(19) "Without hands, without feet, He moveth, He graspeth: Eyeless He seeth, (and) earless He heareth: He knoweth what is to be known, yet is there no knower of Him. Him call the first, mighty the Man.
(20) "Smaller than small, (yet) greater than great in the heart of this creature the self doth repose . . . etc."
The phallus is the being, which moves without limbs,
which sees without eyes, which knows the future; and as
symbolic representative of the universal creative power
existent everywhere immortality is vindicated in it. It is
always thought of as entirely independent, an idea current
not only in antiquity, but also apparent in the pornographic
drawings of our children and artists. It is a seer,
an artist and a worker of wonders; therefore it should
not surprise us when certain phallic characteristics are
found again in the mythological seer, artist and sorcerer.
Hephaestus, Wieland the smith, and Mani, the founder
of Manicheism, whose followers were also famous, have
crippled feet. The ancient seer Melampus possessed a
suggestive name (Blackfoot),[8] and it seems also to be
typical for seers to be blind. Dwarfed stature, ugliness
and deformity have become especially typical for those
mysterious chthonian gods, the sons of Hephaestus, the
Cabiri,[9] to whom great power to perform miracles was
ascribed. The name signifies "powerful," and the Samothracian
cult is most intimately united with that of the ithyphallic
Hermes, who, according to the account of Herodotus,
was brought to Attica by the Pelasgians. They are
also called [Greek: megaloi theoi], the great gods. Their near
relations are the "Idaean dactyli" (finger or Idaean
