Phallicism meant no wrong until sensuality and impurity of life suggested that to mention it was indecorous.
I am not one of those who find in phallicism the key to all the mysteries of mythology.
It is not difficult to find traces of phallicism in the allegory of the Garden of Eden.
That phallicism was an important element in Baal and Asherah worship is well known to scholars, and will be made clear to discerning readers.
That some remnants of phallicism may be traced even in Christianity, will be evident to the readers of Anacalypsis, by Godfrey Higgins; Ancient Faiths Embodied in Ancient Names, by Dr.
In this sense phallicismis the key of all the creeds.
In modern India the Çivaite phallicism is pronounced and important.
Even the British Museum does not include works on phallicismin its catalogue, and special permission has to be obtained to consult them.
At any rate, an isolated phenomenon, such as this, cannot be held to controvert the view that regards phallicism as in this normal line.
I want, in conclusion to these brief introductory remarks, to say a few words concerningphallicism in connection with my topic.
The ordinary traveler in Japan would not suspect thatphallicism had ever been a prominent feature of Japanese religious life.
The way in which phallicism has been suppressed during the present era raises the general question of religious liberty in Japan.
Gross phallicism is clearly the result of degeneration, and of a lapse into sensuality and superstition.
The author's main thesis can be stated in a sentence: the essential constituents of every religion, and the underlying meaning of its symbolism, are phallicism and sun worship.
It is not possible to discuss Sun worship at any length without at the same time discussing phallicism and serpent worship.
We may expect these to be phallic in their meaning, to just the extent that phallicism was fundamental in the religions where these symbols originated.
However this may be, we find that this universal serpent worship of primitive man was a form of phallicism so prevalent in former times.
A clergyman in the Chinese Review of 1876, under the title "Phallic Worship in China," gives an account of the phallicism as he observed it at that time.
Hargrave Jennings, the author of several books on some aspects of religions of antiquity, among them one on phallicism deals freely with the phallic principles embodied in these religions.
A clergyman in the Chinese Review of 1876, under the title Phallic Worship in China, gives an account of the phallicism as he observed it at that time.
It is not possible to discuss sun worship at any length without at the same time discussing phallicism and serpent worship.
These secret societies took over many of the principles of phallicism such as were taught in the mysteries, and so, side by side with the Christian religion, the earlier beliefs continued.
Probably the most thorough study of Japanese phallicism yet made by any foreign scholar is that of Edmund Buckley, A.
Phallicism among the aborigines and common people.
With phallicism we may conveniently associate the corresponding cult of the kteis.
Has not a President of the Anthropological Institute declared that "so soon as a man begins to study phallicism he goes crazy"?
Signs of phallicismamong the ancient Hebrews can be clearly pointed out; the serpent was a phallic symbol.
The ark itself was a feminine symbol, and phallicism would explain why Moses made an ark and put in it a rod and two stones.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "phallicism" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: fetishism; heathenism; paganism
