Citations:pornographico-devotional


 * 1939, Arnold Joseph Toynbee, , volume V: The Disintegrations of Civilizations: Part One, (second edition, 1961), page 531:
 * This Egyptiac conception of a single universal godhead manifesting itself under a host of local names was not only extended from Re of Heliopolis to Amon-Re of Thebes. In an age when the Egyptiac Civilization itself was on the eve of extinction we find an Egyptiac Isis who by this time had conquered a spiritual empire for herself in an alien Hellenic World laying claim to the same Protean universality in her epiphany to the hero of Apuleius’s pornographico-devotional romance.