. Phallic worship : an outline of the worship of the generative organs, as being, or as representing, the Divine Creator, with suggestions as to the influence of the phallic idea on religious creeds, ceremonies, customs and symbolism, past and present. i H^ lite « m Fig. 73. The Petrean Menhir, shown in Figure 78, is a com-plete combination of the masculine emblem of thetower, with openings of a similar shape, and of thefeminine ark, or base, together with doors —linga in form, but yonic, from the fact of being ave-nues of admission.. Fig. 79. Fig. 80. The linga-in-yoni, shown in Figuie 79, p

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. Phallic worship : an outline of the worship of the generative organs, as being, or as representing, the Divine Creator, with suggestions as to the influence of the phallic idea on religious creeds, ceremonies, customs and symbolism, past and present. i H^ lite « m Fig. 73. The Petrean Menhir, shown in Figure 78, is a com-plete combination of the masculine emblem of thetower, with openings of a similar shape, and of thefeminine ark, or base, together with doors —linga in form, but yonic, from the fact of being ave-nues of admission.. Fig. 79. Fig. 80. The linga-in-yoni, shown in Figuie 79, presents avery interesting example of the rude but emphaticmethod of a pi-imitive people in Gothland, in expi-essingthe recognition of the masculine and feminine principles 86 DIFFUSION AND MODIFICATION OF SYMBOLS. and their cooperative union in the grand work of cre-ation. The sacred hill at Karnak, in Egypt, the phalliccharacter of which is obvious, is shown in Figure 80. In a bone-cave recently excavated near Venice, andbeneath ten feet of stalagmite, were found bones ofanimals, flint implements, a bone needle, and a lingaof baked clay. Figure 81 is a copy of a picture found at Rome when .t^ ^