. 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. ually interpret each other. Thesame idea is exhibited in modern times by two 82, one upright and the other with a hole in it,through which one of modeiate size could pass, nowfound on the Island of Gozo, near Malta. Stone phalli are common in the temples of China andJapan. Passing to the Western Hemisphere, the phallicidea is almos
. 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. ually interpret each other. Thesame idea is exhibited in modern times by two 82, one upright and the other with a hole in it,through which one of modeiate size could pass, nowfound on the Island of Gozo, near Malta. Stone phalli are common in the temples of China andJapan. Passing to the Western Hemisphere, the phallicidea is almost universal among the ancient remains ofprehistoric races. In Yucatan the phallic pillar standsin front of every temple. In Panuco they adore the THE PILLAR. 87 phallus, preserve it in their temples, and have has-reliefsshowing congress of the sexes; which is also true ofTlascala. In Honduras, the great idol is a round up-right stone with two faces — the Lord of Life/ wliichthe Lidians adore ; in some ceremonies they offer it thesacrifice of blood, which they draw from the Peru have been found ancient clay phalli, and alsowater jars on which were figured gods and goddesseswith greatly enlarged generative oi-gans — male Fig. 83. Fig. 84. In the center of the great sr[naie of tlie temple ofthe sun at Ciizco, the early European explorers founda stone colunni shaped like a sugar loaf, and coveredwith gold leaf, which was the object of special vener-ation on the part of the populace. Ancient phalli arefound in different parts of Hayti. Figures 84 and 85show two forms of Mexican shrines — common in thepast and not infrequent at the present day. The similarity in the outlines of these shrines ortemples in Ireland, India, Petrea, Rome, and Mexico isvery suggestive. In various parts of the United Statesthere have been found excellent examples of phallicworship remains. An image found in Tennessee has 88 DIFFUSION AND MODIFICATION OF SYMBOLS. an enormous phal
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