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The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross: A Study of the Nature and Origins of Christianity within the Fertility Cults of the Ancient Near East

The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross: A Study of the Nature and Origins of Christianity within the Fertility Cults of the Ancient Near East

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The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross: A Study of the Nature and Origins of Christianity within the Fertility Cults of the Ancient Near East

by John M. Allegro

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ISBN 10
0340128755
ISBN 13
9780340128756
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Doubleday. Collectible - Good. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1970. 2nd printing. Sm 4to Hardcover. 349pp. B/W and color plates. Good book and Acceptable dust jacket. Page edges foxed. Short gifter's inscription on front endpage. (christianity, christian, mushrooms, anthropology) Inquire if you need further information.

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Where did God come from? What do the bible stories really tell us? Who or what was Jesus Christ? This book challenges everything we think we know about the nature of religion -- The ancient fertility cult at the heart of Christianity -- The living power of cultic rites and symbols -- The sacred mushroom as the emblem and embodiment of divinity -- The secret meaning of biblical myths -- The language of religion that links us to our ancestors. The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross sets out John Allegro's questthrough a family tree of languages to find the truth about where Christianity came from.

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Title
The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross: A Study of the Nature and Origins of Christianity within the Fertility Cults of the Ancient Near East
Author
John M. Allegro
Book Condition
Used - Collectible - Good
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 10
0340128755
ISBN 13
9780340128756
Publisher
Doubleday
Place of Publication
London
This edition first published
1970

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