Forlong - Rivers of Life

Serpent and Phallic Worship.
or Kubele—“MARIA DE NAVICELLA,” she of yon crescent-shaped boat of Venus, whom
we may see in the British Museum as hung, and very properly so, on “THE TREE OF LIFE” 1
or “Life-giving Tree,” a common positions for Bells, and metaphorically for Venuses.
I must then ask my readers to dismiss altogether from their minds the later idea
that Egyptian, Jewish or Greek arks or boats were for books, codes of laws, or
“Testimonies,” as we now understand thig last word, and to see in Arks only sanctuaries
for quite natural elements, or the elements required for that faith which
we now veil under the cognomen of “Nature-Worship.” As Jews advanced
in knowledge and enlightenment, they of course saw that the idea of their early
Eduth or Gheduth (so pronounced if the Oin is Ghain), was a very crude and
lowering one, which falsified the name they later sought to acquire, of having
all along been good monotheists; and so a real “Testimony,” or Law of their Jhavh
was no doubt placed in their ark, but not, I think, prior to the days of Josiah, when
Helkiah (whose son was probably the Deuteronomist Jeremiah) suddenly pronounced
they “had found a book.” There is certainly not a shadow of proof that such a
“testimony” was known until the tribes were tolerably settled in Canaan, as Bishop
Colenso makes indubitably clear, and as I shall enlarge on under Jewish faiths. It is very
unlikely, also, that David would have danced naked before any literary production,
but it has always been the custom at certain solar periods to do this before the Lingain-Yoni,
or an ark with a “Jahveh Nissi,” Dionysus, or Osiris in it. I here give such
an ark, well known as the shrine of Amon or Osiris, in which the Adāma, Maat, or
Deity, is shown more presentable than I suspect the original authorises. It is often
Fig 80—THE ISINIAN CAR OR SHRINE OF AMON.
called the Isinian Car; or Omphe, and the Ark of the Sun, Passion, or Fertility. At
all great solar phases or fetes, this ark boat itinerated the towns and villages of Egypt,
when love and matrimony were more especially the themes of the people. It was always
carried on the shoulders of Nudes, and to touch it, not to say look into it, would not
only have caused some awful affliction to the offender, as in the case of the Emerods,
1 See details note p. 9. Idolomania. 2 The symbol is rear in the Glans, see Figs. 87, 88 following.
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