CHAPTER II. 10

Supposed Phallic Origin of Serpent Worship--The idea of life-- Adoration of the principle of generation--The Serpent as a symbol of the Phallus--Phallic Worship at Benares--The Serpent and Mahadeo--Festival of the "Nag panchami"--Snakes and Women-- Traces of Phallic Worship in the Kumaon Rock Markings--The Northern Bulb-stones--Professor Stephens on the Snake as a Symbol of the Phallus--The "Dionysiak Myth"--Brown on the Serpent as a Phallic Emblem--Mythology of the Aryan Nations-- Sir G. W. Cox and the Phallic theory--Athenian Mythology.