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A review by jezzatab
The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross by John Marco Allegro
4.0
Wow. Such a trip. Logistically, metaphorically, intellectually, psychedelic-aly for sure. This was like eating a whole pack of sour cherry jelly beans (the best kind). After the first five, your tastebuds start to fall off. Your tummy after the next few is confused- “am I full?” or “am I a massive idiot?”
The amount of “the erect God-penis” and “inseminating of mother Earth’s dewey uterus” is wild. Every chapter another way for the fertility omnipotent god to ejaculate, and for us to consume their divine, illuminating offspring: the state-altering mushroom. With its cap, and shaft, the erection of heaven meant to bring forth further creative potential in its consummates was girthy indeed.
Look- this is a nerds dream of a book. The linguistics make you loopy and causes brilliant re-evaluations. Allegro drives the point home with a five-iron. Maybe belabours the point a little. A must read for anyone keen on linguistic-archeology, ancient theologies and their implications on pulpits, lecture theatres, or the home-study.
If you read this as a Christian, however, a word of caution. Read this maturely, not to assume it inaccurate in light of an “inerrant bible”. This will not change theologies or belief structures by demonising a text. It is rich in meaning for a particular subsection of academia, it is not meant as a manual for a system of belief in direct contest with Catechisms.
Have a peak into another perspective. And learn how someone else from the time that parchment was found viewed the same, favourite coin of yours, from an angle you could never conceive or consider.
Now a necessary fun-guy summary:
Jesus = Magic Mushroom = [looks like and reads like] erect phallus of sky-God impregnating Mother Earth (from the Sumerian linguistic root of Ancient Hebrew, pre-dating Greek Septuagint where we get our Indo-Romantic English translations via Sanskrit + Latin) = let’s trip and see God and do cool stuff = Bible is a manual to get high guarded by the Ancients for centuries on centuries.
The amount of “the erect God-penis” and “inseminating of mother Earth’s dewey uterus” is wild. Every chapter another way for the fertility omnipotent god to ejaculate, and for us to consume their divine, illuminating offspring: the state-altering mushroom. With its cap, and shaft, the erection of heaven meant to bring forth further creative potential in its consummates was girthy indeed.
Look- this is a nerds dream of a book. The linguistics make you loopy and causes brilliant re-evaluations. Allegro drives the point home with a five-iron. Maybe belabours the point a little. A must read for anyone keen on linguistic-archeology, ancient theologies and their implications on pulpits, lecture theatres, or the home-study.
If you read this as a Christian, however, a word of caution. Read this maturely, not to assume it inaccurate in light of an “inerrant bible”. This will not change theologies or belief structures by demonising a text. It is rich in meaning for a particular subsection of academia, it is not meant as a manual for a system of belief in direct contest with Catechisms.
Have a peak into another perspective. And learn how someone else from the time that parchment was found viewed the same, favourite coin of yours, from an angle you could never conceive or consider.
Now a necessary fun-guy summary:
Jesus = Magic Mushroom = [looks like and reads like] erect phallus of sky-God impregnating Mother Earth (from the Sumerian linguistic root of Ancient Hebrew, pre-dating Greek Septuagint where we get our Indo-Romantic English translations via Sanskrit + Latin) = let’s trip and see God and do cool stuff = Bible is a manual to get high guarded by the Ancients for centuries on centuries.