Phallic Worship E-Book

Joseph M. Wheeler

• Herausgeber: Joseph M. Wheeler
• Kategorie: Ratgeber
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016

Beschreibung

I am not one of those who find in phallicism the key to all the mysteries of mythology. All the striking phenomena of nature—the alternations of light and darkness, sun and moon, the terrors of the thunderstorm, and of pain, disease and death, together with his own dreams and imaginations—contributed to evoke the wonder and superstition of early man. But investigation of early religion shows it often nucleated around the phenomena of generation. The first and final problem of religion concerns the production of things. Man's own body was always nearer to him than sun, moon, and stars; and early man, thinking not in words but in things, had to express the very idea of creation or production in terms of his own body. It was so in Egypt, where the symbol, from being the sign of production, became also the sign of life, and of regeneration and resurrection. It was so in Babylonia and Assyria, as in ancient Greece and Troy, and is so till this day in India.

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Table of contents

PHALLIC WORSHIP AMONG THE JEWS.

CIRCUMCISION.

MOSES AT THE INN

THE BRAZEN SERPENT, AND SALVATION BY SIMILARS.

RELIGION AND MAGIC.

TABOOS.

BLOOD RITES.

SCAPEGOATS.

A BIBLE BARBARITY.

BIBLE WITCHCRAFT.

SAUL'S SPIRITUALIST STANCE AT ENDOR.

SACRIFICES.

THE PASSOVER.

THE EVOLUTION OF JAHVEH.

JOSHUA AND THE SUN.

THE HEBREW PROPHETS.

OLD TESTAMENT MARRIAGE.

THE SONG OF SOLOMON.

SACRED SEVEN.

PHALLIC WORSHIP AMONG THE JEWS.

"The hatred of indecency, which appears to us so natural as     to be thought innate, and which is so valuable an aid to     chastity, is a modern virtue, appertaining exclusively, as     Sir G. Staunton remarks, to civilised life. This is shown by     the ancient religious rites of various nations, by the     drawings on the walls of Pompeii, and by the practices of     many savages."—C. Darwin, "Descent of Man" pt. 1, chap.     iv., vol. i., p. 182; 1888.The study of religions is a department of anthropology, and nowhere is it more important to remember the maxim of the pagan Terence, Homo sum, nihil humani a me alienum puto. It is impossible to dive deep into any ancient faiths without coming across a deal of mud. Man has often been defined as a religious animal. He might as justly be termed a dirty and foolish animal. His religions have been growths of earth, not gifts from heaven, and they usually bear strong marks of their clayey origin.*