{"collection":"sex","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/sex/tsf/tsf25.htm","path":"sex/tsf/tsf25.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/sex/tsf/tsf25.htm","text":"The Sacred Fire, by B.Z. Goldberg, [1930]\nI have reformatted the index slightly, merging subentries separated by semicolons on the same line: in the original they were on a separate line, indented.--JBH\nabasomes, 289\nAbraham, 68, 133, 202, 205, 207, 208, 211\nAbstinence, from sexual intercourse, 47, 345\nAdonis, 102\nAfrica, Ewhe of, 45\nAfricanus, Leo, 88\nAfter-life, 197\nAgap\u00e6, a vestige of Pagan love-feasts, 244; popular among poor, 244; celebrated in catacombs, 244; sex element in, 245-246\nAhriman, evil spirit of Persians, 134\nAkikuyu, snake worship among, 50\nAlitta, 57\nAl Ghazzali, 283\nAmboyna, fertility rites in, 136\nAmerican Indians, sacrifice of coition among, 71\nAmmon, Egyptian god, 51; his human wives, 51, priestly substitutes in sexual relations 51\nAmulets, phallic, 70, 115, 125, 126\nAnahita, 57\nAncestor worship, origin of, 32\nAngel, 217\nAnthropomorphism, 217\nAnu, 171\nAnubis, 158\nAphrodite, 46, 55, 159-161; worship of, 174-178; priestesses of, 162-173; her sanctuaries, 162-163\nApis, bull sacrificed to, 107\nArchidice, famous courtesan, 85\nAristotle, 235\nArk, a female symbol, 123, 265\nars amandi, 82\nArt, primitive, 12-14; sex symbolism in primitive, 22-23; of love, 83-86; symbolism in Christian, 264-267\nashera, 122\nAsia Minor, 270\nAstarte, 57\nAthanasius, 246\nAthenagoras, 240\nAugustine, St., 46\nAvignon, 250\nBaal, 144-147; worship of, 148-158, 322\nBabar Archipelago, sun-worship in, 45\nBabylon, 217; temple priestesses in, 51\nBachofen, 16\nBaganda, fertility rites among the, 48\nBambara, 47\nBank, Sir Joseph, 126\nBarrenness, means of combating, 69, 117, 136\nBayaderes, 86\nBayanzi, 42\nBayazid, Bastami, 287\nBengal, marriage of gods in, 50\nBernard, St., of Clairvaux, 257-259, 274; on love, 258\nBeth-El, 133\nBijagos, goat-worship among, 104\nBirth, 58, 101, 118, 238; association with hunger, 33; origin of god of, 32-35; worship of god of, 34\nBirth legend of Attis, 174-175\nBloch, Dr. Ivan, 90\nBlood, menstrual, taboos on, 212, 214\nBoaz, 223\nBona dea, 87\nBrahmans, sex symbols of, 42\nBrazen serpent, 108\nbris, 210\nBulgarites, 340\nBull, representative of Dionysos, 106; sacred in Egypt, 106; sacred in India, 107, 130; symbol of virility, 104, 107; in Voodoo, 311-312; in worship of Dionysos, 183-184\nBuriats, 21\nCakes, phallic, 42, 189, 244, 271\nCalah, 47\nCalf, golden, 222\nCanara, sex worship in, 69\nCastration, 204; a religious rite, 67, 346-347; among Skopzi, 345-346; in worship of Cybele, 67, 87\nCatacombs, 244\nCathars, 340\nCatherine, St., of Siena, 250-253; her mystic marriage with Christ, 251\nCelebes, 42\nCelibacy, religious, 111-112, 237; St. Paul on, 237\nCentral America, fertility rites in, 47\nChaldeans, sex sacrifice of, 73\nCherubim, images of, in temple, 224\nChiapa, Bishop of, 291\nChin, homosexual deity, 87\nChrist, attitude toward children, 232; attitude toward illicit love, 232-233; attitude