"Phallic" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... sought the sense of this emblem. Had it that phallic significance which the primitive cults of India gave it? Did it enunciate an oblation of virginity to the senile Herod, an exchange of blood, an impure and voluntary wound, offered under the express stipulation of a monstrous sin? Or did it ...
— Against The Grain • Joris-Karl Huysmans
... Phallic Worship, reads as follows: "In early ages the sexual emblems were adored as most sacred objects, and in the several polytheistic systems the act or principle of which the phallus was the type was represented by a deity to whom it was consecrated: in Egypt ...
— The Sex Worship and Symbolism of Primitive Races - An Interpretation • Sanger Brown, II |
