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"Copper statue of Pepi I or perhaps his son Merenra Nemtyemsaf I, from Hierakonpolis" - Wikipedia I call this photo: "Pepi - 2" - In a long reign of fifty years the King's penis cager probably spanned 3 generations - That's an all female royal house, with a few males as window dressing ! Probably highly sexual too from the sensuality of the art of Pepi's reign. There are at least six queens and three princesses to focus on, but probably the main one was his daughter Meritites IV: " ... also known as Meritites II as she was the second queen by that name) was a queen from the Sixth Dynasty. She was believed to be a wife of Pepi I Meryre, but her title of King’s Daughter of his body of Pepy-Mennefer (s3t-niswt-nt-kht.f-ppy-mn-nfr) is now understood to indicate that she was a daughter of Pepi I Meryre and wife of a king Neferkare, presumably Pepi II. One more evidence for that theory is that her name means "Beloved of her father". ... Her titles include: Great one of the hetes-sceptre, She who sees Horus and Seth (m33t-hrw-stsh), Great of Praises (wrt-hzwt), King’s Wife (hmt-nisw), King’s Wife, his beloved (hmt-nisw meryt.f), and Companion of Horus (smrt-hrw)." Wikipedia - The explanation is she inherited her father's penis cage after his main queen passed on - an ancient Egyptian practice of father's marrying virile daughters... His Vizier - Inenek-Inti was also one of his wives placing the government of Egypt firmly in female hands: "Inti's titles were: Hereditary Princess (iryt-p`t), Foremost of the Elite (h`tit-p`t), King’s Wife (hmt-niswt), King’s Wife, his beloved (hmt-niswt mryt.f), Daughter of Merehu (z3t-Mr?w), Daughter of Geb (z3t-Gb). ... " Wikipedia - That was also dynasty that was in contact with the dwarves of central Africa - who had a rigid Amazon class structure: ... His grandson Pepi II had a keen interest in central Africa: “You have said in your letter that you have come down in safety from Yam with the army and brought many beautiful gifts which Hathor, Lady of Yamu, has given to the King of Upper and Lower Egypt. You also say in this letter that you have brought a dwarf of divine dances from the land of the horizon-dwellers. Like the dwarf whom the Treasurer of the God, Baurded, brought from Punt in the time of King Isesi. You say to my Majesty, Never before has one like him been brought by any other who has visited Yam. Each year you do what your lord desires – spending day and night with the caravan. Now come northward at once to the Court. You must bring the dwarf, alive, sound and well to rejoice and gladden the heart of the King of Upper and Lower Egypt. When he comes down with you into the ship, appoint reliable people who shall be beside him on each side of the vessel and take care lest he should fall into the water. When he sleeps at night, appoint trustworthy people who shall sleep beside him. Inspect him ten times a night because my Majesty desires to see this dwarf more than the all products of Sinai and Punt. If you arrive at the Court and the dwarf is with you, alive, and well, my Majesty will make you many excellent honours to be an ornament for the son of your son for ever. All the people will say when they hear what my Majesty does for you: “Is there anything like this which was done for the privy counsellor Harkhuf, when he came down from Yam.” Consorts: " ... Six consorts of Pepi I have been identified with near certainty by Egyptologists. Pepi's best-attested wives were Ankhesenpepi I and Ankhesenpepi II, who both bore future pharaohs and were daughters of the nomarch of Abydos Khui and his wife Nebet.Further queens are Nubwenet, Inenek-Inti who became a vizier of Pepi, and Mehaa (also called Haaheru). All were buried in pyramids adjacent to that of Pepi. Another consort, Sebwetet, is mentioned on relief fragments from the necropolis surrounding Pepi's pyramid. Two more queens have been proposed for Pepi I based on partial evidence. First is a Queen Nedjeftet, whose name is recorded on blocks excavated in the necropolis adjacent to Pepi's pyramid. The identification of Nedjeftet as Pepi's consort remains uncertain owing to the lack of inscriptions explicitly naming her husband. Given the location of Nedjeftet's blocks in the necropolis, she may be the owner of a pyramid west of Pepi's. Second is another queen, named Behenu, who was buried in the second largest queen pyramid of the necropolis of Pepi, north of his. She could either be one of his consorts or a wife of Pepi II. A final unnamed queen, only referred to by her title "Weret-Yamtes",is known from the inscriptions uncovered in the tomb of Weni, an official serving Pepi. This queen, whose name is purposefully left unmentioned by Weni, conspired against Pepi and was prosecuted when the conspiracy was discovered. ... " Wikipedia * - Queen Ankhesenpepi II. Her son by Pepi I became the next King Merenre I. It seems she married her son Merenre I and had a son with him - King Pepi II with her as the infant Pepi II's regent. Her mother was Nebet who was also a vizier or head of government. - Note the traces of dark brown pigment. That was a negro dynasty. - My guess is she was the penis-cager or "dog-leash" holder of her son or nephew Merenre, but not the biological mother of Pepi