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Moreover, Jeremiah complains that even the remnant who fled to
Egypt after the fall of Jerusalem would not abandon this custom, and to
his protests gave an answer which explains exactly the purpose of these
obscene emblems, and of similar incidents connected with the worship of
the great Fertility Goddess, who by then had largely absorbed the
attributes of the Moon, just as her son and lover has partly absorbed those
of the Sun.
They “answered” Jeremiah saying 5 , “The Word that thou hast
spoken unto us in the name of the Lord we will not hearken unto thee, but
will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth out of our own mouth, to burn
incense unto the Queen of Heaven and to pour out drink offerings unto
her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the
cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; for then had we plenty of
bread, and were well, and saw no evil. But since we left off to burn
incense to the Queen of Heaven and to pour out drink offerings unto her,
we have wanted all and have been consumed by the sword and by the
famine.
“And when we burned incense to the Queen of Heaven and
poured out drink offerings unto her, did we make her cakes to worship her
and pour out drink offerings to her without our men (husbands).” 6
From this answer we learn that the worshippers believed that
unless they offered the Goddess these Phallic cakes they would receive
from her no harvest. The reason is clear: the corn God represents the seed
which is buried in the womb of the earth. The male organ of the drone bee
is literally plucked out by the Queen bee and remains embedded in her for
the rest of her life; it is in this way that she is fertilised, but at the cost of
the life of the drone. In like manner Attis and Tammuz die that the earth
may be fertile, hence the reason why the Priests of Cybele and of Artemis
at Ephesus had to castrate themselves and offer up their male organs to
the Goddess.
Therefore the Jewish women, like other worshippers of the Great
Goddess, offered as substitutes for the male organs of their husbands,
models made out of the “Flesh” of the slain corn God, and poured out
5
Jeremiah 44. 16 sq.
6
It was the women alone who carried the obscene emblems in the
procession of Isis in Egypt. Frazer. “Adonis” Vol. 2. p. 112
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