Adaptations, faulty, 131-132.
Adjustment, of individual, 129.
Adonis, sun god, 75.
American Cyclopedia, 23.
American Museum of Natural History, 6.
Anacalipsis, 38.
Analogies between the Individual and the Race, 126.
Ancient Grove Worship of Assyria, 49, 71.
Ancient Sex Worship, 25, 30, 41.
Androgyne deity, 36, 68.
Arapaho Indians, 109.
Bacchus, representative of male generative attribute, 22.
Bacchanalia, 74, 78, 87, 108.
Bear, sacred animal, 101.
Bull, phallic significance of, 63.
Bull roarer, nature of, 99.
Bureau of Amer. Eth., 5.
Caves of Elephanta, 43.
Ceremonial objects, conventionalization of, 109.
Chinese Review, 44.
Collective or group feeling, importance of, 21.
Collective thought of the race, relation to religious development, 17.
Crux Ansata, 51.
Dairy, sacredness of, 100.
Dances, at Witches’ Sabbath, 89.
Decadent Sex Worship, 79, 81, 91, 113;
interpretation of, 120.
Deity, female, function of in Japan, 105.
Deities, Teutonic, 93.
Dietrich, A., 120.
Dionysia, 74, 78.
Dionysus, 115.
Dorsey, G. A., 101.
Douglas, N., 121.
Dragon, relation to serpent, 45.
Earth, Worship, 114.
Egg, 50, 62, 74.
Eleusinia, 74, 77, 87, 108.
Emasculation, a form of worship, 31.
Essay on the Assyrian “Grove,” 39.
Female deities, 115.
Festivals to increase food supply, 98.
Fire, male principle, 36.
Fire Worship, 36, 88;
identified with sex worship, 42.
Fish, phallic significance, 35.
Frazer, 6, 17, 31, 32, 94, 107.
Gnostics, early secret society, 83;
phallic amulets of, 90;
reversions of, 84.
Goat, priapic animal, 88;
Symbol of Khem, 25.
Golden Bough, 6. (See Frazer.)
Group Thought, 113.
Harrison, J., 6, 18, 99, 101, 104, 107, 115, 116.
Hearn, L., 52.
Heraldry, origin of symbols, 51.
Hermes, phallic nature of, 36.
Higgins, 38.
Hitchcock, R., 105.
Holy Grail, Symbolism of, 93.
Homosexuality, in Greek life, 85;
practice of Rosicrucians, 84.
Hopi Indians, 101, 102.
Howe, J. W., 125.
Howitt, A. W., 6.
Initiative magic, 104.
India and its Native Princes, 43.
India and its Faiths, 80.
Indian Religions, 48.
Indians of the Southwest, 101.
Infantile reactions, 130.
Initiation ceremony, 115.
Inman, T., 5, 50, 54.
Interpretations of Sex Worship, 96.
Japan, an attempt at Interpretation, 52.
Jennings, H., 5, 28, 42, 48, 51, 62, 72, 92.
Karnac, 26.
Karpas, M. J., 83.
Khem, description of, 24.
King, C. W., 54.
Knight, R. P., 5, 27, 30, 37, 47, 48, 49, 54, 58, 63, 65, 83, 87, 90, 91.
Knights of the Round Table, 93.
Knights Templar, phallic amulets of, 90;
practices of, 86.
Kroeber, A. L., 109, 110.
Layard, A., 60.
Lingam with yoni, 41.
Lost god, the, 75.
Lotus, significance of, 56-58.
Male date palm, significance of, 49.
Matriarchy, 114.
May-pole, associated with phallic worship, 39, 47.
Moon, associated with female deity, 71.
Mother Earth, 70, 114.
Mother religion, 115, 116.
Mutter Erde, 120.
Murray, G., 20.
Mysteries, teaching of, 78-79.
Nature Worship, 5, 97, 108, 110.
Newton, J., 39, 49, 71.
Nineveh and Its Remains, 60.
North American Indians and sun worship, 70;
nature worship, 98, 108, 109.
Obelisk, phallic interpretation, 38.
O’Brien, 38, 56, 58.
Obscure Sex Symbolism, 36.
Order of the Garter, 93.
Osiris, 76.
Pan, significance of, 22.
Patriarchy, 114, 116.
Pepys, S., 48.
Peet, O. S., 108.
Persephone, 77.
Phallic hand, symbol of prostitution, 91.
Phallic rites, motive for, 106.
Phallic symbols, 27;
in art, 50.
Phallic Worship in China, 44.
Phallic Worship, nature of, 23, 98.
Phallus, as a charm, 90, 93;
as a decoration, 90.
Plant and Flower Symbols, 54.
Pomegranate, female symbol, 55.
Pratt, J. B., 80.
Priapiea, 87.
Priapus, disguises of, 88.
Primitive motives, continuance of, 128;
reversion to, 134.
Primitive Symbolism, 28.
Problem in Greek Ethics, 85.
Psyche’s Task, 94.
