~ KYKEON    DRAFT 

BARLEY WATER flavored with MINT 
SOME SUGGEST THAT IT CONTAINED ERGOT or 
CLAVICEPS PURPUREA  A COMMON PARASITE OF BARLEY NEAR ELEUSIS 
PROBABLY IT WAS A PSYCHOGENIC INGREDIENT THAT RENDER THE 
DRINK TO BE SEEN AS AN ELIXIR 

A SOURCE OF ERGONOVINE WITH EFFECTS SIMILAR TO LSD 

THE ABOVE HYPOTHESES ARE REJECTED BY MANY MAINLY BECAUSE 
ERGOT AT PSHYCHOGENIC DOSES CAN INDUCE ABORTION BUT NO 
SUCH ACCOUNTS ARE KNOWN 

DRINKING KYKEON WAS AT THE CENTER OF THE CLIMAX OF THE ELEUSIS CEREMONIES OR MYSTERIES 

KYKEON WAS DRANK AFTER NINE DAYS OF FASTING 

MINOAN NARKISSOS  ASSIMILATED INTO GREEK AND POINTING TO NARCOTIC 
THE FLOWER PLUCKED BY PERSEPHONE WHILE BEING ABDUCTED 
THIS GAVE RISE TO THE MYSTERY OR MYTH 
"NYSA" PERSISTING IN GREEK AS NYSTAZO FOR "TO GET DROWSY" 
NAKRYSOS FLOWERS ARE PROMINENT IN MINOAN ART 
 PANCARTIUM = ALL POWERFUL AS CHRIST GIVEN AS PANKRATOR 
UKR PANAKHIDA or GREEK PANAGHIA  

BAUBO BABO 

OVIS OVES OVEZ OATS AVENA  

REF  MAKING MOCKERY  THE POETICS OF THE ANCIENT SATIRE 
OXFORD PRESS   RALPH M ROSEN 2007 







ref  "Mixing the Kykeon", Peter WEBSTER  J Psychoactive Plants and Compounds p 1, New Series 4, 2000 
Note: the above author is an ordaine Jesuit