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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 of forms of
    Siva--Deities of India--Origin of the Universe--Hindu
    Triad--Aum and O'M--Jupiter Genitor--Attributes of
    Siva--Worship of Osiris--Identity of Egyptian, Grecian and
    Indian deities--Hindu temples--Ceremonies.

CHAPTER II.

    Hindu evidence respecting the origin of Phallic
    worship--Legend of the wounded Hara--The four sects of
    worshippers instituted by Brahma--Resumption of the Lingam by
    Siva--Siva and Parvati propitiated--Visit of Bhrigu to
    Siva--The Lainga Puran on the Origin of Lingam
    worship--Abolition of worship of Brahma--Moral character of
    Hindu worship---Profligate sects--Egyptian
    phallus--Bacchus--Testimony of Tertullian and Clement of
    Alexandria--Dionysus--Directions for worship--Unsatisfactory
    legends--Legend of Bhima--The fourth avatar of Vishnu--Visit
    of Captain Mackenzie to the Pagoda at Perwuttum.

CHAPTER III.

    Representations of Siva--Siva's quarrel with his
    father-in-law--Quarrel between Brahma and Vishnu--Misconduct
    of Siva--Bengal temples of Siva--Ancient linga idols--Siege of
    Somnath--Ferishtah's history--The twelve great
    lingams--Account of the Viri-Sawas--The Jangamas--Legend of
    Ravuna.

CHAPTER IV.

    Lingam Worship in the Sheeve Pouran.

CHAPTER V.

    The four kinds of stone lingas--Siva under a form called
    Muhakalu--Temporary images of Siva--Siva's wives--Siva's and
    Parvati's quarrels--Siva and Doorga--Siva's names--The heavens
    of Siva--Latsami--Power of the priests--Tamil poetry--Indecent
    worship--Dancing girls at religious ceremonies--Christian and
    Pagan idolatry--Religious prostitution--Worship of the
    female--Development of indecent practices--Sakti-puja.

CHAPTER VI.

    Further account of Right-hand and Left-hand worship--The
    practices of the Vamis or Vamacharis--The rite of Mantra
    Sadhana--Ceremony of Sri-Chakra--Claims of the priests to
    supernatural power--Legends.

CHAPTER VII.

    Considerations respecting the origin of Phallic
    worship--Comparisons between Indian and Egyptian practices and
    doctrines.

CHAPTER VIII.

    Vocabulary of words of Indian and Sanscrit origin.




PHALLIC MISCELLANIES.




CHAPTER I.

    India, the home of Phallic Worship--Linga described--The Bull
    Nandi--Linga puja--Large and small Lingas--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 of Forms of
    Siva--Deities of India--Origin of the Universe--Hindu
    Triad--Aum and O'M.--Jupiter Genitor--Attributes of
    Siva--Worship of Osiris--Identity of Egyptian, Grecian, and
    Indian deities--Hindoo Temples--Ceremonies.


India, beyond all other countries on the face of the earth, is
pre-eminently the home of the worship of the Phallus--the Linga puja;
it has been so for ages and remains so still. This adoration is said
to be one of the chief, if not the leading dogma of the Hindu
religion, and there is scarcely a temple throughout the land which has
not its Lingam, in many instances this symbol being the only form
under which the deity of the sanctuary is worshipped.

Generally speaking, the Linga may be described as a smooth, round,
black stone, apparently rising out of another stone, formed like an
elongated saucer, though in reality sculptured from one block of
basalt. The outline of this saucer-like stone, similar in form to what
is called a jew's harp, is called Argha or Yoni: the upright stone,
the type of the virile organ, is the Linga. The whole thing bears the
name of Lingioni. This representation of the union of the sexes,
typifies the divine sacti, or active energy in union, the procreative
generative power seen throughout nature; the earth being the primitive
pudendum or yoni, which is fecundated by the solar heat, the sun--the
primeval Lingam, to whose vivifying rays, men and animals, plants and
the fruits of the earth owe their being and continued existence. Thus,
according to the Hindus, the Linga is God and God is the Linga; the
fecundator, the generator, the creator in fact.

Lingas are of all sizes and of various forms. Sometimes they are
extremely minute, being then enclosed in small silver reliquaries, and
worn as amulets or charms upon the breast or arm. At other times they
are several inches in height, as in the domestic examples, and often
have the bull Nandi carved either at the end of the yoni or at the
side of the emblem. The Hindus say that the bull will intercept the
evil which is continually emitted from the female sacti. Upon the
erection of a new village, in setting