Fantasticity

The worship of phalluses which is another frequently-met feature of early religions leaves the superficial modern observer equally aghast on account of its fantasticity when he is not overwhelmed by its indecency.

Again to give you some idea of the fantasticity of crassitude and of violence, Balitsky, head of the G.P.U. in the Ukraine, estimated eight to nine million died in the Ukraine alone in the nineteen-thirties, not to mention those who died of starvation in the Urals, Trans-Volga and Eastern Siberia.

Imagine the fantasticity of a 120 square-yard plot in the F.B. Area selling at Rs. 60,000 to Rs. 70,000!

Perhaps the ancient authors all exaggerated the fantasticity or the universality of the rite, omitting to mention that a large proportion failed each year to see the "great light," or become "possessed" by the gods, or know the "rivalry between seeing and hearing."