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The book relates the development of language to the development of myths, religions, and cultic practices in world cultures. Allegro argues, through etymology, that the roots of Christianity, and many other religions, lay in fertility cults, and that cult practices, such as ingesting visionary plants to perceive the mind of God, persisted into the early Christian era, and to some unspecified ...
In Aztec mythology, Piltzintecuhtli [piɬt͡sinˈtekʷt͡ɬi] was a god of the rising sun, healing, [1] and visions, associated with Tōnatiuh. The name means "the Young Prince". It may have been another name for Tōnatiuh, but he is also mentioned as a possibly unique individual, the husband of Xōchiquetzal.
In his books The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross and The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Christian Myth (1979), Allegro put forward the theory that stories of early Christianity originated in an Essene clandestine cult centred around the use of psychedelic mushrooms, and that the New Testament is the coded record of this shamanistic cult.
A fairy ring (possibly Chlorophyllum molybdites) on a suburban lawn in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. A fairy ring, also known as fairy circle, elf circle, elf ring [1] or pixie ring, is a naturally occurring ring or arc of mushrooms. [2]
(Mormon mythology) Urim and Thummim, a set of seer stones bound in a breastplate, or by silver bows into a set of spectacles. (Mormon mythology) Lapis manalis (Stone of the Manes), was either of two sacred stones used in the Roman religion. One covered a gate to Pluto, abode of the dead; Festus called it ostium Orci, "the gate of Orcus". The ...
The Jin dynasty Daoist scholar Ge Hong's c. 320 CE Baopuzi (Master Who Embraces Simplicity) is the earliest surviving source of information about zhi excrescences.. Based upon no longer extant texts and illustrations, Chapter 11 (仙藥; Xianyao; "Medicines of Immortality") outlines folklore and knowledge about zhi, and elucidates the wuzhi (五芝; "Five Zhi") classification system.
Kayeri - Mushroom-like monster; Ke'lets (Chukchi mythology) – Ogre or evil spirit; Keelut – Hairless dog; Kee-wakw – Half-human half-animal cannibalistic giant; Kekkai – Amorphous afterbirth spirit; Kelpie (Irish and Scottish) – Malevolent water horse; Ker – Female death spirit
The book was written nine years after Allegro's forced resignation from academia due to publishing The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross.It is an imaginative look at what life would have been like at Qumran, Judea at the time when Jesus was supposed to have lived in the 1st century CE.