Discourse On The Worship Of Priapus. Part Vi : PART VI This mode of representing the allegorical personages of religion with many heads and limbs to express their various attributes, and extensive operation, is now universal in the East, 2 and seems anciently not to have been unknown to the Greeks, at least if we may judge by the epithets used...
Discourse On The Worship Of Priapus. Part Viii : PART VIII In the Gallery at Florence is a collossal image of the organ of generation, mounted on the back parts of a lion, and hung round with various animals. By this is represented the co-operation of the creating and destroying powers, which are both blended and united in one figure, because...
Discourse On The Worship Of Priapus. Part Xi : PART XI This universality of the goddess was more concisely represented in other figures of her, by the mystic instrument called a "Systrum", which she carried in her hand. Plutarch has given an explanation of it, 1 which may serve to show that the mode here adopted of explaining the ancient...
Discourse On The Worship Of Priapus. Part Ix : PART IX At Lycopolis in Egypt the destroying power of the sun was represented by a wolf; which, as Macrobius says, was worshipped there as Apollo. 1 The wolf appears devouring grapes in the ornaments of the temple of Bacchus περικιονιο 2 ...
Discourse On The Worship Of Priapus. Part V : PART V But far as these Egyptian remains lead us into unknown ages, the symbols they contain appear not to have been invented in that country, but to have been copied from those of some other people, still anterior, who dwelt on the other side of the Erythran ocean. One of the most obvious of them...
Discourse On The Worship Of Priapus. Part X : PART X In the vision of Ezekiel, God is described as descending upon the combined forms of the eagle, the bull, and the lion, 2 the emblems of the therial spirit, the creative and destructive powers, which were all united in the true God, though hypostatically divided in the Syrian trinity. Man w...
Discourse On The Worship Of Priapus. Part Xiv : PART XIV It is curious, in looking back through the annals of superstition, so degrading to the pride of man, to trace the progress of the human mind in different ages, climates, and circumstances, uniformly acting upon the same principles, and to the same ends. The sketch here given...
Discourse On The Worship Of Priapus. Part Iv : PART IV The fauns and satyrs, which accompany the androgynous figures on the ancient sculptures, are usually represented as ministering to the Creator by exerting their characteristic attributes upon them, as well as upon the nymphs, the passive agents of procreation: p. 87 Click to view PLATE X...
On The Worship Of Priapus In The Kingdom Of Naples : p. 13 ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS IN THE KINGDOM OF NAPLES Naples, Dec. 30, 1781. SIR, HAVING last made a curious discovery, that in a Province of this Kingdom, and not fifty miles from its Capital, a sort of devotion is still paid to PRIAPUS, the obscene Divinity of the Ancients (though under...
Discourse On The Worship Of Priapus. Part Xii : PART XII Another great means of corrupting the ancient theology, and establishing the poetical mythology, was the practice of the artists in representing the various attributes of the creator under human forms of various character and expression. These figures, being p. 198 distinguished by...
Discourse On The Worship Of Priapus. Part Vii : PART VII From a passage of Hecatus, preserved by Diodorus Siculus, I think it is evident that Stonehenge, and all the other monuments of the same kind found in the North, belonged to the same religion, which appears, at some remote period, to have prevailed over the whole northern hemisphere...
Discourse On The Worship Of Priapus. Part Ii : PART II It is observable in all modern religions, that men are superstitious in proportion as they are ignorant, and that those who know least of the principles of religion are the most earnest and fervent in the practice of its exterior rites and ceremonies. We may suppose from analogy, that this...
Discourse On The Worship Of Priapus. Part Iii : PART III The Creator being both male and female, the emanations of his creative spirit, operating upon universal matter, produced subordinate ministers of both sexes, and gave, as companions to the fauns and satyrs, the nymphs of the waters, the mountains and the woods, signifying the passive...
Title Page : A DISCOURSE ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS AND ITS CONNECTION WITH THE MYSTIC THEOLOGY OF THE ANCIENTS BY RICHARD PAYNE KNIGHT TO WHICH IS ADDED AN ACCOUNT OF THE REMAINS OF THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS LATELY EXISTING AT ISERNIA IN THE KINGDOM OF NAPLES BY SIR WILLIAM HAMILTON, K. B. London Printed By T...
Discourse On The Worship Of Priapus. Part I : p. 25 DISCOURSE ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS PART I MEN, considered collectively, are at all times the same animals, employing the same organs, and endowed with the same faculties: their passions, prejudices, and conceptions, will of course be formed upon the same internal principles, although...
Discourse On The Worship Of Priapus. Part Xiii : PART XIII The Christian religion, being a reformation of the Jewish, rather increased than diminished the austerity of its original. On particular occasions however it equally abated its rigour, and gave way to festivity and mirth, though always with an air of sanctity and solemnity. Such were...
Untitled : A DISCOURSE ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS RICHARD PAYNE KNIGHT [1786] This extended essay on fertility worship in the Classical period was written by Robert Payne Knight (1750-1820), a distinguished English scholar, parlimentarian, writer, and antiquarian. Published in 1786, this book shocked English...
