11.000 BC The nomadic hunters and collectors of the early ice age start a settled existence in the area of the Taurus- and Zagros mountains of upper Mesopotamia and begin to collect wild wheats. First stone buildings are erected in the mids of this `Eden` like cereal cradle of `Gobekli Tepe` between Iran and Irak.

7000-6000 BCThe first farmers move from the mountains down to the Persian Gulf and found the first highly sophisticated civilisation: `Sumer`. The Sumerian sage contains references to the `paradise mountain Do-ku`, to `the flood` and to the `first earth-born human couple`.

3500 BC In old Egyptian religion `Osiris`, the god of vegetation, death and resurrection is an embodiment of the wheat crops.

2900 BC In China, Mesopotamia and central Europa the vegetation- and grain-goddesses are honoured as transmitters of knowlegde, responsible for technological quantum leaps as dyke building, writing and agriculture. Sumerian frescos appear, showing how mycelial fruits are growing from the shoulders of the grain goddess `Nisaba` or `Ninhursag`.

1750-1200 BC The `Rig Veda` (indish book of wisdom) mentiones the hallucinogen qualities of the drink of the god`s, called `soma`. *** In Greece `Ambrosia` or `Amrita` (sanskrit for immortality) is the life`s elixier and food of the gods.

1500 BC Europe’s most famous initiation rites are the `Mysteries of Eleusis`. Honoring the grain goddess `Demeter` and her daughter `Persephone`, pilgrims walk from Athens to Eleusis. Here they receive a drink known as `Kykeon`, a psychoactive beverage containing Ergot (Mutter- or motherkorn) a mushroom parasite on rye. Homer praises the utterly purifying experience in a hymn as well as the initiants Cicero & Pinar.