Lost Gods

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By John Allegro 
Published by Michael Joseph London, 1977 
First edition, hardback with dustwrapper, ex-library with stamps throughout, clean copy

Some twenty-five million years ago Man's primate ancestors embarked on a hazardous road that would lead one day to his controlling the evolutionary process itself, and thus acheiving the means of engineering his own extinction. 

Man's response to that awful burden of self-determination was to create for himself a god and to still his self-doubts in the solace of religion.

Thus arose Man's need for religion, for the knowledge that there does exist a 'superforce', a divine leader whose authority is paramount and who will give reassurance to Man's future.

In his stimultaing new book, John Allegro examines tha ancient gods, religious ideas and cults throught the myths of old and the work of archaeologists and anthropologists. He shows how many of the old primeval beliefs persist into modern theological thought, isolates those common elements that appear in otherwise widely disparate cults and philosophies, and draws some challenging conclusions about man's insufficiencies and religious strivings. 

The author of The Sacred Mushroom and The Cross has taken another equally fascinating and controversial look at the evolution of religion.