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INDEX

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I have reformatted the index slightly, merging subentries separated by semicolons on the same line: in the original they were on a separate line, indented.--JBH

INDEX

abasomes, 289

Abelians, 344-345

Abraham, 68, 133, 202, 205, 207, 208, 211

Abstinence, from sexual intercourse, 47, 345

Adam, 109, 110, 128, 133

Adamites, 328-329

Adonis, 102

Africa, Ewhe of, 45

Africanus, Leo, 88

After-life, 197

Agapæ, a vestige of Pagan love-feasts, 244; popular among poor, 244; celebrated in catacombs, 244; sex element in, 245-246

Ahriman, evil spirit of Persians, 134

Akikuyu, snake worship among, 50

Alitta, 57

Al Ghazzali, 283

Allah, 277, 284, 285

Amathonte, legend of, 91-92

Amboyna, fertility rites in, 136

American Indians, sacrifice of coition among, 71

Ammon, Egyptian god, 51; his human wives, 51, priestly substitutes in sexual relations 51

Amulets, phallic, 70, 115, 125, 126

Anahita, 57

Ancestor worship, origin of, 32

Angel, 217

Anthropomorphism, 217

Anu, 171

Anubis, 158

Aphrodite, 46, 55, 159-161; worship of, 174-178; priestesses of, 162-173; her sanctuaries, 162-163

Apis, bull sacrificed to, 107

Archidice, famous courtesan, 85

Aristotle, 235

Ark, a female symbol, 123, 265

ars amandi, 82

Art, primitive, 12-14; sex symbolism in primitive, 22-23; of love, 83-86; symbolism in Christian, 264-267

Artemis, 55, 121

Asceticism, 249, 342-343

ashera, 122

Asia Minor, 270

Astarte, 57

Athanasius, 246

Athenagoras, 240

Attis, 174-175

Augustine, St., 46

Avignon, 250

 

Baal, 144-147; worship of, 148-158, 322

Babar Archipelago, sun-worship in, 45

Babylon, 217; temple priestesses in, 51

Bacchus, 56, 133

Bachofen, 16

Baganda, fertility rites among the, 48

Bambara, 47

Bank, Sir Joseph, 126

Baptists, 297-298

Barrenness, means of combating, 69, 117, 136

Bayaderes, 86

Bayanzi, 42

Bayazid, Bastami, 287

Bengal, marriage of gods in, 50

Bernard, St., of Clairvaux, 257-259, 274; on love, 258

Beth-El, 133

Bijagos, goat-worship among, 104

Birth, 58, 101, 118, 238; association with hunger, 33; origin of god of, 32-35; worship of god of, 34

Birth legend of Attis, 174-175

Bloch, Dr. Ivan, 90

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Blood, menstrual, taboos on, 212, 214

Boaz, 223

Bogoroditza, 349-350

Bona dea, 87

Brahma, 92, 93, 102, 115

Brahmans, sex symbols of, 42

Brazen serpent, 108

bris, 210

Bulgarites, 340

Bull, representative of Dionysos, 106; sacred in Egypt, 106; sacred in India, 107, 130; symbol of virility, 104, 107; in Voodoo, 311-312; in worship of Dionysos, 183-184

Buriats, 21

 

Cabalist, 218, 221, 228

Cakes, phallic, 42, 189, 244, 271

Calah, 47

Calf, golden, 222

Canara, sex worship in, 69

Castration, 204; a religious rite, 67, 346-347; among Skopzi, 345-346; in worship of Cybele, 67, 87

Catacombs, 244

Cathars, 340

Catherine, St., of Siena, 250-253; her mystic marriage with Christ, 251

Celebes, 42

Celibacy, religious, 111-112, 237; St. Paul on, 237

Central America, fertility rites in, 47

Chaldeans, sex sacrifice of, 73

Charms, 27; Voodoo love, 31 2

Cherubim, images of, in temple, 224

Chiapa, Bishop of, 291

Children of the gods, 51, 110

Chin, homosexual deity, 87

Chivalry, 272-273

Christ, attitude toward children, 232; attitude toward illicit love, 232-233; attitude toward sex, 231; conceptions of, 267-268; divinity and humanity of, 267-269

Christianity, mysticism in, 250-263; Negroes introduced to, 295-298; paganism in, 244, 266; sex in, 231-240; symbolism in, 263-267

