Editing Xōchipilli (section)

===Entheogen connection===
[[Image:Lombards Museum 163.jpg|thumb|upright|Xochipilli, Aztec terracotta<br /> ''Lombards Museum'']]

It has been suggested by [[Robert Gordon Wasson|Wasson]],<ref name="Wasson1980p58">{{cite book |last=Wasson |first=Robert Gordon |date=1980 |title=The Wondrous Mushroom: Mycolatry in Mesoamerica |publisher=McGraw-Hill |page=58 |isbn=978-0-07-068443-0}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Wasson |first1=R. Gordon |title=The Role of 'Flowers' in Nahuatl Culture: A Suggested Interpretation |journal=Journal of Psychedelic Drugs |date=1974 |volume=6 |issue=3 |pages=351–360 |doi=10.1080/02791072.1974.10471987|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/168563 }}</ref> [[Richard Evans Schultes|Schultes]],{{Full citation needed|date=October 2016}} and [[Albert Hofmann|Hofmann]]{{Full citation needed|date=October 2016}} that the statue of Xochipilli represents a figure in the throes of [[entheogen]]ic ecstasy. The position and expression of the body, in combination with the very clear representations of [[Psychedelics, dissociatives and deliriants|hallucinogenic]] [[List of psychedelic plants|plants]] which are known to have been used in sacred contexts by the Aztec support this interpretation. The statue appears to have hugely dilated pupils, suggesting an effect of hallucinogenic mushrooms.

Wasson says that in the statue's depiction Xochipilli "is absorbed by ''temicxoch'', 'dream flowers', as the Nahua say describing the awesome experience that follows the ingestion of an entheogen. I can think of nothing like it in the long and rich history of European art: Xochipilli absorbed in ''temicxoch''".<ref name="Wasson1980p58"/>