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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... woman's womb . " The wide- spread belief in the powers of a phallic god or of his accredited representative to confer upon women , both before and after marriage , the blessing of fertility , was responsible for the notion that the ...
... woman's womb . " The wide- spread belief in the powers of a phallic god or of his accredited representative to confer upon women , both before and after marriage , the blessing of fertility , was responsible for the notion that the ...
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... women before marriage , to which custom allusion has already been made . This last- named explanation , as Frazer has pointed out , fails to account for married women becoming sacred prostitutes , it fails to account for the practice by ...
... women before marriage , to which custom allusion has already been made . This last- named explanation , as Frazer has pointed out , fails to account for married women becoming sacred prostitutes , it fails to account for the practice by ...
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... woman specially ordained to the service of their deities . They are different from the dancing - women of the temples ; but they follow the same infamous course of life with them . For the priestesses of Siva and Vishnu , after being ...
... woman specially ordained to the service of their deities . They are different from the dancing - women of the temples ; but they follow the same infamous course of life with them . For the priestesses of Siva and Vishnu , after being ...
Contents
CHAP | 3 |
SUN MOON AND NATURE WORSHIP | 13 |
THE BIRTH OF PHALLICISM | 40 |
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