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CHAPTER I THE CREATION OF THE GODS I The Genesis of Reason To get at the very root of religion we must lay bare the first notions or thoughts that actuated mankind . We must go far beyond the beginnings of civilization .
CHAPTER I THE CREATION OF THE GODS I The Genesis of Reason To get at the very root of religion we must lay bare the first notions or thoughts that actuated mankind . We must go far beyond the beginnings of civilization .
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Fire was worshipped as the primary essence of the male creative and generative or ethereal principle ; while water symbolized the female passive or terrestrial principle in creation . The fact that , to the ancients , nothing appeared ...
Fire was worshipped as the primary essence of the male creative and generative or ethereal principle ; while water symbolized the female passive or terrestrial principle in creation . The fact that , to the ancients , nothing appeared ...
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In other words , she was an essential feature of the androgynous concept of creation . In the Hindu Sama Veda , we read : " He felt not delight being alone . He wished another , and instantly became such . He caused his own self to fall ...
In other words , she was an essential feature of the androgynous concept of creation . In the Hindu Sama Veda , we read : " He felt not delight being alone . He wished another , and instantly became such . He caused his own self to fall ...
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Contents
SUN MOON AND NATURE WORSHIP | 13 |
THE BIRTH OF PHALLICISM | 40 |
THE PHALLIC FACTOR IN SEXUAL PROMISCUITY | 58 |
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| Title | Phallic Worship: A History of Sex and Sex Rites in Relation to the Religions of All Races from Antiquity to the Present Day ... |
| Author | George Ryley Scott |
| Publisher | Mental Health Press, 1958 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 24 Jun 2008 |
| Length | 299 pages |
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