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The Sacred Fire, by B.Z. Goldberg, [1930], at sacred-texts.com


p. xii p. xiii

ILLUSTRATIONS

 

PAGE

Phallic symbols in ancient art

8

Primitive man's crude portrayal of the creative force

14

Sex pervaded the art of Old Anthropology Adam

18

An Egyptian phallic altar

22

A demon of love

31

Man's first church; his best-loved god

35

From an old Egyptian urn

36

Venus and Cupid fulfilling their mission of love

40

A Phallic amulet

42

Brahma created himself double

44

At the altar of Priapus

48

When gods made merry

56

A Hindu goddess offering a lingam

66

A Hindu god in copulation

75

Venus in a phallic shrine

80

Siva as the Hermaphroditic God

89

In the Temple of Siva

92

Siva leaning on the lingam

94

The Persian Triad

100

The Serpent the Sacred Image of the Solo-Phallic Cult

107

Serpent worship in early Christian art

109

A Serpent god

113

Kwan-yin, the Oriental Queen of Heaven

116

Maya, the Hindu goddess

120

An Oriental divinity

122

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PAGE

The Sheela-na-gig

124

An early Priapic statue

129

As the god of love developed

131

The Scandinavian tree of life

135

At a Baalic festival

153

Anubis as the guardian of the Dead

158

Priestesses of Aphrodite

163

Hers was the life of an actress

170

Lamenting for Attis

176

Aphrodite, Goddess of Love

178

Dionysos on his phallic throne

180

Dionysia

182

The marriage of Psyche and Eros

184

The eternal Sakti

190

A female demon in ancient India

192

Devaki seated on a lotus flower

193

Jehovah, God of Battles

201

A sacrificial altar

209

Warding off the unclean spirits

213

The universe a dualism seeking unity

220

An old conception of the Cherubim

226

Symbols in early Christian art

233

Thecla

242

Cave church of the Apocalypse in Patmos

245

Spiritual lovers

248

The marriage of St. Catherine

253

St. Teresa

256

The Church as the Bride of Christ

260

Christian symbolism in the Catacombs

266

Medieval Hell

268

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PAGE

Jesus in the womb of the Virgin

270

The Spirit of God

272

A Mohammedan fish nymph

282

The Black Stone

288

A Negro god

294

The Virgin shares her altar with Legba

311

The Christian God worshipped in Voodoo fashion

313

Images of the Voodoo gods

314

The Spirit of God

315

A symbol of life

325

A Gnostic gem

329

Symbols of fertility

335

The Evil Spirit tempting the soul of a pagan idol

339

When the devil was a god

341

Kali, lover of death

356


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