The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-10-13
character like an elongated T turned upside

character like an elongated / turned upsiuc
down On the left hand occur seven symbois,
one placed below the other, and beginning Nv
the top with exact reproductions OF the arena
ic Greek letters SSgWd and upStt0h. oeioW
these come in order IA cross, Il fish, water
cooler, two parallel marks, and second flsh.
To the right of the central figures are nVc
symbols, beginning, as in the other case, win
two letters Of the Greek alphabet, also OF me
archaic or most ancient form. lhcsc are lhe
semicurcular terminal Sigad ana thc 0'-t'
Next comes serpent then lizard ana lasty
II male identical in form with the Egyptian
hieroclvph representing military dominion or
imperial rule \ queer mixture surely, and TO
the casual observer Il most unmeaning one.
But, pardon the apparent DEPRESSION, oh gentle
reader did YOU ever hear OF such Il thing aN
Phalllc worship? or did you ever associate Inc
cross with 0hsccnity or the church-Splrc with
RIGHTEOUSNESS? Yet the Pha!lic faith Is world
old, and the cross and spirc are not rmoiemN
of crucified Redccmcr hut rather Il legacy
to Christianity from passionate and sensual
past which dcfed sex and adorcd the genera
tive principle rs its sole divinity Modern re-,
search and modern science having achieved
their everlasting divorce from prclacy, declare
that the Fhalic belief, which was born IN me
mysticism Of Egypt, and nouriNhed IN ih"
crccds OF Asia, gained is majority IN the pan
theism of Greece only to attain Il ripe old age
within the church OF God. SO, II would ap-
pear that the religious Of every age and three
continents have found their highest refine
ment, and their loftc,t tcncntS spring from
that elder idoatry which bowed 10 the many
named, poly-unc deity whom the Romans
knew as the God Priapus. EmblcmS of the
sacred four the triad and the unit the |
and the q everywhere came To light ana to!u
in thousand ways the mystic tale of ANA
Asher and llea. Only here, within the Dor
ders of America, were no traces OF this ven
cradle religion discovered and, until recent
w, 1t seemed that the early jewellers Of this
tar-oH land had been more yrtuouS or less en-
lightened than their contemporaries beyond the
broad Atlantic. The Rockford tablet, howcv
er must claim for It's designers kinship with
the peoples of the Orient and Levant. TO eX-
plain In its integrity the Phallic religion
was-and is, for it still tlourisheS in India
il dualism which deiicd separately or both to-
gether both male and female life. Its votaries
drew from nature and from artifCc numcrous
symbols TO represent the central idea of their
truth. EigAt otNc characters sVak tn IT, sur
face If TIE Roci1ord nbict olr idHticdl ,Cdh
the sacrcj signs perUiidr to tie rorshiP # ser.
Besides these the mace, the fishes and the wa
ter-coolcr have their duplicates in hcroglyph-
IT, inscrintiors and lastly ihp stone itself is in
size, and general appearance, a.
Of the votivc tablets which are
ancient phmnicians Tho diamond, and half
which form tine bordering of the
sf"nr arr fb~ double trianoIcs Which, even to
,hi. dov ,ro in Tine BuIdhi.t ys;,L as.oriotpd
with the worship Of " loui 90 or the unit -
words m endIpss r,Innlir1rion and douhIinr
NJ ,ha .i,rn which ,.mr inin written lanruooa
~, tI,o l7raor. ia',cr F,pt mo SIM and he
now, moon ~ Jos.rihal snrno n.rnTranLu
aL"ro n,ai,c M, thn :, s,craJ fonr =, md fine
r. henoat% tbon, i. tba usnaI anhIrm nf thc
triad i,inIrcJ mcanin~ nrohabIv lurj,, in
IN" cro.. on tho lrf anG in me ro .at If mar
oIIL l;nos inic,scctir". canh other As for tha
s ,r, If bas from, lime immrmoria been sa
crod hotb in wisdom and desire
So mmr, we nqv rlran from fine Rockford
,olJot ,,itLnrt oftomntinr tn cIuciI,tn tho