Post by david on Jan 13, 2019 17:49:58 GMT
It would seem that all courage is masculine, because all weapons have phallic symbolism, but let us look a little closer at this.
Putting aside all emotive reactions, we are left with a concept that is materialistic, like seeing a football as a symbol of a cricket ball, and using football to prove that we are a cricket culture. If we did, people would not get emotive about it, but it is, nevertheless, not spiritual. There are some who even see the Axis Mundi (World Pillar) as a phallic symbol, which is like seeing the solar principle as a symbol of a cricket ball, and using sun deities to prove that ancient religion was based on cricket.
You look for the spiritual principle. All things begin with a point, which therefore contains all things in potential. A circle is a radiance of the point, which gives us the solar principle. The descent of the point into manifestation gives us the Axis Mundi, and this is the meaning of all rods and poles.
Archaeologists use phallic symbol to cover an evasion. Before a certain period in history, the only deities on altars are female, but they argue that the existence of a rod or pole is a phallic symbol, constituting a male deity. This is illogical. If they depicted the male principle as a sexual organ, they would do so with the female deity, and, if they worshipped sex, they would not be abstract about it. In the book, The Myth Of The Goddess, by Anne Baring and Jules Cashford, there is a photo of a female figure holding a rod in her hand. This could hardly be a deity. Rods and poles are not male deities.
When seen from the point of view of absolute principles, rods and poles can have feminine symbolism, and the thunderbolt can be a feminine principle. This would have been important in the Amazon period.
David.
Putting aside all emotive reactions, we are left with a concept that is materialistic, like seeing a football as a symbol of a cricket ball, and using football to prove that we are a cricket culture. If we did, people would not get emotive about it, but it is, nevertheless, not spiritual. There are some who even see the Axis Mundi (World Pillar) as a phallic symbol, which is like seeing the solar principle as a symbol of a cricket ball, and using sun deities to prove that ancient religion was based on cricket.
You look for the spiritual principle. All things begin with a point, which therefore contains all things in potential. A circle is a radiance of the point, which gives us the solar principle. The descent of the point into manifestation gives us the Axis Mundi, and this is the meaning of all rods and poles.
Archaeologists use phallic symbol to cover an evasion. Before a certain period in history, the only deities on altars are female, but they argue that the existence of a rod or pole is a phallic symbol, constituting a male deity. This is illogical. If they depicted the male principle as a sexual organ, they would do so with the female deity, and, if they worshipped sex, they would not be abstract about it. In the book, The Myth Of The Goddess, by Anne Baring and Jules Cashford, there is a photo of a female figure holding a rod in her hand. This could hardly be a deity. Rods and poles are not male deities.
When seen from the point of view of absolute principles, rods and poles can have feminine symbolism, and the thunderbolt can be a feminine principle. This would have been important in the Amazon period.
David.