Obelisks – Priapian Osirian Phallic Statuary - idols of
phalluses, total pagan Satanic idolatry
Some examples ancient and modern.
Egypt -
Karnak Temple, Luxor, Egypt
Kheper, Osirus or Amun with all three cast in the interchangeable role of the creator were all part of a myth that had the god creating all of creation as a physical essence that brought forth himself first by creating and speaking his own name and then making life to appear by a self-induced-male-genital-phallic-emission into the Nile River creating an island in the midst thereof - the versions of the myth vary. All the various Egyptian gods and goddesses (counting all the variations thereof) numbered most likely into the millions and all the religions and priesthoods that accrued therefrom were practically as many as there were individual temples. The Obelisk is first and foremost the Egyptian worship of the phallus of the male god. At Karnak, Egypt - the temple there (but this is covered up and not shown to visitors usually), this creation by the male devil god is particularly reflected in the wall murals that show Egyptians (priesthood) engaged in this above act of the male god in unison with the Nile and even with crocodiles at which point it is then bestiality as well. The original Priapos (Priapus) has its origin in this. The wall mural representations show the extreme enlarged member on the Egyptian priests engaged in this act - it is the same as the representation of Priapus' member in size and orientation (downward). The later upward orientation is after the myth of Set killing Osirus and Isis restoring all but Osirus' member and that then being declared by her to have special honor and worship. This is the exact original of the Obelisk. It is an obscene pagan Diabolic idol and nothing else.
Sodom and Gomorrah
Ancient Sodom and Gomorrah worshiped Osirus' phallus and the Great Devil Mother Goddess - for looking back at it Lot's wife was turned into a pillar - of salt.
13 places of Obelisk offense against God:
1) Washington D.C.
2) Jerusalem
3) Moscow
4) Beijing, China
5) Tokyo, Japan
6) Argentina
7) London
8) Austria
9) Constantinople (modern Istanbul, Turkey)
10) AEUR - Mussolini's United States of Europe Capital - today represents the European Continent State of Pan Europa
11) Axum, Ethiopia
12) Luxor, Egypt - Place Concorde and Grand Orient, Paris, France
The Obelisk shown came from Luxor, Egypt to Paris, France.
Place de la Concorde
Grand Orient Masonic Temple, Paris France.
13) Vatican City - Rome, Italy
Pri’a-pus. An old deity of fertility among the Greeks. In the Vulgate it refers to an obscene idol. Maacha, the mother of King Asa of Juda, was priestess of this abominable cult (3 Kings 15:13). Asa abolished it and destroyed the image (2 Paral. 15:16).
Note that Osirus and Isis in their bloody King Queen relationship produced a “son” which was actually the missing phallus of Osirus, Priapus. In Osirian-Sumerian Mesopotamian Babylonian Graeco-Egyptian religion that was the Obelisks erected in defiance of God to the sky to honor the Devil as Osirus the sky god conjured by the Great Devil Mother Triple Goddess Isis.
Strabo, Geography 13. 1. 12 (trans. Jones) (Greek geographer C1st B.C. to C1st A.D.) : "Priapos . . . was called the son of Dionysos and a Nymphe."
Pausanias, Description of Greece 9. 31. 2 (trans. Jones) (Greek travelogue C2nd A.D.) : "This god [Priapos] . . . is more revered [by the people of Lampsakos] than any other god, being called by them a son of Dionysos and Aphrodite."
Pseudo-Hyginus, Fabulae 160 (trans. Grant) (Roman mythographer C2nd A.D.) : "Sons of Mercurius [Hermes] : Priapus."
Suidas s.v. Priapos (trans. Suda On Line) (Byzantine Greek lexicon C10th A.D.) : "Priapos: was conceived from Zeus and Aphrodite; but Hera in a jealous rage laid hands by a certain trickery on the belly of Aphrodite and readied a shapeless and ugly and over-meaty babe to be born. His mother flung it onto a mountain; a shepherd raised it up. He had genitals [rising up] above his butt."
Ovid, Fasti 1. 391 ff (trans.Boyle) (Roman poetry C1st B.C. to C1st A.D.) : "A donkey, too, is killed for the countryside's stiff guard [Priapos]. The cause is shameful, but it suits the god. You were holding, Greece, the feast of grape-crowned Bacchus [Dionysos], celebrated by custom each third winter. The gods who serve Lyaeus [Dionysos] also attended and whoever is not hostile to play, namely Panes and young Satyri and goddesses who haunt streams and lonely wilds. Old Silenus came, too, on a sway-backed donkey, and the red-groined terror of timid birds [Priapos whose garden statue functioned as a scarecrow]. They discovered a grove suitable for party pleasures and sprawled on grass-lined couches. Liber [Dionysos] supplied wine, they had brought their own garlands, a brook gave water for frugal mixing. Naiades were there, some with hair flowing uncombed, others with locks artfully coiffured . . . Some generate tender fires inside the Satyri . . . But red Priapus, the garden's glory and protection, fell victim above all to Lotis. He desires her, he wants her, he sighs for her alone; he nods at her and pesters her with signs. Disdain defines the pretty, beauty is trailed by pride : she teases and scorns him with her looks. It was night. Wine induced slumber and prone bodies lay everywhere, conquered by sleep. Lotis rested furthest away, tired from partying, in the grass beneath some maple branches. Her lover rises and, holding his breath, tracks secretly and silently on tiptoe. When he had reached the snow-white Nympha's secluded bed, he took care his breathing was soundless. And now he was poised on the grass right next to her, and still she was filled with a mighty sleep. His joy soars; he draws the cover from her feet and starts the happy road to his desires. Then look, the donkey, Silenus' mount, brays loudly, and emits untimely blasts from its throat. The terrified Nympha leaps up, fends Priapus off, and awakens the whole grove with her flight. And the god, whose obscene part was far too ready, was ridiculed by all in the moon's light. The author of the clamour [the donkey] was punished with death. He's a victim dear to Hellespont's god."
