kava-tree

Updated: June 4, 2025

Would it not pour into your soul the divine, abiding strength of your mighty mother, the eternal earth-spirit?" "A little," Tu-Kila-Kila said, yielding, "but not too much. Too much would stupefy me. When the spirits, that the kava-tree sucks up from the earth, are too strong within us, they overpower our own strength, so that even I, the high god even I can do nothing."

Grant Allen - The Great Taboo