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... phallic god , as both husband and son of one and the same goddess . It follows that another phallic god could fill both rôles : when Hermes was regarded as the father , then this other was the son , and vice versa . This relation ...
... phallic god , as both husband and son of one and the same goddess . It follows that another phallic god could fill both rôles : when Hermes was regarded as the father , then this other was the son , and vice versa . This relation ...
Page 176
... phallic organ - in other words , that characteristic which was not merely phallic , but hermaphroditic - was useful to the fertility of plants and animals . We had other divinities of excessively - indeed , of purely- phallic character ...
... phallic organ - in other words , that characteristic which was not merely phallic , but hermaphroditic - was useful to the fertility of plants and animals . We had other divinities of excessively - indeed , of purely- phallic character ...
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... phallic escorts of the great goddess - were called , in an ancient Peloponnesian dialect , Satyroi , " the full ones " : a term descriptive of their " abundant " , and therefore sexually excited , condition . This was the more general ...
... phallic escorts of the great goddess - were called , in an ancient Peloponnesian dialect , Satyroi , " the full ones " : a term descriptive of their " abundant " , and therefore sexually excited , condition . This was the more general ...
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THE BEGINNING OF THINGS | 15 |
THE MOIRAI HEKATE AND OTHER PRE OLYMPIAN | 31 |
THE GREAT GODDESS OF LOVE | 66 |
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