II. That's an inmportant distinction - the marriage between mother and son or sister and brother was religious but probably not actual incest. The penis cager decided who had the right to mount the penis during Temple of Amun sex and mastubation rituals. " ... Ankhesenpepi II (also known as Ankhenespepi, Ankhenesmeryre, Ankhenesmerire and Ankhesenpepi) lived towards the end of the sixth dynasty of the Old Kingdom. She was the wife of two pharaohs (Pepi I and Merenre I), the mother of another pharaoh (Pepi II), and probably ruled Egypt as regent while Pepi II was still a child. She was not of royal blood, but her family was very influential. Her father, Khui, was a prominent official and her mother, Nebet, was the first known female Vizier (although some suggest this was purely an honorific title granted to her when her daughter became the wife of the king). Her brother, Djau, would also serve as Vizier and her sister (confusingly also named Ankhesenpepi/Ankhesenmeryre) was also married to her husband Pepi I. Her name means “Pepi lives for her”. When she married Pepi I (whose throne name was Meryre) her name changed to Ankhesenmeryre (“Meryre lives for her”). She was initially a traditional sixth dynasty queen with the usual titles ... . When her husband died, she married his successor Merenre I Nemtysaf (the son of her sister and her husband). It was initially thought that her son Pepi II was the son of Pepi I, but it now looks likely that he was actually the son of Merenre. When Merenre died (after a reign of around ten years) Pepi II became king. Many experts now believe that Ankhnespepi acted as regent for the early part of his reign, partly because he was so young. There are a few pieces of art which would seem to support this assumption. Ankhnespepi II and Pepi II are depicted together in a beautiful alabaster statue (now at the Brooklyn Museum). The statue is clearly making a connection between the queen and Isis, and the young king and Horus. However, it is also notable that it marks one of the very few occasions that a king is depicted as being smaller than another mortal. It could be considered a visual record of her regency. In the Sinai, she was depicted the same size as her son in a rock cut inscription. There is also an interesting inscription from Wadi Maghara. The queen (in this instance named Ankhenesmeryre) holds the title “mother of the king”, but it is written in an unconventional way which places the vuture (mwt –mother) inside the word for king (nsw bity), which perhaps again hints at her powerful role. An image of the queen appears at the foot of the inscription. This could simply be considered the determinative for her name (which appears above the figure), but it is worthy of note that there is no corresponding image of the king – perhaps confirming that the expedition was ordered by her and not him. Finally, the burial chamber of her pyramid (which was the largest queens pyramid in Saqqara) is covered in pyramid texts – an honour previously restricted to the pharaoh (although also granted to a few of Pepi II’s wives). After her death her statue was worshipped at Abydos for some time. ... " ancientegyptonline Ankhesenpepi II' titles: " ... Her titles as queen were: Great one of the hetes-sceptre (wrt-hetes), She who sees Horus and Seth (m33t-hrw-stsh), Great of Praises (wrt-hzwt), King’s Wife of Mennefer-Meryre (hmt-niswt-mn-nfr-mry-r`), King’s Wife, his beloved (hmt-nisw meryt.f), God’s Daughter (s3t-ntr), This Daughter of a God (s3t-ntr-wt), Attendant of the Great One (khtt-wr), Companion of Horus (tist-hrw), Companion of Horus (smrt-hrw). However, it is now known that she was also the chief queen of Merenre after the death of Pepi I, her first husband. In 1999/2000, excavation work at her Saqqara funerary temple uncovered several stone blocks inscribed with a previously unknown royal title for her: "[The] King's Wife of the Pyramid of Pepy I, King's Wife of the Pyramid of Merenre, King's Mother of the Pyramid of Pepy II." Since the temple was constructed under Pepi II because it makes a reference to king Pepi II, this shows that Merenre married Queen Ankhesenpepi II after Pepi I died. Merenre was Ankhesenpepi II's nephew. As the South Saqqara Stone document, an annal document created under Pepi II, shows that no period of coregency existed under Pepi I and Merenre, this suggests that Merenre and Ankhesenpepi II were rather the parents of Pepi II (rather than Pepi I) particularly since this document also assigns Merenre an independent reign of about a decade to Merenre. After her son Pepi came to the throne, Ankhesenpepi added the titles Mother of the Dual King Men-ankh-Neferkare (mwt-niswt-biti-mn-kh`-nfr-k3-r`), King’s Mother of Men-ankh-Neferkare (mwt-niswt- mn-kh`-nfr-k3-r`), and King’s Mother (mwt-niswt)...." Wikipedia - That fact pattern clearly reveals who was sovreign and who was consort - The men were consorts! In the sixth dynasty female power extended beyond royalty to actual rule withe female Viziers like Ankhesenpepi II' mother Nebet. * Nude King Pepi II: " ... Pepi II as a child An alabaster statuette of 16 cm high also represents Pepi II as a child, in a pose that is unusual in both royal and private statuary. The king is squatting on the ground with his legs folded and