Forlong - Rivers of Life

Serpent and Phallic Worship.
Phaneus. In Kaldi, Fan-leak is a kromlek, or stone of adoration—the Phani lephanim
or sanctum sanctorum. The pillar-worshipper, Jacob, called the place where he saw
and “wrestled with God face to face” and hurt his “thigh,” Penuel or Phanu-el, laynp.
The word Panah hnp is in Fürst to shine, to lighten, to be prominent afar off, from a
root to glow; “hence the projecting pinnacle or turret of a house,” and a corner-
stone or pillar; so that we here trace, by a very uncommon method, the idea of the
Lingam being, even in most ancient Kaldia, the sun-stone and “enlightener,” the
Boodha, Boda, or Goad. Hence the place of enlightenment—that is, of oracles
in ancient times, and churches in ours—are Fanes, Latin Fanum. Ireland has still a
Fan-Lobuis, or St. Lobus’ Church, near Cork. Phanes and Priapus are identical,
according to the Orphic extracts which Cory gives us in his Ancient Fragments. He
is “a dazzling fountain of splendour,” of whom, like the Jewish Jhavh or Elohim, it was
said, long before Jews wrote to this effect that “none had seen this Protogonus save the
sacred night” or womb. But we must pass on and say a few words more as to his
spouse “Ceres, the seed-bearer,” a name given by Orphics also to the first father Metis.
Ceres, when discovered by Pan, was sitting upon a rock
under a mount of olives, and respeetably garmented as is
not her wont; but it was winter when she always conceals
her charms. I give this drawing of her emerging from the
cave with a dove—IOne—in one hand, and the Dolphin
(Salacia) in the other; while her equine head denotes her
relation to Hippos, one of the Sun’s titles. I am obliged to
Mr. Marcus Keane for the engraving which he takes from
Bryant who calls the Sun Hippos, and Hippos-On, and
tells us of many towns and places so named after him
(II. 293~295). The Pi-galians put a statue of Demeter
with a horse’s head on a niche in this Arkadian cave and there worshipped
her; so that we had there the same faith as now exists in India in the wor-
ship of Mamojee, see pages 31, 72, Figures 1, and 22. The Egyptians called
Ceres Pharia—that is, Pi-Ar-ia, or the sun-goddess Pi—under which form I show
her in page 268, form Montfauçon. She was imaged under this title all over Egypt
and Asia Minor, but commonly as a mere formless block of wood or stone (C. Man.
on Iliad II., p. 113), a very common and well-considered Indian idea to the present
moment, but one for which the people are very much laughed at and abused by
ignorant foreigners, who do not comprehend the significance embodied in the idea of
“formless matter”—that on which the creator had first to act. Ceres was the Magna
Dea, the Al-ma, Ar-ma, or A-ma which corresponds to “universal mother” in Sanskrit.
She was “the mother of all life;” and personified nourishment, love, and all the beautiful
traits and virtues which these speak to us concerning. The ancient Kabiri called
her Kabira or “mother of all;” and serpents and male symbols were sacred to her, and
these are seen yoked to her car—the ark-boat of life. If as the Sun, she was caIled
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Fig. 143.—CERES ISSUES FROM CAVE.