King Solomon's Goat

Chapter 26: Transcriber's Notes

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About This Book

A polemical work reinterprets Christian beliefs and rituals as survivals of ancient sun-worship and zodiacal symbolism, tracing parallels with Egyptian, Hindu, Persian and other pagan cults. Through pointed readings of scriptures, myths, and symbols it argues that figures and rites such as the bull, lamb, and fish redeemers, baptism, the Virgin figure, and the cross originate in seasonal and astronomical motifs and in practices of human sacrifice and ritual cannibalism. The book assembles comparative mythology, etymology, and iconography into a series of examples and claims aimed at challenging orthodox religious readings and showing continuity with older sacrificial cults.

Transcriber's Notes

Several obvious punctuation errors have been silently corrected.
Signa Tau was used consistently so it was not changed to Sigma Tau.
On pages 2 and 55, alter was changed to altar.
On page 71, metalic was changed to metallic, twice.
On page 83, phanton was changed to phantom.
On page 95, colaborated was changed to collaborated.
On page 97, tate-a-tate was changed to tête-à-tête.
On page 103, bear was changed to bare.
On page 121, polutes was changed to pollutes.
On page 127, Astral Word was Changed to Astral World.

Other variations in spelling, punctuation, accents and hyphenation remain as in the original.