Vernacular Culture: The Folklore Blog

This blog chronicles recent developments in folklore studies, in my very subjective style. I hope to review books, websites and blogs. It might also include much griping about folklore and fakelorists. In a word, it's folklotastic!

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January 23, 2006

Crackpot Book-of-the-week

This weeks crackpot book is the classic 1970 John M. Allegro screed The Sacred Mushroom & the Cross: Fertility Cults and the Origins of Judaism and Christianity. What a doozie! Allegro posits that many of the rituals and beliefs of the early Christians were based on magic mushroom ingestion.

Sample prose,
If rain in the desert lands was the source of life, then the moisture from heaven must be only a more abundant kind of spermatazoa. If the male organ ejaculated this precious fluid and made life in the woman, then above the skies the source of nature's semen must be a mighty penis, as the earth which bore its offspring was the womb. It followed therefore that to induce the heavenly phallus to complete its orgasm, man must stimulate it by sexual means, by singing, dancing, orgiastic displays and, above all, by the performance of the copulatory act itsel.


Oh yeah, I likey.

Crackpot Websites to Check Out
  • jesus christ virgin mary last supper born again son of god
  • Aminita Muscaria Mushrooms and Religion Research Page
  • Sacred Mushroom of the Cross
  • Paradigm Magazine INterview w/ Terrence McKenna
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