At the end of this volume we have endeavoured to give the student of Ancient Faiths a Bibliography of works on or connected with Phallism.
Being the first attempt of the kind, omissions will doubtless be found, although there are nearly five hundred references given, yet even as it is, it will prove of great use and advantage to those making researches. It is divided into two classes—Phallic works, and books bearing more or less upon the subject.
CONTENTS.
| PAGE. | |
| [Chapter I.] | [1] |
| Characteristics of Trees—Naturalness of Tree Worship—Origin of the worship—The Tree of Life—Ancient Types—A Tree as aSymbol of Life—Poetical Associations—Sacred Fig-tree—India specially a land of Tree Worship—Trees identified with Gods—Meritoriousnessof planting Trees—Auspicious and inauspicious Trees—Ceremonies connected with Tree Worship—Invocation ofTree Gods—Banian Tree—Ritual directions—Santal Worship. | |
| [Chapter II.] | [16] |
| The Bael-tree—Worship of the Left Hand—Trees of the Sun and Moon—The Arbre Sec, or Dry Tree—The Holy Tree of Bostam—TheBygas of the Eastern Sathpuras—Tree Worship in Mysore—The Palm Tree—Worship of the Palm at Najran—The Tree ofTen Thousand Images—Tree Worship in Persia—Sacred Old Testament Trees—The Classics—Forests and Groves favouriteplaces of Worship—Origin of Groves—Votive Offerings to Trees. | |
| [Chapter III.] | [32] |
| Arab Tree Worship—Story of Kaimun, the captive slave—Miracle of the Date Tree—Persian bushes—Plane-tree—The GreatCypress—The old man of Diarbekir—The Fervüers—Anecdote of Xerxes—Anecdote of a merchant and his wife—The bush of the“Excellent” Tree—The Cypresses of the Zoroaster—Motawakel—The Triple-tree of Abraham—Tree of the Club of Hercules—TheTree of Passienus Crispus—The Virgin Mary’s Fig-tree—Tree of Mohammed’s Staff—The Neema-tree of the Gallas—IrishSuperstitions—Saint Valeri—People of Livonia—Destruction of a Sacred Tree. | |
| [Chapter IV.] | [44] |
| The Bogaha of Ceylon, or God-tree—The Maha Wanse and the Bo-tree—Ceremonies connected with the transplantation of theBo-tree—Planting the great Bo-branch—Miracles of the Bo-tree—The State Elephant—The Pipal Tree. | |
| [CHAPTER V.] | [58] |
| Sacred Trees very ancient in Egypt—Hebrew Trees—The Sycamore at Matarea—Ionic Forms—The Koran on Mary andthe Palm-tree—Sacredness of the Palm in Egypt—Tree Worship in Dahome—The Sacred Tree of the Canary Isles. | |
| [Chapter VI.] | [64] |
| Usefulness of the Ash-tree—Its position among Sacred Trees—The Queen of Trees—Mythology of the Ash—Scotch SuperstitiousUsages—The “Ash Faggot Ball” of Somersetshire—Pliny and others on the Serpent and the Ash—The Ash as a medium ofcure of complaints—Anecdotes—Phallic Associations—The New-birth—Ireland and the Ash—The Juniper-Tree—The Madonnaand the Juniper—The Elm-tree—Mythology of the Elm—The Apple-tree—Mythological allusions to the Apple-tree—The Pine-tree—WindSpirits—German Superstitions—The Oak-tree—Universal Sacredness of the Oak—The Oak of the HebrewScriptures—Classic Oaks—Socrates and his Oath—Greek Sayings—The Trees Speaking—Sacred Ash of Dodona—Legend ofPhilemon and Baucis—The Hamadryads—The Yule Log—St. Boniface—Mysteries connected with the Oak—Christmas-trees. | |
| [Chapter VII.] | [85] |
| Icelandic Customs—The Sacred Ash—The Prose Edda and Tree Worship—Icelandic Mythology of the Ash—The Norns—TheCzeremissa of the Wolga—The Jakuhti—Sacred Trees of Livonia—Phallic Tree Worship and objects in Bavaria. |
TREE WORSHIP.