I discovered a late Roman mystic inscription in which are the following representations:
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These symbols are easily read: Sun—Phallus, Moon—Vagina
(Uterus). This interpretation is confirmed by
another figure of the same collection. There the same
representation is found, only the vessel[70] is replaced by
the figure of a woman. The impressions on coins, where
in the middle a palm is seen encoiled by a snake, flanked
by two stones (testicles), or else in the middle a stone
encircled by a snake; to the right a palm, to the left a
shell (female genitals[71]), should be interpreted in a
similar manner. In Lajard's "Researches" ("The Cult
of Venus") there is a coin of Perga, where Artemis of
Perga is represented by a conical stone (phallic) flanked
by a man (claimed to be Men) and by a female figure
(claimed to be Artemis). Men (the so-called Lunus) is
found upon an Attic bas-relief apparently with the spear
but fundamentally a sceptre with a phallic significance,
flanked by Pan with a club (phallus) and a female
figure.[72] The traditional representation of the Crucified
flanked by John and Mary is closely associated with this
circle of ideas, precisely as is the Crucified with the
thieves. From this we see how, beside the Sun, there
emerges again and again the much more primitive com-
