The Pentateuch of the Cosmogony torrent

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.