The Seba library treats Poppy in 5 passages, across 4 authors (including Kerényi, Carl, Neumann, Erich, Jung, Carl Gustav).
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.
, Dionysos: Archetypal Image of Indestructible Life, 1976thesis
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.
, The Great Mother: An Analysis of the Archetype, 1955supporting
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.
, Psychology and Religion: West and East, 1958supporting
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.
, Etymological Dictionary of Greek, 2010supporting
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.
, Dionysos: Archetypal Image of Indestructible Life, 1976aside