slightly apart. His left hand was resting on his knee and, although it is missing, his right hand is assumed to have been held to the mouth. He is completely naked, a sign of his young age. ... " ancient-egypt. The internet sees this is as a nude infant Pepi II. I disagree - that's a nude adult sexually submissive King ... The image that entered my mind is the phallic Legba - but in his caged state. This was probably an aphrodisiac as women find a sexually caged man erotic - especially a caged man under their personal power. In Egypt this squatting position usually means a woman giving birth. Pepi II was in a birthing position - probably a tradition from the Amazons of central Africa .... - King Pepi II: Pepi II is clearly a Negro here. He was also probably a dwarf. That's the subtext of the dwarf narrative in the 6th dynasty and there are images of Egyptian women with dwarf husbands in the 5th dynasty. Pepi II was reported to have ruled for 94 years by Manetho. But research says it's probably 64 years on the throne. During that time he must have had a large number of penis cagers - starting with his dominating mother Queen Ankhesenpepi II. After his death, the 6th dynasty came to an end and Egypt had no King for over 200 years. - Power probably moved south to the Dwarf ruled Amazon countries of "Yam." There is reported to have been one Queen who ruled Egypt after Pepi II - Nitrokis - but she is mostly a legend. -- Seneb the dwarf and his Egyptian wife c. 2520 BC - 5th or 6th Dynasty " .... Seneb was a high-ranking court official in the Old Kingdom of Ancient Egypt, circa 2520 BC. A dwarf, Seneb was a person of considerable importance and wealth who owned thousands of cattle, held twenty palaces and religious titles and was married to a high-ranking priestess of average size with whom he had three children. His successful career and the lavishness of his burial arrangements are indicative of the acceptance given to dwarfs in ancient Egyptian society, whose texts advocated the acceptance and integration of those with physical disabilities. Seneb is depicted with his wife and children in a painted sculpture from his tomb, rediscovered in 1926, that is a famous example of Old Kingdom art. It shows him sitting cross-legged on a block of stone with his wife embracing him and his children standing below him where the legs of a full-size person would ordinarily have been. The composition of the scene thus achieves a harmonious symmetry. It depicts Seneb realistically with the facial features and shortened limbs of an individual with achondroplasia, a common form of dwarfism. Paintings and carvings in the tomb give his titles and depict various scenes from his life, such as carrying out inspections of his estate and holding symbols of his office. ... " Wikipedia - Below are probably not his children but Seneb and his wife in their Harpocrates or child Horus form. Dark child is the male or Seneb "dog-leash" tan.... That indicates at a Sed festival and at least 30 years in the penis cage for Seneb - Nude dwarf princess steering an 18th dynasty boat " Basin with a boat from the tomb of Tutankhamun. At the front of the boat a young girl is kneeling holding a lotus bud while at the helm the boat is steered by a dwarf figure." - Alamy - Dwarves continued to hold high positions in Egypt as late as the 18th dynasty era of King Tutankhamen. Here a nude female dwarf with the royal sidelock of youth steers a boat - Queen Ankhenesmeryre II with young Pepy II Queen Ankhenesmeryre II with young Pepy II Alabaster, Dynasty 6, c. 2288-2194 B.C., Brooklyn Museum of Art - © Joan Ann Lansberry - That's not a child. It's more likely a dwarf Pepy II - That's the ancient Egyptian archetype - rule by the goddess and the diminutive sexually caged male. - But that's misleading - the sex cage creates high sexual potency ... - Dog from the Egyptian monument 1891, one of the favorite dogs of King Antef, from his funereal stele 11th Dynasty - My guess is that's a negro female dwarf and her symbolic "dog" or husband on the penis leash. - Two children of the dwarf Seneb " Two children of the dwarf Seneb. Chief of all the Dwarfs of the Clothing. Found in the stone naos embedded in the brickwork of his tomb. Painted Limestone. Fifth dynasty. Giza c. 2494 to 2345 BC. ... " Getty Images - My impression is the sidelock of youth means female despite the penis. It's probably an illustration of the change of Seneb's wife caused by his penis dog-cage. - Or the pale female is the start wife and the tan with penis and sidelock of youth is the finished female Harpocrates after a 30 year Sed period - Sed vessel of Pepi II " ... Calcite-alabaster jar with the cartouches of pharaoh Pepi II, from Egypt. Old Kingdom, 6th Dynasty, 2279-2219 BCE. Neues Museum, Berlin, Germany. ... " Wikipedia - That's the Sed vessel of Pepi II - I suppose his "hieros-gamos" date ... or his second birth into a higher form " ... This calcite-alabaster jar (probably was a container for cosmetic oil) is inscribed with four royal titulary names of the Egyptian Pharaoh Pepi II (2284 - c. 2216 BCE). On the left is the nomen (birth name) of Pepi II. On the right is the prenomen (throne name) which reads "Nefer-ka-Re" ( Beautiful is the Ka of Re). At the middle is the Horus name (written in a serekh) while