Primitive Symbolism (Classic Reprint): As Illustrated in Phallic Worship or the Reproductive Principle - Couverture souple

Westropp, Hodder Michael

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1333804628 ISBN 13 : 9781333804626

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

This book explores the widespread historical and cross-cultural phenomenon of phallus worship. The author demonstrates the pervasiveness of the practice across time periods and geographical locations, from ancient Egypt to modern-day America. The book investigates the origins of phallus worship in nature-based fertility rites and demonstrates how it manifested in diverse religious contexts. The author delves into the symbolic meanings associated with the phallus and kteis, examining their representation as emblems of creative and productive power. This book offers a comprehensive overview of a fascinating aspect of human history and sheds light on the diverse ways societies have conceptualized and honored the forces of nature.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

General FoELON a has now given to the public, in two magnificent quarto volumes and chart, the first instalment of his great work on comparative religion, and on the natural evolution of existing faiths, which has been in preparation for the last seven years. The importance of this work consists in its being the first to apply the result of modern research and learning to the great subject of Asiatic religions in a thoroughly unbiased manner. No one can read the long list of General Forlong sauthorities without seeing that he is well up to date in his reading, although he has also consulted many valuable authorities now rarely read, being contained in ponderous and expensive folios. The works of Max Miiller, Khys Davics, Beal, Cox, Sayce, and many other standard authorities on oriental subjects; of Birch and Brugsch, Renouf and Maspero in Egypt, of Haug West and Darmesteter in Persia, together with the latest accounts of travellers in Palestine, in China, in A frica, and A merica, have all been ransacked for information. General Forlong is generally able to show how little many writers really know of the meaning of the customs, traditions, symbolisms, and superstitions concerning which they write. The volumes are accompanied by a large separate Chart (price 2), which will be found very useful for students anxious to obtain a clear idea of the relation and antiquity of the different religious systems, and of the constituents of those systems. The various cults of the Tree, the Serpent and Lingam, the Fire, the A ncestor, and the Sun, with the later more spiritual conceptions of deity as a Father and a Spirit, are distinguished by coloured streams; and the student at a glance can see which of these ideas is embraced by any existing creed. Many valuable data, chronological and physical, mythological and ethnical, are given on the margin of the chart, and all th
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1333804628
• ISBN 13: 9781333804626
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 100
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