Forlong - Rivers of Life

Serpent and Phallic Worship.
the deep,” that is of the sun and earth, or of Osiris “the heavens,” and of Isis “the
abyss;” all blessings which it was the special province of such a deity as this Stone,
Rock, Tsur, Adon, or Ba-al, to provide. He it is “who begat thee,” and “whose work is
perfect” (Deut. xxxii.), and they must not neglect him if they would have abundance of
offspring. The Rock Stone, Elohim, Jehovah, and. Jah-Jehovah, are all the same with
this ignorant tribe, for they proclaim that there is no rock in comparison with their Rock-
God; “our Elohim,” the “Rock of Ages,” and “Jah-Jehovah” (see page 103, ante.)
It is of importance to notice the fact of Beor or Peor being a torch, as well as a
high and conical hill. We are told it was “a torch or piece of burning pine-wood
or other straight thing.” I show it as commonly given in religious hieroglyphy, in Fig.
99, foot of columns IV. and V., page 228, in connection with a zone and crescent. The
flaming pine-torch was the emblem of Kāma or Cupid, and a necessary accompaniment
of all phallic gods and their processions. Pe-on was the God of Light and Pe-or held
to be his abode. Pe-on-ians were an important Thracian nation, sometimes called
Pi-orians or Pi-erians, and Great Sun, Lingam, Serpent, and Fire-worshippers. Bryant
thinks that the Porus, whom Alexander fought in the Punjab, was so named from the
worship of Pi-or. 1 P’ur was an Egyptian or Kaldian word, says Plato; and from the
solar Pi, come all names such as Pior, “Piambo,” and “Pionius the martyr;” Pi
is freely changed into Pa, our contraction for father, and as in Pacomius, the
“Pamylia Sacra,” or rites of the Egyptian God Pamyles.
Pi-ades, afterwards Hades or Ades, was a title for the sun, and from this, in Pur or
Pir, comes Pur-ain or Pirene, any fire-fount or Ignis fons, as that of “Virena” in Campania,
showing how well the Latin knew the Fire or Vir that was meant, for “Vir,” says
Littleton, is “the Phallus.” Had he not understood Fire as passion, he would of course
have used quite a different word, or called this Pir-ene, as we do, merely a thermal spring.
The Greek misled him, however, a little, just as he has done some of us, into softening
the Egyptian P into F; and hence, though we see in our Latin dictionaries, Palas, a peg
or pole, yet we have Phalæ, “high towers,” Phallus “the article carried at the feast
of Bacchus,” and such like. Still the Latin seemed to look upon Ph when applied to
phallic lore, as a mistake on the part of the Greek; and we therefore observe that the
Latin never softens the P in Pi-lum, a pestle, nor in Pila, the mortar, and these are
words of crucial significance as the bread-makers. The priestly hat used at the Saturnalia
was the Pileus; and hats are very important ancient symbols, as I have already
shown at page 185, and will yet have to enlarge on.
The sacred and symbolic pine was Pinus; Pinna was the same as Penna, and
hence Penetro, Penetrabilis, Penetralia, the “dii Penates” (which should be
distinguished from the “dii Penetrales,” as the former only includes the Lingams, and
the latter both Penates and Lares), Peniculus, Penis, Penu, and Penus, which last has
also the meaning of Sar, Sir, Lord, Master, and Bread-Giver, or Preserver of Life, hence
1 Indian writings call Porus, Pûru or Pûrsha, which signifies “the Soul” or “Mankind;” Pur-
ishya is an “epithet of Fire:” all such words come from Pri, “to be busy or active, to protect, to fill,
to be able;” hence “Vir,” the Phallus, as Littleton says.
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