on the left upper corner lies the golden Horus name, which reads "skhm bik nbw" (the golden falcon is powerful). From Egypt, precise provenance is unknown. Old Kingdom, 6th Dynasty, 2279-2219 BCE. On display at the Neues Museum in Berlin, Germany. ... " ancient - Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin - Dwarf god Bes in birthing position The God Bes c. 500 BC The dwarf god Bes in the birthing position. Note the penis "dog-leash" and the female breasts. Pepi II is depicted in this position above - he was probably a central African dwarf - probably a pygmy from Congo. " ... Bes..., together with his feminine counterpart Beset, is an ancient Egyptian deity worshipped as a protector of households and, in particular, of mothers, children and childbirth. Bes later came to be regarded as the defender of everything good and the enemy of all that is bad. Bes may have been a Middle Kingdom import from Nubia or Somalia, and his cult did not become widespread until the beginning of the New Kingdom. Worship of Bes spread as far north as the area of Syria and as far Western as the Balearic Islands (Ibiza) in Spain, and later into the Roman and Achaemenid Empires. Bes was a household protector, becoming responsible – throughout ancient Egyptian history – for such varied tasks as killing snakes, fighting off evil spirits, watching after children, and aiding women in labour by fighting off evil spirits, and thus present with Taweret at births. Images of the deity, quite different from those of the other gods, were kept in homes. Normally Egyptian gods were shown in profile, but instead Bes appeared in full face portrait, ithyphallic, and sometimes in a soldier's tunic, so as to appear ready to launch an attack on any approaching evil. He scared away demons from houses, so his statue was put up as a protector. Since he drove off evil, Bes also came to symbolize the good things in life – music, dance, and sexual pleasure. In the New Kingdom, tattoos of Bes could be found on the thighs of dancers, musicians and servant girls. Many instances of Bes masks and costumes from the New Kingdom and later have been uncovered. These show considerable wear, thought to be too great for occasional use at festivals, and are therefore thought to have been used by professional performers, or given out for rent. Later, in the Ptolemaic period of Egyptian history, chambers were constructed, painted with images of Bes and his wife Beset, thought by Egyptologists to have been for the purpose of curing fertility problems or general healing rituals. Like many Egyptian gods, the worship of Bes or Beset was exported overseas. While the female variant had been more popular in Minoan Crete, the male version would prove popular with the Phoenicians and the ancient Cypriots. The Balearic island of Ibiza derives its name from the god's name, brought along with the first Phoenician settlers in 654 BC. These settlers, amazed at the lack of any sort of venomous creatures on the island, thought it to be the island of Bes ..... Later the Roman name Ebusus was derived from this designation. ... " Wikipedia - Dwarf god Bes dancing and with a large and loose penis Sculptural relief of dancing god Bes Dancing Bes, 31 BC– 395 AD, Amsterdam, Allard Piersonmuseum Roman Bes - dancing and out of the penis "dog-leash" with a large and loose phallus - That was probably the dwarf strength in ancient Egypt - caused by being social outcasts - the libido turned inward ... The famous penis "dog-leash" - Dwarf god Bes in birthing position - 2 Another Bes in birthing position - Note the red penis "dog-leash" and the female breasts. He is probably giving birth to the large phallus above; - that's an ancient Lebga ... - Dwarf gods Bes and Bestet "Bes and Beset; 664–332 BC; limestone - Louvre" - Wikipedia Bes is dancing with the female Bes - Bestet. He is in the "dog-leash" and is wielding a sword. Bestet is dancing and drumming. - Dwarf god Bes and protector god Tutu "Tutu and Bes - Roman Period, Egypt" - Alamy " ... Tutu ... was an Egyptian god worshipped by ordinary people all over Egypt during the Late Period. The only known temple dedicated to Tutu is located in ancient Kellis. However, reliefs depicting Tutu are seen in other temples, such as the Temple of Kalabsha. Tutu's title at the Shenhur temple was "Who comes to the one calling him". Other titles of his are "Son of Neith," "the Lion," "Great of Strength", and "Master of the demons of Sekhmet and the wandering demons of Bastet". Tutu's iconography is anthropomorphic, consisting of the body of a striding, winged lion, the head of a human, other heads of hawks and crocodiles projecting from the body, and the tail of a serpent. He was the son of Neith, who was considered as a "dangerous goddess". Other goddesses in the same aspect were named as Mut, Sekhmet, Nekhbet and Bastet. This meant that Tutu is placed in a position of power over demons. It was his role to slay demons sent out by "dangerous goddesses"; other sons of these goddesses performed the same function. These were Maahes, Khonsu and Nefertem. Originally the protector of tombs, Tutu later guarded the sleeping from danger or bad dreams. Tutu was also regarded for ordinary people to worship, offering and rituals were made on portable altars. Offerings