After reading Freddy Silva's The Lost Art of Resurrection, part in the book on Akpallu, starting on the Astronaut of La Venta's Handbag section, I was moved to blog about, and put to rest the whole pine cone mystery.
It's bud of pot (flowering of the female cannabis plant). 1st off, it has 7 to 9 leafed leaf. Usually 9 when flowering and matured to that point. 2nd the actual flower when cleaned up is in the shape of a cone and has that beehive golden rule Fibonacci look to a bud. Hold one in your hand and study it closely before you make up a judgement. 3rd cannabis is essential in the rituals of baptism/resurrection cults.
Even some pretty notable finds in archaeology in last decade show Caucasian entombed shamans in Turpan area. Here and here
Some cool pictures here of cannabis buds and leafs here
Now some as Freddy Silva (btw love this guy off all the ancient astronauts the most), say pomegranate and Nile blue lily. Yes essential in the bag of tricks that a shaman needs to help to prepare a dzedi(naisorai) priest with the arduous and possibly fatal experience of traversing the amduat/amdwat, the area beyond the astral plane cords. Both were used in the concoctions that prepare the adept to be ready to do the final journey, as they are both used for empathy concoctions of what i call forced love, part of the last supper chemistry concoctions. Also empathy substances of the MDXX through safrole producing plants are then also one of the main ingredients used in the baptismal chrism and the resurrection rituals for the actual propulsion of the soul but coupled with cannabis. I discuss this in detail in a blog out a few yrs ago called Chrism and its chemistry.