[DULAURE, Jacques-Antoine]. Des divinités génératrices, ou du culte du phallus chez les Anciens et les Modernes. 1805.

Paris, Dentu, 1805.

8vo (212x137 mm), (4)-xxiv-427-(1) pages. Lack of pages 419 to 422 of table of contents.  binding : Original wrappers. Spine chipped. Fresh copy. 

references: Ellenberger [ 506 : " Wide investigations of sexual symbolism in cults, myths and religions had been carried out throughout the nineteenth century. The pioneer of these studies, J.A. Dulaure, contended that early civilizations who worshiped the sun incorporated its regenerative forces into the image of the phallus. He described at length the cult of the phallus and its symbolism, with innumerable examples from ancient civilizations. This book had enormous success, and popularized the idea that a universal cult of the phallus had existed"].

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