Fig. 1. (A) Pin-stage primordium of Psilocybe cubensis strikingly resembling (B) anomalous White Crown on an 11th Dynasty tomb wall at Deir-el-Bahari (Naville, 1910 and Abubakr, 1937); (C) King Narmer's White Crown; (D) Pharaoh Sesostris I's anomalous White Crown (Evers, 1929).

Fig. 2. Different stages of Psilocybe cubensis primordia (A and C) represented by the Triple Crown, or hemhem (B).

Fig. 3. (Left) Greek deity, often identified as Demeter, wearing a crown bearing the poppy capsules that yield opium. (Center) Two versions of the Egyptian Nile God Hapi, one wearing a papyrus crown and the other wearing entheogenic lotus flowers. (Right) Hawaiian helmet sporting mushrooms that Hoffman (2002) identified as entheogenic species.

Fig. 4. (Left) Glyphs of mushroom-crowned humanoids on cliffs in Chukchi region of Russia. (Right) Pictures of similarly crowned beings carrying mushrooms on cave walls in the Tassili N-Ajjer region of the Sahara.

Fig. 5. (Left) Neolithic drawing of bee-headed humanoid from Tassili region of the Sahara. (Right) Mushroom-headed dancer from the same region.

Fig. 6. (Left) Glyphs of beings with primordial mushrooms growing from the top of their heads and ears from El Hosh, Upper Egypt. (Right) Mexican pottery depicting people with mushrooms growing from their ears (Schultes and Hoffman, 1992).

Fig. 7. Glyphs of phallic Psilobybes emerging from their primordia at El Hosh, Upper Egypt, the region the White Crown was associated with.

Fig. 8. 18th–19th Dynasty Egyptian ear studs (A, C, E, and G) were evidently designed to stylize the entheogenic Amanita Pantherina (B), Amanita Muscaria (D and H) and Psilocbye (Stropharia) cubensis (F) mushrooms.

Fig. 9. White Crown hieroglyph.

Fig. 10. Horus, wearing the Double Crown, holds the White Crown up to his face in a bowl or basket to signify that it is edible and, perhaps, that he is preparing to eat it.

Fig. 11. (A) Venus of Willendorf; (B) primordial Amanita muscaria; (C) horse mushroom primordium; (D) anthropoid female figurine from Chiozza di Scandino, Italy (Berlant, 1999).

Fig. 12. Lawn Gallerina (A) personified in Egyptian figurine with conspicuous medial cleft (B), and maturing Amanita brunnescens (C) personified in anthropoid, predynastic, Egyptian figurine with conspicuous basal cleft (D).

Fig. 13. Psilocybe primordium (left) symbolized by the White Crown (center) and personified by three, anthropoid, predynastic Egyptian figurines (right).

Fig. 14. Psilocybe cluster, here on growth media (A) personified in Canaanite figurines (B and C) and symbolized by Egyptian Triple Crown (D).

Fig. 15. Muu dancers wearing woven, basket-like, variations of the White Crown.

Fig. 16. Plumed mushroom and serpent symbol that Budge associated with Osiris at the god's cult center at Abydos.

Fig. 17. Osiris rising up from a basket, enfolded in the wings of Isis is symbolically equivalent to the White Crown hieroglyph (Fig. 9).

Fig. 18. Osiris shedding the barley he is personifying with a Psilocybe crown growing from his head, ostensibly as a crown.

Fig. 19. (Left) Osiris in his typical mushroom-like pose. (Right) Amanita muscaria. Particularly noteworthy is the striking resemblance Osiris's hands bear to the annulus, just under the mushroom's cap.

Fig. 20. A necklace of golden flies from the tomb of Queen Ahhotep, mother of Ahmose I.

Fig. 21. Tekenu wrapped in a bull's hide representing an Amanita muscaria primordium. The priest eventually emerges in the same distinctly mushroom-like pose that Osiris typically manifests, in a position to administer the sacred mushroom cap he then personified.

Fig. 22. Osiris as a green God.

Fig. 23. The dog-God Wepwet (Upuat) pointing to Osiris's mushroom embodiment, surrounded by personified, ithyphallic, monopodial, Psilocybe primordia (from Mabry, 2000).

Fig. 24. An Egyptian utchat, representing the Eye of Horus, Re and Thoth, as well as a plant that could reputedly yield an elixir of immortality.