included goose and bread, and rituals were for protection from demons and bad dreams. Tutu was stated to have given protection from demons, giving longer life and protecting people from the Netherworld. ... " Wikipedia - Dwarf god Bes in lionskin Bes in lionskin with tail. That's clearly an ancient Negro dwarf - something from central Africa ... - The question is why don't anti-sex westerners produce the famous "dog-leash" penis? That's a sinister mystery - my answer is that caged energy is being drained off by unknown powers ... * Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky, Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone, Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die, One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie. One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them, In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie. - J. R. R. Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings - Tolkien was born in South Africa - but there is not the trace of the Negro in his work. Or is there? In my view the spirit world is mostly Negro - Human history is mostly Negro ... * In Norse mythology the dwarves have traditionally been black skinned subterranean race - and they are also expert craftsmen: " ... A dwarf ... is a certain kind of invisible being in the pre-Christian mythology and religion of the Norse and other Germanic peoples. No one really knows what the word “dwarf” and its cognates originally meant, but there’s no indication that it had anything to do with a small stature, a characteristic which is never mentioned in ancient descriptions of these beings. The dwarves are pitch-black in appearance and live underground in Svartalfheim, a place which was probably thought of as a labyrinthine complex of mines and forges. The dwarves are most often noted for being extremely skilled smiths and craftspeople. Among the many irreplaceable treasures created by them are: Mjollnir, the hammer of Thor; Gleipnir, the chain that bound the wolf Fenrir when all other fetters failed; Skidbladnir, a ship which belongs to Freyr and always has a favorable wind; Gungnir, the spear of Odin; Draupnir, a ring owned by Odin; the Brisingamen, a magnificent necklace owned by Freya; and the long, golden hair of Sif, Thor’s wife. They’re also extremely knowledgeable, wise, and magically powerful.They turn to stone if exposed to the rays of the sun. Four dwarves, Austri, Vestri, Nordri, and Sudri (“East,” “West,” “North,” and “South”) hold aloft the four corners of the sky, evidencing their colossal strength. The lines between the dwarves, elves, and dead humans are very blurry. The dwarves are occasionally called “black elves” (Old Norse svartálfar), and in some instances they’re described as being dead or resembling human corpses. ... " norse-mythology - Craftsmen to the middle ages - and for us today - possessors of advanced technology - 30th Dynasty sarcophagus the dwarf Djeho " ... The Granite Sarcophagus of Dwarf Djeho. 30th Dynasty. Saqqara, Egypt. Egyptian Museum Caïro. Djeho shared a tomb with his master Tjaiharpta, which indicates the favored position he had with his patron. Djeho is depicted naked in profile, possibly life-sized (4 ft or 120 cm). It was found by Quibell in 1911. On the sarcophagus' lid, the biography tells us that Djeho was a dancer in burial ceremonies connected to the Apis and Memphis bulls. .... " Jacqueline Engel - 18th dynasty black skinned dancing Bes .Wooden black skinned figure of the god Bes playing a tambourine from Thebes, Egypt 18th dynasty c.1300. British Museum - Pompeii fresco of Bes " ... Roman fresco wall painting from the Sacrarium of the Temple of Isis in Pompeii depicting the Egyptian god Bes, God of war but also childbirth and the home, and was associated with sexuality, humour, music and dancing, North wall of Sacrarium, Naples National Archaeological Museum , inv 1.72 , Naples National Archaeological Museum ... " Alamy - Note the "dog-leash" tan. A black African Bes was probably the original source of the penis cage ... - Horus Cippus under head of Bes Painted wooden cippus (magical stele) depicting Horus standing upon crocodiles beneath the head of Bes, Egypt, 664-332 BC That's Harpocrates - or the infant Horus - who to me is a woman in her Horus form - or a phallic female ... - Crouching Bes - Ptolemaic period A crouching Bes. Egypt - Ptolemaic Period. - That's the ancient Bes "birthing" position. He's birthing the phallus - but more specifically the female phallus. A male phallus does not need to be birthed. The Memphis and Apis bulls were probably phallic symbols - but not the way we imagine - those are female sexual images - and more than images - the dwarf dances were like the Brazilian Carnaval - they helped birth eros ... The inner image I had when I posted that 30th dynasty nude dwarf sarcophagus above was a nude dancing dwarf covered in female semen ... Or Futa semen - That's what the Egyptian court dwarves did - 5th dynasty Limestone statue of the dwarf Khnum-hotep Khnumhotep, priest and overseer of the royal wardrobe - 5th Dynasty, c. 2494-2345 BC. Painted limestone, from Saqqara Necropolis. Egyptian Museum, Cairo. That's a Giza pyramid builder - those are the dreamspace images - 5th dynasty Limestone statue of the dwarf Khnum-hotep - 2 - Traces of dark brown skin. The Giza pyranid builders were negros - Statuette of an Apis bull " ... Apis: the divine bull of the Egyptian capital Memphis, a manifestation of the god Ptah. Already in the most ancient times, the Egyptians venerated bulls, animals that represented fertility. ("Strong bull" was a common title for creator gods and kings.) Examples are the white Mnevis bull and the Bouchis of Hermonthis, which was also white but had a black head. The Apis is described by the Greek researcher Herodotus of Halicarnassus: The Apis is the calf of a cow which is never afterwards able to have another. The Egyptian belief is that a flash of light descends upon the cow from heaven, and this causes her to conceive Apis. The Apis-calf has distinctive marks: it is black, with a white square on its forehead, the image of an eagle on its back, the hair on its tail double, and a scarab under its tongue. The animal was venerated in Memphis, where a special shrine was built. It sometimes served as an oracle. [Pharaoh] Psammetichus built the southern gateway of the temple of Ptah at Memphis, and opposite it a court for Apis [...]. Apis is kept in this court whenever he appears; it has a colonnade round it, with statues six meters high instead of pillars, and is richly carved with figures. The Apis was considered to be a manifestation of the Memphite creation god Ptah; it was the "soul (Ba) of Ptah" and "herald (whm) of Ptah". The bull was therefore a kind of servant, who was himself divine. Sometimes, the animal was shown to the populace; during this procession, its walk was considered to be the blessing of the country. When the Apis died, it was buried in a necropolis at Saqqara. The oldest known burial dates back to Amenophis III (r,1391-1353). The dead bull had become identical to the god of the Underworld, Osiris. Therefore, he was known as Osiris-Apis. During the reign of the Ptolemaic kings (r.323-30 BCE), the god Osirapis or Serapis became the most important god of Egypt. ... The Apis is usually depicted as a black bull with, between his horns, a sun disk and an uraeus snake. An example can be found on the tomb of the Apis that died in September 524, which shows the Cambyses, the Persian king who had conquered Egypt but behaved like a normal pharaoh, venerating the bull. The Greeks identified the Apis with their demi-god Epaphus, a son of their supreme god Zeus and his lover Io, who had been transformed into a cow. The cult for Apis still existed in Roman times; the sacred animal was even protected by an official bodyguard, a lictor. However, the worship disappeared when Egypt was christianized, although a very brief revival during the reign of the emperor Julianus Apostata (r.361-363) is likely. ... " livius - I still maintain that was female, not male sexual virility. In Minoan Crete the female "bull-jumpers" symbolically became the sexually fecund bull after mastering it in the ring ... - The Seven Hathors The Seven Hathors - those are seven bulls as in "the bull of my mother" - the large bull phallus was female in ancient Egypt - just as Bes became female with breasts as he was birthing a large phallus The symbol of the Apis bull was the same as the symbol of Hathor - a solar disc between a pair of horns. " ... Ägyptischer Kultur Club DA April 13, 2014 · · What are the Seven Hathors? Why seven? It is unclear how this group of goddesses came into being. They probably originated in the fairy tales I mentioned. The number seven has been a magic number throughout history, also in ancient Egypt. Repeating an utterance or action seven times gives it extra potency, and thus a sevenfold of goddesses will be extra powerful. The goddess Hathor is associated with love, sexuality, motherhood and all things feminine, but it is not clear why this group of seven, which operates as an entity completely separate from Hathor, should carry her name. It is possible that the story in the Westcar papyrus says something about labour and childbirth in daily life, but not much is known about that. It is quite likely that a group of women would visit at a birth, to help with the labour and make music and bring good wishes. ... " Mohamed_Bakier - Bes with a large erect phallus Bes, protector of motherhood, and his large erect phallus in the Ephesus Museum, Selcuk,Turkey - The direct parrallel is Legba in west Africa. Amazon shamans become Legba or aquire a phallus through ritual and dance that must be sanctioned by the diminutive but phallic Legba - Bes in a birthing position Bes is a secret key to ancient Egypt. The central feature of ancient Egypt was probably the female phallus and the Amazons. Those did not appear naturally but were part of a religious process involving Bes and the 30 year Isis knot/penis cage or "dog-leash" - 5th dynasty birthing Bes with a female breast Relief of the god Bes, Pyramid of Sahura, Abusir - 5th dynasty, c. 2600 BC - 30th dynasty Bes over Harpocrates - Stèle de Metternich - That's a female Horus to me - a phallic female - under a head of Bes who helped birth the phallus. " ... The Metternich Stela is a magico-medical stele that is part of the Egyptian Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. It dates to the Thirtieth Dynasty of Egypt around 380–342 B.C. during the reign of Nectanebo