The Pentateuch of the Cosmogony
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Meaning - approximately - 'the first five books (pentateuch) of the creation (cosmogony)', this was a hardback book and double vinyl album released in 1979. It was conceived, written and illustrated by Patrick Woodroffe, in collaboration with Dave Greenslade.
The story - and thus the artwork - within 'Pentateuch' centres around the discovery of an abandoned spacecraft in orbit around Jupiter, and the project to decipher the ideograms in the pentateuch 'document'. Most of the book is a retelling of the document, in much the same way as a modern translator might retell the contents of a Babylonian tablet or Egyptian papyrus scroll.
Greenslade contributes the 74 minutes of music as his second solo project, enlisting Phil Collins amongst others to help.
A CD reissue was released in 1994, achieving the awkward transfer of Woodroffe's 12" x 12" book into a 5" square booklet with some success, though the impact of some of the artwork is lost through this.
