Phallic Worship: A History of Sex and Sex Rites in Relation to the Religions of All Races from Antiquity to the Present Day ...Mental Health Press, 1958 - 299 pages |
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... sacred , and did not use them as food , an opinion confirmed by Lucian . Diodorus Siculus says : " The Syrians eat no fish , but adore them as gods " ; and in the denunciation of idolatry by Yahweh there is a warning against the making ...
... sacred , and did not use them as food , an opinion confirmed by Lucian . Diodorus Siculus says : " The Syrians eat no fish , but adore them as gods " ; and in the denunciation of idolatry by Yahweh there is a warning against the making ...
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... sacred bird among the Assyrians , and there are passages in the Old Testa- ment which indicate that it was held sacred among the Hebrews . In Syria , at one time , it was worshipped as a divinity . Juno , the virgin goddess of the ...
... sacred bird among the Assyrians , and there are passages in the Old Testa- ment which indicate that it was held sacred among the Hebrews . In Syria , at one time , it was worshipped as a divinity . Juno , the virgin goddess of the ...
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... sacred prostitutes , it fails to account for the practice by both virgins and married women of habitual prostitution , and finally and importantly , it fails to account for the presence in the temples of sacred men . Wake's hypothesis ...
... sacred prostitutes , it fails to account for the practice by both virgins and married women of habitual prostitution , and finally and importantly , it fails to account for the presence in the temples of sacred men . Wake's hypothesis ...
Contents
CHAP | 3 |
SUN MOON AND NATURE WORSHIP | 13 |
THE BIRTH OF PHALLICISM | 40 |
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