toward sex, 231; conceptions of, 267-268; divinity and humanity of, 267-269\nChristianity, mysticism in, 250-263; Negroes introduced to, 295-298; paganism in, 244, 266; sex in, 231-240; symbolism in, 263-267\nChrysostom, St. John, on marriage, 239\nChurch, as Bride of Christ, 260\nCircumcision, 7-8, 67, 208-211\nClement of Alexandria, 240\nClitoris, 67\ncohen, 64\nCoition, 48, 206, 214; primitive man's idea of, 77; in ritual, 74; sacrifice of, 71, 72-77\nConstantine, his birth, 96; as emperor, 97-98; his vision of the cross, 97\nCorinth, 86; prostitution in, 86, 238\nCotytto, homosexual divinity, 87\nCouncil of Chalcedon, 269\nCovenant, 7-8, 202, 207-208, 211\nCreation, legend of, 46\nCrescent, a female symbol, 122\nCross, 265; a phallic symbol, 114; Constantine's vision of, 97\nCupid, a sex symbol, 129\nCybele, castration in worship of, 67, 87\nCyprian, 246\nCyprus, isle of Venus, 91\nCyril of Alexandria, 274\nDamballa, 311\nDance, the, 60, 68, 86; in fertility rites, 49; in Negro religion, 306-308; in orgiastic rites, 21, 31, 33, 68, 190; sex element in, 14, 21\nDarkness, 102\nDefloration, a religious rite, 51\nDelephat, 57\nDemons, 5, 6-7, 26, 355-356; appeased by magic, 5\nDervishes, 286\nDesire, personified by serpent, 199\nDevaki, 193\nDevils, belief in, 336-337; worship of, 340\nDionysos, 179, 180; bull sacrificed to, 106; represented as bull, 106; represented as goat, 105; worship of, 182-184\nDreams, 24\nDruids, 108\nDufour, 88\nEarth, marriage of, and sky, 46; and sun, 49\nEcstasy, religious, 7, 53, 58, 68, 176-177, 182-183, 286-287, 327\nEgypt, bull sacred in, 106, 107\nEliezer, 68\nElijah, 71\nElwood, Charles A., on religion, 323\nEucharistic rites, pagan element in, 244\nEunuchs, 68\nEvil eye, 70\nEwhe, fertility gods of, 45\nExodus, 64\nExogamy, 19\nEye, symbol of union of sexes, 89\nFear, 6-7, 63; gods of, 32-34; in life of primitive man, 23-24\nFemale principle, origin of worship of, 52; personified in Sakti, 191; symbols of, 114-124; worship of, 114-124\nFertility gods, 19, 31; origin of, 52-53; representations of, 43; worship of, 34, 59, 63\nFertility rites, in Amboyna, 136; in Central America, 47; in Java, 48\nFig-tree, 133\nFire, sacred character of, 53; worship of, as fertility god, 103; coupled with sun-worship, 103; emblematic of love, 39, 41; need-fires, 117-118\nFirstborn, sacrifice of, 63-64, 76, 81\nFish, a symbol of Christ, 264-265\nForeskin, 64, 67, 202; sanctity of, 69\nFrance, phallic symbolism in, 42\nFrancis, St., of Assisi, 260-261, 343\nFreud, Sigmund, 9\nFu-Hsi, 115\nGanymede, 88\nGenerative gods, legend of origin of, 46; worshipped sexually, 59\nGenerative organs, sanctity of, 68, 69, 119\nGertrude, St., 252-253; her mystic marriage, 252\nGilgamesh, 111\nGnosticism, 326\nGoat, generative deity of the Bijagos, 104; in sexual intercourse with women, 340; representative of Dionysos, 105 symbol of virility, 104, 105; in temples of Egypt, 105\nGoddesses, mother, 119\nGods, of birth, 32, 41; conception of, as sex organs, 41; of fear, 32; hermaphroditic, 43-45, 91; origin of, 5 ff.; of primitive man, 32; worship of, 