• @BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one
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    98 hours ago

    No one read the article, but every suggestion in the comments are already dismissed by more educated experts.

    My guess is that since it typically had a bench at the end, it was used by people to consume drugs/mushrooms in a ritualistic event and exit as a form of rebirth while still high as fuck.

    • Ada
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      38 hours ago

      You’d expect any kind of ritualistic practice that widespread to have some sort of historical record related to the practice

      • @BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one
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        120 minutes ago

        Eating mushrooms in a tiny cave has been going on for centuries, so yes it indeed had, and currently does, have historical records.

      • VindictiveJudge
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        86 hours ago

        You seriously underestimate how poorly documented the non-Christian religions were.