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Phallic Worship Past and Present Written in Plain PH A LLIC WO R SH IP AN O UT LINE O F TH E ORS IP OF THE GENER TI E OR N W H A V GA S , A s B e n o r as R e res e n t n th e D n e C re tor W th S u e s t o n s a s to th e In fl uen c e i g . p i g , ivi a , i gg i o f th e P c Id e . o n R e o u s C re ed s C e rem o n e s C us o m s halli a ligi , i , t a n d Symboli s m Past a n d Presen t. fB RO ERT ALLEN CAMPBELL . E . B , C IL LUSTRATED W ITH 200 ENGRAVINGS . In S c en c e P os o h an d R e o n i , hil p y ligi , Th e tru t h e W o e r ut n o h n b u t th e ru . th , h l t h , t i g t th S T. LOUIS M B ELL COMP NY. R . CA P . A A C o pyrighted by R . BE A . CAMP LL , 1 887 . P R E F A C E . HE aim o f this work is simply to present a popular Of a n d i Of sketch the history , customs , symbol sm Phallic Worship past and present written in plain English . Most of the facts and illustrations given are already m o f m in pri nt . So e the have come down by tradition from the remote past . Many are taken from modern , m and so e from recent , publications . Without using i quotation marks , or announcing special cred ts in de ” s a tail , the author desires to y that he has quoted a truth , u w a n u a n c lled a fact , borro ed ill stration , and adopted interpretation wherever found o r by Whomsoever before an d o r l the stated Often in nearly , even exact y , words of the earlier writer . Those who are familiar with H ’ iggin s Anacalypsis and his Celtic Druids , Payne Knight’ s Worship Of Priapus and his Symbolic Lan ’ ’ guage , Furlong s Rivers Of Life , Inman s Ancient ’ a n d L a ard s Faiths his other kindred works , j Culte de ’ D ul aure s é é é z An Venus , Divinit s G n ratrices che les ’ m et J cie s les Modernes , Hargrave enning s Rosicrucians ( 5 ) E (3 PR FACE. o iz and his Phallicism , etc , will readily rec gn e the sources from which much in this work has been culled . All o f these works , while the highest merit as to n ot scholarship and reliability , are popular for they are n h redu dant with masses of minutia w ich , while impor tant and of essential n ecessity to the st udent m aking x m Of an e haustive exa ination the subj ect , are burden the some and confusing to general reader . These m u l tit u din works , too , are plentifully interlarded with Ous a n d quotations , descriptions , suggestions in foreign or dead languages thus veiling fro m all but the a o com plished linguist much Of interest and of importance to a fair understanding of this subject . ih This work is intended , then , for the honorable and tellige n t gen eral reader w ho desires a fairly f ull outline Of this interesting and important department Of relig —ou E n lis h ious , social , and political knowledge g and without the constant veiling o f socially tabooed ideas , organs , and operations in other languages . This work is n o t meant for the instruction o f the erudite and exhaustive student w ho wants a complete of . catalogue facts , dates , and names Such readers are referred to the works named above . o r n N is this book meant for the you g , the ignorant , — or the evil minded for it necessarily treats very fully , r and in ve y plain English , upon topics and natural RE E P FAC . 7 Operations that in this day are denied discussion in a promiscuous assembly . i o f As to the importance and d gnity the theme , and hence the propriety Of its treatment — which some may i w ’ quest on ; and as to its purity , hich many will ques — tion the author simply quotes Hargrave Jen nin gs whose learning and purity no o n e who knows him will question and whose extensive a n d patient study of this and kindred s ubj ects renders his Opinion valu H e able . says It may be boldly asserted that there is not a relig n o t l ion that doe s spring from the sexua distinction . is a n i There not a form , dea , a grace , a sentiment , a o r felicity in art which is not owing , in One form another , n to Phallicism , and its mea s Of indication , which , at On e t in s ta t utes u e o r ime , the monuments q architect ural covered the whole earth . All this has been ig — — nored averted fro m caref ully concealed (together with the philosophy which went with it) because it was judged indecent . As if anything seriously resting in n n nature , and being otoriously everything in ature and art (everything , at least , that is grand and beautiful) , — — could b e ap art from the mind making it s o inde cent . CO N E T NTS . P R E ACE F , D E INITIONS F , R D TI INT O UC ON, CHAPTER I . H E I E R E B T F V G AT S YM OLS . CHAPTER II . G ENE R AL D IFFUS I ON AN D M O D IF IED F O R M S OF PHALLIC S YM B OL S . The P illar , The Cross , S e en S m rp t y bols , M e ne u S m isc lla o s y bols , N 10 CO TENTS . CHAPTER III . I A ND ER E N PHALL C CULTS C M O IE S . P m in In hallis dia , P m in E hallis gypt , P m in P oen S an d P hallis Assyria , h icia , yria , hrygia, P m Am n the J e w hallis o g s , G ee a n d R m n P m r k o a hallis , No n - P Zoroasteris m hallic , M e A e a nd M ern P m iddl g od hallis , LIS T OF I LLUSTRATIO NS . Figure . FrontIspIece . P and T S m b illar riadic y ols , Y n S m o ic y bols , ING -Y n S mbo L A o i y ls , YONI - n S m s Li ga y bol , INGA -YONI S m s L y bol , n - ih Y n S mb Li go a o i y ols , T e h Cross , The b de e Co ra Cap lla , S ne en e E n n to h g , gla d , I R un T we rish o d o rs , New n St ne S n to o , cotla d , R u e S n e En n d to , gla d , Inn M u S n e I e n is ra to , r la d , P Ke u n I e n illar , rry Co ty , r la d , P M nu m en Po m e hallic o ts , p ii , P n n arthia Li ga , n an d S un ne F Is n Li ga sto , igi la ds , Sivaic S ne In hri , dia , n -Y n Te m e In Li ga o i pl s , dia , Me n Tem e Pe e hir pl , tr a , R u e n -ih -Y n Gothl a nd d Li ga o i , , N CONTE TS . 1 ] Figure S e K rn E acr d Hill , a ak , gypt , n - Y n P u e R m e Li ga o i ict r , o , n a n d Y n S n e G zo Li ga o i to s , o , P um n uz hallic Col , C co , Ph S n e Mex allic hri s , ico , TA- R OA a n d Ta- Pol n esIa A rao , y , The Cross , ux A n Cr sata , E n o e gyptia Cr ss s , n u — S i m le Hi d Cross p , K aca Cross , n e Assyria Cross s , n en E A ci t Cross , gypt , ’ Eze e Ta u ki l s , ’ T mm e No rsl and hor s Ha r , , O n G ee rigi al r k Cross , M e e T alt s Cross riadic , G ee — T r k Cross riadic , n C I TI ia dic Lati oss , Tem la I p s Cross , n - Y n el ab OI a te Li ga o i Cross , n - Y n e Li ga o i Cross s , n u An en Hi d Cross , ci t , a n d e en G ee C u Cross Cr sc t , r k h rch , M e A e iddl g Cross , n u e Hi d Cross s , n - in -Y n S m In Li ga o i y bols , dia , Im e n n of M t h pr g atio ary Ca olic , The S e en rp t , E e n t r ity , m Wisdo , R od e of Lif , R m n S n o a ta dard , T ee e a n d S e e n r of Lif rp t , S S n taff of alvatio , T en J u e rid t of pit r , FiI e P illar , The Te m n ptatio , S e en G e h rp t odd ss or Witc , S e en S un a nd M n Gem rp t , oo , S e en a n d P G em rp t illar , S e en Tree P a n d Ark G e m rp t , , illar , N EN 12 CO T TS .
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