Phallic Miscellanies: Facts and Phases of Ancient and Modern Sex Worship, as Illustrated Chiefly in the Religions of IndiaJennings, Hargrave
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Phallic Miscellanies: Facts and Phases of Ancient and Modern Sex Worship, as Illustrated Chiefly in the Religions of India
Jennings, Hargrave
Hindu cults; Phallicism
12th.—_Dyana._ In this, the worshipper is required, by closing both
his eyes, to form the image of his guardian divinity in his mind, and
to fix his mental vision upon it for some time.
13th.—-_Abáhan_, _Chakshudán_, and _Pránpratisthá_. When the worship
is performed without an image of the goddess, she is invoked to
vouchsafe her presence in the jar.
14th.—_Pujah_, or the presenting of offerings of rice, fruit,
incense, etc.
15th.—_Lelehi Mudra_, or the performance of the gesticulation called
Lelehi, which consists in putting the palm of the right hand upon the
back of the left, and shaking the fingers. There are no less than
sixty-four thousand different sorts of Mudra prescribed in the
Tantras.
16th.—_Abarana Pujah_, or the worship of the attendants of the
goddess.
17th.—_Mahákála Pujah_, or the adoration of Mahákála, a form of
Shiva.
18th.—_Balidan_, or the offering of sacrifice, commonly a blood
offering.
19th.—_Kabajan Patheth._ In praise of the exploits of the goddess.
20th.—_Homa._ Pouring clarified butter upon the consecrated fire,
made for the purpose on a bed of sand about one foot square. The ashes
are worn on the forehead, and the residue carefully deposited or
buried in a corner of the house.
The Vamis, or the left-hand worshippers, adopt a form of worship
contrary to that which is usual, and they not only worship the Shakti
of Siva in all her terrific forms, but pay adoration to her numerous
fiend-like attendants, the Yoginis, Dakinis, and the Sankinis.
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