The intellectual basis of the project, the methodology behind each entry, and the editorial principles that govern what appears on these pages.
Pharmacology, receptor profiles, ecology, taxonomy — peer-reviewed and steadily evolving.
Indigenous and historical use, ritual context, knowledge held by lineages that have lived with these organisms for centuries or millennia.
The subjective texture of each substance, drawn from rigorous first-person and clinical sources.
These three threads almost never sit in one place — they live in scattered scientific papers, oral traditions, and harm-reduction archives. EntheoAtlas brings the best of them together so anyone can follow the conversation, deeply linked and visually whole.
A short pipeline runs every entry from raw source to typed, cross-linked, attributed page.
Peer-reviewed pharmacology and ethnobotany; Wikipedia/Commons for canonical images; indigenous-knowledge work where it has been respectfully recorded by its holders.
Every organism and compound is a single JSON file validated against a Zod schema. Typed fields for taxonomy, distribution, bioregions, compounds, traditional names, references.
naturalSources, primaryCompounds, indigenousNames, and traditions all carry slugs that reference each other. The Atlas, Sankey, and Culture layers compute from those edges — no hand-maintained lists.
Astro builds static HTML for every entry. Svelte islands carry the interactive views (Atlas, command palette, molecule viewer). Astro view-transitions handle navigation with shared-element morphs.
We document cultural context, name the traditions, and credit the lineages that hold the knowledge. We do not commodify ceremonial practice, repackage sacred teaching as content, or strip the cultural depth from the chemistry. Where we get this wrong, we welcome correction.
No dosage tables, no extraction or synthesis instructions, no sourcing or vendor information. Pharmacology is described at the level of mechanism and clinical literature, not at the level of preparation. The line is deliberate: harm-reduction starts with refusing to be a recipe book.
Every entry is schema-validated at build time (Zod). Every image carries author and license metadata. References are increasingly structured with DOI and PubMed identifiers — visible in scholarly mode. The data is open, and the source is on GitHub.