John Allegro in his book The Sacred Mushroom and The Cross looks into the 9000 year-old language of Sumeria in which the phallus became the basis of being god. This is established in making items of speech naming the phallus Creator and thus sacred.
My work in language is about modern language. I go back 4000 years when many concepts and ideas had already been given names. As I see the situation now, modern language follows from the ancient Sumerian language Allegro describes.
I start with the names used for the genders and the species as a whole. They are widely known because they are still widely used.
1 Our species is called "mankind."
God being phallic in basis and people having to believe in God, belief became the way to express moral behavior. Seeking out facts and developing knowledge is put down as "pride of mind." Today belief is held in higher esteem than (real) knowledge. This has done great harm to our species.
That "our species is mankind" is universal belief.
Is it knowledge? Facts are the basis of knowledge. Putting facts together using logic is how we develop knowledge.
Fact: Being man in reality entails only being male.
Belief then in "our species is mankind" means the half that is male is the species. You have to believe half (male) is the whole of the species as well as believe that man is the (correct) name.
One can test the fact that "being man in reality only entails being male" by asking the question: can one be a not-male man? Would a not-male being be a 'man'?
It is evident then, that our species is 'mankind' is phallic bias imposed through belief. Bias leads to lies and falsehoods. This bias can be traced to the Sumerian language as John Allegro shows in The Sacred Mushroom and The Cross.
Louise Goueffic
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