Chrysostom, St. John, on marriage, 239

Church, as Bride of Christ, 260

Circumcision, 7-8, 67, 208-211

Clement of Alexandria, 240

Clitoris, 67

cohen, 64

Coition, 48, 206, 214; primitive man's idea of, 77; in ritual, 74; sacrifice of, 71, 72-77

Constantine, his birth, 96; as emperor, 97-98; his vision of the cross, 97

Corinth, 86; prostitution in, 86, 238

Cosmo, St., 126, 127

Cotytto, homosexual divinity, 87

Council of Chalcedon, 269

Covenant, 7-8, 202, 207-208, 211

Creation, legend of, 46

Crescent, a female symbol, 122

Cross, 265; a phallic symbol, 114; Constantine's vision of, 97

Crusades, 271-272

Cupid, a sex symbol, 129

Cybele, castration in worship of, 67, 87

Cyprian, 246

Cyprus, isle of Venus, 91

Cyril of Alexandria, 274

 

Damballa, 311

Damian, St., 126, 127

Dance, the, 60, 68, 86; in fertility rites, 49; in Negro religion, 306-308; in orgiastic rites, 21, 31, 33, 68, 190; sex element in, 14, 21

Darkness, 102

Death, 24, 205, 301-303

Defloration, a religious rite, 51

Delephat, 57

Demeter, 50, 58

Demons, 5, 6-7, 26, 355-356; appeased by magic, 5

Dervishes, 286

Desire, personified by serpent, 199

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Devaki, 193

Devils, belief in, 336-337; worship of, 340

Dionysos, 179, 180; bull sacrificed to, 106; represented as bull, 106; represented as goat, 105; worship of, 182-184

"doubles," 25-28

Dreams, 24

Druids, 108

Dualism in nature, 217-222

Dufour, 88

 

Earth, marriage of, and sky, 46; and sun, 49

Ecstasy, religious, 7, 53, 58, 68, 176-177, 182-183, 286-287, 327

Egypt, bull sacred in, 106, 107

El Shaddai, 202, 207, 211

Eliezer, 68

Elijah, 71

Elwood, Charles A., on religion, 323

Eucharistic rites, pagan element in, 244

Eunuch priests, 87, 177

Eunuchs, 68

Eve, 109, 110, 128, 133, 199

Evil eye, 70

Ewhe, fertility gods of, 45

Exodus, 64

Exogamy, 19

Eye, symbol of union of sexes, 89

Ezekiel, 218, 223

 

Fascinus, 56, 125

Fear, 6-7, 63; gods of, 32-34; in life of primitive man, 23-24

Female principle, origin of worship of, 52; personified in Sakti, 191; symbols of, 114-124; worship of, 114-124

Fertility gods, 19, 31; origin of, 52-53; representations of, 43; worship of, 34, 59, 63

Fertility rites, in Amboyna, 136; in Central America, 47; in Java, 48

Fig, a sex symbol, 70, 133

Fig-tree, 133

Fire, sacred character of, 53; worship of, as fertility god, 103; coupled with sun-worship, 103; emblematic of love, 39, 41; need-fires, 117-118

Firstborn, sacrifice of, 63-64, 76, 81

Fish, a symbol of Christ, 264-265

Flagellants, 343-344

Foreskin, 64, 67, 202; sanctity of, 69

Foutin, St., 42, 125

France, phallic symbolism in, 42

Francis, St., of Assisi, 260-261, 343

Freud, Sigmund, 9

Fu-Hsi, 115

 

Ganymede, 88

Generative gods, legend of origin of, 46; worshipped sexually, 59

Generative organs, sanctity of, 68, 69, 119

Gertrude, St., 252-253; her mystic marriage, 252

Gilgamesh, 111

Gnosticism, 326

Goat, generative deity of the Bijagos, 104; in sexual intercourse with women, 340; representative of Dionysos, 105 symbol of virility, 104, 105; in temples of Egypt, 105

Goddesses, mother, 119

Gods, of birth, 32, 41; conception of, as sex organs, 41; of fear, 32; hermaphroditic, 43-45, 91; origin of, 5 ff.; of primitive man, 32; worship of, 59

Grant, Jedediah, 335 Greeks, 54

Grove, Assyrian, phallic significance of, 129

 

Hafsa, 276

Halladj, 287

Hardhakala, 139

Harn, 134

Haxthausen, 348

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Heaven, Christian, 277-278; Jewish, 277-278; Mohammedan, 278

