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by Oscar Kiss Maerth

Author: Oscar Kiss Maerth
Language: English
Publisher: Sphere Books; New Ed edition (1974)
Pages: 240 pages
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Oscar Kiss Maerth (1914–1990) was the author of The Beginning Was the End (1971), a pseudo-scientific book which claims that modern humans are descended from a species of cannibalistic apes.

Oscar Kiss Maerth (1914–1990) was the author of The Beginning Was the End (1971), a pseudo-scientific book which claims that modern humans are descended from a species of cannibalistic apes. Maerth was born in what was then Hungary but what was, in 1974, Yugoslavia. He claimed to have lived in Europe, South America, Australia, and Asia. A persistent rumor, albeit unconfirmed, claims that he was either a Nazi or a concentration camp survivor.

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I'm not sure if I should be surprised or not that this book got little attention. Maerth apparently had a few disciples, but as far as I can tell, a brief pamphlet was the only thing he ever wrote after this. The book does have some notoriety from being an inspiration to the band Devo. They even named one of their short films after the book. This book is a fine example of crackpottery, but I can see why Devo was inspired by it.

Oscar Kiss Maerth is a British writer living in a Buddhist monastery in Hong Kong. In his most famous book, The Beginning Was the End, he declared that modern man devolved from a species of brain-eating monkeys. Oscar Kiss Maerth tried to initiate a non-violent world revolution against the power of technology. He and his philosophy inspired the American rock band Devo.

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Maerth, Oscar Kiss, 1914-The beginning was the end. Translation of Der Anfangwar das Ende. The author would like to thank the following for the use of their photographs in this book: Vincent BSckstiegel, Werther; F. W. Chaffley; Fotogram, Paris; Ewing Galloway, NewYork; Werner Hahn; Henschen, . Der menschliche Sch~idel in der Kulturgeschichte, Verst~indliche Wissenschaft, Bd. 89, wYork, Springer 1966; KNA-Pressebild, Frank-furt; Jesse, KSln; Paul Popper Lt. London.

Oscar Kiss Maerth (1914-1990) was born in what was then Hungary but what was, in 1974, Yugoslavia. He was the author of The Beginning Was the End (1971), a pseudo-scientific book written in a Chinese monastery that claimed modern man devolved from a species of brain-eating apes. Maerth offered no. evidence for his theories, basing them largely on his alleged meetings with cannibals in Java and New Guinea and his.

by Oscar Kiss Maerth. Select Format: Hardcover. ISBN13:9780722157121. Release Date:January 1974. Cannibalism involves consuming all or part of another individual of the same species as food.

Oscar Kiss Maerth (1914 - 1990) was a Hungarian-born British businessman, Buddhist convert, vegetarian advocate, and amateur anthropologist, notable as the author of a theory of human evolution involving cannibalistic encephalophagy as an evolutionar.

Oscar Kiss Maerth (1914 - 1990) was a Hungarian-born British businessman, Buddhist convert, vegetarian advocate, and amateur anthropologist, notable as the author of a theory of human evolution involving cannibalistic encephalophagy as an evolutionary catalyst, provoking sexual excitation and mental expansion in the species.