Christ Conspiracy_ The Greatest Story Ever Sold - Acharya S [169]
. . . an Israelite who was swearing an oath would customarily solemnize it by grasping the penis of the man to whom he was making the affirmation.... Before the death of Israel (Jacob), he called his son Joseph to his deathbed, and as Joseph grasped his father's penis, Israel made his son promise that he would take his remains out of Egypt [Gen. 47:29-311 ... 10
Regarding this practice, Walker elaborates:
Patriarchal Semites worshipped their own genitals, and swore binding oaths by placing a hand on each other's private parts, a habit still common among the Arabs. Words like testament, testify, and testimony still attest to the oaths sworn on the testicles.
Walker also explains another biblical phallic euphemism and custom:
Biblical writers called the penis a "sinew that shrank," lying "upon the hollow of the thigh." This was the sinew that Jacob lost in his duel with "a man who was a god." . . . The garbled story of Jacob and the god-man was inserted chiefly to support the Jews' taboo on eating a penis (Genesis 32:32), formerly a habit of sacred kings upon their accession to the throne. The genitals of the defeated antagonist were eaten by the victor, to pass the phallic spirit from one "god" to the next. 12
Furthermore, the "pillars" and "groves" of the biblical peoples were in fact lingams, or phalluses, and yonis, or vulvas, and the "household idols" of the patriarchs and heroes were smaller phallic symbols. For example, at Genesis 28:10 and 35:14 Jacob himself is represented as engaging in the very ancient practice of anointing the sacred "pillars," or phallic symbols, which was quite common in Israel.13
Hebrew Homosexuality
In addition to these episodes of fetishism and homoeroticism is the peculiar story in the first book of Samuel about the great king David and his enemy Saul's son Jonathan, who apparently falls in love with David:
And Jonathan stripped himself of his robe that was upon him and gave it to David, and his garments, even to his sword, and to his bow, and to his girdle.... And Saul spoke to Jonathan his son, and to all his servants, that they should kill David. But Jonathan Saul's son delighted much in David ...
Jonathan and David are then depicted kissing each other and weeping together. Later, it is not David who is killed but Jonathan, after whose death David moans, "I am very distressed for you, my brother Jonathan; very pleasant have you been to me; your love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women." The biblical passages certainly seem to be expressing something homoerotic. Of course, these scriptures must be overlooked by moralists, because the general biblical impression of homosexuality is extremely negative. Yet, we also discover that Israelites do in fact engage in "harlotry" with boys and that "male cult prostitutes" ("sodomites") are used even during Solomon's reign (1 Kings 14:24; 15:12) and remain in use centuries later when Josiah goes after them. The Hebrew word for these male cult or temple prostitutes, "qadesh," is the same as "qadash," which means holy, sacred and consecrated. Obviously, the preYahwist Semites had a very different opinion of these "sodomites." Ironically, the term "sodomite" was used by detractors to describe phallus-worshippers, i.e., the patriarchy.
Semitic Bestiality
In addition to the phallus-worship, biblical peoples engaged in bestiality, such a temptation evidently a serious problem, since the Lord had to condemn it several times over a period of hundreds of years, demonstrating an ongoing habit of the "chosen" shepherd tribes. In other words, that this perversion was common