Hell, Christian idea of, 268, 307

Hellenism in Paul's teachings, 234-235

Hephæstus, 55

Hera, 55

Hermæ, 130

Hermaphroditic gods, 43-45, 91; the scarab a symbol of, 117

Hermes, 55

Herodotus, 72, 73

Hesiod, 134

Holy Prepuce, 69

Homosexual divinities, 87

Homosexuality, 340; among the gods, 88; in sex worship, 87-91

Horace, 16

Hymen, 64, 72

Hysteria, 183, 308-309

 

Ikons, 38

Immaculate Conception, 269

Immersion, 214-215

Incest, 19-20, 62

India, 42, 107, 108, 138; serpent worship in, 108; sexual sacrifices in, 65, 74; temple priestesses in, 51, 86

Initiation rites, 67, 183, 187

Ishtar, 57, 150, 151

Isis, 43

Israel, 228

Iyyar, 47

 

Jachin, 223

Jalaluddin Rumi, 285

Janus, 43

Java, fertility rites in, 48

Jehovah, 20, 202, 207, 208

Jerome, on marriage, 239

Jesus Christ, see Christ

John, St., of the Cross, 261-263; on spiritual love, 262; on the union of the soul with God, 262

John of Damascus, 274

John, St., Eve of, 108

Judaism, marriage ceremony in, 225; marriage and procreation religious duties in, 203-205; mysticism in, 206, 216-222; symbolism in, 222-228

jus primæ noctis, 51

 

kadish, 205

kadosh, 37, 87

Kalawala, 134

Kama, 138, 139

Kamakala, 138, 139

Kamerun, virginity among natives of, 71

Karaeng lowe, 42

Kauchiluas, sex worship among, 60

Khadijah, 283

Kings, 223

Korah, 320-322

Koran, 281, 282, 283

Kore, 189

Krishna, 61

Kwan-yin, 117

 

Latter Day Saints, 333, 335

Legba, 290, 292, 293

Ljeschie, 104, 105

Life, origin of, a mystery to primitive man, 39-41, 203

Light, 53; sacred element in, 38-41, 102

Lingam, 41, 42, 43, 45, 49, 69, 87, 92, 93, 94, 110, 111, 114, 115, 117, 118, 120, 125, 126, 128, 129, 130, 137, 140, 160; emblem of Siva, 42, 130, 131; worshipped at Trani, 126

Lingayats, 139

Lithuania, 134

Lotus, a symbol of fertility, 117

Love, charms, 312; Christ on love, 231-233; in Christianity, 230-231; fire emblematic of, 39, 41; in Judaism, 202-228; in life of primitive man, 4-5; in Mohammedanism, 283-288; mystic, 216-222, 250-263; among Negroes, 289-315; Paul on, 234-240; in religion, 7-8, 9-10, 34-35, 53, 68, 95, 140, 199-201, 364-367; p. 383 in religious sects, 320, 358

Luther, 328

lulov, 138

 

Magic, 5, 27-28, 47, 117

Magic Island, 312

Maimonides, 132

Malabar, serpent worship in, 111

Maldive Islands, 52

Male principle, symbols of, 118, 119, 125-238

mana, a form of magic, 27-28, 48

Manes, 337, 338, 340

Manichæism, sex element in, 337-340

Manu, 171

Marie de l’Incarnation, 254-255

Marriage, 344; church on, 238-240; consanguineous, 20; of earth and sky, 46; of earth and sun, 49; of gods, 46-50, 53; Jewish ceremony of, 225; kinds of, 19; in Mohammedanism, 276-277; in Mormonism, 334-335; of Siva and Sakti, 192; symbolic ceremony in Serang, 72; of temple priestesses, 81-82; of trees, 136; of Zeus and Demeter, 50; of Zeus and Hera, 47;

Marwar, 29, 32

Mary, Blessed Virgin, 267-274

Mating instinct, 15; inhibitions on, 19

May Day, sex element in celebrations of, 137-138

Maypole, erotic significance of, 128, 137

McDougall, 9

Medicine men, 27, 50, 88

Memphis, 106

Messalians, 340

mikva, 214, 215

Miriam, sister of Moses, 275

Mise, 87

Mithra, as personification of sun, 102

Mohammed, 328; on marriage, 276-277; on sex, 275-281

Mohammedanism, mysticism in, 283-288; position of women in, 279-280

Moloch, worship of, 185-188

Monogamy, 16-17

Montanism, 239

Moon, worship of, 88, 103

Moquis, 112

Mormonism, 332-335; marriage in, 334-335; sex in, 333-335

Moses, 103, 128, 206, 216, 319-322

Mother goddesses, 119

Mother-child symbolism, 121

Mutilations, religious, 68, 177, 187, 286-287

Mylitta, 46, 57

Mysticism, 45; in Christianity, 250-263; in Judaism, 206, 216-222; in Mohammedanism, 283-288

