Elements of Hindu Iconography v2.c15.64

v2.c15.64

The orgies and revels in lascivious acts was also the characteristic feature in all countries in which phallic worship was practised; in Greece, in Alexandria, in fact the whole of the Mediterranean Coast the revelries differed in no way from those in existence among the early Indian Śaiva sects. The initiation and other ceremonies belonging to these Priaptic cults, might possibly have been refined by such intellectual and moral men as Socrates, Pythogoras and others, and very likely the reformed cults have descended to or been copied by the modern Freemasons.