In order to understand how the FleshCap family got their name, one must
travel nearly 500 years back into the depths of history.
In the mid-sixteenth century, Spanish priest Bernadino de Sahagun
traveled throughout Central and South America and wrote about a unique
culture which included a mystifying “mushroom cult."
In his account of his travels in 1559, titled the Florentine Codex, Sahagun
recorded the first known account of a magic mushroom ceremony. He
noted that during the ceremony the participants would eat small
mushrooms they called “teonanactl” which literally means “Flesh of God.”
This so called “God’s flesh” or teonanactl was eaten in an attempt to gain
sacred knowledge and spiritual insights. It had been estimated by
Sahagun that this “mushroom cult” had been conducting such ceremonies
for several thousand years.
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It is from this ancient mushroom cult and ceremony that the modern day FleshCap family has taken their name.
Flesh referring to the “flesh of god” or the godly nature of the magic mushrooms, and Cap referring to the top of
the mushroom. Together we get the name FleshCap.
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