32. Bach, Marcus. Strange Sects and Curious Cults. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1961.

This book begins with a capsule description of primitive religion which is utter hogwash, completely unattributed (the book contains neither footnotes nor a bibliography)-apparently his own pseudo-Frazerian invention; Bach even tries to re-invent the solar myth notion (p. 9). The cross is phallic, the Star of David sexual, and so is the crescent of Islam. The uroboros is the key to all religions. Baalism is a cult of the sun and sex, with temple prostitutes; the occasion of lavender prose. There was a political struggle between Baal and Jehovah, elements of which have carried over through Judaism to Christianity. Osiris was a phallic deity and Isis a courtesan, both being popular inventions. Sex was the destruction both of Baal and Osiris, who "fled" as Dionysus to Greece and later to Rome as Bacchus (Judaeo-Christian apologetics become apparent). Isis prefigures the Virgin Mary. In Shivism, as before, the masses pervert a spiritual concept into a lustful one. And so on.

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