teonanacatl (en)

Anglice

Notatio

“Fungus sacer.”

← Navatlaca Classica: teonanacatl

← teotl (deus) + nanacatl (fungus)

Nomen substantivum

teonanacatl

1. bot. Fungus alucinogenus Americanus, praesertim specie Psilocybe mexicana.

Loci

saec. XX.

• 1940: Long the center of confusion and ambiguity, teonanacatl was not known botanically until very recently. —Teonanacatl: The Narcotic Mushroom of the Aztecs, Richard Evans Schultes, in American Anthropologist