Ovid, Metamorphoses 9. 346 ff (trans. Melville) : "There is a lake [in Oikhalia, Oechalia] whose shelving sides had shaped a sloping shore, and myrtles crowned the ridge . . . Near the lakeside was a water-lotus flowered, its crimson blooms like Tyrian dye, fair hope of fruit to come . . . this shrub was the Nymphe Lotis who fled Priapus's lechery and found changed features there but kept her name."
Ovid, Fasti 6. 319 ff (trans.Boyle) (Roman poetry C1st B.C. to C1st A.D.) : "Should I omit or recount your shame, red Priapus? It is a very playful, tiny tale. Coroneted Cybele [Rhea], with her crow of turrets, invites the eternal gods to her feast. She invites, too, Satyri and Nymphae, Rural-Spirits; Silenus is present, uninvited. It's not allowed and too long to narrate the gods' banquet: night was consumed with much wine. Some blindly stroll shadowy Ida's dells, or lie down and rest their bodies in the soft grass. Others play or are clasped by sleep; or link their arms and thump the green earth in triple quick step. Vesta [Hestia] lies down and takes a quiet, carefree nap, just as she was, her head pillowed by turf. But the red saviour of gardens [Priapos] prowls for Nymphai and goddesses, and wanders back and forth. He spots Vesta [Hestia]. It's unclear if he thought she was a Nympha or knew it was Vesta. He claims ignorance. He conceives a vile hope and tires to steal upon her, walking on tiptoe, as his heart flutters. By chance old Silenus had left the donkey he came on by a gently burbling stream. The long Hellespont's god was getting started, when it bellowed an untimely bray. The goddess starts up, frightened by the noise. The whole crowd fly to her; the god flees through hostile hands. Lampsacus slays this beast [the donkey] for Priapus, chanting : `We rightly give flames the informant's guts.' You remember, goddess, and necklace it with bread. Work ceases; the idle mills are silent."
Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 6 Fragment 4 (from Tertullian On the Crown 13. 4) : "The writer [Diodoros] gives even to Priapos fillets."
Pausanias, Description of Greece 9. 31. 2 (trans. Jones) (Greek travelogue C2nd A.D.) : "This god [Priapos] is worshipped where goats and sheep pasture or there are swarms of bees; but by the people of Lampsakos he is more revered than any other god."
Virgil, Georgics 4. 110 ff (trans. Fairclough) (Roman bucolic C1st B.C.) : "Let the watchmen against thieves and birds, guardian Priapus, lord of the Hellespont, protect them [the bees of the beehive] with his willow hook."
Suidas s.v. Priapos (trans. Suda On Line) (Byzantine Greek lexicon C10th A.D.) : "He [Priapos] was called Periapos in the Italian language and was honored amongst the shepherds. His image is a child with a big erect member."
Suidas s.v. Androsathon : "Androsathon (Man-pricked): Possessing large genitals [an epithet of Priapos]."
Strabo, Geography 8. 6. 24 (trans. Jones) (Greek geographer C1st B.C. to C1st A.D.) : "Orneai [in Sikyonia] is named after the river that flows past it. It is deserted now, although formerly it was well peopled, and had a temple of Priapos that was held in honor; and it was from Orneai that the Euphronios who composed the Priapeia calls the god ‘Priapos the Orneatan.’ Orneai is situated above the plain of the Sikyonians, but the country was possessed by the Argives."
Pausanias, Description of Greece 9. 31. 2 (trans. Jones) (Greek travelogue C2nd A.D.) : "[In the sanctuary of the Mousai (Muses) on Mount Helikon in Boiotia] is an image of Priapos worth seeing. This god is worshipped where goats and sheep pasture or there are swarms of bees; but by the people of Lampsakos (Lampsacus) he is more revered than any other god, being called by them a son of Dionysos and Aphrodite."
