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SEX WORSHIP,
Sex Worship
AN EXPOSITION OF THE PHAI.I,IC
ORIGIN OF RELIGION
BY
CI^IFFORD HOWARD
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FIFTH EDITION
TiL»EN FOUNDATIONS
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COPYRIGHT
BY CLIFFORD HOWARD
1898.
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PREFACE.
This work has for its object a general
presentation of sex worship, or phallicism
(the worship of the generative powers of
nature), for the purpose of demonstrating
that the various rehgious faiths of the
world have had a common origin, and are
founded upon a natural, material basis
the adoration of life in its phenomena of
creation and reproduction.
A thorough and exhaustive treatment
of the subject is, of course, beyond the
scope of the present work, which is limited
solely to an exposition of the principal and
more salient features of phallicism, in its
direct and obvious relation to theology and
to the religious beliefs and symbols of the
present day. No attempt has, therefore,
been made to treat any of the particular
or more complex phases of the subject,
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6 PREFACE.
CONTENTS.
CHAP. PAGB.
Introduction 1
X. Regeneration 189
by the manifestations of
versally inspired
nature in her great mystery of life and
procreation.
While the highest development of phalli-
cism was reached by the ancient Egyp-
tians, Assyrians, Hindoos, Greeks, and
Romans, proof of the existence of this
form of religion is to be found in every
part of the earth inhabited by man. Per-
sia, India, Ceylon, China, Japan, Burmah,
Java, Arabia, Syria, Asia Minor, Egypt,
Ethiopia, Europe and the British Isles,
INTRODUCTION. 13
1 INTRODUCTION.
CHAPTER I.
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42 SEX WORSHIP.
THE CREATOR.
46 SEX WORSHIP.
THE CREATOR. 49
THE CREATOR. 5
THE CREATOR. 57
59
THE PHALLUS.
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THE PHALLUS. 65
THE PHALLUS. 8
PHALLIC EMBLEMS.
PHALLIC EMBLEMS. 85
19 : 19.)
Those acquainted with the Old Testa-
ment cannot but be impressed with the
sacredness attached to pillars, and the nu-
PHALLIC EMBLExMS. 93
* See Isaiah 30 :
29 ; 44 : 8 ; Hab. i : 2.
94 SEX WORSHIP.
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Persians.
But foremost of all natural emblems of
the creative deity was the sun nay, the ;
SEXUAL SACRIFICES.
117
Il8 SEX WORSHIP.
CHAPTER VII.
FEMININE EMBLEMS.
Door of Life.'*
As was pointed out in the case of the
phallus, so it may be shown that many
natural objects were chosen as emblems
of the yoni, because of some resemblance
to that symbol. Among
the most com-
mon and familiar emblems of this charac-
ter is the conch shell, which is still worn
as an amulet in various partsof the world,
as it was by the devout women of anti-
quity.
The fish, too, is a well-known religious
symbol, sacred originally to Ishtar, Venus
and other feminine deifications of the sex-
ual nature. This was chosen partly on
account of its fecundity and partly because
its mouth was supposed to resemble the
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FEMININE EMBLEMS. I49
fig tree ;
" " Don't care a fig," and other
like expressions, are all of sexual signifi-
cance.
In addition to the fig, a great many
other trees and fruits were symbolical
of the procreative functions as the pome-
;
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l68 SEX WORSHIP.
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I/O SEX WORSHIP.
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l88 SEX WORSHIP.
REGENERATION.
In mythologies and religious creeds
all
REGENERATION. 209
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Dove, the Restorer of Light !
APPENDIX.
printed.
Ancient F.-iths Embodied in Ancient Names.
—Thomas Inman, j\I. D.
Aficient Pagan and Modern Christian Sym-
bolism Exposed and Explained. Thomas
Inman, M.D.
Ancient Pillars, Stoiies and Cairns. —Thomas
Inman, M.D.
A7icient Symbol Worship — Lifluence of the
Phallic Idea in the Religions of Antiquity.
HoDDER M. Westropp and C. Staniland
Wake.
Crux Ansata (Handled Cross). Anon. ;
privately printed.
Cultus Arborum —A Descriptive Account
213
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214 APPENDIX.
APPENDIX. 215
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