 

Nabu, marriage of, 47

Naissus, 96

Nama-Hottentot, 16

Nandi, sacred bull of Siva, 107, 130

Nathuram, legend of, 29-32

Natural History, Pliny, 212

Nebo, Papa, 311

Need-fire, significance of, 117, 118

Negroes, African gods of, 289-290; as slaves, 290-294; emotional life of, in slavery, 293-295; introduced to Christianity, 295-298; religion as social factor in life of, 298-299; revivals among, 305-309; sex in religion of, 305-309; virginity among, 299-300

Nicaraguans, sex worship among, 61

Niger Basin, 47

Nikolaits, sex in faith of, 331-332

Nikolaus, Diakonus, 330-332

Nudity, significance of, 15-16; in ritual, 69, 181

Nur-d-din, 285

 

Oaths, taken on thigh, 68, 69

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Odudua, 120

Olympus, mountain of the gods, 55, 56

Oma-Oma, Hindoo mother-goddess, 159

Onanism, 204

Onyame, 289, 290, 295, 298

Ophites, serpent worship among, 108

Oraons of Bengal, fertility rites among, 49

Origen, 346

Osiris, 102, 125; legend of, 43

 

Pa-kua, a sex symbol, 115

Pallas Athena, 55

Palm, a symbol of virility, 175, 265

Palm Sunday, 138, 265

Pan, 55

Papua, 112

Paradise, Moslem, 278

Parvati, 94

Paul, St., 243, 328; Hellenic influence in, 234-235; on illicit love, 237-238; on marriage, 238-240; on sex, 234-238; his sex life, 235-236

Pederasty in Chinese worship, 88

Periodicity, 122

Persephone, 115

Peru, symbolic marriage ceremony among Indians of, 50

Perushim, 204

Peshito, 223

Philo and St. Paul, 235

Phœnicians, sacrifice of firstborn, 64

Phrygia, 87

Pillars, symbolic meaning of, 128, 223, 265

Pindar 83

Plantain in fertility rites, 48

Plato, 18

Pliny, 212

Polygamy, 326

Ponte Molle, 97, 98

Poseidon, 55

Prayer, 58; Jewish prayer for dead, 205

Priapus, 46, 57, 125, 244; sexual sacrifices to, 64, 65; worship of, 131

Priestesses, of Aphrodite, 164-173; temple, 51, 76-79, 81-86

Priests, impersonators of divinity, 65, 66, 110

Primitive man, fear in life of, 23 ff.; sex in life of, 6, 14-18; symbolism in art of, 12 ff.

Proclus, 273

Prometheus, 41, 123

Promiscuity, in primitive sex life, 6, 16-17, 20; in sex worship, 37, 61, 62, 105

Prostitution, 90, 249-250, 281; temple, 71-86; its origin, 77-79

Pulee-pullum, 65

Purification laws, 213-215

Purusa, legend of, 45

Pudicitia, 87

Python, 111

 

Rabia, 287-288

Rain-making, 27-28, 30, 31

Rajputana, 29, 30, 31

Rashi, 223, 224

Raynal, 86

Rebellion in religion, 323-325; psychology of, 326-329

Religion, 257-258; in life of primitive man, 4-5; elements in primitive, 5 ff.; sex in, 53; a social institution, 323; a social factor in life of Negro, 298-299; theories as to origin of, 9

Revivals, 8, 307-309

Ring, 16, 225; significance of, in marriage ceremony, 124

Round Towers of Ireland, 130

Russia, 70; religious sects in, 344-354

 

Sabbat, Witches’, 340

Sabbath, 228

Sacrifice, 58, 62-81; animal, 193; of coition, 70, 71, 73; of firstborn, 63-64; human, 188; hymeneal, 64, 65, 74; p. 385 of sexual organs, 64, 68; of virginity, 64, 65

Sakti, worship of, 191-194 Sanhedrin, 236

sandak, 210

Santees, homosexual rites among, 88

Satacat, 88

Satanites, 336, 340

Scandinavian Tree of Life, 135

Scarab, a sex symbol, 117

Schroeder, Theodore, 9

Sea, Venus born of foam of, 41

Seabrook, W. B., 312

Sects, 319-358

Selangor, tree-worship in, 135

Selene, 122

Semen, 204

sephirot, 218

Serang, 72

Serapeum, 106

Serpent, Ophites worshippers of, 108; a source of generation, 110; symbol of immortality, 108; symbol of passion, fecundity, virility, 110, 114; symbol of sexual love, 199; symbol of wisdom, 109, 114; universality of worship of, 108; worship of, 111-114