59\nGrant, Jedediah, 335 Greeks, 54\nGrove, Assyrian, phallic significance of, 129\nHafsa, 276\nHalladj, 287\nHardhakala, 139\nHarn, 134\nHaxthausen, 348\nHeaven, Christian, 277-278; Jewish, 277-278; Mohammedan, 278\nHell, Christian idea of, 268, 307\nHellenism in Paul's teachings, 234-235\nHeph\u00e6stus, 55\nHera, 55\nHerm\u00e6, 130\nHermaphroditic gods, 43-45, 91; the scarab a symbol of, 117\nHermes, 55\nHesiod, 134\nHoly Prepuce, 69\nHomosexual divinities, 87\nHomosexuality, 340; among the gods, 88; in sex worship, 87-91\nHorace, 16\nIkons, 38\nImmaculate Conception, 269\nIndia, 42, 107, 108, 138; serpent worship in, 108; sexual sacrifices in, 65, 74; temple priestesses in, 51, 86\nInitiation rites, 67, 183, 187\nIsis, 43\nIsrael, 228\nIyyar, 47\nJachin, 223\nJalaluddin Rumi, 285\nJanus, 43\nJava, fertility rites in, 48\nJerome, on marriage, 239\nJesus Christ, see Christ\nJohn, St., of the Cross, 261-263; on spiritual love, 262; on the union of the soul with God, 262\nJohn of Damascus, 274\nJohn, St., Eve of, 108\nJudaism, marriage ceremony in, 225; marriage and procreation religious duties in, 203-205; mysticism in, 206, 216-222; symbolism in, 222-228\njus prim\u00e6 noctis, 51\nkadish, 205\nKalawala, 134\nKamerun, virginity among natives of, 71\nKaraeng lowe, 42\nKauchiluas, sex worship among, 60\nKhadijah, 283\nKings, 223\nKore, 189\nKrishna, 61\nKwan-yin, 117\nLife, origin of, a mystery to primitive man, 39-41, 203\nLight, 53; sacred element in, 38-41, 102\nLingam, 41, 42, 43, 45, 49, 69, 87, 92, 93, 94, 110, 111, 114, 115, 117, 118, 120, 125, 126, 128, 129, 130, 137, 140, 160; emblem of Siva, 42, 130, 131; worshipped at Trani, 126\nLingayats, 139\nLithuania, 134\nLotus, a symbol of fertility, 117\nLove, charms, 312; Christ on love, 231-233; in Christianity, 230-231; fire emblematic of, 39, 41; in Judaism, 202-228; in life of primitive man, 4-5; in Mohammedanism, 283-288; mystic, 216-222, 250-263; among Negroes, 289-315; Paul on, 234-240; in religion, 7-8, 9-10, 34-35, 53, 68, 95, 140, 199-201, 364-367; p. 383 in religious sects, 320, 358\nLuther, 328\nlulov, 138\nMagic Island, 312\nMaimonides, 132\nMalabar, serpent worship in, 111\nMaldive Islands, 52\nMale principle, symbols of, 118, 119, 125-238\nmana, a form of magic, 27-28, 48\nManich\u00e6ism, sex element in, 337-340\nManu, 171\nMarie de l\u2019Incarnation, 254-255\nMarriage, 344; church on, 238-240; consanguineous, 20; of earth and sky, 46; of earth and sun, 49; of gods, 46-50, 53; Jewish ceremony of, 225; kinds of, 19; in Mohammedanism, 276-277; in Mormonism, 334-335; of Siva and Sakti, 192; symbolic ceremony in Serang, 72; of temple priestesses, 81-82; of trees, 136; of Zeus and Demeter, 50; of Zeus and Hera, 47;\nMating instinct, 15; inhibitions on, 19\nMay Day, sex element in celebrations of, 137-138\nMaypole, erotic significance of, 128, 137\nMcDougall, 9\nMemphis, 106\nMessalians, 340\nMiriam, sister of Moses, 275\nMise, 87\nMithra, as personification of sun, 102\nMohammed, 328; on marriage, 276-277; on sex, 275-281\nMohammedanism, mysticism in, 283-288; position of women in, 279-280\nMontanism, 