When the Cigar Becomes a Phallus - Part 1

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WHEN THE CIGAR BECOMES A PHALLUS

 

by Vishal Agarwal and Kavalai Venkat

 

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Contents of Part 1

 

1. Introductory Remarks

 

· Who wrote the Mahabharata?

 

2. Misuse of Textual Sources

 

· Dubious Vedic textual references

· Mythology of Ganesa and abuse of Pauranic Texts

· Questionable methodology

· Elephant Mythology & Omission of Important texts

· (Mis)-Dating of the Pauranic texts

· A Beheading by the Compassionate One (Buddhacarita)

· Eroticization of Gajalakshmi (Vishnu Purana)

· Creation of Mankind from The Arse (Bhagavata Purana and Linga

Purana)

· Misinterpretations of Kurma Purana

· 'Sexual Fluids' (Vamana Purana)

· Misrepresentation of Gajendra Moksa episode (Bhagavata Purana)

· Imagining an Incestuous Rape (Devibhagavata Purana)

· Creator of Obstacles or Remover of Obstacles?

· Puranas and Conspiracy Theories (Vamana Purana)

· Parvati's aggression against Ganesa – Dubious passage in Varaha

Purana

· Who is elder – Ganesa or Skanda?

 

Contents of Part II

 

3. The Cigar now becomes a Phallus

 

· Opening remarks

· Paul Courtright invents a 'Limp Phallus'

· Indian Males in relation to Ganesa's Sexuality, Celibacy and Incest

· Ganesa as a Eunuch

· Modaka as a 'Toy'

· Sexualizing Hindu Initiation Ceremony (Upanayana)

· Marriage of Ganesa

· Ganesa as a trickster

 

4. The Worship of Ganesa

 

Acknowledgements