Word: sumerians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...human ailments, none is more common or causes more consternation than the headache. An anonymous Sumerian poet wrote about his blinding pain 3,000 years before Christ. England's "Bloody Mary" Tudor went to her coronation with a splitter. Ulysses S. Grant suffered so severely that he took to his bed on the eve of Appomattox, only to have his pain vanish when he received word that Robert E. Lee was ready to discuss surrender. Thomas Jefferson, who suffered from severe periodic headaches, tried philosophically to ignore them...
...Archaelogists speculate that Tepe Yahya could be the "Magan" referred to as a trading center in Sumerian texts...
Allegro's method is to delve behind the surface meaning and context of biblical words, conjuring instead with their frequently erotic root meaning ("Christian," he says, is a derivation from the Sumerian meaning "smeared with semen"). These half-forgotten roots, Allegro maintains, link the characters and stories of the Bible to the orgiastic, often outlawed mushroom cults of the Near East. For example, the Greek word for "stumbling block," which is used to describe the crucified Christ in Corinthians I, once meant "bolt," which leads Allegro to connect it with the phallus-shaped "bolt-plant" mushroom; thus he concludes...
...Christianity. Genesis 1: 26 is explicit on the point that God gave man "dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth." The ecological truth is quite different. The great early civilizations ?Babylonian, Sumerian, Assyrian, Chinese, Indian and perhaps Mayan?over-exploited the basic resource of land. In the end, says LaMont Cole, "they just farmed themselves out of business...