Strabo, Geography 13. 1. 12 (trans. Jones) (Greek geographer C1st B.C. to C1st A.D.) : "Priapos [i.e. Lampsakos] is a city on the sea, and also a harbor. Some say that it was founded by Milesians . . . It was named after Priapos, who was worshipped there; then his worship was transferred thither from Orneai near Korinthos (Corinth), or else the inhabitants felt an impulse to worship the god because he was called the son of Dionysos and a Nymphe; for their country is abundantly supplied with the vine, both theirs and the countries which border next upon it, I mean those of the Parianoi and the Lampsakenoi. At any rate, Xerxes [historical Persian general] gave Lampsakos to Themistokles to supply him with wine. But it was by people of later times that Priapos was declared a god, for even Hesiod does not know of him; and he resembles the Attic deities Orthane, Konisalos (Conisalus), Tykhon (Tychon), and others like them."
Pausanias, Description of Greece 9. 31. 2 (trans. Jones) (Greek travelogue C2nd A.D.) : "This god [Priapos] is worshipped where goats and sheep pasture or there are swarms of bees; but by the people of Lampsakos he [Priapos] is more revered than any other god, being called by them a son of Dionysos and Aphrodite."
Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 1. 30b (trans. Gullick) (Greek rhetorician C2nd to C3rd A.D.) : "Among the people of Lampsakos, Priepos who is the same as Dionysos, is held in honour and has the by-name Dionysos as well as Thriambos and Dithyrambos."
Ovid, Fasti 6. 319 ff (trans.Boyle) (Roman poetry C1st B.C. to C1st A.D.) : "Lampsacus slays this beast [the donkey] for Priapus, chanting: ‘We rightly give flames the informant's guts."
Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 2. 622 ff (trans. Mozley) (Roman epic C1st A.D.) : "Lampsacus whose dwellers no triennial festival of Bacchus nor Phrygian madness bids gather in secret caverns, but their own god [Priapos] hales them to Venus [Aphrodite]. High over the city they see his altars and the carvings of his towering shrine."
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PRIAPOS was [later] the rustic god of the bounty of the vegetable garden. He was also honoured as the protector of sheep, goats, bees, the vine and of all garden produce.
Priapos was depicted as a dwarfish man with a huge phallus, which symbolised garden fertility. His head was crowned with a peaked Phrygian cap, belying his [supposed] origin as a god native to the Mysian city of Lampsakos on the Hellespont. His cult was introduced into Greece and Italy, where his mythology were reinterpreted in Greek terms. Primitive statues of the god were traditionally set-up in vegetable plots to promote fertility with the added benefit of functioning as a type of "scarecrow" scaring away birds. The Greeks naturally described the god as the son of one of the phallic gods : either Hermes or Dionysos. His mother was usually Aphrodite.
Priapos was closely identified with various Greek phallic deities such as Dionysos, Hermes and the satyrs Orthanes and Tykhon.
The most famous extant depiction of Priapos is the Pompeian wall-painting {shown above - [not shown since it is obscene]}. Here he is depicted weighing his enormous member on a set of scales against the produce of the fields. He is crowned with a peaked Phrygian cap, wears Phrygian boots, and has a Bacchic, cone-tipped thyrsus resting by his side.
http://www.theoi.com/Georgikos/Priapos.html
Some examples ancient and modern.
Egypt -
Karnak Temple, Luxor, Egypt
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| Obelisks - Tuthmosis II on right and Queen Hatshepsut on left, Karnak Egypt |
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| Ramses II represented as Osiris at Temple at Karnak |
Kheper, Osirus or Amun with all three cast in the interchangeable role of the creator were all part of a myth that had the god creating all of creation as a physical essence that brought forth himself first by creating and speaking his own name and then making life to appear by a self-induced-male-genital-phallic-emission into the Nile River creating an island in the midst thereof - the versions of the myth vary. All the various Egyptian gods and goddesses (counting all the variations thereof) numbered most likely into the millions and all the religions and priesthoods that accrued therefrom were practically as many as there were individual temples. The Obelisk is first and foremost the Egyptian worship of the phallus of the male god. At Karnak, Egypt - the temple there (but this is covered up and not shown to visitors usually), this creation by the male devil god is particularly reflected in the wall murals that show Egyptians (priesthood) engaged in this above act of the male god in unison with the Nile and even with crocodiles at which point it is then bestiality as well. The original Priapos (Priapus) has its origin in this. The wall mural representations show the extreme enlarged member on the Egyptian priests engaged in this act - it is the same as the representation of Priapus' member in size and orientation (downward). The later upward orientation is after the myth of Set killing Osirus and Isis restoring all but Osirus' member and that then being declared by her to have special honor and worship. This is the exact original of the Obelisk. It is an obscene pagan Diabolic idol and nothing else.
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| mummified Egyptian crocodile - the Egyptians even loved (depraved and obscene) and worshiped (idolatrous and blasphemous) their crocodiles enough to even attempt to take them with them |
Sodom and Gomorrah
Ancient Sodom and Gomorrah worshiped Osirus' phallus and the Great Devil Mother Goddess - for looking back at it Lot's wife was turned into a pillar - of salt.
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| the pillar of salt - God's judgement on those who offend Him with the meaning of the Obelisks |
13 places of Obelisk offense against God:
1) Washington D.C.
