The Great Gods of Samothrace and The Cult of the Little People - by Carl a P Ruck (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>The deities were known as the Great Gods, a mysterious group of tiny grotesqueries, materialized from the entheogen as soul guides, who presided over religious ceremonies on the northern Aegean island of Samothrace, termed a Mystery because things happened that could never be divulged to outsiders.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>The deities went by the name of the Great Gods, a mysterious group of numinous powers who presided over religious ceremonies on the northern Aegean island of Samothrace and elsewhere, termed a Mystery because things happened that must never be divulged to outsiders. The importance of the Mystery was second only to the great Eleusinian rite.</p><p>This investigation into the secret of the Mystery begins with the famous sculptural group of the Winged Victory of Samothrace and leads through a bizarre assemblage of mythological events that includes the drunken sailing of the loon on an amphora filled with wine, the enchained rapture of souls linked to the attractive force of the magnetic stone, the thievery of the infant Hermes, obscenities and ithyphallic creatures, the stench of metallurgy, islands of wanton women and other seductively noisome smells, murder in the fields sown with grain, talking heads that sprout in the path of the plowshare, the founding of Rome, the voyage of the Argonauts and the great sorceress Medea, the riddle about the divinatory liver of Prometheus--finally to the ultimate destination: a magical herbarium at the center of a magnetic fortress in which there is a single giant tree overshadowing the entire expanse of toxic plants, and at its base the tomb of the dwarfish great god Zeus.</p><p>The final view is the Golden Parchment that was the alchemical formula for transcendence and J.M.W. Turner's depiction of the <em>Vision of Medea</em>, reveling in the full-tide of her witchery.</p><p> </p>
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