Category: History - Ancient
etc., represent the Hebrew zachar ; whilst Isis, Parvati, Yoni, Sacti, Astarte, Ishtar, etc., replace the Jewish nekebah. The junction of these parts is spoken of as Ashtoreth, Baalim, Elohim, the trinity and unity, the androgyne deity, the arba, or mystic four, and the like.
have been worshipped by the aborigines of Hindostan, before the Aryans invaded that country. It is thought that the Vedic religion opposed this degrading conception at the first...
6. xl. In the original, the figure upon the pillar is very conspicuouslyThis so-called god was regarded much in the same light as 'St. Cosmo and St. Damian were at Iseraia, and St. Foutin in Christian France. And it is not at all surprising that a c...
1. xxiii. 1; Osiris, Asher, Linga, Mahadeva, Siva, Priapus, Phallus,etc., represent the Hebrew zachar ; whilst Isis, Parvati, Yoni, Sacti, Astarte, Ishtar, etc., replace the Jewish nekebah. The junction of these parts is spoken of as Ashtoreth,...
2. i. This identification of Mary with the Sacti is strong; by-and-by weIs a copy of figures given in Bryant's Ancient Mythology, plates xiii., xxviii., third edition, 1807. The first two illustrate the story of Palemon and Getus, introducing the do...
8. xxv. 8), the woman's vulva, is also called qobbah, the one word beingderived from the other, according to Onkelos, Aquila, and others. Qubbah means, according to Fuerst, Heb. Lex., "something hollow and arched, an arched tent, like the Arabic El....
7. ii. 16; yet Balaam, inspired by God, prophesies from the high places ofBaal. This name, though so appropriate to the Almighty, became abhorrent to the Jews when it was so frequently associated with idolatry, and a new cognomen, or "the Supreme," wa...
5. lxxxiii. They represent the lingam and then yoni, which amongst theIn worship, ghee, or oil, or water, is poured over the pillar, and allowed to run off by the spout. Sometimes the pillar is adorned by a necklace, and is associated with the ser...
4. ii. They represent ornaments held in the hands of a great female figure,sculptured in bas relief on a rock at Yazili Kaia, near to Boghaz Keni, in Anatolia, and described by M. C. Texier in 1834. The goddess is crowned with a tower, to indicate virg...