"Yoni" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... indigenes with Osiris Unnefer ("Hare God"). These are the lines upon which investigation should run. And of late years there is a notable improvement of tone in treating of symbolism or idolatry: the Lingam and the Yoni are now described as "mystical representations, and perhaps the best possible impersonal representatives of the abstract expressions paternity and maternity" (Prof. Monier Williams in "Folk-lore Record" vol. ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 10 • Richard F. Burton
... most part the same subtle struggle for supremacy, the remnants of which we note today among the different religious creeds and sects, waged, and waxed stronger, with time and opposition. Which was the more worthy of deification—the yoni, or the phallus? ...
— Sex=The Unknown Quantity - The Spiritual Function of Sex • Ali Nomad |
