The Attis form, on the contrary, appears to have been phallic from the first.
They recognized a relation between these beings, and others of a less highly developed aspect, phallic demons, often of theriomorphic form.
It is with them a sort of phallic worship also, but now the worship is mental and perverted: the phallus is the real fetish, but it is the source of uncleanliness and corruption and death, it is the Moloch, worshipped in obscenity.
This, then, is the secret of Italy's attraction for us, this phallic worship.
Partly it is the truephallic worship, for the phallic principle is to absorb and dominate all life.
It is a profound desire to get away from women altogether, the terrible subjugation to sex, the phallic worship.
Even the indecencies of Phallicworship had found their dignified beginning in an attempt to honor the great principle of life in nature's procreative processes.
But even if it has been thus a defence to women against man's severity, it undeniably has been an injury to them by its indecent ceremonies and phallic songs.
There is no evidence to show that the animals connected with phallic gods were selected on account of their salacious dispositions or their sexual power.
The best example of a half-civilized phallic cult is that which is now practiced in Yoruba and Dahomi, countries with definite government and institutions.
It is among the great ancient civilized peoples that the most definite organization of phallic cults is found.
However, if there was a phallic cult there (the phallus being regarded as a symbol of the productive function of the deity), it is not certain that it was Semitic.
It has been held that it is connected with the cult of the generative organs (phallic worship).
Though phallic cults proper cannot be shown to be universal among men, they have played a not inconsiderable part in religious history.
He gives the name to enormously high structures standing in the propylæa of the temple, but mentions no details suggesting a phallic cult.
Phallic forms abound[719] in the land, in spite of repressive measures on the part of the government, but the cult partakes of the general looseness of the Shinto organization of supernatural Powers.
See below, § 419, for the connection of animals with phallic cults.
Colin Scott has some interesting remarks on phallic worship and the part it has played in aiding human evolution, "Sex and Art," American Journal of Psychology, vol.
Here we trace the presence of a feeling which recalls the phenomena of the ancient and world-wide phallic worship, still liable to reappear sporadically.
Putting aside any question of phallic worship, a certain pride and more or less private feeling of ostentation in the new expansion and development of the organs of virility seems to be almost normal at adolescence.
Phallic tree, the, is introduced into the narrative in Genesis, 47.
The "Tree of Knowledge" was a Phallic tree, and the fruit which grew upon it was Phallic fruit.
Payne Knight to compile his remarkable work on Phallic Worship.
Influence of thePhallic Ideas in the Religions of Antiquity, by Hodder M.
Certain of the temples of India abound with sculptural representations of the symbols of Phallic Worship.
It is also clear that, like the Victory and the Golden Apple it surmounted, the Phoenix and its wonderful egg were not only connected with the Sun-God, but also had a phallic signification.
Ohnefalsch-Richter states, these evidently phallic symbols undoubtedly played a part in the worship of the Sun-God Tammuz-Adonis and his bride Astarte-Aphrodite.
The favourite legends are Venus Victrix, Venus Felix, and Venus Genetrix, and of phallic import; and in one instance the Goddess of Love holds an infant wrapped in swaddling clothes as well as the phallic apple.
Aphrodite at Idalion, we see various phallic emblems; including the familiar Sun disc and Crescent moon in conjunction.
Atheniaon, upon the capitals of which are phallic emblems, including that of the Sun as a disc within the horns of the Crescent moon.
The story of the Garden of the Hesperides is at heart one with that of the Garden of Eden; for it is obvious that the same phallic meaning underlies each, and that they are but different versions of the same allegory.
This representation of the Goddess of Love and Bride of the Sun-God is marked with several Svastika crosses, and is yet further evidence of the phallic and solar character of that symbol.
In this case also he is accompanied by phallic and solar emblems and wears a St. Andrew's cross upon his breast.
And the phallic nature of such crosses cannot be denied.
When the Christ is in such cases depicted as a youth, the phallic apple is usually to be seen lying near him; but when the Christ is represented as a man, it is placed in his hand.
The Rishis, the gods, the Gandharvas, and Apsaras, always worship his Phallic emblem which is supposed to stand upright.
The Lord Kesava always worshippeth Siva in the Phallic emblem as the origin of all creatures.
And since his Phallic emblem is always supposed to be in the observance of the vow of Brahmacharya, and since he always gladden the world, therefore he is called Maheswara.
Kesava always worship the Lord Siva, regarding his Phallic emblem to be the origin of the universe.
And since he is great and ancient and is the source of life and of its continuance, and since his Phallic emblem is everlasting, he is for that reason called Sthanu.
Like them, in thy worship, thou hast, in every Yuga, adored the great God in his Phallic form.
He who adoreth any image of the Phallic emblem of that high-souled God, always obtaineth great prosperity by that act.
The service is entirely secret, and all that is known of it is that it is of esoteric, perhaps phallic character.
Footnote 40: The usual opinion is that phallic worship was a trait of southern tribes foisted upon northern Çivaism.
It celebrates Çiva's first manifestation of himself in phallic form.
One verse, however, which seems to have crept in by mistake, is apparently due to phallic influence (VIII.
It was essentially phallic in its outward form (VII.
Hindus to dance the kordax, but at this time there appears to have been no such phallic worship in his honor as is recorded in the pseudo-epic.
In the earliest glimpses which we have the serpent is the symbol of life and of love, nor is the phallic cultus in any respect a cult of the full grown branching tree.
