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    "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams",
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    "learning": "Distinguish manifest content from latent thoughts, recognize mechanisms of dream-work, and keep every interpretation at the level of a hypothesis.",
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            "text": "»Dies ist das Quirlholz; das Zeugende (das männliche Reibholz) ist zubereitet! Bring die Stammesherrin (das weibliche Reibholz) herbei; den Agni wollen wir quirln nach alter Art. In den beiden Reibhölzern ruht der Wesenkenner (Agni) gleich der Leibesfrucht, die schön hineingesetzt ist in die schwangeren Frauen . . . In sie, die die Beine ausgespreizt hat, fährt als ein Kundiger ein (das männliche Holz).« (205) Wenn der Inder Feuer entzündet, dann spricht er ein heiliges Gebet, welches auf eine Mythe Bezug nimmt. Er ergreift ein Stück Holz mit den Worten: »Du bist des Feuers Geburtsort«, legt darauf zwei Grashalme. »Ihr seid die beiden Hoden«, darauf ergreift er das unten liegende Holz: »Du bist Urvaci«. Darauf salbt er das Holz mit Butter und sagt dabei: »Du bist Kraft«, stellt es dann auf das liegende Holz und sagt dazu: »Du bist Pururavas« usw. Er faßt also das liegende Holz mit seiner kleinen Höhlung als die Repräsentation der empfangenden Göttin und das stehende Holz als das Geschlechtsglied des begattenden Gottes auf. Über die Verbreitung dieser Vorstellung sagt der bekannte Ethnologe Leo Frobenius (206) : »Das Feuerquirlen, wie es bei den meisten Völkern zu finden ist, repräsentiert also bei den alten Indern den Geschlechtsakt. Es sei mir erlaubt, gleich darauf hinzuweisen, daß die alten Inder mit dieser Auffassung nicht allein dastehen. Die Südafrikaner haben nämlich dieselbe Anschauung. Das liegende Holz heißt bei ihnen ›weibliche Scham‹, das stehende ›das Männliche‹. Schinz hat dies seinerzeit für einige Stämme erklärt und seitdem ist die weite Verbreitung dieser Anschauung in Südafrika und zwar besonders bei den im Osten wohnenden Stämmen aufgefunden worden.«",
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            "text": "“This is the churning stick; the generative implement (the male friction stick) is prepared! Bring forth the mistress of the tribe (the female friction stick); we shall churn Agni in the ancient manner. In the two friction sticks rests the knower of beings (Agni), like the fruit of the womb that is beautifully placed within pregnant women . . . Into her, who has spread her legs, he enters as one skilled in the act (the male stick).” (205) When the Indian kindles a fire, he recites a sacred prayer that refers to a myth. He takes up a piece of wood with the words: “You are the birthplace of fire,” and places two blades of grass upon it. “You are the two testicles.” Then he takes up the lower piece of wood: “You are Urvaci.” He then anoints the wood with butter, saying: “You are strength,” sets it upright upon the recumbent wood, and says: “You are Pururavas,” and so on. Thus he understands the recumbent wood, with its small hollow, as the representation of the receptive goddess, and the upright wood as the genital organ of the copulating god. On the prevalence of this conception, the well-known ethnologist Leo Frobenius says (206): “The churning of fire, then, as it is found among most peoples, represents the sexual act among the ancient Indians. Allow me to point out at once that the ancient Indians are not alone in this conception. The South Africans hold the same view. Among them the recumbent wood is called ‘female pudenda,’ and the upright wood ‘the male.’ Schinz once established this for several tribes, and since then the wide prevalence of this conception has been discovered in South Africa, particularly among the tribes living in the east.”",
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            "text": "« Voici le bois à baratter ; le générateur (le bois de friction mâle) est préparé ! Amène la maîtresse de la tribu (le bois de friction femelle) ; nous voulons baratter Agni selon l’usage ancien. Dans les deux bois de friction repose celui qui connaît les êtres (Agni), pareil au fruit du corps, bellement déposé dans les femmes enceintes... En elle, qui a écarté les jambes, il pénètre en connaisseur (le bois mâle). » (205) Lorsque l’Indien allume du feu, il prononce une prière sacrée qui se rapporte à un mythe. Il saisit un morceau de bois en disant : « Tu es le lieu de naissance du feu », puis y pose deux brins d’herbe. « Vous êtes les deux testicules » ; ensuite, il saisit le bois placé en dessous : « Tu es Urvaci. » Puis il oint le bois de beurre en disant : « Tu es la force », le dresse ensuite sur le bois couché et ajoute : « Tu es Pururavas », etc. Il conçoit donc le bois couché, avec sa petite cavité, comme la représentation de la déesse qui reçoit, et le bois dressé comme l’organe génital du dieu qui s’accouple. À propos de la diffusion de cette conception, l’ethnologue bien connu Leo Frobenius écrit (206) : « Le barattage du feu, tel qu’on le trouve chez la plupart des peuples, représente donc, chez les anciens Indiens, l’acte sexuel. Qu’il me soit permis de signaler aussitôt que les anciens Indiens ne sont pas seuls à partager cette conception. Les Sud-Africains ont en effet la même manière de voir. Chez eux, le bois couché s’appelle “parties honteuses féminines”, et le bois dressé “le masculin”. Schinz l’avait autrefois indiqué à propos de quelques tribus, et l’on a découvert depuis combien cette conception était largement répandue en Afrique du Sud, particulièrement parmi les tribus établies à l’est. »",
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