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| Washington's Freemasonic Obelisk and White House |
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| Washington Monument Obelisk |
2) Jerusalem
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| Obelisk Jerusalem with magen star of Remphan idol setting |
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| Obelisk Israeli supreme court in occupied Palestine |
3) Moscow
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| Nike atop Moscow Obelisk |
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| Obelisk with a statue of Nike atop - Moscow |
4) Beijing, China
5) Tokyo, Japan
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| Tokyo Sky Tree (obelisk form) |
6) Argentina
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| Obelisk Buenos Aires Argentina |
7) London
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| London Obelisk |
8) Austria
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| Obelisk Fountain - Schönbrunn Palace - Vienna, Austria |
9) Constantinople (modern Istanbul, Turkey)
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| Obelisk of Theodosis, Constantinople 390 A.D. |
10) AEUR - Mussolini's United States of Europe Capital - today represents the European Continent State of Pan Europa
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| EUR outside Rome, Italy Obelisk |
11) Axum, Ethiopia
12) Luxor, Egypt - Place Concorde and Grand Orient, Paris, France
The Obelisk shown came from Luxor, Egypt to Paris, France.
Place de la Concorde
The French
Revolution was stated by Maosn any number of related “Freethinkers”
who at the Place de la Concorde in Paris (eastern end of the
Champs-Élysées in the 8th arrondissement) is where they destroyed
the statue of King Louis XV. In its place they erected the guillotine
that executed King Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette and a large number of
other innocent people out of the Masons insane Satanic hatred of
Christ and His followers.
Napoleon is a definite type of the
Antichrist. Napoleon's expedition departed France hoping to obtain an
obelisk for Napoleon. May 1830, Mohammed Ali, the Egyptian viceroy,
gave the Obelisk of Luxor to Charles X of France. This one was the
first obelisk taken out of Egypt in modern times. Two more for a
total of three obelisks in modern times were taken, to London and New
York. The Obelisk of Luxor now stands exactly where the Guillotine of
the Reign of Terror was used to commit Regicide in the murder of King
Louis XVI.
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| Place Concorde, Paris, France |
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| Place Concorde, Paris, France |
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| Place Concorde, Paris, France - Eiffel Tower in background |
The Grand Orient figured prominently in the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror and subsequently in the whole destruction of all of European Christian civilization, both Church and State, and most recently in the complete apostasy of the Roman Catholic Church beginning at Vatican II. Note the onerous phrase, the cry of the Reign of Terror, in the Masonic Hall of Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite. It is quite rightly said that the French Revolution and France herself since the French Revolution has not had any Liberty and no Equality and of Brotherhood, nary a shred.
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| Grand Orient, Paris France - French Revolution Antichristian Motto |
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| Grand Orient - Paris France |
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| Grand Orient - Paris France |
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| Grand Orient - Paris France |
13) Vatican City - Rome, Italy
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| St. Peter's Square, Vatican City with Vatican Isis female shape surrounding in embrace Osirus' Phallic Obelisk |
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| Statues of the Twelve Apostles gathered around Osirus' Phallic Obelisk |
From the Catholic Dictionary, 1950
PriapusPri’a-pus. An old deity of fertility among the Greeks. In the Vulgate it refers to an obscene idol. Maacha, the mother of King Asa of Juda, was priestess of this abominable cult (3 Kings 15:13). Asa abolished it and destroyed the image (2 Paral. 15:16).
Hermes Trimegistus
Hermes Trimegistus, the Thrice Holy Hermes of the pagans (“holy” here has nothing to do with what the true God determines is holy) is the final Graeco-Egyptian Almighty pagan devil-god that emerges from the whole milieu of the all the paganisms of the Middle East and is the base for all the Hellenic-bodhi-Hindu syncresis (time of Alexander the Great) religious later final forms of the gods and goddesses of the East and the later Mahayana Buddhist variations (including their concomitant Buddhas and Bodhisattvas forms). Priapus is an integral part of Hermes Trimegistus. This is the total base and form of Hermeticism.From below
“Titanes” - See St. Irenaeus. Teitans are Latins, Teitan spells 666 in Greek Isopsephia, which is the interpretation of Rev. 13:18 that St. Irenaeus gives for the number of the name of the Beast, the Antichrist, of his personal family name. He notes many names fit until the final one is revealed. Many of those names and applications of the number are typological of the Antichrist. 666 as applied to Solomon and his gold, 666 the number of the Great Devil Mother Goddess, 666 in the names of Antipopes of recent memory.Note that Osirus and Isis in their bloody King Queen relationship produced a “son” which was actually the missing phallus of Osirus, Priapus. In Osirian-Sumerian Mesopotamian Babylonian Graeco-Egyptian religion that was the Obelisks erected in defiance of God to the sky to honor the Devil as Osirus the sky god conjured by the Great Devil Mother Triple Goddess Isis.
