ColdFire and Sartt ...God reproaching Adam who passes the buck to sugar tits and she to her nasty pet before the expulsion from Paradise of the Primal Pair on the 1000 year old bronze cathedral doors at Hildesheim, Germany ...check out the 'forbidden fruit', none other than the psychotropic variety of mushroom that grows all over Northern Europe which was eaten by shamans and beserkers alike in search of 'visions'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernward_Doors
It may be that civilization itself arose out of the use of psychotropic substances which have been ingested since the Neolithic by men seeking 'hidden knowledge' ...