II. The provenance of the stele is unknown. The stela belongs to a group of stelae known as the "Cippi of Horus" or 'Stelae of Horus on the crocodiles'. These types of stelae were used to protect the ancient Egyptian people from dangerous animals such as crocodiles and snakes. The Magical Stela is one of the largest and most complete of this kind. It is theorized that in the reign of Nectanebo II, a priest named Esatum traveled to the burial place of the Mnevis bulls at Heliopolis. There he noticed certain inscriptions that he thought were interesting and ordered them to be copied onto a large block of stone. There the stela was created and stood for many years until Alexander the Great conquered the Persians in Egypt and it was brought to Alexandria. For over two thousand years, the stela was missing until it was discovered in a wall that was excavated in a Franciscan monastery. The stela was then presented to Austrian statesman, Prince Metternich in 1828 by Muhammad Ali Pasha, the ruler of Egypt, and Metternich had stored it in his Kynžvart Castle (in Bohemia) where the stela remained until 1950, being then purchased by the Metropolitan Museum of Art (where it was known for many years as the Metternich Stela). ... The main function of the Metternich Stela was for the magical healing of poisons, mostly caused by animals. Water was poured over the Stela and collected. The water from the Stela was then drunk by the person suffering from the poisonous ailment. That person would identify with the child Horus who had also suffered such tragedies. During the entire process religious rites from the Stela were recited by local priests. The first few spells on the stela are related to reptiles and other harmful creatures. The most prominent was the serpent demon Apophis who was the enemy of Ra for he is the equivalent of the devil. The spell forced the serpent to decapitate and burn into pieces. The second half of the spell would force the serpent to vomit and while the priest recited this spell the person inflicted would also vomit freeing their body of the poison. The next spell was directed towards a cat. The cat contained a bit of a god or goddess and would be able to destroy any sort of poison. The spell asks for Ra to aid the cat in her time of need. Most of the Stela has inscriptions that describe stories such as the ones above in relation to being poisoned and spells to be cured. The most famous is the story of Isis and the Seven Scorpions. The story takes up the majority of the stela and is most referenced when it came to ailments dealing with poisons. ... " Wikipedia - 30th dynasty Bes over Harpocrates - Stèle de Metternich - 2 Photo of the stele - Bes Amazons Bes Amazons - or Hathor bulls - the "bull of my mother" - from Dmitrys Futa A dwarf created those monsters! - Or you could say a dwarf converted the genocidal Sekhmet into the loving Hathor ... - Viewers of the erotic movie "Caligula" will remember the dwarf in the orgy scene - he's the sex object of aroused Roman women and is sexually mounted cowgirl style or "mulier equitans" by one of them ... After posting this image I saw another erotic image - a towering Amazon with an erect penis anally penetrating a dwarf ! That's a BDSM femdom image and is valid and not necessarily homosexual ... Heterosexual men are mostly unaware that they have a female sexual chakra in their anus ... I saw that inner image earlier when I was working on the white bull that Poseidon sent to the King of Troy. His Queen was cursed by Poseidon with a lust for the bull - but the image I saw was of the queen with a bull phallus! Trojan women were sexually penetrating their men Or more accurately - Trojan women sexually caged their husbands - this is explicit in the case of King Minos and Queen Pasiphae - She had a lust for the bull but restricted King Minos to having sex with her exclusively: " ... PASIPHAE was an immortal daughter of the sun-god Helios. Like her siblings, Aeetes and Kirke (Circe), she was a skilled practitioner of witchcraft (pharmakeia). Pasiphae married King Minos of Krete (Crete) and bore him a number of sons and daughters. As punishment for some offence against the gods--committed either by herself or her husband--she was cursed with lust for the king's finest bull. The queen enlisted the help of the artisan Daidalos (Daedalus) who built her an animate, wooden cow wrapped in bovine-skin. Hidden inside the contraption she coupled with the bull and conceived a hybrid child--the bull-headed Minotauros (Minotaur). Pasiphae's husband King Minos also proved unfaithful. When she learned of his indiscretions she bewitched him, causing him to ejaculate poisoned creatures and destroy his lovers. Pasiphae herself, being an immortal, was alone immune to the spell. Minos was later cured by the Athenian girl Prokris (Procris) who devised a remedy for the strange afflication. Pasiphae was an early Kretan moon-goddess similar to the classical Selene. Both her taurine lover and her Minotaur son--who was also named Asterios (Starry One)--were associated with the constellation Taurus. ... " theoi - In a nutshell that was ancient Egyptian eros - Femdom or Amazon female/mortal male sexual consorts. Crete was a European outpost of the Egyptian empire - Bes with lyre and a worshipper