“PRIAPUS IDENTIFIED WITH THE EGYPTIAN GOD MIN
Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 4. 6. 1. (trans. Oldfather) (Greek historian C1st B.C.) : "We shall at this point discuss Priapos and the myths related about him . . . The Aigyptians (Egyptians) in their myths about Priapos say that in ancient times the Titanes formed a conspiracy against Osiris [Dionysos Sabazios] and slew him, and then, taking his body and dividing it into equal parts among themselves, the slipped them secretly out of the house, but this organ alone they threw into the river, since no one of them was willing to take it with him. But Isis tracked down the murder of her husband, and after slaying the Titanes and fashioning the several pieces of his body into the shape of a human figure, she gave them to the priests with orders that they pay Osiris the honours of a god, but since the only member she was unable to recover was the organ of sex she commanded them to pay to it the honours of a god and set it up in their temples in an erect position. Now this is the myth about the birth of Priapos [who the author identifies with the Egyptian god Min] and the honours paid to him, as it is given by the ancient Aigyptians." “ENCYCLOPEDIAPRIA′PUS (Priapos), a son of Dionysus and Aphrodite (Paus. ix. 31. § 2; Diod. iv. 6; Tibull. i. 4. 7; Schol. ad Apollon. Rhod. i. 932). Aphrodite, it is said, had yielded to the embraces of Dionysus, but during his expedition to India, she became faithless to him, and lived with Adonis. On Dionysus' return from India, she indeed went to meet him, but soon left him again, and went to Lampsacus on the Hellespont, to give birth to the child of the god. But Hera, dissatisfied with her conduct, touched her, and, by her magic power, caused Aphrodite to give birth to a child of extreme ugliness, and with unusually large genitals. This child was Priapus. According to others, however, Priapus was a son of Dionysus and a Naiad or Chione, and gave his name to the town of Priapus (Strab. xiii. p. 587; Schol. ad Theocr. i. 21), while others again describe him as a son of Adonis, by Aphrodite (Tzetz. ad Lyc. 831), as a son of Hermes (Hygin. Fab.160), or as the son of a long-eared father, that is, of Pan or a Satyr (Macrob. Sat. vi. 5). The earliest Greek poets, such as Homer, Hesiod, and others, do not mention this divinity, and Strabo (xiii. p. 558) expressly states, that it was only in later times that he was honoured with divine worship, and that he was worshipped more especially at Lampsacus on the Hellespont, whence he is sometimes called Hellespontiacus (Ov.Fast. i. 440, vi. 341; Arnob. iii. 10). We have every reason to believe that he was regarded as the promoter of fertility both of the vegetation and of all animals connected with an agricultural life, and in this capacity he was worshipped as the protector of flocks of sheep and goats, of bees, the vine, all garden-produce, and even of fishing (Paus. ix. 31. § 2; Virg. Ecl. vii. 33, Georg. iv. 110, with the commentators). Like other divinities presiding over agricultural pursuits, he was believed to be possessed of prophetic powers, and is sometimes mentioned in the plural (Tibull. i. 4. 67; Moschus, iii. 27). As Priapus had many attributes in common with other gods of fertility, the Orphics identified him with their mystic Dionysus, Hermes, Helios, &c. (Schol. ad Theocr. i. 21; Eustath. ad Hom. pp. 691, 242.) The Attic legends connect Priapus with such sensual and licentious beings as Conisalus, Orthanes, and Tychon. (Strab. l. c. ; Aristoph. Lys. 982; comp. Diod. iv. 6). In like manner he was confounded by the Italians with Mutunus or Muttunus, the personification of the fructifying power in nature (Salmas. ad Solin. p. 219; Arnob. iv. 11). The sacrifices offered to him consisted of the first-fruits of gardens, vineyards, and fields (Anthol. Palat. vi. 102), of milk, honey, cakes, rams, asses, and fishes (Anthol. Palat. x. 14; Ov. Fast. i. 391, 416; Serv. ad Virg. Georg. ii. 84). He was represented in carved images, mostly in the form of hermae, with very large genitals, carrying fruit in his garment, and either a sickle or cornucopia in his hand (Tibull. i. 1. 22, 4. 8; Virg. Georg. iv. 110; Horat. Sat. i. 8; Hirt. Mythol. Bilderb. p. 172). The hermae of Priapus in Italy, like those of other rustic divinities, were usually painted red, whence the god is called ruber or rubicundus. (Ov. Fast. i. 415, vi. 319, 333).Source: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. |
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PARENTAGE OF PRIAPUS
Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 4. 6. 1 (trans. Oldfather) (Greek historian C1st B.C.) : "Now the ancients record in their myths that Priapos was the son of Dionysos and Aphrodite and they present a plausible argument for this lineage; for men when under the influence of wine find the members of their bodies tense and inclined to the pleasures of love. But certain writers say that when the ancients wished to speak in their myths of the sexual organ of males they called it Priapos (Priapus). Some, however, relate that the generative member, since it is the cause of the reproduction of human beings and of their continued existence through all time, became the object of immortal honour."Strabo, Geography 13. 1. 12 (trans. Jones) (Greek geographer C1st B.C. to C1st A.D.) : "Priapos . . . was called the son of Dionysos and a Nymphe."
