. 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. Fig. 69. Fig. 71. Figures 69, 70, and 71 show phallic monumentalcolumns found in connection with the tombs of Pompeiiand Herculaneum. The Linga worshiped by the Parthian Magus isshown in Figure 72, This is copied from a sculpture 84 difpusiojS and modification of symbols. found ill the Baktyari Mountains. To showhoAv wide-spread in space and tim
. 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. Fig. 69. Fig. 71. Figures 69, 70, and 71 show phallic monumentalcolumns found in connection with the tombs of Pompeiiand Herculaneum. The Linga worshiped by the Parthian Magus isshown in Figure 72, This is copied from a sculpture 84 difpusiojS and modification of symbols. found ill the Baktyari Mountains. To showhoAv wide-spread in space and time similar symbols may be found,. Fiiiiii iH Fig. 74. Fig. 75. there is given in Figures 73 and 74 the pictures of amodern Phallic Pillar and Sun Stone, as foundin use as a religious emblem — or fetich, at the presenttime, in the Figi Islands. The shape, adornments, andmaterial of Figures 72 and 73 are almost identical. Are these modern emblems of the Figians any kin,by way of offspring, to the ancient symbols; or didsimilar ideas suggest and originate the similar repre-sentatives? The Sivaic Shrine shown in Figure 75 needs no com-ment to point out its phallic chaiacter. Almost exactly similar emblems are found in Javaand Ceylon. The Linga and Yonic Temple of India — shown inFigures 76 and 77 — are usually (at least frequently)called Buddhist Shrines. Whether the authors are mistaken, or whether someBuddhists wander so far from the doctrines of Siddarthaas to erect and use such phallic temples is not certain ;but surely all idolatry and sensuality is as far from THE PILLAR. 85 Buddhism as it is from (yliristiani
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