Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Ancient Mayas are thought to have used entheogens, or chemical substances, typically of plant origin, that were ingested to produce non-ordinary or altered states of consciousness for religious or spiritual purposes. \"Entheogen,\" an alternative term for a hallucinogen or psychedelic drug, is derived from ancient Greek words ἔνθεος (entheos, meaning \"full of the god, inspired, possessed\") and γενέσθαι (genesthai, meaning \"to come into being\"). This neologism was coined in 1979 by a group of ethnobotanists and scholars of mythology. Some authors claim entheogens have been used by shamans throughout history, with appearances in prehistoric cave art such as a cave painting at Tassili n'Ajjer, Algeria that dates to roughly 8000 BP. In 1977, José Luís Díaz noted an emerging scholarly discourse in ethnopharmacology that represented a scholarly basis for investigating these practices"@en }
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- Entheogenics_and_the_Maya abstract "Ancient Mayas are thought to have used entheogens, or chemical substances, typically of plant origin, that were ingested to produce non-ordinary or altered states of consciousness for religious or spiritual purposes. \"Entheogen,\" an alternative term for a hallucinogen or psychedelic drug, is derived from ancient Greek words ἔνθεος (entheos, meaning \"full of the god, inspired, possessed\") and γενέσθαι (genesthai, meaning \"to come into being\"). This neologism was coined in 1979 by a group of ethnobotanists and scholars of mythology. Some authors claim entheogens have been used by shamans throughout history, with appearances in prehistoric cave art such as a cave painting at Tassili n'Ajjer, Algeria that dates to roughly 8000 BP. In 1977, José Luís Díaz noted an emerging scholarly discourse in ethnopharmacology that represented a scholarly basis for investigating these practices".