Z cyklu Mykofilie / from the Mycophilia series: Amanita

Sen i Java

You could call this improvised land art, but I prefer to think of it as reappropriation of symbolic space...

And if I were to imagine a mythology of these mountains, it would certainly include these two mushroom species: Amanita pantherina and Phallus impudicus. 

[Phallus impudicus "devil's egg" or "witch's egg" (Hexenei, œuf du Diable, czarcie jajo)]

"The rate of growth of Phallus impudicus has been measured at 10–15 cm per hour. The growing fruit body is able to exert up to 1.33 kN/m2 of pressure — a force sufficient to push up through asphalt [Rośnie w tempie 10-15 cm na godzinę [!], wywierając nacisk 1.33 kN / m2, wystarczający, by przebić się przez asfalt]".

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phallus_impudicus]

And Java:

Robert Anton Wilson, "Cosmic Trigger": Starseed (Dr. Timothy Leary)

"As recounted in Terra II, during July-August 1973, Dr. Leary had formed a four-person telepathy team in an attempt to contact Higher Intelligence elsewhere in the galaxy. (...)

The Starseed Transmission - "hallucinations" or whatever - were received in 19 bursts, seldom in recognizable English, requiring considerable meditation and discussion between the four Receivers before they could be summarized, eventually, into the following message:

Life was seeded on your planet billions of years ago by nucleotide templates which contained the blueprint for gradual evolution through a sequence of biomechanical stages. (...)


It is time for life on Earth to leave the planetary womb and learn to walk through the stars.

You will discover the key to enhanced intelligence within the chemistry of the nervous system. Certain chemicals, used wisely, will enable your nervous system to decipher the genetic code. 

All life on your planet is a unity. All life must come home. (...)

Mutate!

Come home in glory"

(Robert Anton Wilson, "Cosmic Trigger. Final Secret of the Illuminati, New Falcon Publications, Scotsdale 1991, s. 105, 212).

(Sz)amanita / (Sh)amanita

[Amanita pantherina]

[A. pantherina]

[Der Fliegenzpilz, Gods Press, Amsterdam 1989]

Symbiosis: The Phallic Triad: Muchomor plamisty (Amanita pantherina) / Sromotnik bezwstydny (Phallus impudicus) / Mucha (Muscidae)

Amanita:

"Osoba po spożyciu grzyba odczuwa pobudzenie podobne do upojenia alkoholowego połączone z halucynacjami mieszanymi na przemian z radością i napadem szału".(http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muchomor_plamisty)

Phallus:

"In Northern Montenegro, peasants rub Phallus impudicus on the necks of bulls before bull fighting contests in an attempt to make them stronger. They are also fed to young bulls as they are thought to be a potent aphrodisiac". (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phallus_impudicus)

Muscidae:

"Mucha symbolizuje (...) zmysłowość, chuć, bezwstyd, rozpustę; (...) diabła, Belzebuba, demona, bogów (...)".
"Król much - Belzebub, Beelzebub, Baal Zebub [Zabel?] "władca much", czczony w Akkaronie, mieście filistyńskim, miał odpędzać plagę much i komarów, a ponadto leczyć wszystkie choroby".
"Możliwe, że Żydzi umyślnie zmienili pogańskiego Baal Zabula [sic!] "władcę Domu" na "władcę much" (...). Imię używane w zaklęciach czarnej magii".
(Władysław Kopaliński, Słownik symboli, Rytm, Warszawa 2001)

And then enter the wolf...