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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...
Downstairs again. Of the 12 or 13 extant sculptures of the Sumerian king Goudia, who lived about 2350 B.C., a good number are in the Louvre. One is in the Boston Musuem. The portrait of his head may well be the most beautiful piece of sculpture ever done. In the Louvre, they sell a full-sized reproduction of that head, made in the Louvre workshops, for 55 francs. I have one in my bedroom at home. There is also one next to the while Hummurabi...
...computer, the Instrumentation Labs, and the Center for International Studies at M.I.T., draft boards, army bases, the Pentagon, the White House, the Capitol, New York City, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and Harvard University. I would probably remove the authentic examples of Egyptian and Sumerian art from the Semitic Museum at the Center first. The copies, though, should probably...
GlLGAMESH, by Bernarda Bryson (Holt, Rinehart & Winston; $4.95). A retelling of what is said to be the oldest legend known to man: the story of Gilgamesh, the great king of a Sumerian city, and his friend Enkidu, the half-beast, half-man originally created by the gods to destroy him. With its magnificent illustrations by the author, this book should appeal to all ages...