I found the dish ( ) on Mycenae and mushrooms:notFritzArgelander wrote: ↑Tue Apr 12, 2022 10:25 pmThere's a theory that it was magic mushroom beer. The "myc" in Mycenae just might be cognate with mushroom in Greek.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycenae
See also Robert Graves fanciful takes on the role of mushrooms in Greek Myth at the following link which my browser wins is not secure: http://writings.raftis.org/wp-content/u ... com_-1.pdfThe name Mukanai is thought not to be Greek but rather one of the many pre-Greek place names inherited by later Greek speakers. Legend has it that the name was connected to the Greek word mykēs (μύκης, "mushroom"). Thus, Pausanias ascribes the name to the legendary founder Perseus, who was said to have named it either after the cap (mykēs) of the sheath of his sword, or after a mushroom he had plucked on the site.