239\nMoquis, 112\nMormonism, 332-335; marriage in, 334-335; sex in, 333-335\nMoses, 103, 128, 206, 216, 319-322\nMother goddesses, 119\nMother-child symbolism, 121\nMutilations, religious, 68, 177, 187, 286-287\nMysticism, 45; in Christianity, 250-263; in Judaism, 206, 216-222; in Mohammedanism, 283-288\nNabu, marriage of, 47\nNaissus, 96\nNama-Hottentot, 16\nNandi, sacred bull of Siva, 107, 130\nNatural History, Pliny, 212\nNebo, Papa, 311\nNeed-fire, significance of, 117, 118\nNegroes, African gods of, 289-290; as slaves, 290-294; emotional life of, in slavery, 293-295; introduced to Christianity, 295-298; religion as social factor in life of, 298-299; revivals among, 305-309; sex in religion of, 305-309; virginity among, 299-300\nNicaraguans, sex worship among, 61\nNiger Basin, 47\nNikolaits, sex in faith of, 331-332\nNudity, significance of, 15-16; in ritual, 69, 181\nNur-d-din, 285\nOdudua, 120\nOlympus, mountain of the gods, 55, 56\nOma-Oma, Hindoo mother-goddess, 159\nOnanism, 204\nOphites, serpent worship among, 108\nOraons of Bengal, fertility rites among, 49\nOrigen, 346\nOsiris, 102, 125; legend of, 43\nPa-kua, a sex symbol, 115\nPallas Athena, 55\nPalm, a symbol of virility, 175, 265\nPan, 55\nPapua, 112\nParadise, Moslem, 278\nParvati, 94\nPaul, St., 243, 328; Hellenic influence in, 234-235; on illicit love, 237-238; on marriage, 238-240; on sex, 234-238; his sex life, 235-236\nPederasty in Chinese worship, 88\nPeriodicity, 122\nPersephone, 115\nPeru, symbolic marriage ceremony among Indians of, 50\nPerushim, 204\nPeshito, 223\nPhilo and St. Paul, 235\nPh\u0153nicians, sacrifice of firstborn, 64\nPhrygia, 87\nPillars, symbolic meaning of, 128, 223, 265\nPindar 83\nPlantain in fertility rites, 48\nPlato, 18\nPliny, 212\nPolygamy, 326\nPoseidon, 55\nPrayer, 58; Jewish prayer for dead, 205\nPriapus, 46, 57, 125, 244; sexual sacrifices to, 64, 65; worship of, 131\nPriestesses, of Aphrodite, 164-173; temple, 51, 76-79, 81-86\nPriests, impersonators of divinity, 65, 66, 110\nPrimitive man, fear in life of, 23 ff.; sex in life of, 6, 14-18; symbolism in art of, 12 ff.\nProclus, 273\nPromiscuity, in primitive sex life, 6, 16-17, 20; in sex worship, 37, 61, 62, 105\nProstitution, 90, 249-250, 281; temple, 71-86; its origin, 77-79\nPulee-pullum, 65\nPurusa, legend of, 45\nPudicitia, 87\nPython, 111\nRaynal, 86\nRebellion in religion, 323-325; psychology of, 326-329\nReligion, 257-258; in life of primitive man, 4-5; elements in primitive, 5 ff.; sex in, 53; a social institution, 323; a social factor in life of Negro, 298-299; theories as to origin of, 9\nRing, 16, 225; significance of, in marriage ceremony, 124\nRound Towers of Ireland, 130\nRussia, 70; religious sects in, 344-354\nSabbat, Witches\u2019, 340\nSabbath, 228\nSacrifice, 58, 62-81; animal, 193; of coition, 70, 71, 73; of firstborn, 63-64; human, 188; hymeneal, 64, 65, 74; p. 385 of sexual organs, 64, 68; of virginity, 64, 65\nSakti, worship of, 191-194 Sanhedrin, 236\nsandak, 210\nSantees, homosexual rites among, 88\nSatacat, 88\nScandinavian Tree of Life, 135\nScarab, a sex symbol, 