. Phallic worship : an outline of the worship of the generative organs, as being, or as representing, the Divine Creator, with suggestions as to the influence of the phallic idea on religious creeds, ceremonies, customs and symbolism, past and present. lmost universal, as a religious symbol. TheTeutons and Scandinavians w^orshiped their gods undervarious names, and with different attributes ; but how-ever different sects might disagree on the minor i)oints,they all regarded the Creator as masculine, and usedthe phallus or its syml^ols as i-epresenting the Spaniard generally Avorship
. Phallic worship : an outline of the worship of the generative organs, as being, or as representing, the Divine Creator, with suggestions as to the influence of the phallic idea on religious creeds, ceremonies, customs and symbolism, past and present. lmost universal, as a religious symbol. TheTeutons and Scandinavians w^orshiped their gods undervarious names, and with different attributes ; but how-ever different sects might disagree on the minor i)oints,they all regarded the Creator as masculine, and usedthe phallus or its syml^ols as i-epresenting the Spaniard generally Avorshiped a similar deityunder the name of Hortanes, and used the same staffof life as his emblem. England, Scotland, and Ire- (81) 82 DIFFUSION AND MODIFICATION OF SYMBOLS. land still bear evidence of the generality and dominancy of the phallic idea inworship. To catalogueand explain the monu-ments and remains of thiscult in the British Isleswould require a ponderousvolume. Stonehenge,the ground i)lan of whichFig- CO. it^ shown in the annexed figure, has been so often written about that no descrip-tion is needed. This shows, T, the elevation as it now appears; IT,an enlarged view of the Friars Hell; III, the groundplan of this ancient phallic
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