2, 33, 5:
"He who opens up the sweet, who listens to our calls, the ruddy one, with the beautiful helmet, may he not give us over to the powers of jealousy.
(6) "I have been rejoiced by the bull connected with Marut, the supplicating one with strong force of life.
(8) "Sound the powerful song of praise to the ruddy bull to the white shining one; worship the flaming one with honor, we sing of the shining being Rudra.
"May Rudra's missile (arrow) not be used on us, may the great displeasure of the shining one pass us by: Unbend the firm (bow or hard arrow?) for the princes, thou who blessest with the waters of thy body (generative strength), be gracious to our children and grandchildren."[26]
In this way we pass from the realm of mother symbolism
imperceptibly into the realm of male phallic
symbolism. This element also lies in the tree, even in
the family tree, as is distinctly shown by the mediæval
family trees. From the first ancestor there grows upward,
in the place of the "membrum virile," the trunk
of the great tree. The bisexual symbolic character of the
tree is intimated by the fact that in Latin trees have a
masculine termination and a feminine gender.[27] The
feminine (especially the maternal) meaning of the forest
and the phallic significance of trees in dreams is well
known. I mention an example.
It concerns a woman who had always been nervous, and who, after many years of marriage, became ill as a result of the typical retention of the libido. She had the following dream after she had learned to know a young man of many engaging free opinions who was very pleasing to her: She found herself in a garden where stood
