#solarphallic

The cult of Baal at Emesa represented by the vigorous prick of Elagabal, the black god, paralleled, through its complex and overloaded rites, the cult of Tanith-Astarte, the moon, which held sway a few kilometres away, in the fragrant depths of the temple of Hierapolis. There it was, in this temple consecrated to woman's vagina, to her deified sex, that a sweating and bearded Apollo would emerge during the main festivals and would consecrate his oracles through the voice of the high priest, advancing or retiring upon the shoulders of his bearers. This Apollo all in gold, with a thick fringe of black horsehair affixed beneath his chin, arrives borne on mens' backs, carried by a dozen or so tottering bearers who can scarcely manage to support his weight. The crowd bows down. The incense rises, as if streaming from every orifice.

Elagabalus was the erectile member, at once human and divine. The erectile member and the forceful member. The memberforce that shares itself and is shared, to be used only when shared. The erectile member is the sun, the cone of reproduction upon earth, as Elagabalus the earthly sun is the cone of reproduction in heaven. He must therefore become the sun, pass into Elagabalus himself, change his way of existence.