Author: Hargrave Jennings

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Published: 2015-08-05

Total Pages: 88

ISBN-13: 9781332329137

Excerpt from Phallic Objects, Monuments and Remains: Illustrations of the Rise and Development of the Phallic Idea The following volume, describing a number of the most celebrated monuments, consisting of towers, pillars and stones connected with Phallism, exhibits and illustrates many of the peculiar features of that singular worship, and the wide extent of territory over which it prevailed. A large share of it has been devoted to a description of Phallic remains in the kingdom of Ireland, particularly of those mysterious towers, the solution of whose origin and uses has exercised the minds of the learned and ingenious for centuries. The same objects have been traced in various other parts of the world, and many of their kindred monuments in the shape of the holed stones and pillars have been, shown to exist even in our own land. The reader who has consulted our volumes, "Phallism" and "Ophiolatreia," will find in these pages an interesting companion to those treatises, and be enabled in his travels to identify certain singular objects which will from time to time present themselves to his notice, and whose meaning is supposed to have been lost in the oblivion of bygone days. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.