Puberty Initiations, 103, 115.
Qualities of animal and vegetable nature venerated, 39.
Racial feelings, expression of, in religion, 19.
Racial Motives, in primitive religions, 19;
dynamic value of, 123.
Rain making rite, 99.
Rawlinson, 24.
Reproduction, motive of, 21.
Rhyn, O., 78.
Rise of the Greek Epic, 20.
Ritual, motive for, 106;
related to food supply, 102, 103.
Rivers, W. H. R., 6, 100.
Robin Goodfellow, 94.
Rosicrucians, 42, 92.
Rosicrucians, phallic amulets of, 90;
practices of, 84, 85, 93.
Round Towers of Ireland, 38, 73.
Rousselet, 43.
Sacred Animals, 60-65.
Sacred prostitution, evidences of, 29.
Satan, at Witches Sabbath, 88.
Secret Societies for decadent sex worship, 83.
Serpent Worship, 61, 62, 72, 73.
Sex Worship:
An unconscious racial expression, 22;
biological significance of, 96;
as basis of early religions, 28;
In Africa in Modern times, 26;
decadence of in Middle Ages, 90;
primitive form, 108;
influence in present thought, 124;
part of evolution of the human mind, 23;
in symbolism, 34;
where it existed as basis of early religions, 28.
Sex Worship and Nature Worship, analogies of, 111;
relation of, 119.
Sexual act, as part of worship, 27-28.
Shinto, or the mythology of the Japanese, 105.
Smithsonian Inst., 6.
Snake, phallic significance of, 35.
Socrates in the light of Modern Psychopathology, 83.
Spencer, 6.
Star and crescent, 54.
Stonehenge, significance of, 38, 69.
Sun Myth, 117.
Sun Worship, 36, 69, 72, 73.
Symbolic Language of Ancient Art and Mythology, 49, 59.
Symbolism, racial, in the individual, 133.
Symonds, J. A., 85.
Themis, 6, 99, 116.
Thunder god, 99.
Thunder rites, 99.
Todas, the, 6, 100.
Totem, 110.
Tree Worship, 48.
Upright objects as phalli, 37.
Vegetation spirit, 114.
Water, female principle, 36.
Weathercock, emblem of the sun, 50.
Westropp, H. M., 28, 45, 55.
Wilder, A., 59.
Witchcraft, 92.
Witches’ Sabbath, nature of, 87, 92.
Wissler, C., 102, 110.
Worship of Priapus, 48, 83, 87, 91.
Yam ceremony, 103-104.
Footnotes:
[1] The Scope of Social Anthropology; Psyche’s Task.
[2] Themis, Introduction Page XI.
[3] Hamlet and Orestes.
[4] Quoted by H. M. Westropp, Primitive Symbolism.
[5] J. W. Wood. The Uncivilized Races.
[6] The Symbolical Language of Ancient Art and Mythology.
[7] The Rosicrucians.
[8] Adonis, Attis and Osiris.
[9] Rousselet, India and Its Native Princes.
[10] Pepys Diary.
[11] Symbolic Language of Ancient Art and Mythology.
[12] Japan, an attempt at Interpretation.
[13] O’Brien: The Round Towers of Ireland.
[14] The Symbolical Language of Ancient Art and Mythology.
[15] The Enactment of a Rebirth.
[16] Dr. Otto Rhyn, Mysteria.
[17] J. B. Pratt, India and Its Faiths.
[18] R. P. Knight, the Worship of Priapus.
[19] Hargrave Jennings: The Rosicrucians.
[20] J. A. Symonds, A Problem in Greek Ethics. Morris J. Karpas, Socrates in the light of Modern Psychopathology. Journal of Abnormal Psychology. 1915.
[21] Worship of Priapus.
[22] Pierre de Lancre, Tableau de l’Inconstance des Mauvais Anges et DÉmons.
[23] Worship of Priapus.
[24] The Rosicrucians.
[25] The Scope of Social Anthropology; Psyche’s Task.
[26] Themis.
[27] W. H. R. Rivers, The Todas.
[28] Miss J. Harrison: Ancient Art and Ritual.
[29] Indians of the Southwest.
[30] The Functions of Primitive Ritualistic Ceremonies. Popular Science Monthly, August 15, 1915.
[31] Spencer, Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia.
[32] Ancient Art and Ritual, p. 64.
[33] Shinto, or the Mythology of the Japanese.
[34] Ancient Art and Ritual.
[35] Secret Societies and Ancient Mysteries: International Congress of Anthropology, 1893.
[36] Symbolism of the Arapaho Indians: American Museum of Natural History.
[37] Miss J. Harrison, Themis, Introduction.
[38] A. Dieterich: Mutter Erde.
[39] Norman Douglas: Old Calabria.
[40] Jelliffe and White, Diseases of the Nervous System, page 689.
Transcriber’s Notes:
Other than the corrections noted by hover information in the text, printer’s inconsistencies in spelling and capitalization have been retained.
