Reconstructing teotlaqualli as a skin-delivered entheogen—tobacco, ololiuhqui, and ‘venom-ash’—with testable pharmacology grounded in Nahua sources and modern dermal science.
Teotlaqualli Reconstructed: Unguents of the Aztec Gods


Reconstructing teotlaqualli as a skin-delivered entheogen—tobacco, ololiuhqui, and ‘venom-ash’—with testable pharmacology grounded in Nahua sources and modern dermal science.

Survey of textual clues and modern hypotheses that ancient mystery cults may have used snake venom in controlled rites, with sources and cautions.

Across cultures, the snake coiled at a world‑tree signals an entheogenic passage into self‑aware “I‑am” consciousness—this article explains the motif’s persistence.

Why serpent venom microdosing sits at the root of alchemical, Daoist, and New‑Age quests for an elixir of life—and what that implies about early biotech.

Continent-by-continent survey of archaeological, textual, and biochemical evidence for ancient entheogenic practices.