Sex Symbolism in Religion by Ja B. HANNAY Privately printed for The Religious Evolution Research Society 20 Buckingham Street Strand London, W.C.2 Printed by H. A. Oakeshott, 17, Philpot Lane, London, E.C. 1922 Face 132 ... 14 Marduk or St. George Slaying the Dragon 16 The Pharaoh dancing before Min Face 235 4 Isis and Horns, Horns making Bi-Sexual 5 Phallic Pillar, Dorsetshire ... 6 Phallic, or Runic, Pillar, Wolverhampton Face 236 ... ... ... 236 239 ... 248 249 252 "Life Group, including Mortar and Pestle and Two Stones 260 15 Hercules with Club (Rod) and Two Stones 16 Osiris or Min with Flagellum 17 Egyptian Women Lamenting Death of Osiris... 281 THE ROMANCE OF THE HEBREW TABERNACLE. 1 Lingam-Yoni Altar (Hindoo) 2 Min, El, Al, or Creative Man Balance in Phallic Form ... 3 ... 4 Virgin conception in Almond Form 516 530 ... 556 594 6 Tree Stem with Serpent and Symbolic Man and Woman ... 7 Bell and Lingam-Yoni Altar express Identical Symbolism INTRODUCTION. When early man created his first god out of the terrors imposed upon him by his enemies, darkness, the forces of nature, wild beasts, and the Tribes with whom he was at war, for man's first god was Fear-he generally reasoned that as that god had created the storm, the lightning, the pestilence, and death, he was also the creator of life and the world on which he exists. Hence in building up the characteristics of his god he generally included a creation story of some sort. The Gods created for us in the Hebrew Scriptures Al, Eli, Elohim, Yahweh, Jehovah, Jove, or Iové, Tsur, Amen, Eduth, Al Shadai, Malech, Alzedik, Baal, Kurios, Selah, Elyon, Logos, Ur, and others, in the Old and New Testaments had all one characteristic in common, they were creative gods, and the stories of some of their very different |