The divine hand with the thumb and two fingers outstretched, even though it rests on a cruciform nimbus, is a phallic emblem, and is used by the Neapolitans of to-day to avert the Evil Eye, although it was originally a symbol of Isis.
The Nimbus also, generally circular but sometimes triangular, is of positive phallic significance, even though it contain within it the name of Jehovah.
At least seven different non-mystic festivals occurred in Attica during the year, which were of popular character, during which the Phallic worship, if any, predominated.
The most plainly phallic representation used in early Christian Iconography, is undoubtedly the Aureole or elliptical frame work, containing usually the figure of Christ, sometimes that of Mary.
The phallic symbol was always found in temples of Siva, who corresponds to Baal, and was usually placed as are the most precious emblems of our Christian temples to-day, in some inmost recess of the sanctuary.
He removed the Dionysiac statues and phallic pillars as well as the conical and omphallic symbols of Venus and Ashtaroth, broke in pieces the brazen serpent of Moses and overthrew the mounds and altars.
The nuns of Christian to-day are the nuns of the Buddhists or of the Egyptian worshippers of Isis, and the phallic import is not lost even in their case since they are the "Brides of the Savior.
I have not yet alluded to the reverence paid to the fish, both as phallic emblem and as a Christian symbol.
From the fall of man with its serpent myth and its phallic foundation to the peculiar position assigned to the Virgin Mary as a mother, phallic references abound.
From this we may conclude that eunuchs or incompetent men were children of the devil, or at least, not of this phallic god--a fact which the writer of Matt.
So no wonder that the holder of the rod, baton, or banner, who occupies the place also of Moses to lead his flocks through this wilderness, is always examined as to his phallic completeness before being confirmed in the pontificate.
Roscoe, is required in the case of popes, just as the laws of Moses required that all who came to worship their very phallic JHVH should first prove their completeness as men.
General Forlong asserts that at this present day Queen Victoria of Christian England rules over more than one hundred millions of phallic worshippers!
Even our ordinary playing-cards, over which so much precious time is wasted, are distinguished by phallic symbols!
The cross on which he is impaled was a symbol of the phallic worship thousands of years ago.
Serpent-worship is another form of sacred symbolism, and has an intimate connection with phallic rites.
A worship of the passions, but no sexual dualism in myths, nor any phallic worship in America.
They occur in all languages, and hint how readily the worship of fire glided into that of the reproductive principle, into extravagances of chastity and lewdness, into the shocking orgies of the so-called phallic worship.
Human sacrifice and the worship of phallic emblems and effigies of their gods and dead kings were common.
This announcement carried joy to the heart of the questioner, and he began at once the erection of an altar, the aged priest sprinkling it with blessed water and placing beside it the phallic symbol of the trinity.
According to the point of view of different archaeologists, they have been called temples of the sun, hermitages, phallic monuments, or signal towers.
Some archaeologists in view of the shape of certain menhirs and the superstitions connected with then, think they must be phallic monuments.
Lenoir, however, on account of the column shown within the building, believes the whole may be an emblem of phallic worship, the column being a phallus and the building its shrine or temple.
The reference is probably to a note on vestiges of the phallic worship on p.
The phallic element, ignored by Christianity, maintained its place in Oriental and Irish paganism.
For, as all who are acquainted with our Indian Empire must be well aware, phallic symbols are there regarded with a veneration which in its character is entirely free from associations that appear to be inseparable from them elsewhere.
Researches into the distinctive character of Irish paganism show that its main element was the phallic type of Sabaism, the Irish language affording remarkable evidence of this fact.
OGG (Colonel), phallic sculpture presented by him to the H.
To the moral ideal of the present age, an ideal derived from acquired habit, not from nature, phallic worship will doubtless appear repulsive and indelicate in the extreme.
If analogies lead him to conceive it as allied to a birth, and the joint result of some unknown male and female energy, then the symbolization of this power is liable to take the gross form of phallic worship.
Before leaving this division it will be well to say a few words concerning the existence of Phallic Worship in America.
Stephens and Catherwood from their second expedition, every doubt of the existence of Phallic worship, especially in Yucatan, was removed.
After noticing several facts tending to show the former existence of Phallic worship in America, the author of the paper proceeds as follows:--"We come now to Central America.
By other peoples and for other reasons it was closely connected with phallic rites, of which I shall speak elsewhere, or was connected with the worship of that great fertilizer and life-giver, the sun.
Circumcision is regarded by Squier as a phallic rite, but there is not sufficient testimony to support this view.
Equal merit accrues from seeing mercury as accrues from seeing all the phallic emblems "On earth, those at Kedara, and all others whatsoever.
There was sun-worship in America, and the phallic ceremonies existed in some places in the time of Cortez.
One learned investigator classes them with the Nahuatl or Toltec race, thinks they came from Mexico, and finds that, like the ancient people of Panuco and Colhuacan, they had the phallic ceremonies among their religious observances.
In its simplest form, a median line with a triangle on each side attached to one end, it is a phallic emblem.
It is a phallic deity, and appears in certain ceremonials which need not here be described.
The public dances are conducted mainly by two of the societies, whose actions are of a phallic nature.
At the best phallic emblems, the emblems of prolific nature.
It was probably a phallic symbol which he indignantly cut down, and burnt it, where all pollutions were destroyed, in the dry wady of the Kidron.
If to-day at home we pass obscurantism for morality, the Indian does the reverse; he tears the last shreds from our ideas of what Phallic worship might once have been.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "phallic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: genital; ovarian; seminal; spermatic; uterine; vaginal
