Forlong - Rivers of Life

Serpent and Phallic Worship.
Jupiter Amonium in the Libyan desert; as well as the mere Lingam in the lofty
peaks of Maha Deva in Central India and elsewhere, and in this Karnak mound.
Here there was very probably an argha or yoni, for we know that phallic and then Solophallic
worshippers continually met at this place for sacrifice, &c., which “&c.” em-
braces many things such as most writers on these subjects very broadly hint at, viz. as
to contact. Dr Inman tells us that a medical friend of his in India actually observed a
small village emblem made use of to represent “the solemn sacrament” which
Creation requires and gives us these not uncommon Hindoo forms of the emblcm so
used. I cannot confirm the statement from my own observation, tbough I can well
believe it, having seen very similar acts, and been frequently told of the advantages
attributed to actual contact with the symbol. But to resume; for I must run through
a few significant words which will help us better to understand the subject.
In Ph-thas and similar names of Memphis we have simply P. with thas, which
became with the Greeks theos, and the whole the God P.; and as P has the meaning
of Fire or “Mouth of Fire,” so Py-thas was Vulcan or Ool-Kan, the Lord of Fire. He
had very phallic proclivities, wearning a conical hat and wielding a hammer called
his “fashioner” or “Creator.” 1 One of his names was O-pas or Op-As, two names of
Sun and Serpent joined to pas, which may signify Pasiphæ, the pacifier and mother
of Amon. Pam-phanes is “the all-bright one” and Pandamator, “the all-subduing.”
Homer and Statius call the Graces Pasi-theæ. Jupiter, like Krishna, had to over-
come a Python, which we may spell and pronounce Pi-on, and thus was sung to him
the famous Pe-an. A whole State, as mentioned at page 297, was called Pi-on-es
which means the country (Ea, or Des) of Pi and On~worshippers; they were great
allies of Priam, from whom or after whom we have Priapus with a fitting son Paris,
the seducer. The king against whom Priam. made war (the latter was an Asiatic) has
also a significant name in A-ga-memnon. The A of Apollo, we may note, changes his
nature from Poliris “the grey” old god of the autumnnal Equinox to the fertilizing
God of Spring—the youthful lover which we see in this Aga-memnon the man of
Goodness or Love, if we take his name from Greek, and of Fire if we derive it
from Sanskrit. Memnom or Manes, who was called Patora, is the great King-God,
whose statue when first gilded by the rays of the rising sun 2 emits music as if from
1 C. Man. p. 64, Iliad.
Fig. 138.
Fig. 136. Fig. 137. Fig. 139. Fig. 140. Fig. 141.
THE BREAD-GRINDER. GALGALS WITH MENIHIRS, TUMULI, OMPHI AND HAT-IDEA.
2 C. Man. p. 286.
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