Wednesday, December 15, 2004

Priapus

In Greek religion, a god of animal and vegetable fertility whose cult was originally located in the Hellespontine regions, centring especially on Lampsacus. He was represented in a caricature of the human form, grotesquely misshapen, with an enormous phallus. The ass was sacrificed in his honour, probably because the ass symbolized lecherousness and was associated

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