phallic cult
phallic worship

Hence arose a grossly phallic cult, very contemptible to those more fortunate persons who had no need of it.

There were also phallic cults.

Notoriously, Knight's first book, The Worship of Priapus, sought to recover the importance of ancient phallic cults.

Henry O'Brien first proposed that the Irish round towers were created by a pre-Christian phallic cult among the Tuatha Dé Danann who he connected to the daughters of Danaus.

Phallic Worship, the second if not the first of man's faiths.

Evidence of phallic worship in the India date back to prehistoric times.

Phallic worship and sacrifices to this symbol were also a part of their traditional practices.

But, he said, to presume they were used in phallic worship is a "distortion of the truth."

The early Jews practiced a most crude and extreme form of phallic worship.

Phallic worship and other forms of idolatry were thereafter forbidden.

To these primitive minds there was nothing immoral in genuine phallic worship.

He was beginning to identify evil with the strong phallic worship in Brooke and the early Wells.

As she began her phallic worship Blade's hands closed around the jeweled hilt of the great sword.

Phallic worship is still common in Japan and can be observed in shrines through out the country, especially in spring.

He also wrote papers on phallic worship and Ophiolatreia, a book on snake worship.

Our modern Symbologist is superlatively clever only at detecting phallic worship and sexual emblems even where none were ever meant.

From Godfrey Higgins he derived the suggestion that the key to all mythology is to be sought in phallic worship.

In the small site museum are kept sculptures found in the surrounding area, whose stylistic features depict phallic worship, very common in some cultural regions.

But should you travel to the East, and tell a Lingam-worshipping Sivite that his is a phallic worship he will not be please with you.

Phallic worship was prevalent in India from the Chalcolithic period itself, and it was closely associated with magical rites based religion of that time.

The tale of Lingobhava is found in various puranas, augments the synthesis of the old cults of pillar and phallic worship.

At times, "ceremonies intended to assure the fecundity of the earth or of a group of women...involve some form of phallic worship".

Most of the Masonic symbolism, in its original and proper meaning, refers primarily to the Solar and Phallic worship, associated with the mysteries above referred to.

Piranesi in particular is said to have offered a "prototype for the mysterious architecture of phallic worship that more closely resembles the houses of pleasure" in his etchings.

Unlike Westlake, Dion Byngham found no attraction in Christianity, and zealously promoted paganism, naturism and phallic worship as a veneration of the life force.

Passing reference is made to a scene in previous novel in the series Spy Castle also written by Manning Lee Stokes involving phallic worship and a black mass.

In several voluminous works, Jennings developed the theory that the origin of all religion is to be sought in phallic worship of the Sun and fire, which he properly called "phallism."

At the same time it is also an expose of professional football and its sins and the mad, mindless excesses of greed, power-mongering, exploitation and phallic worship it enshrines.