| | seen everywhere, in front of houses, in the roads and public places, occasionally alone, but more frequently in
connection with the picture of Legba who's always represented as squatting down and looking at the organ of
generation, which is enormously disproportionate [Find Alfred B. Ellis, Ewe-Speaking Peoples of the Slaves Shore
pp. 41-421].
26. It's believed that evil powers are often related to intersections. Custom and law in England
prescribed that the suicide should be buried at a cross-road. Offenders were also executed at junctions. A
similar custom exists among quite a few African tribes. Plato in his Laws (9.873) says that if a person kills his
father, mother, brother or son then the officials would execute him, and throw him outside, naked, at a given place
where three roads meet outside the city. So, since intersections are believed to be the dwelling place of evil spirits,
order to ward off their risk. Ithiphallic divinities are often discovered at cross roads with the goal of
repelling the evil forces that dwell there. In Japan, phallic symbols were set up on roads and worshipped at
Junctions and frontiers as protectors of travelers. The crude function of all ithiphallic deities which were
placed at cross roads and frontiers was to provide protection against the unfriendly beings and evil spirits. For
these observations and more, see Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics, S.V. "Cross-Roads," (hereafter cited as
E.R.E.
27. Wolfgang Wickler, "Socio-Sexual Signals and their Intraspecific Imitation Among Primates," in
pp. 132, 139. http://mommy-pussy.com/cl.php?query=MzV4N3gxNzIw&url=https://xelyd.com/albums/these-couples-decided-to.html of the stone-phalli that
appear on the ancient Phrygian tumuli served the same function. http://onlineitmart.com/__media__/js/netsoltrademark.php?d=xotad.com/albums/waiting-to-go-to-the-3005.html were primitive symbols of life
and immortality expressing in the clearest way the belief that death was the source of new life. [See Gorges Perrot
Lydia, Curia and Lycia (New York, 1892). p. 48; L. Farnell,
p. 3571. We can discover dotted hints of the same
Reflection of this idea in Greece. A little tumulus near Megalopolis (Arcadia) with a finger of rock standing on it
and called the "Finger Tomb" may be interpreted as a tumulus crowned with a phallus, which is associated with the
goddesses called the Maniai, whose name raises the idea of a Phrygian origin. (See Farnell, Greek Hero
Cults and Ideas of Immortality. p. 357). For the story of the "Finger Tomb" see Pausanias 8.34.2-4. Further
evidence was supplied by the discovery of an inscription (ca. 300 B.C.) discovered under a stone-phallus on a
small mount that may have been a tumulus near Thespiai, recording a dedication by the spiritual officials of the
city "to the spirits of the deceased." Additionally see Farnell.
Greek Hero Cults and Ideas of immortality. p. 357. In ancient graves, notably in Egypt, Norway, Italy and India,
phalli have been buried with the deceased, perhaps to ward off evil from the dead. [See J. A. Dulaure, Les Divinits
Crude Erotic Art (London, 1973), p. 761.
28. Burkert, Structure and History. p. 40. The exact same point of view was expressed by other writers as well
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Suggests dominance by display of penile erection with thigh spreading aimed at
the face of another, lower-ranking monkey. It has been pointed out that there is a
correlation between penile display and status-standing, and that the lowerranking group members reveal much less genital display. In certain monkey
species there is a close connection between possession of land, territorial
demarcation, social dominance, and the display of the male genitalia. " https://binz-technik.de/count.php?art=46&url=https://purenudism.buzz/contents/68249641/5.html to mark frontiers," W. Burkert contended, "isn't to be located among
the apes, who live in the trees, but with further relatives who hold territories."
The display of sexual organs is a rite which derived from intercourse, yet
serving social and not reproductive functions. It's the most strong signal with
Admiration to group hierarchy, but undoubtedly distinct from the reproductive process.
It is believed that the genital display is an important societal sign by which the
animals convey and that it's ritualized and seems to adopt the significance,
"I am the Master."29
The significance of primate studies in anthropology has been frequently accentuated.30 Erections of human penises beyond the sexual activity may occur in
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