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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 ...
Allegro's book The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross (1970) argued that Christianity began as a shamanistic cult. 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 ...
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.
Mosaic of red mushrooms, found in the Christian Basilica di Santa Maria Assunta, in Aquileia, northern Italy, dating to before 330 CE Philologist, archaeologist, and Dead Sea Scrolls scholar John Marco Allegro postulated that early Christian theology was derived from a fertility cult revolving around the entheogenic consumption of A. muscaria ...
A Twelve Tribes dance. The Twelve Tribes, formerly known as the Vine Christian Community Church, [5] the Northeast Kingdom Community Church, [6] the Messianic Communities, [6] and the Community Apostolic Order, [7] is a movement that is defined as either a cult [14] or a new religious movement.
Bethany Joy Lenz said that a cult took $2 million from her checking account, leaving $220,000. Lenz wrote about her experience in the Big House Family cult in her memoir released Tuesday.
The Shakahola Forest incident, also known as the Shakahola massacre, involved a religious cult led by Paul Nthenge Mackenzie, founder of Good News International Ministries, an apocalyptic Christian group.
"I am capable of butterflies and feeling excited and feeling loved and engaged by another person, and it’s not happening in my marriage," Lenz recalled feeling