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BuFo x Sol collab
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BuFo x ZooKeeper collab
A totem can be the symbol of a tribe, clan, family or individual. Native American tradition provides that each individual is connected with nine different animals that will accompany each person through life, acting as guides. Different animal guides come in and out of our lives depending on the direction that we are headed and the tasks that need to be completed along our journey.
Anthropologists speculate that a species of toad, Bufo marinus or related species, was used as ritual entheogen based mostly on iconographic and mythological representations (Kennedy 1982;Weil 1994) though some reject this (Thompson 1970). There is no concrete proof of the use in ancient South America though the circumstantial evidence is compelling of some type of ingestion of toad venom in Mesoamerica (Davis and Weil 1992). Modern psychonauts smoke the dried venom of Bufo alvarius which produces a powerful high as it contains 5-MeO-DMT and bufotenin. This fact somehow got seriously confounded in pop cultural imagination with "licking" the skin of the toad with a series of ill-informed toad-lickers causing episodes of hysteria. But beyond the smoking and licking there are known medical and aphrodisiac/tonic properties to toad venoms. These were known to have been exploited in ancient times in China and throughout Asia. In 1995 there was a minor bevy of illnesses and overdoses, prompting the DEA to take action, associated with the illicit use of Chinese toad venom extracts sold under such names as "Chinese Stone," "LoveStone," "Black Stone.” While said to be intended for topical use, one finds a continued folk use of poison creatures for psychoactive and aphrodisiac purposes throughout Asia, especially such creatures as toads, scorpions and snakes. Ethnobotanist Christian Ratsch reports of sadhus or agnihotra tantrikas adding cobra venom to their chillam pipes of hashish to make them more potent.
And this claim is, in fact, remarkable. Just for perspective, the date of 3000 BC would make the origins of the ayahuasca drink as old as the founding of the first Egyptian dynasty, five centuries older than the reign of the Sumerian king Gilgamesh, and almost ten centuries older than the earliest South American devices yet discovered for the ingestion of DMT-containing plants—two pipes found in association with Anadenanthera seeds in northwest Argentina, which have been radiocarbon dated to 2130 BC, and which had residues that tested positive for DMT (Torres, 1995, p. 312-314).
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