Poppy

The Seba library treats Poppy in 5 passages, across 4 authors (including Kerényi, Carl, Neumann, Erich, Jung, Carl Gustav).

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honey is highly Greece, poppy-seed nutritious cakes and not narcotic. were baked In ancient on festive as in modern occasions.

Kerényi distinguishes poppy-seed cakes as festive ritual food rather than narcotic agents, situating the poppy within the alimentary-religious complex of ancient Greek celebration.

Kerényi, Carl, Dionysos: Archetypal Image of Indestructible Life, 1976thesis

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opium, 294, 300, 301n

Neumann's index entry clusters opium with octli and other intoxicants in the pages devoted to the Great Mother's chthonic, narcotic-dissolving powers, implying the poppy's derivative as a symbolic attribute of the goddess.

Neumann, Erich, The Great Mother: An Analysis of the Archetype, 1955supporting

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psychic presence, prickly poppy, 223 priest, 332f

Jung's index situates the prickly poppy between 'psychic presence' and 'priest,' implicitly marking it as a threshold or mediating substance in the symbolic vocabulary of religious psychology.

Jung, Carl Gustav, Psychology and Religion: West and East, 1958supporting

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tmTllAic;, -i60c; [f.] 'horned poppy, Glaucium flavum' (Nie. Th. 852). SO called because of the resemblance to -r�dL�c; 'Trigonella'

Beekes traces the Greek term for the horned poppy to morphological resemblance with another plant, grounding the symbol in its concrete pharmaco-botanical and linguistic origins.

Beekes, Robert, Etymological Dictionary of Greek, 2010supporting

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opium, 24-27

Kerényi's index lists opium with a dedicated page range, indicating the poppy's derivative is treated as a substantive topic in the context of Dionysian altered states and ecstatic religion.

Kerényi, Carl, Dionysos: Archetypal Image of Indestructible Life, 1976aside

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