Ancient Psychedelia: Alien Gods & Mushroom Goddesses
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 (65e) Crucifixion of Christ  (65e) Crucifixion of Christ Jesus gives the Sermon on the Mount, in the Gospel Book of Otto III, Reichenau abbey, c. 1010, where Jesus appears in the image on top, giving the sermon, but the picture just below, has the followers all looking at a group of mushrooms in the center instead, implying that Jesus was the mushroom giving the sermon (62d). A depiction of Jesus in the St. Marks Basilica, in Venice, Italy, shows him preaching in between a couple followers, and there are mushrooms growing out of the neighboring hilltops (62k).  (62d) Gospel Book of Otto III: The Sermon on the Mount Reichenau c. 1010 |
 (62k) St. Marks Basilica. Venice Italy The Devil Himself Concepts of the devil have not been around for very long, historically. There has never been a concept of a “devil” in history until Christianity. The original ideas of evil revolved around symbolism related to darkness, as opposed to light. In Zoroastrianism, we see polar opposites emerge, and Angra Manyu (the disorderly, destructive or chaotic spirit) becomes the evil twin brother of Ahura Mazda, (a feminine noun) which means “intelligence” or “wisdom.” In Egypt, Set was the evil twin brother of Horus. He was also known as Apophis, the “Great Serpent.” Horus being the symbol for the risen sun and Set being the following darkness of night. This is about as old as the idea of an evil divinity goes back to. In the later Hebrew religion, the serpent was equated with this evil intention and it became full-blown Lucifer/Satan ideas in Christianity as they opposed Jesus, the “light of the world.” These “devils” all seem to have one thing in common though. Set was said to have “white skin and red hair and eyes.” From the Book of the Dead, we read: “The fiend, red of hair and eyes, who cometh forth by night, and doth fetter the fiend in his lair.” (6) I can think of one god we have already encountered with red associated with him, and he has a white body, and this is Rudra. That does not mean that Set evolved from Rudra, but it does make sense that they are both red/white deities. The one important detail that links the mushroom with the devil is the bull. The bull’s horns are the devil’s horns. This is another very big secret that is not widely known or admitted by researchers. Mythology has been used to convey ideas and when these ideas are taken literally, we call it “religion.” Some fantastic stories have been written throughout the centuries to mythologize these ideas such as the Norse/Germanic underworld of Hel and the Midgard serpent of the ocean or the Babylonian battle of Marduk against the mighty dragon of the sea, Tiamat, or the Greek Hell Hades or Tartarus. (7) (6) Book of the Dead (tr Budge), Ch. CXLVI; http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/set.htm (7) The Great Mother, p. 170-71 |
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