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I 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
abasomes, 289
Abraham, 68, 133, 202, 205, 207, 208, 211
Abstinence, from sexual intercourse, 47, 345
Adonis, 102
Africa, Ewhe of, 45
Africanus, Leo, 88
After-life, 197
Agapæ, a vestige of Pagan love-feasts, 244; popular among poor, 244; celebrated in catacombs, 244; sex element in, 245-246
Ahriman, evil spirit of Persians, 134
Akikuyu, snake worship among, 50
Alitta, 57
Al Ghazzali, 283
Amboyna, fertility rites in, 136
American Indians, sacrifice of coition among, 71
Ammon, Egyptian god, 51; his human wives, 51, priestly substitutes in sexual relations 51
Amulets, phallic, 70, 115, 125, 126
Anahita, 57
Ancestor worship, origin of, 32
Angel, 217
Anthropomorphism, 217
Anu, 171
Anubis, 158
Aphrodite, 46, 55, 159-161; worship of, 174-178; priestesses of, 162-173; her sanctuaries, 162-163
Apis, bull sacrificed to, 107
Archidice, famous courtesan, 85
Aristotle, 235
Ark, a female symbol, 123, 265
ars amandi, 82
Art, primitive, 12-14; sex symbolism in primitive, 22-23; of love, 83-86; symbolism in Christian, 264-267
ashera, 122
Asia Minor, 270
Astarte, 57
Athanasius, 246
Athenagoras, 240
Augustine, St., 46
Avignon, 250
Baal, 144-147; worship of, 148-158, 322
Babar Archipelago, sun-worship in, 45
Babylon, 217; temple priestesses in, 51
Bachofen, 16
Baganda, fertility rites among the, 48
Bambara, 47
Bank, Sir Joseph, 126
Barrenness, means of combating, 69, 117, 136
Bayaderes, 86
Bayanzi, 42
Bayazid, Bastami, 287
Bengal, marriage of gods in, 50
Bernard, St., of Clairvaux, 257-259, 274; on love, 258
Beth-El, 133
Bijagos, goat-worship among, 104
Birth, 58, 101, 118, 238; association with hunger, 33; origin of god of, 32-35; worship of god of, 34
Birth legend of Attis, 174-175
Bloch, Dr. Ivan, 90
Blood, menstrual, taboos on, 212, 214
Boaz, 223
Bona dea, 87
Brahmans, sex symbols of, 42
Brazen serpent, 108
bris, 210
Bulgarites, 340
Bull, 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
Buriats, 21
Cakes, phallic, 42, 189, 244, 271
Calah, 47
Calf, golden, 222
Canara, sex worship in, 69
Castration, 204; a religious rite, 67, 346-347; among Skopzi, 345-346; in worship of Cybele, 67, 87
Catacombs, 244
Cathars, 340
Catherine, St., of Siena, 250-253; her mystic marriage with Christ, 251
Celebes, 42
Celibacy, religious, 111-112, 237; St. Paul on, 237
Central America, fertility rites in, 47
Chaldeans, sex sacrifice of, 73
Cherubim, images of, in temple, 224
Chiapa, Bishop of, 291
Chin, homosexual deity, 87
Christ, attitude toward children, 232; attitude toward illicit love, 232-233; attitude toward sex, 231; conceptions of, 267-268; divinity and humanity of, 267-269
Christianity, mysticism in, 250-263; Negroes introduced to, 295-298; paganism in, 244, 266; sex in, 231-240; symbolism in, 263-267
Chrysostom, St. John, on marriage, 239
Church, as Bride of Christ, 260
Circumcision, 7-8, 67, 208-211
Clement of Alexandria, 240
Clitoris, 67
cohen, 64
Coition, 48, 206, 214; primitive man's idea of, 77; in ritual, 74; sacrifice of, 71, 72-77
Constantine, his birth, 96; as emperor, 97-98; his vision of the cross, 97
