கடவுளைக் குறிக்கப் பெண் குறியும் வழங்கின,1 எலோகிம் வழிபாடே இந்தியாவில் ஆவுடையார் வழிபாடாகும். பண்டைய இலிங்கங்கள் தூண் வடிவின, ஆண் பெண்குறி வடிவுகள் ஐரோப்பாவிலே கிறித்தவ ஆலயங்களில் இன்றும் காண்ப்படுகின்றன.2 எருசலே மிலே ஒருகாலத்தில் ஒவ்வொரு வீதியிலும் இலிங்கங்கள் வைத்து வணங்கப்பட்டன.3 ஞாயிற்றையும் திங்களையும் ஒப்பத் தீயும் வழிபடப்பட்டது. இலிங்கம் தீயின் வடிவாகவும் கொண்டு வழிபடப்பட்டது.

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ஞாயிற்றையும் திங்களையும் ஒப்ப ஒளியுடைப் பொருளாகிய தீயும்

  1. The practice of (linga worship) was so general as to have spread itself over a large part of the habitable globe, for it flourished for many ages in Egypt and Syria, Persia, Asia minier, Greece and Italy; it still is in vigour in India and many parts of Africa and was even found in America on its discovery by the maniards. "being regarded as the most sacred objects of worship consecrated by religion, the cultus was associated with very idea and sentiment which was regarded as ennobling to man.........In Egypt the phallus is frequently represented by a symbol of generation. The Jews did not escape this worship; we see their women manufacturing Phalli of gold and silver as we find in Ezakijel. XVI 17 - Westroppe.

  2. Out what concerns us as civilized christians, is to inquire how it comes to pass that devices which tell solely of the adoration of the sexual organs of the male and female are still represented in our churches as if they were holy emblems........; Rimmon - the emblem of the prolific womb the celestial mother. Rimmon figures in many christian churches are found as it did in Syrian Temples--Ancient faiths embodied in ancient names; vol. 2. p. 650.

  3. That shameful thing which Jermiah reproachfully said had alters in every street of Jeruslem and which no doubt was the symbol of Jacobs ali - im - Short studies in the science of Comparative religions - P. 352.