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Serpent-Worship, and Other Essays, with a Chapter on Totemism

Note 38 — Chapter II · PHALLISM IN ANCIENT RELIGIONS.

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According to Gen., ii. 23, the name isha (woman) was bestowed by Adam on the first woman, because she was taken out of man (Ish)—terms which were used in reference to man and wife. This is shewn by the subsequent reference to marriage (v. 24). See Smith’s “Dictionary of the Bible”—Art. “Marriage.”

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