Corinth, 86; prostitution in, 86, 238
Cotytto, homosexual divinity, 87
Council of Chalcedon, 269
Covenant, 7-8, 202, 207-208, 211
Creation, legend of, 46
Crescent, a female symbol, 122
Cross, 265; a phallic symbol, 114; Constantine's vision of, 97
Cupid, a sex symbol, 129
Cybele, castration in worship of, 67, 87
Cyprian, 246
Cyprus, isle of Venus, 91
Cyril of Alexandria, 274
Damballa, 311
Dance, 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
Darkness, 102
Defloration, a religious rite, 51
Delephat, 57
Demons, 5, 6-7, 26, 355-356; appeased by magic, 5
Dervishes, 286
Desire, personified by serpent, 199
Devaki, 193
Devils, belief in, 336-337; worship of, 340
Dionysos, 179, 180; bull sacrificed to, 106; represented as bull, 106; represented as goat, 105; worship of, 182-184
Dreams, 24
Druids, 108
Dufour, 88
Earth, marriage of, and sky, 46; and sun, 49
Ecstasy, religious, 7, 53, 58, 68, 176-177, 182-183, 286-287, 327
Egypt, bull sacred in, 106, 107
Eliezer, 68
Elijah, 71
Elwood, Charles A., on religion, 323
Eucharistic rites, pagan element in, 244
Eunuchs, 68
Evil eye, 70
Ewhe, fertility gods of, 45
Exodus, 64
Exogamy, 19
Eye, symbol of union of sexes, 89
Fear, 6-7, 63; gods of, 32-34; in life of primitive man, 23-24
Female principle, origin of worship of, 52; personified in Sakti, 191; symbols of, 114-124; worship of, 114-124
Fertility gods, 19, 31; origin of, 52-53; representations of, 43; worship of, 34, 59, 63
Fertility rites, in Amboyna, 136; in Central America, 47; in Java, 48
Fig-tree, 133
Fire, sacred character of, 53; worship of, as fertility god, 103; coupled with sun-worship, 103; emblematic of love, 39, 41; need-fires, 117-118
Firstborn, sacrifice of, 63-64, 76, 81
Fish, a symbol of Christ, 264-265
Foreskin, 64, 67, 202; sanctity of, 69
France, phallic symbolism in, 42
Francis, St., of Assisi, 260-261, 343
Freud, Sigmund, 9
Fu-Hsi, 115
Ganymede, 88
Generative gods, legend of origin of, 46; worshipped sexually, 59
Generative organs, sanctity of, 68, 69, 119
Gertrude, St., 252-253; her mystic marriage, 252
Gilgamesh, 111
Gnosticism, 326
Goat, 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
Goddesses, mother, 119
Gods, 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
Grant, Jedediah, 335 Greeks, 54
Grove, Assyrian, phallic significance of, 129
Hafsa, 276
Halladj, 287
Hardhakala, 139
Harn, 134
Haxthausen, 348
Heaven, Christian, 277-278; Jewish, 277-278; Mohammedan, 278
Hell, Christian idea of, 268, 307
Hellenism in Paul's teachings, 234-235
Hephæstus, 55
Hera, 55
Hermæ, 130
Hermaphroditic gods, 43-45, 91; the scarab a symbol of, 117
Hermes, 55
Hesiod, 134
Holy Prepuce, 69
Homosexual divinities, 87
Homosexuality, 340; among the gods, 88; in sex worship, 87-91
Horace, 16
Ikons, 38
Immaculate Conception, 269
India, 42, 107, 108, 138; serpent worship in, 108; sexual sacrifices in, 65, 74; temple priestesses in, 51, 86
Initiation rites, 67, 183, 187
Isis, 43
Israel, 228
Iyyar, 47
Jachin, 223
Jalaluddin Rumi, 285
Janus, 43
Java, fertility rites in, 48
Jerome, on marriage, 239
Jesus Christ, see Christ
John, St., of the Cross, 261-263; on spiritual love, 262; on the union of the soul with God, 262
