Freyr was associated with sacral kingship, virility and prosperity, with sunshine and fair weather, and was pictured as a phallic fertility god, Freyr " bestows peace and pleasure on mortals ".

A red hippo represented the Ancient Egyptian god Set ; the thigh is the ' phallic leg of set ' symbolic of virility.

The story may be the poet's invention, as seems to be the threatened rape of the virginal and venerable Vesta by the phallic god Priapus narrated later in Book 6 ( June ).

Before his role as protector of merchants and travelers, Hermes was a phallic god, associated with fertility, luck, roads and borders.

The fish form may be considered as a phallic symbol as seen in the story of the Egyptian grain god Osiris, whose penis was eaten by ( conflated with ) fish in the Nile after he was attacked by the Typhonic beast Set.

Others have viewed them as having phallic symbolism, an idea which was purported by Thomas Hobbes, who erroneously believed that the poles dated back to the Roman worship of the god Priapus.

The indecent finger features again in a mocking context in the Priapeia, a collection of poems relating to the phallic god Priapus.

A female artist paints a statue of the phallic god Priapus

In the upper registers, feast and honour of the phallic god Min, god of fertility.

" Freyr " ( 1901 ) by Johannes Gehrts, The god associated with sacral kingship, virility and prosperity, with sunshine and fair weather, and was pictured as a phallic fertility god.

The Priapeia is a collection of ninety-five poems in various meters on subjects pertaining to the phallic god Priapus.

* Lakambakod ( Lachan Bacor ) – a phallic god who was the protector of the growing crops and healer of diseases.

Throughout ancient Pompeii, erotic frescoes, depictions of the god Priapus, sexually explicit symbols, inscriptions, and even household items ( such as phallic oil lamps ) were found.

The motifs for stone carvings are mainly myriads of lingams ( phallic symbol of Hindu god Shiva ), depicted as neatly arranged bumps that cover the surface of a sandstone bed rock, and lingam-yoni designs.

This puts him in a company of phallic or half-animal tutors of the gods, a group that includes Priapus, Hermaphroditus, Cedalion and Chiron, but also includes Pallas, the tutor of Athena.

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Notoriously, Knight's first book, The Worship of Priapus, sought to recover the importance of ancient phallic cults.

The phallic shape of the piece scandalized the Salon, and despite Brâncuși's explanation that it was an anonymous portrait, removed it from the exhibition.

One was the giant Tityos, a phallic being who grew so vast that he split his mother's womb and had to be carried to term by Gaia herself.

In 1951 she gave a lecture about treatment of homosexuality which was criticised by Edmund Bergler, who emphasised the oral fears of patients and minimized the importance of the phallic castration fears she had discussed.

It was decorated again with mythological themes, phallic symbols and other items of a sexual nature.

Mining obscure and invented words for double entendres was a feature of Larry Grayson's act, who preferred to use well-known words with phallic connotations ( e. g. barge-pole ) in his particular version of comedy.

Both David Sweetman and John Richardson point to the Gauguin sculpture called Oviri ( literally meaning ' savage '), the gruesome phallic figure of the Tahitian goddess of life and death that was intended for Gauguin's grave, exhibited in the 1906 retrospective exhibition that even more directly led to Les Demoiselles.

According to Vivekananda, the explanation of the Shalagrama-Shila as a phallic emblem was an imaginary invention.

Vivekananda argued that the explanation of the Shiva-Linga as a phallic emblem was brought forward by the most thoughtless, and was forthcoming in India in her most degraded times, those of the downfall of Buddhism.

In ancient Lavinium, he was a phallic deity.

But at the entry to the sanctuary, which has been thoroughly excavated, the Roman antiquary Varro learned that there had been twin pillars of brass, phallic hermae, and that in the sanctuary it was understood that the child of the Goddess, Cadmilus, was in some mystic sense also her consort.

According to the De Dea Syria, the worship was of a phallic character, votaries offering little male figures of wood and bronze.

His reference was doubly salacious, referring to both the bark tea's contraceptive qualities and the phallic symbolism of the hard wood.

Others argue that some form of Midsummer pole occurred in Sweden during the pre-Christian times, and was a phallic fertility symbol, meant to impregnate the earth, but as there were no records from those times it cannot be proven, and this idea might just be a modern interpretation of the pole's form.

The Greeks and Romans recognized same-sex attraction, but as any sexual act was believed to require that one of the partners be " phallic " and that therefore sex between women was impossible without this feature, popular mythology pictured lesbians as either having enlarged clitorises or as incapable of sexual enjoyment without the substitution of a phallus.

Portrait of Payne Knight by Thomas Lawrence ( painter ) | Sir Thomas LawrenceRichard Payne Knight ( 15 February 1750 – 23 April 1824 ) was a classical scholar, connoisseur, archaeologist and numismatist best known for his theories of picturesque beauty and for his interest in ancient phallic imagery.

According to Simon Reynolds, in some quarters synthesizers were seen as instruments for " effete poseurs ", in contrast to the phallic guitar.

At times, ' ceremonies intended to assure the fecundity of the earth or of a group of women ... involve some form of phallic worship '.

Some three years later Empress Carlota of Mexico visited Uxmal ; in preparation for her visit local authorities had some statues and architectural elements depicting phallic themes removed from the ancient façades.

The fact that the passionate descriptions of copulatory acts in Fanny Hill are written by a man from the point of view of a woman, and the fact that Fanny is obsessed by phallic size, have led some critics to suggest it is a homoerotic work.

Geoduck is regarded by some as an aphrodisiac because of its phallic shape.

Readers sympathetic to the passage may be connecting it to the opinion that Beethoven's music is in some way " phallic " or " hegemonic ," terms often used in modern feminist studies scholarship.

Surviving examples of Germanic effigies, such as the phallic idol recovered in a bog in Broddenbjerg, Denmark, show that amongst some of the continental Germanic peoples at least, religious idols were naturally human-like wooden shapes that had been roughly carved to make their appearance more humanlike.

During the ages 4 – 6, ( the phallic stage ), a male child undergoes what Freud calles the " Oedipus complex ", meaning the desire to kill one's father and commit incest with one's mother.

He explains that by this he means the very simple fact that, if women are interested in phallic signifiers, paraphernalia or whatever, it is only as a means to reach men's desire, and in the strict function as this desire touches them.