James Weir - Religion and Lust

Notwithstanding the fact that the descendants of the Incas have been under the guardianship of the priests of the Catholic church for hundreds of years, a close, careful, painstaking, and accurate observer informs me that he has repeatedly noticed unmistakable phallic rites interwoven with their Christian ceremonials and beliefs. The same can be said of a kindred race and a kindred religion. Biart, writing of the descendants of the Aztecs, says: “In grottoes unexpectedly discovered, I have frequently found myself in the presence of Mictlanteuctli, at the foot of which a recent offering of food had been placed.” 79 79 Biart: The Aztecs , p. 139. How exceedingly basic and fundamental the worship of the generative principle must be in Psychos itself, is indicated by these facts!

In the very beginnings of history we find that many races of people held the worship of the generative principle in high honor. Not only has the knowledge of this fact come to us through the sculptured monuments of the Egyptians and the tablets, cylinders, etc., of the Chaldeans, but it has also been set before us by ancient historians. Speaking of the Chaldeans Herodotus (1,199) 80 80 Herodotus: Clio ; See also Cary’s translation of Herodotus, page 86 et seq. says, “Every woman born in the country must enter once during her lifetime the inclosure of the temple of Aphrodite, must there sit down and unite herself to a stranger. Many who are wealthy are too proud to mix with the rest, and repair thither in closed chariots, followed by a considerable train of slaves. The greater number seat themselves on the sacred pavement, with a cord twisted about their heads—and there is always a crowd there, coming and going; the women being divided by ropes into long lanes, down which strangers pass to make their choice. A woman who has once taken her place here cannot return home until a stranger has thrown into her lap a silver coin, and has led her away with him beyond the limits of the sacred inclosure. As he throws the money he pronounces these words: ‘May the goddess Mylitta make thee happy!’ Now among the Assyrians, Aphrodite” ( the goddess of love, desire ) “is called Mylitta. The woman follows the first man who throws her the money, and repels no one. When once she has accompanied him, and has thereby satisfied the goddess , she returns to her home, and from thenceforth, however large the sum offered to her, she will yield to no one.” Maspero declares that “this custom still existed in the fifth century before our era, and the Greeks who visited Babylon about that time found it still in force.” 81 81 Maspero (Sayce): The Dawn of Civilization , p. 640.

He also calls attention to the fact that “we meet with a direct allusion to this same custom in the Bible, in the Book of Baruch : The women, also, with cords about them, sitting in the ways, burn bran for perfume; but if any of them, drawn by some that passeth by, lie with him, she reproacheth her fellow, that she was not worthy of herself, nor her cord broken. Ch. VI, verse 43.”

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Spencer: Principles of Sociology , vol. i, p. 281.

“Theology and religion are of service in morals and conduct in direct proportion as they have become adapted to our knowledge of natural phenomena”—Lydston: The Diseases of Society , p. 68.

Tito Vignoli: Myth and Science , p. 85.

Clarke in his interesting book gives us some very readable stories anent the ability of animals seeing imaginary objects. I myself have seen a parrot with a marked case of delirium tremens , due to excessive use of alcoholic stimulants (Vid. Author: The Dawn of Reason ). Romanes also gives valuable data in his Mental Evolution (in Animal, and in Man) concerning this subject. The fox terrier (Vid. Author: Dawn of Reason ) which carried his dreams into his awakened state is apropos.

Maspero (Sayce): The Dawn of Civilization , p. 103, and Maspero: Etudes de Mythologie et d’Archiologie Egyptiennes , vol. ii, pp. 34, 35.

Maspero (Sayce): The Dawn of Civilization , p. 183 et seq.

That the patriarchs had their household gods, we have every reason for believing; these household gods were, however, tutelary divinities, such as were kept in the house of every Chaldean, and were not the images of ancestors. Rachel, the wife of Jacob, stole the household gods of Laban, her father, who is called a Syrian. Abraham himself was a Chaldean. Gen. 11:31; also Gen. 31:19-20.

Bancroft: The Native Races of the Pacific States of North America , vol. i, p. 400.

Balboa: History of Peru .

Garcilasso: The Royal Commentaries of the Incas .

Browlow: Travels , p. 136.

Bancroft: The Native Races of the Pacific States of North America , vol. i, p. 400.

Reclus: Primitive Folk , p. 18.

Dall: Alaska and its Resources , p. 96.

In a letter to me, a naval officer of high rank states that, beyond question of doubt, the Aleutian priests keep male concubines whom they use in their religious observances. He, also, gives other evidences of phallic worship among these people.

Negroes of Benin and Sierra Leone (Bosman, loc. cit. , p. 526), Mandingoes (Waitz, vol. ii, p. 3), Bechuanas (Holub, loc. cit. , p. 398); quoted also by Westermarck, Human Marriage , p. 206.

Gregory: The Great Rift Valley , p. 351.

Gregory: The Great Rift Valley , p. 351.

Inasmuch as the hæmaturia occasioned by the larvæ of Bilharzia has its origin in the parenchyma of the kidney, and, since we have no reason for believing that this race has any idea of histology or pathology, it is manifest folly to ascribe circumcision as a prophylactic measure against this parasite. Bilharzia is now considered a true parasite by Wolfe.

Stuhlmann: Mit Emin Pasha , p. 848.

Johnston: The Kilima-Njaro Expedition , p. 412.

Gregory: The Great Rift Valley , p. 344.

Lumholtz: Among Cannibals , p. 282.

Ibid. , p. 279.