Pausanias, Description of Greece 9. 31. 2 (trans. Jones) (Greek travelogue C2nd A.D.) : "This god [Priapos] . . . is more revered [by the people of Lampsakos] than any other god, being called by them a son of Dionysos and Aphrodite."
Pseudo-Hyginus, Fabulae 160 (trans. Grant) (Roman mythographer C2nd A.D.) : "Sons of Mercurius [Hermes] : Priapus."
Suidas s.v. Priapos (trans. Suda On Line) (Byzantine Greek lexicon C10th A.D.) : "Priapos: was conceived from Zeus and Aphrodite; but Hera in a jealous rage laid hands by a certain trickery on the belly of Aphrodite and readied a shapeless and ugly and over-meaty babe to be born. His mother flung it onto a mountain; a shepherd raised it up. He had genitals [rising up] above his butt."
PRIAPUS & THE NYMPH LOTIS
The myth of Priapos and Lotis is almost identical to that of The myth of Priapos and Hestia in the section which follows.Ovid, Fasti 1. 391 ff (trans.Boyle) (Roman poetry C1st B.C. to C1st A.D.) : "A donkey, too, is killed for the countryside's stiff guard [Priapos]. The cause is shameful, but it suits the god. You were holding, Greece, the feast of grape-crowned Bacchus [Dionysos], celebrated by custom each third winter. The gods who serve Lyaeus [Dionysos] also attended and whoever is not hostile to play, namely Panes and young Satyri and goddesses who haunt streams and lonely wilds. Old Silenus came, too, on a sway-backed donkey, and the red-groined terror of timid birds [Priapos whose garden statue functioned as a scarecrow]. They discovered a grove suitable for party pleasures and sprawled on grass-lined couches. Liber [Dionysos] supplied wine, they had brought their own garlands, a brook gave water for frugal mixing. Naiades were there, some with hair flowing uncombed, others with locks artfully coiffured . . . Some generate tender fires inside the Satyri . . . But red Priapus, the garden's glory and protection, fell victim above all to Lotis. He desires her, he wants her, he sighs for her alone; he nods at her and pesters her with signs. Disdain defines the pretty, beauty is trailed by pride : she teases and scorns him with her looks. It was night. Wine induced slumber and prone bodies lay everywhere, conquered by sleep. Lotis rested furthest away, tired from partying, in the grass beneath some maple branches. Her lover rises and, holding his breath, tracks secretly and silently on tiptoe. When he had reached the snow-white Nympha's secluded bed, he took care his breathing was soundless. And now he was poised on the grass right next to her, and still she was filled with a mighty sleep. His joy soars; he draws the cover from her feet and starts the happy road to his desires. Then look, the donkey, Silenus' mount, brays loudly, and emits untimely blasts from its throat. The terrified Nympha leaps up, fends Priapus off, and awakens the whole grove with her flight. And the god, whose obscene part was far too ready, was ridiculed by all in the moon's light. The author of the clamour [the donkey] was punished with death. He's a victim dear to Hellespont's god."
Ovid, Metamorphoses 9. 346 ff (trans. Melville) : "There is a lake [in Oikhalia, Oechalia] whose shelving sides had shaped a sloping shore, and myrtles crowned the ridge . . . Near the lakeside was a water-lotus flowered, its crimson blooms like Tyrian dye, fair hope of fruit to come . . . this shrub was the Nymphe Lotis who fled Priapus's lechery and found changed features there but kept her name."
PRIAPUS & THE GODDESS HESTIA
The myth of Priapos and Hestia is vitually identical to that of Priapos and Lotis described above.Ovid, Fasti 6. 319 ff (trans.Boyle) (Roman poetry C1st B.C. to C1st A.D.) : "Should I omit or recount your shame, red Priapus? It is a very playful, tiny tale. Coroneted Cybele [Rhea], with her crow of turrets, invites the eternal gods to her feast. She invites, too, Satyri and Nymphae, Rural-Spirits; Silenus is present, uninvited. It's not allowed and too long to narrate the gods' banquet: night was consumed with much wine. Some blindly stroll shadowy Ida's dells, or lie down and rest their bodies in the soft grass. Others play or are clasped by sleep; or link their arms and thump the green earth in triple quick step. Vesta [Hestia] lies down and takes a quiet, carefree nap, just as she was, her head pillowed by turf. But the red saviour of gardens [Priapos] prowls for Nymphai and goddesses, and wanders back and forth. He spots Vesta [Hestia]. It's unclear if he thought she was a Nympha or knew it was Vesta. He claims ignorance. He conceives a vile hope and tires to steal upon her, walking on tiptoe, as his heart flutters. By chance old Silenus had left the donkey he came on by a gently burbling stream. The long Hellespont's god was getting started, when it bellowed an untimely bray. The goddess starts up, frightened by the noise. The whole crowd fly to her; the god flees through hostile hands. Lampsacus slays this beast [the donkey] for Priapus, chanting : `We rightly give flames the informant's guts.' You remember, goddess, and necklace it with bread. Work ceases; the idle mills are silent."
