• BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one
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    2 months ago

    No one read the article, but every suggestion in the comments are already dismissed by more educated experts.

    My guess is that since it typically had a bench at the end, it was used by people to consume drugs/mushrooms in a ritualistic event and exit as a form of rebirth while still high as fuck.

    • Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      2 months ago

      You’d expect any kind of ritualistic practice that widespread to have some sort of historical record related to the practice