Who's got more BDE than #Priapos?

#PhallusThursday

@antiquidons @phistorians #GreekRomanArt #BigDick

Priapos isn't just a god of dicks, bees, and abundant orchards. He was also a patron god for navigators on the sea, of merchant sailors in #ancientGreece and Rome. Apotropaic items carried on board by mariners in the forms of a terracotta phallus and a wooden #Priapos figure were found in shipwrecks, coinciding with the use of wooden Priapic markers erected in areas of dangerous passage or particular landing areas for sailors.

#PhallusThursday #MerMay
@phistorians @antiquidons

Give me that old time religion:

Contemporary worshippers of the Hellenic pantheon taking part in the ancient Dionysian phallic procession ritual around the Acropolis of Athens - carrying an effigy of Dionysos and a giant phallic idol (which was erected at various points) and worshipped with prayer, music, and dance.
(I didn’t mark the image as sensitive because the phallos isn’t distinguishable as such from this angle)

#dodecatheism, #Dionysos, #Priapos, #Hellenism