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Serpent and Phallic Worship.
So the fathers of the Church have called their flocks Pisciculi and their high-priest a
Fisherman; and have given to all cardinals and bishops the fish-head of Dagon, whose
very phallic “Full-dress” I here give. This fine old symbolic God
of Babylon, Asyria, and Phenicia here boldly holds up his mystic
rod which Yahveh entrusted Moses with, and below is the irrepressible
bag. The mitre on the priest’s head is equivalent in Hindoo
mythology to Siva holding tha crescent, for the fish’s mouth is the
Os-Yoni, as the rod or baton is the Linga. Senakerib’s great deity,
Nishrok, is always seen with this mystic bag in one hand and a cone
in the other, the cone being, no doubt, a model of that great Linga
which was erected in the Plain of Dura (Dan. iii. 1), whose height
was 90 feet, and breadth 9 feet. Nishrok was a winged man, with a
vulture’s head, so that here again we have Siva as at Sonmat, in Western India, carrying
the crescent on his head; for the vulture, says Mr. Sharpe in his “Egyptian
Mythology” (page 32), is “Mo or Th-mo,” the great mother of the
Horae, Astrea or Dike, and of the Moerae said Greeks. Here she is
Th-mei, Justice or Truth, and in after times, Great Themis, daughter
of Uranus and Ge; and she accompanies Ouro, the Sacred Asp and
King of the Gods. From these two ideas and deities, the Jews
undoubtedly borrowed their Orim or Ourim and Thummim or
Th’-mim, as this learned Egyptologist assures us. He thinks that the Vulture and
Royal Asp as thus seen together in these curiously chequered cups or boats, which
remind us of Indra’s IOnish dress, are only a variety of Horus
Ra and Themei, which he also shows us here in the same page
engaged in prayer before the Lingam or Obelisk within an ark or
temple. Horus, he tells us, is he with the Solar Orb on head, and
Themei, the figure with “feather” and Crux Ansata. I cannot
say that I think Mr. Sharpe is right however, for the attitude
and the feather are, so far as I know, generally masculine, although the Crux Ansata
in this poisiton is often feminine. The worship is clearly Sivaik.
I wish here to impress on my readers the fact—and I will do so in the words of
one who is evidently a person of considerable erudition—that wings, feathers, and such
like articles attached to the animal creation, are highly phallic accessories, denoting
power, ubiquity in creation, and such like. The writer of Idolomania, at page 41 of
his pamphlet states: “The winged serpent is but a repetition of the phallus and yoni
without the circle. The winged bulls of Nineveh in whose ruins the cross has been
found, the winged Ormazd of Persia and winged animals in general, together with the
numismatic thunderbolt with wings, and winged gods, are all symholical of the male
sakti or energy;” and so also winged Cupids, Mercuries, and most winged gods. Idolomania,
I think, would bave been more correct if he he merely said symbolical of procre-
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Fig 111.—ASYRO-
PERSIAN FISH GOD..
Fig 112.—THEMIS AND
SOLAR PYTHON.
Fig 113.—TIME AND TRUTH
WORSHIP SIVA