was at this point that history intervened in the story of both teonanacatl and ololiuqui.

One River Wade Davis 1996

When arrested and questioned, the author noted, the Aztec denied knowledge of ololiuqui, not because of fear of Spanish law but out of reverence for the plant itself.

One River Wade Davis 1996

They venerate ololiuqui so much that they do all in their power so that the plant does not come to the attention of the ecclesiastical authorities.

One River Wade Davis 1996

In making his argument Safford stressed superficial similarities in the shape and color of the flowers—both are tubular and white—while overlooking the obvious: Every datura is a shrub or erect herb, but every account of ololiuqui describes a climbing vine.

One River Wade Davis 1996

In the same letter that Schultes had found pinned to the specimen of peyote at the Smithsonian that had alerted him to the true identity of teonanacatl, Reko had written that theZapotec of the Sierra Juárez of Oaxaca use in their religious feasts “ololiuqui which is doubtless Ipomoea sidaefolia.”

One River Wade Davis 1996

Throughout all of these travels Schultes had been searching for both teonanacatl and ololiuqui, and any evidence of rituals associated with the plants.

One River Wade Davis 1996

The active principles of ololiuqui were two indole alkaloids, lysergic acid amide and lysergic acid hydroxyethylamide, compounds that he already had sitting on the shelves of his lab.

One River Wade Davis 1996