26-08-2008 » The snake is an important feature of Dionysiac (Bacchic) imagery and cultic rites.
The Maenads are pictured with serpents entwined in their hair and round their limbs.
In the case of Ezekiel’s witches, their soul-catching “baskets” were brought along partly to offer some imitative encouragement to the dormant fungus to open and [...]
26-08-2008 » THE SACRED MUSHROOM AND THE CROSS
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Was made much of in mythology. Extended to gigantic proportions, this figure is reflected in such imagery as huge men like Atlas holding up the canopy of heaven, or of mountains like Olympus serving the dual function of supporting the sky and [...]
26-08-2008 » Famous scholar challenges the faith of centuries
CHRIST AND THE SACRED MUSHROOM
By DAVID YORK
Lecturer John Allegro examines a dried specimen of the sacred mushroom.
‘Some will accuse me of blasphemy’
A DISTINGUISHED British scholar has written a sensational book that is certain to cause the greatest upheaval in orthodox Christian thinking since Charles [...]