Here's the description back leaflet of Allegro's book , very radical as I said, but an interesting take on the earliest forunner to the "respectable" Christianity
we know today:
Fun read this , but you know they would deny (deNile) it completely ...severing the ties to the older Hebrew religion
and murderer of the "Christ", was uppermost in the new
Churches minds.
Sacred Mushroom and the Cross
"A MAJOR BREAKTHROUGH in our understanding of the origin and nature of the
languages of the Bible has made possible the decipherment of the names of
the Jewish God and the patriarchs, and now shows the religion of the
Israelites and their inheritors, the Christians, to have been founded on a
very ancient fertility cult centered on the worship of the sacred mushroom,
the red-topped Amanita Muscaria.
After many years of studying the origins and roots of words common to the
Sumerian and later Middle Eastern languages, John Allegro believes that
many of the stories and characters, and much of the authority and
historical probabilities existent in both Old and New Testament must be
examined afresh.
Biblical stories, previously supposed at least partly historical, now
appear as mushroom myths, conforming to a pattern of such mythology
throughout the ancient Near East and classical writings. When, later, the
mushroom cult because sophisticated into a mystery religion, involving
drug-taking and frenzied god-possessed orgies with political overtones, it
ran foul of the authorities.
To avoid persecution, its devotees transmitted their secret formulae in
adaptations of the old mythologies, and it is to such cryptic devices that
we owe the Jesus stories of the New Testimate. The Roman persecutors of
the early Christians were probably not deceived by the tale of the
crucified Jewish rabbi, but the later Church purged away disturbing
reminders of it's cultic origins in the cause of "respectability", and
thereafter preached an historical Jesus.
"The mushroom has always been a thing of mystery. The ancients were
puzzled by its manner of growth without seed, the speed with which it made
it appearance after rain, and its as rapid disappearance. Born from a
volva or 'egg' it appears like a small penis, raising itself like the human
organ sexually aroused, and when it spread wide its canopy the old
botanists saw it as a phallus, bearing the 'burden' of a woman's groin.
Every aspect of the mushroom's existence was fraught with sexual allusions,
and in its phallic form the ancients saw a replica of the fertility god
himself. It was the 'son of God', its drug was a purer form of the god's
own spermatozoa than that discoverable in any other form of living matter.
It was, in fact, God himself, manifest on earth. To the mystic it was the
divinely given means of entering heaven; God had come down in the flesh to
show the way to himself by himself." "
* It very well could explain also , why Moses & co
were wandering around lost in the desert for 40 years
and seeing burning bushes . <g>
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