Identifier: phallicworshipou00camp (find matches)
Title: 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
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Campbell, Robert Allen
Subjects: Phallicism Sex -- Religious aspects
Publisher: St. Louis, Mo. : R.A. Campbell & Co.
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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interpret this emblem of the an-drogynous divinity, he knows all that is knoAvn; andthat to learn more he must be enlightened to read yetmore mystically the inexhaustible truth incarnated inthis most wonderful symbol. This pictui^ has been commented on by nearlyevery student of Hindu religion, in all degrees of spirit,from scorn to rapture. Figure 146, page 102, is a symliol common to theSacteyas, who interpret it as the linga entwined by amale and female serpent in sexual congress. This ideais more realistically represented, on certain occasions ofhigh religious ceremonies, by the women, in grandprocession, carrying, between two living serpents, a2iirantic lincfa, decked in ribbons and flowers, theprepucial end of which they present to an equallyprominent yoni. They likewise use the symbol of a SIVA-SACTI WORSHIP. 135 serpent with its tail iu its mouth, Figure 144, as repre-senting- a perpetuation of the race through the ci-eativeactivity of the sexes. They also use the design of the
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Fig. 207.-ADDHA-NARI. chest or ark, in which the serpent, or passion, is sup-posed to be alive — but dormant, as a symbol of Devi.The ^agas pray that the serpent may come out of theark — passion be aroused, sexual union be therebyconsummated — with the blessed result of many andworthy children. In Maia worshiping the linga. 136 PHALLISM IN INDIA. Figure 199, they recognize Devi — herself the femininecreator, and, therefore, worthy of worship — as recog-nizing her masculine consort as divine, and thusdirecting her adorers to also recognize and worship thelinga and all it is interpreted to represent. The tortoise is an important emblem in the Hindumythology. They represent the world resting- upon anelephant supported by a tortoise. It was chosen becauseit is popularly supposed to be androgynous, on accountof its great tenacity of life and its gi*eat fecundity. The frequency and rapidity with which it protrudes its h c a d from its shell and with-Fig. 208. draws it, chang- Fig.

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