117\nSchroeder, Theodore, 9\nSea, Venus born of foam of, 41\nSeabrook, W. B., 312\nSelangor, tree-worship in, 135\nSelene, 122\nSemen, 204\nsephirot, 218\nSerang, 72\nSerapeum, 106\nSerpent, Ophites worshippers of, 108; a source of generation, 110; symbol of immortality, 108; symbol of passion, fecundity, virility, 110, 114; symbol of sexual love, 199; symbol of wisdom, 109, 114; universality of worship of, 108; worship of, 111-114\nSelf-destruction, 352-355, 358\nSex, in Christianity, 230-236; an emotional outlet, 22, 32; a group experience, 17; in Judaism, 203-205; in life of primitive man, 6, 14-18; limitations on exercise of, 19-20; in Mohammedanism, 275-281; in Mormonism, 333-335; in paganism, 198-199; in primitive art, 13-14; in primitive dances, 14, 21; promiscuity in, 17; in religious life of the Negro, 295, 300-301, 304-315; in religious rebellion, 327-329; in religious sects, 344-358\nSex organs, sanctity of, 69; as symbols of generation, 114 ff.\nSex worship, 60-61, 69, 73, 85\nShang-ti, 117\nSheela-na-gig, 124\nShodkin, 352\nSimeon Stylites, 342\nSiva, 42, 95, 107, 115, 131; hermaphroditic, 44, 89; legend of his lingam, 92-95\nSleeping Beauty, legend of, 35 ff.\nSolomon's Temple, 223\nSoma-sacrifice, 61\nSong of Songs, 227\nSpiritual love, 240-241, 243, 248-250\nSpiritual marriage, 251, 252, 255\nStarbuck, E. D., 9\nStone, Black, of Mecca, 146\nStones, sacred, 122\nStrabo, 86\nSun, erotic element in worship of, 103; marriage of earth and, 49; as symbol of life, 102\nSun-gods, 102\nSurenda, 29\nSymbolism, in primitive art, 13-14, 22-23; in Christianity, 263-267; in Judaism, 222-228; development of, 96-138; mother-child, 99-100\nSymbols, efficacy of, 99-100; as expression of ideas, 100-101\nTabernacles, Feast of, 138\nTaboos, 20 f., 36, 37, 69, 70, 211-214\nTahiti, homosexual worship in, 87\nTalkupi ghat, temple of, 71\nTalmud, 214, 222, 223, 224, 228\nTamburbrin, 110\nTarahumares, sex in religion of, 61-62\nTemples, 51; p. 386 prostitution in, 71; priestesses, 51, 76-79\nTeresa, St., 255\ntesvino, 62\nTheophile and Maria, 247\nThigh, significance of word, 69, 228\nThouless, 9\nTrani, 126\nTrotter, 9\nTrees, a source of fecundity, 136; as symbols of life, 132; worship of, 132-138\nTyphon, 43\nUpsala, 133\nUpu-lero, 45\nUtnapishtim, 111\nVenus, 41, 57, 83, 85, 91, 92, 95\nVesica piscis, 123\nVine, symbol of virility, 265\nVirgil, 134\nVirgin, 50, 52, 240-241, 245, 249; worship of, 310, 311\nVirginity, 46, 51, 67, 71, 174, 225, 300\nWarramungas, 112\nWatson, John B., 9\nWestermarck, Dr., 16\nWine, Dionysos, god of, 179\nWoman, 200; in Christianity, 273; in Islam, 275, 278-280; negative attitude toward, 234-235; pagan attitude toward, 198-199; position of, in Gr\u00e6co-Roman world, 271\nWorship, ancestor, 32; of Aphrodite, 174-178; devil, 340-341; of Dionysos, 182-184; of fertility gods, 34; fire, 103; lingam, 130-132; sex, 59-62; serpent, 108, 111-114; sun, 103; tree, 132-138\nXenophon, 83\nYoni, 41, 42, 94, 112, 114, 117, 118, 120, 121, 123, 124, 137\nYucatan, homosexuality in religious rites in, 87","title":"The Sacred Fire: Index","type":"page"}