Self-destruction, 352-355, 358

Sex, in Christianity, 230-236; an emotional outlet, 22, 32; a group experience, 17; in Judaism, 203-205; in life of primitive man, 6, 14-18; limitations on exercise of, 19-20; in Mohammedanism, 275-281; in Mormonism, 333-335; in paganism, 198-199; in primitive art, 13-14; in primitive dances, 14, 21; promiscuity in, 17; in religious life of the Negro, 295, 300-301, 304-315; in religious rebellion, 327-329; in religious sects, 344-358

Sex organs, sanctity of, 69; as symbols of generation, 114 ff.

Sex worship, 60-61, 69, 73, 85

Shang-ti, 117

Sheela-na-gig, 124

Shodkin, 352

Simeon Stylites, 342

Sin, 203, 300-301, 338

Siva, 42, 95, 107, 115, 131; hermaphroditic, 44, 89; legend of his lingam, 92-95

Slavery, 290-294

Sleeping Beauty, legend of, 35 ff.

Smith, Joseph, 332, 333, 334

Solomon's Temple, 223

Soma-sacrifice, 61

Song, sex in, 14, 31, 190

Song of Songs, 227

Spiritual love, 240-241, 243, 248-250

Spiritual marriage, 251, 252, 255

Spring, 34, 264

Starbuck, E. D., 9

Stone, Black, of Mecca, 146

Stones, sacred, 122

Strabo, 86

Strangers, 70-73

Stubb, Philip, 137, 138

Sufis, 283-288

Suicide, religious, 352-353

Sun, erotic element in worship of, 103; marriage of earth and, 49; as symbol of life, 102

Sun-gods, 102

Surenda, 29

Suzo, Heinrich, 256-257

Symbolism, in primitive art, 13-14, 22-23; in Christianity, 263-267; in Judaism, 222-228; development of, 96-138; mother-child, 99-100

Symbols, efficacy of, 99-100; as expression of ideas, 100-101

Szelivanov, 346, 347

 

Tabernacles, Feast of, 138

Taboos, 20 f., 36, 37, 69, 70, 211-214

Tahiti, homosexual worship in, 87

Talkupi ghat, temple of, 71

Talmud, 214, 222, 223, 224, 228

Tamburbrin, 110

Tarahumares, sex in religion of, 61-62

Temples, 51; p. 386 prostitution in, 71; priestesses, 51, 76-79

Teresa, St., 255

Tertullian, 239, 246

tesvino, 62

Thecla, St., 241-243

Theophile and Maria, 247

Thigh, significance of word, 69, 228

Thouless, 9

Thugs, 354-355

Ticklers, 351-352

Trani, 126

Trotter, 9

Tree of Life, 128, 134

Trees, a source of fecundity, 136; as symbols of life, 132; worship of, 132-138

Typhon, 43

 

Upsala, 133

Upu-lero, 45

Utnapishtim, 111

 

Venus, 41, 57, 83, 85, 91, 92, 95

Vesica piscis, 123

Vine, symbol of virility, 265

Virgil, 134

Virgin, 50, 52, 240-241, 245, 249; worship of, 310, 311

Virginity, 46, 51, 67, 71, 174, 225, 300

Vishnu, 92, 93, 115

Voodoo, 304, 310-315

Warramungas, 112

Watson, John B., 9

Westermarck, Dr., 16

Wine, Dionysos, god of, 179

Witchcraft, 340-341

Woman, 200; in Christianity, 273; in Islam, 275, 278-280; negative attitude toward, 234-235; pagan attitude toward, 198-199; position of, in Græco-Roman world, 271

Worship, ancestor, 32; of Aphrodite, 174-178; devil, 340-341; of Dionysos, 182-184; of fertility gods, 34; fire, 103; lingam, 130-132; sex, 59-62; serpent, 108, 111-114; sun, 103; tree, 132-138

 

Xenophon, 83

 

Yoni, 41, 42, 94, 112, 114, 117, 118, 120, 121, 123, 124, 137

Young, Brigham, 328, 335

Yucatan, homosexuality in religious rites in, 87

 

Zeus, 50, 55, 88, 134

Zoroaster, 109, 134