Ancient Psychedelia: Alien Gods & Mushroom Goddesses
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| First-Born Sacrifice (Human Sacrifice Cont’) The Old Testament is used to promote the idea that humanity learned to become “civilized” under Judaism because the old kingdoms used to sacrifice their children to the gods until Abraham replaced his first-born with a lamb. In Exodus we read: (1) The Lord said to Moses, (2) “Consecrate to me every firstborn male. The first offspring of every womb among the Israelites belongs to me, whether human or animal.” (Exodus 13:1-2) This ritual of first born given to god, actually originated from a more ancient ritual involving female fertility, namely that of menstrual blood. This (red) blood that is first produced usually by virgins, was said to be the source of life and generation just as the sperm of the phallus. Together, they imply red and white mixing, or an “alchemical formula.” It is said by some scholars that it was believed by the ancient people that the first-born was the strongest because the menstrual blood was the most powerful. (84) However, the blood on the fields, the fertility of the fields, the cutting of the head of Dionysus and spreading the body parts out among the field, could all be said to display acts of mushroom spore spreading for the next harvest. Blood does nothing for fertilization of crops as we know today. What makes far more sense is that each year the people who would go out picking mushrooms, would take some of these freshly picked mushrooms and cut them up and “sacrifice them” back to the fields. Taking a few mushrooms and breaking them up among the grasses would spread enough spores to insure a “fruitful,” and “bounteous” return of “progeny” for the whole tribe. Using the firstborn would be the wisest, because you have to do this while they are fresh, not dried. The firstborn or first harvested would be the “first to get sacrificed.” Harvesting the Earth Grapes With a Sickle Were they really talking about harvesting grapes with the sickle? Or was it mushrooms of which grapes were just another occultation? In Revelation, we read about grapes gathered from the “earth’s vine”: (18) Still another angel, who had charge of the fire, came from the altar and called in a loud voice to him who had the sharp sickle, “Take your sharp sickle and gather the clusters of grapes from the earth’s vine, because its grapes are ripe.” (19) The angel swung his sickle on the earth, gathered its grapes and threw them into the great winepress of God’s wrath. (20) They were trampled in the winepress outside the city, and blood flowed out of the press, rising as high as the horses’ bridles for a distance of 1,600 stadia.” (Revelation 14:18) Since we have seen so much allegory and metaphor already used to occult the mushroom, the idea that grapes would be used in classic literature and the Old Testament makes perfect sense. Slowly, over time, the Hebrews transformed Dionysus from a mushroom or toad stool deity |
to a wine and grain deity, while Greece was doing the same. The imagery of the mushroom on ancient coins started to disappear with the introduction of a similar looking mushroom, but this time with dots all over and a slight branch on top, indicating a “grapevine” (48c, d, f; 51c). Also, notice how the image of Eros, on a southern Italian, Apulia, c. 340 BC, shows a grape bunch being dangled; or is that perhaps a mushroom? (47f). Occulted imagery is obviously being portrayed, but then, around 340 BC, it was not meant yet to be obscured from history.   R: (48d) Aeolis, Temnos, Dionysos c. 350-300 BC L: (51c) Herod II Archelaus. Judea Jerusalem c. 4 BC-6 CE   R: (48f) Diadumenian - Roman Caesar of Marcianopolis in Moesia c. 218 AD  (47f) Red Figure Olpe, Eros. Magna Graecia southern Italy, Apulia c. 340 BC (84) Sacred Mushroom, Allegro, p. 143 |
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