PRIAPUS & THE NYMPH POMONA
Ovid, Metamorphoses 14. 534 ff (trans. Melville) (Roman epic C1st B.C. to C1st A.D.) : "For fear of rustic force she [the Latin Hamadryas Pomona] walled her orchard in to keep away the sex she shunned. What tricks did they not try, the quick young light-foot Satyri, and the Panes . . . and he [Priapos], the god whose scythe or lusty loins scare thieves away--what did they all not try to win her love?"PRIAPUS & HIS CONTEST WITH THE ASS
Pseudo-Hyginus, Astronomica 2. 23 (trans. Grant) (Roman mythographer C2nd A.D.) : "He [Dionysos] gave a human voice to the ass which had carried him. This ass later had a contest with Priapus on a matter of physique, but was defeated and killed by him. Pitying him because of this, Liber [Dionysos] numbered him among the stars."PRIAPUS GUARDIAN OF FLOCKS, BEES & GARDENS
Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 4. 6. 1 (trans. Oldfather) (Greek historian C1st B.C.) : "We shall at this point discuss Priapos and the myths related about him, realizing that an account of him is appropriate in connection with the history of Dionysos . . . This god is also called by some Ithyphallos (Ithyphallus), by others Tykhon (Tychon). Honours are accorded him not only in the city, in the temples, but also throughout the countryside, where men set up his statue to watch over their vineyards and gardens, and introduce him as one who punishes any who cast a spell over some fair thing which they possess. And in the sacred rites, not only of Dionysos but of practically all other gods as well, this god received honour to some extent, being introduced in the sacrifices to the accompaniment of laughter and sport."Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 6 Fragment 4 (from Tertullian On the Crown 13. 4) : "The writer [Diodoros] gives even to Priapos fillets."
Pausanias, Description of Greece 9. 31. 2 (trans. Jones) (Greek travelogue C2nd A.D.) : "This god [Priapos] is worshipped where goats and sheep pasture or there are swarms of bees; but by the people of Lampsakos he is more revered than any other god."
Virgil, Georgics 4. 110 ff (trans. Fairclough) (Roman bucolic C1st B.C.) : "Let the watchmen against thieves and birds, guardian Priapus, lord of the Hellespont, protect them [the bees of the beehive] with his willow hook."
Suidas s.v. Priapos (trans. Suda On Line) (Byzantine Greek lexicon C10th A.D.) : "He [Priapos] was called Periapos in the Italian language and was honored amongst the shepherds. His image is a child with a big erect member."
Suidas s.v. Androsathon : "Androsathon (Man-pricked): Possessing large genitals [an epithet of Priapos]."
| Greek Titles | Transliteration | Latin Spelling | Translation | |||||||||||
| Ανδροσαθων | Androsathôn | Androsathon | Man-Pricked | |||||||||||
| Ιθυφαλλος | Ithyphallos | Ithyphallus | Erect-Phallus | |||||||||||
| Τυχων | Tykhôn | Tychon | Fortune | |||||||||||
| Θριαμβος | Thriambos | Thriambus | Thriamb | |||||||||||
| Διθυραμβος | Dithyrambos | Dithyrambus | Dithyramb | |||||||||||
CULT IN SIKYONIA (SOUTHERN GREECE)
I) ORNEAI Town in SikyoniaStrabo, Geography 8. 6. 24 (trans. Jones) (Greek geographer C1st B.C. to C1st A.D.) : "Orneai [in Sikyonia] is named after the river that flows past it. It is deserted now, although formerly it was well peopled, and had a temple of Priapos that was held in honor; and it was from Orneai that the Euphronios who composed the Priapeia calls the god ‘Priapos the Orneatan.’ Orneai is situated above the plain of the Sikyonians, but the country was possessed by the Argives."
CULT IN BOIOTIA (CENTRAL GREECE)
I) MT HELIKON Mountain in BoiotiaPausanias, Description of Greece 9. 31. 2 (trans. Jones) (Greek travelogue C2nd A.D.) : "[In the sanctuary of the Mousai (Muses) on Mount Helikon in Boiotia] is an image of Priapos worth seeing. This god is worshipped where goats and sheep pasture or there are swarms of bees; but by the people of Lampsakos (Lampsacus) he is more revered than any other god, being called by them a son of Dionysos and Aphrodite."
CULT IN MYSIA (ASIA MINOR)
I) LAMPSAKOS City in MysiaStrabo, Geography 13. 1. 12 (trans. Jones) (Greek geographer C1st B.C. to C1st A.D.) : "Priapos [i.e. Lampsakos] is a city on the sea, and also a harbor. Some say that it was founded by Milesians . . . It was named after Priapos, who was worshipped there; then his worship was transferred thither from Orneai near Korinthos (Corinth), or else the inhabitants felt an impulse to worship the god because he was called the son of Dionysos and a Nymphe; for their country is abundantly supplied with the vine, both theirs and the countries which border next upon it, I mean those of the Parianoi and the Lampsakenoi. At any rate, Xerxes [historical Persian general] gave Lampsakos to Themistokles to supply him with wine. But it was by people of later times that Priapos was declared a god, for even Hesiod does not know of him; and he resembles the Attic deities Orthane, Konisalos (Conisalus), Tykhon (Tychon), and others like them."
