Note 6 — APPENDIX 3: PEYOTE AND TEO-NANACATL
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Hernandez, in Safford, Aztec Narcotic, 293. The very word itself means “mushroom!” Reko’s etymology for teo-nanacatl, “divine nourishment,” is unsound according to Whorf; and indeed, there is nothing of the edible par excellence about fungi (see Schultes, Peyote and Plants Used, 136-37).