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Rivers of Life, or Faiths of Man in all Lands.
prayer, and is nearly in all respects equivalent to our Sunday or Sol’s day. It is
esteemed, however, as more especially the husband’s and wife’s day, and the latter must
on that day herself light every household fire, for these are all sacred to Venus and
the patriarchal god.
Skands, Norsemen, and Saxons all held Friday to be Venus’ day, the latter calling
it Lang-Friyday owing to the length of its debasing ceremonies, and after the
English goddess, Fryday or Friga. The Latins, in the time of Charlemagne, called
Friday Veneris dies adoratus, and the French, Vendredi Aorné or Aoré. On this
day, says Amalarius, the Pope and Canlinals crawl on all-fours along the aisles of St.
Peter’s to a cross, which they then glorify, embrace and kiss. 1 Now, considering
what this “thing of life”—the cross—is, and seeing in this worship that even Bulls
are held to kneel (vide Fig. 39, p. 120) and that in this attitude also, both Christians
and Moslems look towards their kibla, kaba, ark, or altar, this papal ceremony of
proceeding up the aisle on their knees is certainly one of some occult significance.
In Arabia, Friday is called Jama or Jooma, or “the day of conjunction,” now
understood to mean “day of assembling” or congregating for prayer; but the origin of the
name is clearly due to another kind of “conjunction” which took place ere there were
Mosks or other than Sri-Linga gods, and this will appear indubitable hereafter when
the original meanfuga of words connected with the Kibla are investigated. Jam is
Pluto and Death, that is Fire, Life, or Light, and Nox and Darkness. The “Candle
of Pluto” is called “Jam-diya,” which I take to be the Phallic god, the ordinary
signification of the Candle or Flambeau used in religious rites. “Juma” is Coitus,
and Concubitus, and Jama, “congelation,” “connection,” &c.; 2 hence the celebrated
Iran mythic demi-god and king is called Jam-Shid, no doubt, after his Phallic God,
Idea, or Faith. the names of kings. and heroes being usually so compounded. Note the
Jewish names emhracing such terms as El, Jah, Ash, Shadai, and other words meaning
Sun, Fire, Phallus, &c. Jam, standing alone in the ancient name, is probably
like the Ba-al of Baal-Peor, and the affix Shadâ is the Peor, Fascinator, Deceiver, or
Mercury, so called according as his people liked or disliked him.
I have shown that an orthodox Mahomedan king adorned the gates of his palaces
with the fish and woman-idea; and that all Moslems adopt Selene as their world-wide
symbol, most reverently kneeling before her at her every birth, as the iconoclast
race will do to none other than. Ala or his prophet, which Ala, varying in cha.rncter
according to the imagination of nations and of individuals during the various stages
of their religious growth, yet originally was El, Il, Yahve, Brahma, Asher, and Zeus—
neither more nor less than Siva, the Alat, or Linga of our rudest tribes. 3 Every good
Moslem shrine or tomb, usually combines a Pur-tor, in which lights should be continually
burning, and every tomb of a male should have its upright head-stone (as we
1 Idolomania, Lon., 1858, p. 28, and notes, where all authorities are given.
2 See Arabic, Persian, and Hindostanee Dicts., as Shakespear’s, Richardsons’, &c. 3 Alat = Phallus.