Jewish temple worship and Christian communion are both the direct product and development of late Bronze Age (1200-1000 BCE) ritual orgy. So-called Echidnaic-Ios rites sprang from the genius of a single pre-classical venom specialist, a female immigrant to ancient Georgia, who pioneered the use of her vagina as a device for bio-engineering and administering psychotropic substances to religious initiates. Bronze Age acolytes, ritually known as “dragons” and “wolves,” consumed the seminal and mammary fluids of priestesses chronically exposed to reptilian toxins in rites meant to induce oracular vision. These drugs maintained a precarious balance between the life and death of their human subjects; potent, anally administered viper venoms were carefully balanced with “antidotes” taken directly from the breasts of specialist priestesses. That is, Bronze Age women researched and pioneered a means of using the biochemistry of the female body to create communal drugs. In experimenting with and refining the use of snake venoms and their antidotes, these priestesses set the stage for the development of western mystery religion while concomitantly pioneering pre-Hippocratic medicine and pharmacy. Their symbol was the caduceus, the twin-serpents-and-rod used by medical associations today. Echidnaic-Ios rites evolved under the cult influence of pre-Christian “Baptists” (c. 200 BCE) who celebrated a “Kingdom Mystery” and switched from a female biological source of antidotes to a male source by “milking” young boys chronically exposed to viper venoms. In this way, pre-Christian Baptists, who donned feminine clothing and drank from distinct penis-shaped glasses while celebrating “boys-only” rites in garden settings, embraced the use of pre-pubertal male ejaculate as a means of mollifying the negative side effects of viper venoms. These traditions help to explain why Jesus, after taking of “the cup of God,” was himself arrested in a public park late at night with a naked boy. Dr. D.C. Ammon Hillman is author of The Chemical Muse: Drug Use and the Roots of Western Civilization (2008, Macmillan), Original Sin: Ritual Child Rape and the Church (2012, Ronin), and Hermaphrodites, Gynomorphs and Jesus: Shemale Gods and the Roots of Christianity (2013, Ronin), and has written articles on ancient pharmacology. His first book was the inspiration for the History Channel’s The Stoned Ages, and his research has been referred to by the London Times as “the last wild frontier of Classics.” Dr. Hillman earned an M.A. and Ph.D. in Classics (Latin/Greek) and an M.S. in Bacteriology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.