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The frontispiece photograph is used by permission of Rex Lowden. The photograph facing page 74 is used by permission of Photographe Thuillier.ContentsIntroduction page xiI In the Beginning God Created... iII Sumer and the Beginnings of History 8HI The Names of the Gods 19IV Plants and Drugs 29V Plant Names and the Mysteries of the Fungus 36VI The Key of the Kingdom 44VII The Man-child Born of a Virgin 54VIII Woman’s part in the Creative Process 63IX The Sacred Prostitute 76X Religious Lamentation 83XI The Mushroom “Egg” and Birds of Mythology 91XII The Heavenly Twins 97XIII Star of the Morning 109XIV Colour and Consistency 118XV Mushroom Cosmography 133XVI David, Egypt, and the Census 141XVII Death and Resurrection 151XVIII The Garden of Adonis, Eden and Delight; Zealots and Muslim 177XIX The Bible as a Book of Morals 191Notes 207Indices 308Figures page1 The Near East2 Sumer and Accad 103 Section through the calyx and fruit of Henbane 584 Diagrammatic section of (i) a volva before “birth” 92 (ii) a mature mushroom 925 Zion, and the valleys of Kidron and Hinnom 1366 Jerusalem to the Dead Sea 138IntroductionNo one religion in the ancient Near East can be studied in isolation. All stem from man’s first questioning about the origin of life and how to ensure his own survival. He has always been acutely conscious of his insufficiency. However much he progressed technically, making clothes, shelter, conserving food and water supplies, and so on, the forces of nature were always greater than he. The winds would blow away his shelter, the sun parch his crops, wild beasts prey on his animals: he was always on the defensive in a losing battle. Out of this sense of dependency and frustration, religion was born.Somehow man had to establish communications with the source of the world’s fertility, and thereafter maintain a right relationship with it. Over the course of time he built up a body of experiential knowledge of rituals that he or his representatives could perform, or words to recite, which were reckoned to have the greatest influence on this fertility deity. At first they were largely imitative. If rain in the desert lands was the source of life, then the moisture from heaven must be only a more abundant kind of spermatozoa. 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 itself:

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