A very interesting tale. This book is full of new details I can almost guarantee most people haven’t heard of or thought about. I did have some minor knit picks with the book. I didn’t appreciate how the author constantly presented theories and then always incorporated them into his speech as facts. It works like the following: My theory is that there is life on mars………………so springtime for a Martian is wild, because Martians have to deal with crazy climatic elements unique to Martians and Martian society.
That being said there was still many novel ways of looking at things that made it worth it. My opinion on the overlap between John and Dionysian rituals was that John was written like one used car salesman trying to convince you to buy a car from them and not the lot across the street. That is still very interesting, but a little less interesting than if the used car salesman was saying he IS actually the dealership across the street. Entertaining and weirdly fast paced for the subject matter it will be sure to put pleats in your pants. Time will be the arbiter.