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In the celebrated calendar stone of the Aztecs, there have been found certain hieroglyphics pointing to sun worship, coincidently, to phallicism.

70

Ibid., p. 134.

71

Stephens: Yucatan.

72

Consult Frantz Keller: The Amazon and Madeira Rivers.

73

Dorsey: Siouan Cults, An. Rep. Bur. Eth., 1889-90, p. 444.

74

Fletcher: Peabody Museum Report, vol. iii, p. 260.

75

Turner: An. Rep. Bur. Eth., 1889-90, p. 208.

76

Prescott: Conquest of Peru, vol. i, p. 110 et seq.

77

Ibid., p. 112.

78

Ibid., p. 103.

79

Biart: The Aztecs, p. 139.

80

Herodotus: Clio; See also Cary’s translation of Herodotus, page 86 et seq.

81

Maspero (Sayce): The Dawn of Civilization, p. 640.

82

The author is fully aware of the fact that writers on phallic worship ascribe other reasons for the adoption of the snake as one of the chief symbols of the worship of the generative principle. He believes, however, that the primitive originators of this cult were, psychically, too immature to evolve any other than simple and objective ideas in regard to this subject; hence he considers the above as the true origin of this symbol. Furthermore, this belief is strengthened by the appearance of the snake in the myths and folklore tales of race-preservation in all peoples where the serpent was a familiar object.

83

Op. cit., p. 691.

84

Abraham was a Chaldean, and, in instituting circumcision, was undoubtedly influenced by the religious beliefs of his people. Circumcision, however, was, with him, a new and special phallic rite, and one not in vogue among the Chaldeans. Vid. Genesis, 18:10.

85

Westermarck: History of Human Marriage, p. 202 et seq.

86

Westermarck: History of Human Marriage, p. 201 et seq. See, also, Wallace: Travels on the Amazon, p. 117 et seq.

87

Westermarck: op. cit. ante., p. 106.

88

After the ceremony of tattooing had been performed, the candidates were admitted to a religious society called Areois, which had for its object an “unrestrained and public abandonment to amorous pleasures.” Letourneau: The Evolution of Marriage, p. 61.

89

Ellis: Polynesian Researches, vol. i, p. 262; quoted, also, by Westermarck, op. cit. ante., p. 179.

90

Herodotus gives an interesting instance of the evolution of phallic worship from nature worship. See Clio, 131.

91

Batchelor: The Ainu of Japan, p. 44.

92

Westermarck: The History of Human Marriage, p. 30.

93

Wappäus: Allgem. Bevoelkerungsstatistik.

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