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CULTUS ARBORUM or, Phallic Tree Worship by Anonymous
Sex worship, ancient and modern, is the primary study of ‘Cultus Arborum’. Phallic tree-worship seems to have existed in all cultures at one time or another. Details the worship of Baal (Bael), Scottish and Irish superstitions, invocations of tree gods and more.
CULTUS ARBORUM – A DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNT OF PHALLIC TREE WORSHIP
CONTENTS.
Chapter I.
Characteristics of Trees—Naturalness of Tree Worship—Origin of the worship—The Tree of Life—Ancient Types—A Tree as a Symbol of Life—Poetical Associations—Sacred Fig-tree—India specially a land of Tree Worship—Trees identified with Gods—Meritoriousness of planting Trees—Auspicious and inauspicious Trees—Ceremonies connected with Tree Worship—Invocation of Tree Gods—Banian Tree—Ritual directions—Santal Worship.
Chapter II.
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—The Bygas of the Eastern Sathpuras—Tree Worship in Mysore—The Palm Tree—Worship of the Palm at Najran—The Tree of Ten Thousand Images—Tree Worship in Persia—Sacred Old Testament Trees—The Classics—Forests and Groves favourite places of Worship—Origin of Groves—Votive Offerings to Trees.
Chapter III.
Arab Tree Worship—Story of Kaimun, the captive slave—Miracle of the Date Tree—Persian bushes—Plane-tree—The Great Cypress—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—The Tree of Passienus Crispus—The Virgin Mary’s Fig-tree—Tree of Mohammed’s Staff—The Neema-tree of the Gallas—Irish Superstitions—Saint Valeri—People of Livonia—Destruction of a Sacred Tree.
Chapter IV.
The Bogaha of Ceylon, or God-tree—The Maha Wanse and the Bo-tree—Ceremonies connected with the transplantation of the Bo-tree—Planting the great Bo-branch—Miracles of the Bo-tree—The State Elephant—The Pipal Tree.
CHAPTER V.
Sacred Trees very ancient in Egypt—Hebrew Trees—The Sycamore at Matarea—Ionic Forms—The Koran on Mary and the Palm-tree—Sacredness of the Palm in Egypt—Tree Worship in Dahome—The Sacred Tree of the Canary Isles.
Chapter VI.
Usefulness of the Ash-tree—Its position among Sacred Trees—The Queen of Trees—Mythology of the Ash—Scotch Superstitious Usages—The “Ash Faggot Ball” of Somersetshire—Pliny and others on the Serpent and the Ash—The Ash as a medium of cure of complaints—Anecdotes—Phallic Associations—The New-birth—Ireland and the Ash—The Juniper-Tree—The Madonna and the Juniper—The Elm-tree—Mythology of the Elm—The Apple-tree—Mythological allusions to the Apple-tree—The Pine-tree—Wind Spirits—German Superstitions—The Oak-tree—Universal Sacredness of the Oak—The Oak of the Hebrew Scriptures—Classic Oaks—Socrates and his Oath—Greek Sayings—The Trees Speaking—Sacred Ash of Dodona—Legend of Philemon and Baucis—The Hamadryads—The Yule Log—St. Boniface—Mysteries connected with the Oak—Christmas-trees.
Chapter VII.
Icelandic Customs—The Sacred Ash—The Prose Edda and Tree Worship—Icelandic Mythology of the Ash—The Norns—The Czeremissa of the Wolga—The Jakuhti—Sacred Trees of Livonia—Phallic Tree Worship and objects in Bavaria.
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