"The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross: An Allegorical Study on the Mushroom in Religious Iconography" is a book written by John Allegro, a British archaeologist and scholar of Near Eastern studies. The book, first published in 1970, explores the idea that the ancient cultures of the Near East, including the Sumerians, Egyptians, and Greeks, used sacred mushrooms in their religious rituals.
by John Marco Allegro, first published in 1970. This controversial work argues that early Christianity originated from ancient Near Eastern fertility cults centered on the ritual use of psychoactive mushrooms, specifically the Amanita muscaria Accessing the Text