Phallism: A Description of the Worship of Lingam-yoni in Various Parts of the World, and in Different Ages, with an Account of Ancient & Modern Crosses, Particularly of the Crux Ansata (or Handled Cross) and Other Symbols Connected with the Mysteries of Sex Worship |
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abomination adored ages allusion amongst Ancient and Modern Ancient Egypt antiquity Argha Asherah Ashtoreth Asiatic Researches Assyria Baal Bacchus Brahma Brahmin called cave ceremonies character Chemosh Christian Christian Cross clefts consecrated Cross Crux-Ansata custom deity devotees Diodorus Siculus divine earth Egypt Egyptian emblem erect Etched frontispiece feet female festival figure fire flowers Foutin goddess gods Greece Greek grove hand heathen Hebrew hieroglyphics Hindoo Hindu honour idea idol idolatry indecent India Isis Iswara Kings Lampsacus licentious Linga Maachah Mahadeva male manner matter meaning mentioned Milcom monuments mysterious mystical numerous obscene origin ornaments Osiris Pagan Pantheon Parvati Phallic Faiths phallic worship Phallism phallus pillars powers of nature Prakreety prevailed Priapus priests principle puja religion religious remarkable represented rites Roman round sacred Yoni sacrifices Sacti says sculptured sect seen Sex Worship Sheevah Siva stone superstitious supposed symbol temples things tree various veneration Vishnu women Yoni
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Page 47 - And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it.
Page 95 - And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.
Page 41 - And it came to pass, that as soon as the days of his ministration were accomplished, he departed to his own house.
Page 100 - But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites; of the nations concerning which the Lord said unto the children of Israel, "Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in unto you: for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods;" Solomon clave unto these in love.
Page 95 - Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon, and have not walked in my ways, to do that which is right in mine eyes, and to keep my statutes and my judgments, as did David his father.
Page 13 - ... ground as if contemplating its own attributes. The head is sometimes a wooden block, rudely carved, more often dried mud, and the eyes and teeth are supplied by cowries. A huge penis, like the section of a broomstick, rudely carved, projects horizontally from the middle.
Page 13 - our ideas of propriety lead us to suppose that a ceremony which appears to us so infamous could only be invented by licentiousness ; but it is impossible to believe that depravity of manners would ever have led among any people to the establishment of religious ceremonies. It is probable, on the contrary, that this custom was first introduced in times of simplicity, that the first thought was to honour the deity in the symbol of life which it has given us.
Page 76 - Rochester Cathedral, and of the modern Duomo of Milan. All of these steeples, turrets, domes, and Christian temples are the reproductions of the primitive idea of the lithos, the upright phallus. "The western tower of St. Paul's Cathedral, London," says the author of The Rosicrucians, "is one of the double lithoi placed always in front of every temple, Christian as well as heathen.
Page 70 - STUART, and in every thing reancient object of homage adopted in India subsequently to the ritual of the VEDAS, which was chiefly, if not wholly, addressed to the elements, and particularly to Fire. How far the worship of the Linga is authorised by the VEDAS, is doubtful, but it is the main purport of several of the Purdnas1.
Page 81 - I see no difficulty in believing that it formed a portion of the primaeval religion, traces of which exist over the whole world, among every people ; that trust in the Cross was a part of the ancient faith which taught men to believe in a Trinity, in a War in Heaven, a Paradise from which man fell, a Flood, and a Babel ; a faith which was deeply impressed with a conviction that a Virgin should conceive and bear a son, that the Dragon's head should be bruised, and that through Shedding of blood should...