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| 1496 |
| Friar Ramon Pane documented the use of a psychoactive snuff called cohoba/yopo among the Taino who inhabited the island of Hispaniola (Haiti/Dominican Republic). It is now agreed that cohoba/yopo was almost certainly made from Anadenanthera peregrina which contains N,N-DMT, 5-MeO-DMT, and Bufotenin. |
| During his second voyage (Nov.1493),Columbus asked friar Ramon Pane to produce a report on the religion of the Taino (native inhabitants of Hispaniola-1496). Pane's report,finished around 1498 is considered today the first European ethnography of the "New World"(see the recent English translation by Duke University press;J. Arrom's version). In it,along with information about Taino myth and spirituality,the first European report on the use of cohoba-yopo (Anadenanthera peregrina-DMT) can be found, in shamanic context.
Pane R. An Account of the Antiquities of the Indians: Chronicles of the New World Encounter. (1496) 1999. Duke Univ Pr. |
| References Ott J. Shamanic Snuffs or Entheogenic Errhines. Entheobotanica, 2001. |
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