Phallic Beginnings

 The author of "The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross" John M. Allegro, is a linguistic scientist.  He studied the 9000 year-old Sumerian language. In his book he shows us how the Amanita muscaria, a mushroom resembling the erect penis, becomes the basis for naming the phallus as Creator god.  The men ingesting the hallucinogenic powder of the mushroom had the sense of having huge and powerful erections, a sign that the penis was life-giving and thus divine.

Allegro shows us how the penis came to be worshiped as god.  In meticulous and precise steps he shows the names made for the phallic-looking mushroom embedded in the names of the penis as "Creator god."   The mushroom with its hallucinogenic quality was the motivation to describe and glorify the erect penis as God.  The names created belief in the sacred penis.

The meticulous and precise steps Allegro shows in how the names of the mushroom were embedded in the names of the divine phallus become a little tiresome if one is not a linguist. But in persisting one learns that most religions are based on the same phallic beginnings.  The beginnings of "religion" and consequent religions are firmly planted in the names for the Amanita muscaria, the phallic looking mushroom.  What is astounding is that these ideas still hold sway.  In the form of belief.

According to Allegro, whoever believes in god believes in a giant penis in the sky raining down its sacred semen through ejaculation at orgasm.

In this blog I show some of the more modern names that bear this out.  In language even today, penis, mind and Creator still hold in language, god-like.

My book, Breaking the Patriarchal Code,1996, Knowledge Ideas & Trends, Manchester CT lists thousands of names and symbols embedding male bias, that the male, the penis-possessor, is the mind of the species.   A greater division of the species could not have been invented.
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