Phallic Worship: A History of Sex and Sex Rites in Relation to the Religions of All Races from Antiquity to the Present Day |
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... creative and generative or ethereal principle ; while water symbolized the female passive or terrestrial prin- ciple in creation . The fact that , to the ancients , noth- ing appeared to be produced without the action of fire or water ...
... creative and generative or ethereal principle ; while water symbolized the female passive or terrestrial prin- ciple in creation . The fact that , to the ancients , noth- ing appeared to be produced without the action of fire or water ...
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... creative and generative power in nature was often represented by and worshipped in the form of an animal . Usually the precise animal selected was famed for its sexual virility . The same creative god was also sometimes worshipped in ...
... creative and generative power in nature was often represented by and worshipped in the form of an animal . Usually the precise animal selected was famed for its sexual virility . The same creative god was also sometimes worshipped in ...
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... creative power sup posed to be responsible for everything existent , whether animate or inanimate . This recognized creative power or source was thought , at first , to be purely mystical and amorphous . It next flourished as an ...
... creative power sup posed to be responsible for everything existent , whether animate or inanimate . This recognized creative power or source was thought , at first , to be purely mystical and amorphous . It next flourished as an ...
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CHAP | 3 |
SUN MOON AND NATURE WORSHIP | 13 |
THE BIRTH OF PHALLICISM | 40 |
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