From the bodies of the gods : psychoactive plants and the cults of the dead / Earl Lee.

Rochester, Vt. : Park Street Press, [2012], ©2012.

ix, 245 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Surviving remnants of the cult of the dead -- Sacred oils, sacred foods -- The red corpse -- Ritual cannibalism and magic foods -- Cults of the dead in the modern world -- Hebrew and Christian ointments -- Hallucinations as history -- Plants from the bodies of the gods -- Signs of the cult of the dead -- Immortality -- The cult of the dead in Greece -- The goddesses of Crete -- Minoan graves -- Eating the dead -- The horns of consecration -- The double ax -- Awakening the bees -- Zeus and the human sack -- Dionysus and the Greek gods -- Dionysus and Osiris worship: Greek or Egyptian? -- Prometheus -- Adonis -- Jason and Jesus -- From the minotaur to Jesus.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 224-235) and index.