Fishes, Flowers, & Fire
AS
Elements and Deities
IN THE
Phallic Faiths & Worship
OF THE
Ancient Religions
OF
Greece, Babylon, Rome, India, &c.
WITH
Illustrative Myths and Legends.
PRIVATELY PRINTED.
A. Reader, Orange Street, Red Lion Square, London.
1890.
PREFACE.
The volume now in the reader’s hands forms the fifth, and, for thepresent, the concluding portion of the “Phallic Series” it was foundnecessary to issue in further explication of certain matters set forth inthe first book on this peculiar subject.
Having dealt with Sex Worship generally, Ophiolatræia, the Round Towersand Holed Stones, Trees, Fishes, Flowers, and Fire, the ground has beenpretty well covered, and with the exception of an Appendix, which futuredemands may possibly call forth, the subject is now complete. It isconfidently expected that the present volume will be found equallyinteresting with those which have preceded it; it opens up entirely newmatter, and contains a number of curious traditions not before alluded to.
CONTENTS.
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| Chapter I. (Fishes) | 1 |
| Frequent occurrence of the Fish Symbol—Fish Heraldry—Earliest devices—Fish devices on Churches and other public buildings—TheCatacombs—Ichthus—Fish devices at Glastonbury Abbey, &c.—The Book-fish—Glasgow Fish-arms—The Fish and the Ring Story ofScotland—Solomon and the Fish and Ring—The Hermit’s Fish Pond of St. Neot’s—The Sacred Perch—The Dolphin—Neptune. | |
| Chapter II. (Fishes) | 10 |
| The Ancient Sacred Fish—Fish diet and its supposed effects—Fish and the Jews—The God Krodo—Oanes—Dagon—The Fish-godat Nimrod—Khorsabad—Fish Worship in Syria—Temple of Dagon at Azotus—The Dagon of the Bible—Adramelech—Abstinencefrom Fish-food—Ancient character of Fish Worship—“Paradise Lost”—The Irish demi-god Phin—The Fish as a ChristianSymbol—Idea involved in Fish Worship—Holy Fish Ponds—Ancient Caledonian objections to Fish—Other anti-fish-eating nations—Ishtar. | |
| Chapter III. (Flowers) | ... BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN!Sitemize Üyelik ÜCRETSİZDİR! |