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                        Phallic Miscellanies.


    [Illustration: _Female at the ceremony of Linga Puja._
                                                 _E. W. Alais Sc._]




                        PHALLIC MISCELLANIES;
                Facts and Phases of Ancient and Modern

                             SEX WORSHIP,

                    As Illustrated Chiefly in the
                         Religions of India,

                            AN APPENDIX OF
                  ADDITIONAL AND EXPLANATORY MATTER
                            TO THE VOLUMES

                     Phallism and Nature Worship.

                   _BY THE AUTHOR OF "PHALLICISM."_

                          PRIVATELY PRINTED.

                              MDCCCXCI.




_PREFACE._


All that it is necessary to say by way of preface to this book is,
that, having in various former volumes, entitled severally Phallism,
Nature Worship, Phallic Objects, &c., entered at some length into a
consideration of the peculiarities indicated by these denominations,
we now propose laying before our readers an additional mass of
important matter which illustrates and throws further light upon the
subject. This has been sought out with great labour and research
amongst the most trustworthy sources of information, and will form a
valuable appendix to the several volumes in question.




_CONTENTS._


CHAPTER I.

    India, the home of Phallic-worship--Linga described--The bull
    Nandi--Linga puja--Large and small lingams--Antiquity of
    Linga-puja--Growth of the Hindu Pantheon--Siva the
    destroyer--Sacred bulls--Shrine of Ek Linga--Legend relating
    to rivers--The Churning of the sea--Variety