Pausanias, Description of Greece 9. 31. 2 (trans. Jones) (Greek travelogue C2nd A.D.) : "This god [Priapos] is worshipped where goats and sheep pasture or there are swarms of bees; but by the people of Lampsakos he [Priapos] is more revered than any other god, being called by them a son of Dionysos and Aphrodite."
Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 1. 30b (trans. Gullick) (Greek rhetorician C2nd to C3rd A.D.) : "Among the people of Lampsakos, Priepos who is the same as Dionysos, is held in honour and has the by-name Dionysos as well as Thriambos and Dithyrambos."
Ovid, Fasti 6. 319 ff (trans.Boyle) (Roman poetry C1st B.C. to C1st A.D.) : "Lampsacus slays this beast [the donkey] for Priapus, chanting: ‘We rightly give flames the informant's guts."
Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 2. 622 ff (trans. Mozley) (Roman epic C1st A.D.) : "Lampsacus whose dwellers no triennial festival of Bacchus nor Phrygian madness bids gather in secret caverns, but their own god [Priapos] hales them to Venus [Aphrodite]. High over the city they see his altars and the carvings of his towering shrine."
PRIAPUS IDENTIFIED WITH THE EGYPTIAN GOD MIN
Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 4. 6. 1. (trans. Oldfather) (Greek historian C1st B.C.) : "We shall at this point discuss Priapos and the myths related about him . . . The Aigyptians (Egyptians) in their myths about Priapos say that in ancient times the Titanes formed a conspiracy against Osiris [Dionysos Sabazios] and slew him, and then, taking his body and dividing it into equal parts among themselves, the slipped them secretly out of the house, but this organ alone they threw into the river, since no one of them was willing to take it with him. But Isis tracked down the murder of her husband, and after slaying the Titanes and fashioning the several pieces of his body into the shape of a human figure, she gave them to the priests with orders that they pay Osiris the honours of a god, but since the only member she was unable to recover was the organ of sex she commanded them to pay to it the honours of a god and set it up in their temples in an erect position. Now this is the myth about the birth of Priapos [who the author identifies with the Egyptian god Min] and the honours paid to him, as it is given by the ancient Aigyptians."Sources:
- Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History - Greek History
C1st B.C.
- Strabo, Geography - Greek Geography C1st B.C. - C1st
A.D.
- Pausanias, Description of Greece - Greek Travelogue C2nd
A.D.
- Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae - Greek Rhetoric C3rd A.D.
- Hyginus, Fabulae - Latin Mythography C2nd A.D.
- Hyginus, Astronomica - Latin Mythography C2nd A.D.
- Ovid, Metamorphoses - Latin Epic C1st B.C. - C1st A.D.
- Ovid, Fasti - Latin Poetry C1st B.C. - C1st A.D.
- Virgil, Georgics - Latin Bucolic C1st B.C.
- Valerius Flaccus, The Argonautica - Latin Epic C1st A.D.
- Suidas - Byzantine Greek Lexicon C10th A.D.
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PRIAPUS as a later Hellespont god
PRIAPOS was [later] the rustic god of the bounty of the vegetable garden. He was also honoured as the protector of sheep, goats, bees, the vine and of all garden produce.
Priapos was depicted as a dwarfish man with a huge phallus, which symbolised garden fertility. His head was crowned with a peaked Phrygian cap, belying his [supposed] origin as a god native to the Mysian city of Lampsakos on the Hellespont. His cult was introduced into Greece and Italy, where his mythology were reinterpreted in Greek terms. Primitive statues of the god were traditionally set-up in vegetable plots to promote fertility with the added benefit of functioning as a type of "scarecrow" scaring away birds. The Greeks naturally described the god as the son of one of the phallic gods : either Hermes or Dionysos. His mother was usually Aphrodite.
Priapos was closely identified with various Greek phallic deities such as Dionysos, Hermes and the satyrs Orthanes and Tykhon.
The most famous extant depiction of Priapos is the Pompeian wall-painting {shown above - [not shown since it is obscene]}. Here he is depicted weighing his enormous member on a set of scales against the produce of the fields. He is crowned with a peaked Phrygian cap, wears Phrygian boots, and has a Bacchic, cone-tipped thyrsus resting by his side.
| PARENTS |
| [1.1] DIONYSOS & APHRODITE (Pausanias
9.31.2, Diodorus Siculus 4.6.1) [1.2] DIONYSOS & A NAIAS (Strabo 8.587) [1.3] DIONYSOS & KHIONE (Scholiast on Theocritus 1.21) [2.1] ADONIS & APHRODITE (Tzetzes on Lycophron 831) [2.2] HERMES (Hyginus Fabulae 160) [3.1] ZEUS & APHRODITE (Suidas s.v. Priapos) |
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