>>518784772 (OP)
It was this "downward flow of light" from proto Saturn and its placental cloud which the ancients likened to the god's single leg and/or his penis.
In some instances, the god himself was considered to have been nothing more than the phallus of Creation.
Consequently, one of the meanings of the name of the Hindu Creator, "Prajapati", is the male organ of generation. More revealing is a passage in the Linga Purana which has been interpreted to mean that:
>"Pradhana, the primary unevolved matter, the cause of the universe is Linga itself. At the root of Linga the creator Brahma is stationed."
Here not only do we again find a reference to the placental cloud as the "un-evolved matter," but its direct association with the linga, that is phallus, as also with Brahma who (is also a personification of the Saturnian Sun) originated as an avatar of Saturn.
Curiously, in the "Bhagavata Purana", there is presented the image of a cosmic porpoise with the planet Saturn itself projected on its generative organ.
Of most importance is the fact that, in some cases, a phallus "sculptured in granite, marble, or ivory," which used to be kept "in the inmost recess, or sanctuary" of Hindu temples, was "surmounted by a golden star."
A similar colossal phallus was presented by Ptolemy Philadelphus to the temple of Osiris in Alexandria.
