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Phallic worship

The sacred phallus in ancient and contemporary religion, from the Shiva linga and the cult of Priapus to Roman phallic symbolism, the curious but suggestive case of the Mithras cult at Tiddis and the modern idea of phallicism.

Jorge Gallo
Jorge Gallo

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Some places to visit

  • Mithréum of Strasbourg

    Lors de la construction de l’église Saint-Paul en 1911, un mithraeum a été mis au jour à Königshoffen, vicus gallo-romain situé aux abords du camp légionnaire de Strasbourg-Argentorate.

     
  • Mithraeum of Housesteads

    The Housesteads Mithraeum is an underground temple, now burried, discovered in 1822 in a slope of the Chapel Hill, outside of the Roman Fort at the Hadrian's Wall.

     
  • Mitreo presso Porta Romana

    Excavated in 1919, the Mithraeum near the Roman Gate was installed in the 3rd century within a larger building complex.

     
  • Mithraeum VI of Aquincum

    A sixth temple dedicated to Mithras has been identified for the first time in the military sector of the ancient Roman city of Aquincum.

     

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Pattie L

You can see, by the scoring in the "stone", that the corner was simply added to make it more…

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В египетски има дума heka което означава магия дори…

on A name older than Greece

 

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Sol and Luna are reversed, and Cautes is a lazy boy, with a column to hold up his arm…

on Tauroctony from Târgușor

 

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On this, the sun and the moon are a common motif in Roman iconography, appearing of course on the…

on Tauroctony relief from Naples

 
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