Thursday, February 12, 2015

PENIS worship in Christian Israel (Live Science)

Owen Jarus; Ashley Wells, Sheldon S., Pat Macpherson, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
(RT) Japan: Hundreds pray to giant penises...and eat little ones. (WQ) Few Westerners realize how sexually uninhibited Japan is, a world closed off to non-Japanese tourists. We are led to believe that Japan is inhibited and uncomfortable when it is us. Live there and find out.
 
In the West we call penis festivals "raves."
Hundreds "worshipped" the phallus at the Penis Festival,  also known as the Honen Matsuri, or Harvest Festival, in Tagata a Shinto shrine in Komaki. It is a fertility festival, which is believed to increase  the fertility of both men and women who attend, while also boosting the  health of mothers and babies. Many souvenirs in the shape of penis are available to visitors, including penis-shaped lollipops and ice-cream sticks. (See more Buddhist commentary below).

Israel: 100 Ancient [Phallic] Sites Discovered
Owen Jarus, LiveScience.com, Feb. 9, 2015
It's hard to criticize Israel when the West fills Palestine with pretty right-wing nationalists.
Humanlike stone carvings were also found at 100 sacred sites (Uzi Avner/livescience.com).
 
OMG, they do look like d-cks, I mean penises!
[HOLY LAND, occupied Palestine (imperial Israel)] One of the 100 [sacred] sites, dating back around 8,000 years, discovered in [Palestine's] Eilat Mountains reveals a penis-shaped structure [lingam] pointing toward the remains of a stone circle.

Some 100 prehistoric "cult sites," complete with penis stone structures and artifacts with vulva shapes [yoni] cut into them, have been discovered in the Eilat Mountains, an extremely arid area of the Negev Desert in [illegally occupied] Israel.
 
At the sites, which date back around 8,000 years, archaeologists discovered a variety of stone structures and artifacts, including stone circles that measure 1.5 to 2.5 meters across (roughly 5 to 8 feet) with penis-shaped installations pointing toward them.

Other findings there include standing stones that reach up to 2.6 feet (80 centimeters) high, stone bowls, and stone carvings that have a humanlike shape.

Vaginal (yoni) stone carvings were also found at sacred sites (Uzi Avner/livescience.com).
Naughty Nature: phallic cactus in desert far from Christian "Holy Land" (nymag.com).
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These sites are often clustered together. In one area the team discovered 44 [sacred] sites in a spot encompassing only 0.8 square kilometers (less than 200 acres).

"Taking in[to] consideration the topography, environmental conditions, and the small number of known Neolithic habitations in the general southern Negev, the density of [such] sites in this region is phenomenal," the team wrote in an article published recently in the Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society.
These sites were used for ritual activities of some form. Archeologists know little about what activities went on at these sites although [biblical-style] animal sacrifice, as seen from bones found there, seems to be one of them.
 
Fertility and death
Washington, D.C. loves militant "Israel."
Archaeologists are working to decipher any meaning from the artifacts and structures, noting that both death and fertility seem to be symbolized at the sites.

For instance, in addition to the penis-shaped structures, researchers also found that some of the stones have vulva-shaped holes cut into them. The circles that the penis-shaped structures point to also seem to represent females.
 
"The circle is a female symbol, and the elongated cell is a male one (phallus)," said Uzi Avner, a researcher with the Arava-Dead Sea Science Center and the Arava Institute, in an email to Live Science.

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Death is "signified by the burial of stone objects and by setting them upside down," the team members wrote in their paper. In one case, a humanlike stone carving was found buried "with only the very top visible on the surface."
 
The two symbols identified so far, fertility and death, go hand in hand in many cultures. "Combinations of both are actually well-known in anthropological studies as relating to ancestral cult," the archaeologists wrote.
 
Harsh landscape
"Tears of Gaza" (Free Speech TV)
The 100 [sacred] sites were found in a mountainous area that receives only 20 mm (0.79 inches) of rain per year, on average, the archaeologists said.
 
Around 8,000 years ago it would have been somewhat wetter. "The climate of the 7th-6th millennia B.C. was a little moister than that of the present, 40%-20% more rainfall, but the desert was a desert," said Avner in the email.

The [sacred] sites tended to be built in relatively flat sections of the mountains. "Their position on topographic 'shoulders' or comparatively flat locations probably enabled several dozens of people to gather around them, for example, an extended family," the archaeologists wrote.
 
Keep B.S.ing them, Bibi! It's working.
The sites also provide a good view. "Commonly, a broad view is seen from the sites, so possibly, the scenery was one element in the selection of their location," the archaeologists added.

While the researchers discovered many [sacred] sites, they found few domestic ones. "In contrast to the density of [sacred] sites, only two small habitations and one small campsite were found on the ridge," they wrote, noting that these three sites were all associated with the [sacred] sites.
 
More sacred sites to discover
Circular debate on imperial Israel (TMW)
Many more sites in the area remain to be surveyed and described in published papers, Avner told Live Science. A "survey of a larger area yielded to date 349 [sacred] sites," he said, adding that researchers are preparing these finds for publication.
 
"The number of [sacred] sites recorded to date suggests that many more still await discovery," the researchers wrote." Many more may be found on the mountains of the Negev, southern Jordan and Sinai."
 
One "may think now of a vast phenomenon, of hundreds of mountain [sacred] sites in the desert." More from Live Science

The same "worship" in Thailand and Japan
Amber Larson and Dhr. Seven, Wisdom Quarterly (COMMENTARY)
(RT) Russia's RuptlyTV in Thailand: Want babies? Pray to the penis (phallus) totems.
 
Undine (yoni mudra?) (W)
Buddhist countries greatly influenced by the ancient Indus Valley Civilization and Indian "Hindu" (a catchall term for all the practices once prevalent in and around the Indus river) traditions, also worship phallic and vulvic symbols like the lingam and yoni.

This may also have something to do with their indigenous pre-Buddhist (shamanic, pagan, earth-based) traditions. There was and still is "nature spirit" worship. The woodland "spirits" are earthbound-devas ("fairies," elementals) in Thailand (called nats in fellow Theravada Buddhist countries in Southeast Asia, Burma, Cambodia, and Laos) and the kami of Shintoism in Japan.

(RT) Japan: Hundreds pray to giant penises...and eat little ones. (WQ) Few Westerners realize how sexually uninhibited Japan is, a world closed off to non-Japanese tourists. We are led to believe that Japan is inhibited and uncomfortable when it is us. Live there and find out.
 
In the West we call penis festivals "raves."
Hundreds "worshipped" the phallus at the Penis Festival, also known as the Honen Matsuri, or Harvest Festival, in Tagata (a Shinto not Buddhist) Shrine in Komaki. It is a fertility festival, which is believed to increase the fertility of both men and women who attend, while also boosting the health of mothers and babies. Many souvenirs in the shape of penis are available to visitors, including penis-shaped lollipops and ice-cream sticks.
Phallic Shiva lingam (Hinduism.about.com)
Phallus, Penis, Linga: What is behind the God Shiva being represented as a linga? The popular belief is that the Shiva linga or lingam represents the phallus, the emblem of the generative power in nature. But according to Swami Sivananda, this is not only a serious mistake, but also a grave blunder. In Sanskrit, linga means a "mark" or a symbol, which points to an inference. Thus, the Shiva linga is a symbol of Lord Shiva -- a mark [or form] that reminds us of the Omnipotent Lord, which is formless. A Shiva linga speaks to the devotee in the unmistakable language of silence, and it is only the outward symbol of the formless being... More
 
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