Primitive Symbolism, as Illustrated in Phallic Worship: Or the Reproductive PrincipleG. Redway, 1885 - 68 Seiten |
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Seite 39 - A young man, near six feet high, performed the rites of Venus with a little girl about eleven or twelve years of age, before several of our people, and a great number of the natives, without the least sense of its being indecent or improper, but, as appeared, in perfect conformity to the custom of the place. Among the spectators were several women of superior rank, particularly...
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Seite 49 - ... licentiousness ; but it is impossible to believe that depravity of manners would ever have led among any people to the establishment of religious ceremonies. It is probable, on the contrary, that this custom was first introduced in times of simplicity, that the first thought was to honour the deity in the symbol of life which it has given us. Such a ceremony may have excited licentiousness among youths, and have appeared ridiculous to men of education in more refined, more corrupt, and more enlightened...
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Seite 49 - A similar remark has been made by Voltaire. Speaking of the worship of Priapus, he says, " our ideas of propriety lead us to suppose that a ceremony which appears to us so infamous could only be invented by licentiousness ; but it is impossible to believe that depravity of manners would ever have led among any people to the establishment of religious ceremonies. It is probable, on the contrary, that this custom was first introduced in times...
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