John of Damascus, 274
John, St., Eve of, 108
Judaism, marriage ceremony in, 225; marriage and procreation religious duties in, 203-205; mysticism in, 206, 216-222; symbolism in, 222-228
jus primæ noctis, 51
kadish, 205
Kalawala, 134
Kamerun, virginity among natives of, 71
Karaeng lowe, 42
Kauchiluas, sex worship among, 60
Khadijah, 283
Kings, 223
Kore, 189
Krishna, 61
Kwan-yin, 117
Life, origin of, a mystery to primitive man, 39-41, 203
Light, 53; sacred element in, 38-41, 102
Lingam, 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
Lingayats, 139
Lithuania, 134
Lotus, a symbol of fertility, 117
Love, 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
Luther, 328
lulov, 138
Magic Island, 312
Maimonides, 132
Malabar, serpent worship in, 111
Maldive Islands, 52
Male principle, symbols of, 118, 119, 125-238
mana, a form of magic, 27-28, 48
Manichæism, sex element in, 337-340
Manu, 171
Marie de l’Incarnation, 254-255
Marriage, 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;
Mating instinct, 15; inhibitions on, 19
May Day, sex element in celebrations of, 137-138
Maypole, erotic significance of, 128, 137
McDougall, 9
Memphis, 106
Messalians, 340
Miriam, sister of Moses, 275
Mise, 87
Mithra, as personification of sun, 102
Mohammed, 328; on marriage, 276-277; on sex, 275-281
Mohammedanism, mysticism in, 283-288; position of women in, 279-280
Montanism, 239
Moquis, 112
Mormonism, 332-335; marriage in, 334-335; sex in, 333-335
Moses, 103, 128, 206, 216, 319-322
Mother goddesses, 119
Mother-child symbolism, 121
Mutilations, religious, 68, 177, 187, 286-287
Mysticism, 45; in Christianity, 250-263; in Judaism, 206, 216-222; in Mohammedanism, 283-288
Nabu, marriage of, 47
Naissus, 96
Nama-Hottentot, 16
Nandi, sacred bull of Siva, 107, 130
Natural History, Pliny, 212
Nebo, Papa, 311
Need-fire, significance of, 117, 118
Negroes, 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
Nicaraguans, sex worship among, 61
Niger Basin, 47
Nikolaits, sex in faith of, 331-332
Nudity, significance of, 15-16; in ritual, 69, 181
Nur-d-din, 285
Odudua, 120
Olympus, mountain of the gods, 55, 56
Oma-Oma, Hindoo mother-goddess, 159
Onanism, 204
Ophites, serpent worship among, 108
Oraons of Bengal, fertility rites among, 49
Origen, 346
Osiris, 102, 125; legend of, 43
Pa-kua, a sex symbol, 115
Pallas Athena, 55
Palm, a symbol of virility, 175, 265
Pan, 55
Papua, 112
Paradise, Moslem, 278
Parvati, 94
Paul, 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
Pederasty in Chinese worship, 88
Periodicity, 122
Persephone, 115
Peru, symbolic marriage ceremony among Indians of, 50
Perushim, 204
Peshito, 223
Philo and St. Paul, 235
Phœnicians, sacrifice of firstborn, 64
Phrygia, 87
Pillars, symbolic meaning of, 128, 223, 265
Pindar 83
Plantain in fertility rites, 48
Plato, 18
Pliny, 212
Polygamy, 326
Poseidon, 55
Prayer, 58; Jewish prayer for dead, 205
Priapus, 46, 57, 125, 244; sexual sacrifices to, 64, 65; worship of, 131
Priestesses, of Aphrodite, 164-173; temple, 51, 76-79, 81-86
Priests, impersonators of divinity, 65, 66, 110
Primitive man, fear in life of, 23 ff.; sex in life of, 6, 14-18; symbolism in art of, 12 ff.
