> > Just as an illustration of how truly weird this is -- here's example from the English portion of the text, where he re-interprets the meaning of Daniel 5:25:
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> / / / / / / / / "The introductory formula, MENE, MENE, is comparable in form and content with the invocation Eloi, Eloi (E-LA-UIA) that preceded the secret mushroom name (see Ch. XVII). It refers probably to the Semitic god of fate, *Meni* (Isa 65:11; RSV "Fortune"), equivalent of the Sumerian NAM-TAR, "fate demon",¹ source of the mushroom designations Nectar and Mandrake. TEKEL is our "bolt-" fungus, and PARSIN is the Sumerian BAR-SIL, "womb", a reference to the mushroom volva. We meet PARSIN in the Greek form *Perseia*, as the magic herb that sprang from the ground after Perseus had dropped the chape of his scabbard (*mukės*, also meaning "mushroom") whilst flying over what was to become Mycenae (the "mushroom" city).²"
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> Wow... Is this terrific, or what? I collect books about mushrooms but I've never seen anything like *this*. I've never seen anyone expend so much earnest effort preparing a 'serious' scholarly manuscript which nevertheless gets every single etymological derivation 100% wrong... in three languages. :-)

OK. Now I not only have to read this book, but I *really* have to meet Wolfspirit. I have no idea why, but the statement "I collect books about mushrooms", coming right after that INSANE extract, left me helpless with laughter. Then, just as I was getting a grip again, I had to go and read the extract again, didn't I? You're the greatest.

Brunnen-"all those years of Sunday school wasted ... they coulda just given us each a mushroom and told us to think about it really hard"G