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Post by hjernespiser on Dec 3, 2008 1:29:35 GMT 3
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Post by H. İhsan Erkoç on Dec 3, 2008 1:49:31 GMT 3
Interesting, thanx  |
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Post by hjernespiser on Dec 3, 2008 2:03:59 GMT 3
Another news site said it was a Yuezhi burial while this one says Gushi culture. Anyone know if they are the same?
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Post by Temüjin on Dec 3, 2008 22:27:07 GMT 3
Scythians also smoked hemp ;D
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Post by Subu'atai on Dec 3, 2008 23:01:43 GMT 3
LOL steppe people growing pot?
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Post by hjernespiser on Dec 3, 2008 23:51:00 GMT 3
LOL steppe people growing pot? Yea! Herodotus wrote about the Scythians using it, throwing buds on a fire and getting high off the smoke. Herodotus' report was verified archaeologically too. www.lost-civilizations.net/scythians-page-2.html Cannabis is native to Central Asia apparently. It reminds me somewhat of tobacco usage by Native Americans. |
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Post by Subu'atai on Dec 4, 2008 1:46:35 GMT 3
Haha, oh well this reminds me of pothead saying "Man made booze, God/Tengri made grass, who the f*** you gonna trust?" lol Native to central-asia? Now thats new, thanks for sharing  ;D |
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Post by hjernespiser on Dec 4, 2008 2:12:28 GMT 3
From classics.mit.edu/Herodotus/history.4.iv.html" After the burial, those engaged in it have to purify themselves, which they do in the following way. First they well soap and wash their heads; then, in order to cleanse their bodies, they act as follows: they make a booth by fixing in the ground three sticks inclined towards one another, and stretching around them woollen felts, which they arrange so as to fit as close as possible: inside the booth a dish is placed upon the ground, into which they put a number of red-hot stones, and then add some hemp-seed. Hemp grows in Scythia: it is very like flax; only that it is a much coarser and taller plant: some grows wild about the country, some is produced by cultivation: the Thracians make garments of it which closely resemble linen; so much so, indeed, that if a person has never seen hemp he is sure to think they are linen, and if he has, unless he is very experienced in such matters, he will not know of which material they are. The Scythians, as I said, take some of this hemp-seed, and, creeping under the felt coverings, throw it upon the red-hot stones; immediately it smokes, and gives out such a vapour as no Grecian vapour-bath can exceed; the Scyths, delighted, shout for joy, and this vapour serves them instead of a water-bath; for they never by any chance wash their bodies with water. " It's like a sweat lodge! |
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Post by H. İhsan Erkoç on Dec 4, 2008 20:46:51 GMT 3
Everyday I learn a new thing  |
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Post by Temüjin on Dec 4, 2008 21:00:08 GMT 3
LOL steppe people growing pot? they also had dreadlocks and tatooed their body. not so different from modern folks, aren't they?  |
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Post by H. İhsan Erkoç on Dec 5, 2008 2:36:35 GMT 3
And wore pants for sure ;D ;D If you check the depictions of Türks (Tujue 突厥), they wore coats that look like the big collared shirts from the 1970s ;D ;D
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Post by Subu'atai on Dec 5, 2008 3:00:43 GMT 3
LOL! ;D
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Post by Verinen Paroni on Dec 5, 2008 18:34:00 GMT 3
One more reason to legalize it. ;D |
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Post by H. İhsan Erkoç on Dec 5, 2008 21:29:59 GMT 3
LOL ;D ;D
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Post by Alanus on Apr 26, 2010 0:11:20 GMT 3
After 2,700 years, I'll bet there wasn't much THC left in it. Herodotus claims the Scythians used the seeds, but we all know that blackened seeds are what's left AFTER the bud has burned away (to wherever :  Alanus |
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