Proclus, 273
Promiscuity, in primitive sex life, 6, 16-17, 20; in sex worship, 37, 61, 62, 105
Prostitution, 90, 249-250, 281; temple, 71-86; its origin, 77-79
Pulee-pullum, 65
Purusa, legend of, 45
Pudicitia, 87
Python, 111
Raynal, 86
Rebellion in religion, 323-325; psychology of, 326-329
Religion, 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
Ring, 16, 225; significance of, in marriage ceremony, 124
Round Towers of Ireland, 130
Russia, 70; religious sects in, 344-354
Sabbat, Witches’, 340
Sabbath, 228
Sacrifice, 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
Sakti, worship of, 191-194 Sanhedrin, 236
sandak, 210
Santees, homosexual rites among, 88
Satacat, 88
Scandinavian Tree of Life, 135
Scarab, a sex symbol, 117
Schroeder, Theodore, 9
Sea, Venus born of foam of, 41
Seabrook, W. B., 312
Selangor, tree-worship in, 135
Selene, 122
Semen, 204
sephirot, 218
Serang, 72
Serapeum, 106
Serpent, 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
Self-destruction, 352-355, 358
Sex, 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
Sex organs, sanctity of, 69; as symbols of generation, 114 ff.
Sex worship, 60-61, 69, 73, 85
Shang-ti, 117
Sheela-na-gig, 124
Shodkin, 352
Simeon Stylites, 342
Siva, 42, 95, 107, 115, 131; hermaphroditic, 44, 89; legend of his lingam, 92-95
Sleeping Beauty, legend of, 35 ff.
Solomon's Temple, 223
Soma-sacrifice, 61
Song of Songs, 227
Spiritual love, 240-241, 243, 248-250
Spiritual marriage, 251, 252, 255
Starbuck, E. D., 9
Stone, Black, of Mecca, 146
Stones, sacred, 122
Strabo, 86
Sun, erotic element in worship of, 103; marriage of earth and, 49; as symbol of life, 102
Sun-gods, 102
Surenda, 29
Symbolism, in primitive art, 13-14, 22-23; in Christianity, 263-267; in Judaism, 222-228; development of, 96-138; mother-child, 99-100
Symbols, efficacy of, 99-100; as expression of ideas, 100-101
Tabernacles, Feast of, 138
Taboos, 20 f., 36, 37, 69, 70, 211-214
Tahiti, homosexual worship in, 87
Talkupi ghat, temple of, 71
Talmud, 214, 222, 223, 224, 228
Tamburbrin, 110
Tarahumares, sex in religion of, 61-62
Temples, 51; p. 386 prostitution in, 71; priestesses, 51, 76-79
Teresa, St., 255
tesvino, 62
Theophile and Maria, 247
Thigh, significance of word, 69, 228
Thouless, 9
Trani, 126
Trotter, 9
Trees, a source of fecundity, 136; as symbols of life, 132; worship of, 132-138
Typhon, 43
Upsala, 133
Upu-lero, 45
Utnapishtim, 111
Venus, 41, 57, 83, 85, 91, 92, 95
Vesica piscis, 123
Vine, symbol of virility, 265
Virgil, 134
Virgin, 50, 52, 240-241, 245, 249; worship of, 310, 311
Virginity, 46, 51, 67, 71, 174, 225, 300
Warramungas, 112
Watson, John B., 9
Westermarck, Dr., 16
Wine, Dionysos, god of, 179
Woman, 200; in Christianity, 273; in Islam, 275, 278-280; negative attitude toward, 234-235; pagan attitude toward, 198-199; position of, in Græco-Roman world, 271
Worship, 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
Xenophon, 83
Yoni, 41, 42, 94, 112, 114, 117, 118, 120, 121, 123, 124, 137
Yucatan, homosexuality in religious rites in, 87