Metropolitan Museum of Art, c. 664-380 BC "... Bes was worshipped and invoked by ordinary Egyptians as a protector. His usual depiction, as a grotesque dwarf with a lion's ears and mane, was thought to deter the approach of the malevolent forces believed to cause illness. His image here appears in a bronze statuette made for the unnamed man shown worshipping the god. The harp held by Bes may reflect his power to calm angry spirits. ... " Met - Music and dance was central to the Bes cult - Roman statue of the god Bes - Vatican Museum " ... Bes, the Egyptian protector of infants and expectant mothers, is distinguished by his unusual iconography. The body is stocky, the legs are bowed and the face is similar to a mask, with a snarling mouth, protruding tongue, and the large swollen eyes marked by deep lines. In this specimen from the Roman Age there are various traditional features such as the low forehead, the short snub nose, and the fan-shaped beard; the god is however shown here seated on a rock, with his hands resting on his knees, as in the other two examples unearthed in Rome and now preserved in the Museo Barracco and in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. The mouth was probably readjusted in the modern age, and the upper lip appears to protrude, in contrast to the traditional Egyptian iconography. On the head there is a hole which would have housed a metal attribute or a bolt that would have supported another stone element, possibly the feathered headdress typical of Bes. A lion’s pelt covers the head and back, and is tied at the mouth. The lion’s forepaws rest on the god’s shoulders, while the lower paws are positioned at the side against his thighs. The name is rendered in the form of a crest with large separate locks extending along his back. He wears a bulla around his neck, an unusual attribute for this deity in the Egyptian context, but which in the Roman world was associated with childhood and had apotropaic value. This detail confirms the understanding and assimilation on the part of Roman culture of the original meaning of this deity. The statue was acquired in 1814 by the antiquarian Francesco de Sanctis. ... " museivaticani. - Bes is in the "birthing" position - has a caged penis and has female breasts - The image is a male birth image - my theory is that the birth of the female phallus that was central to Egyptian civilization - In the original myth he was probably sexually penetrated by a phallic Amazon and is now "giving birth" to an Amazon phallus - 18th Dynasty child’s chair from tomb of Yuya and Tuya in the valley of the Kings " showing Bes Probably made for Yuya and Tuya’s granddaughter Princess Sit-Amun. Reign of Amenhotep III, 1390-1352 BC. Egyptian Museum. - On either side of Bes is Tawaret the goddess of childbirth - 12 dynasty dancing dwarfs toy 3 dancing dwarfs in ivory -1500 B.C. . This toy was found in the tomb of a girl called Hapy - Lisht, Egypt - Cairo, Museum - 26th Dynasty Statuette of Bes with wings a crown and an erection 26th Dynasty (Saites) Statuette of Bes, dedicated by Pakher, chancellor of king Psamtek I 664 BCE–610 BC - Louvre - Bes in his fully birthed position - ie. he has wings and a full erection - and is wearing the Nubian Ram crown of Amun - Statuette of Memnon - Amenhotep III Just found this image. Memnon is clearly from Punt - or central Africa. His daughter Akhenaten simply reverted to the Punt system of rule by Amazon. Bes was a Punt deity and was probaly the archetype of the Punt male - ie Amazon submissive The other side of this is hypersexuality. Punt man were caged, but also sexually potent - they probably prefered being male "wives" - Memnon was a devotee of the Sekhmet cult - Bes-image of the god Hor-Asha-Khet - Met, c. 300 BC - Shot blocked, used workaround "Dwarf god Bes in lionskin", above " ... Bes-image of the god Hor-Asha-Khet 4th–2nd century B.C. Late Period–Ptolemaic Period On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 134 This statue has the visual form known for the god Bes, but the form was actually adopted for depictions of numerous other gods, usually ones related to Horus. This association might be related to the protector role of Bes-type demons in relation to the newborn sun. Egyptologists use the term "Bes-image" to describe such works, or in cases where the name of the god represented is not known. The inscription on this example reads: "Horus-Ashakhet, who makes live Ibi, son of Pediastarte, born of Tadiese...," indicating that the statuette represents an obscure god named Horus-Ashakhet. The offerer's father's name includes the name of the Semitic goddess Astarte, suggesting that the unreadable group of signs following the mother's name might be an epithet of Semitic origin. This aggressively posed image is notable for the refined polychrome surface decoration that articulates the god's physical features and the minute details of his regalia; it incorporates at least seven distinctive metallic hues derived from the use of a wide variety of metals. ... " Met - That decription de-Africanizes the statue - but that's still a Negro dwarf to me. - Herakles and Apollo Fighting Over the Delphic Tripod Attic Red Figure Krater, Attributed to Myson, c. 490 - 460 B.C. British Museum, London Bes creates Horus - or Apollo to the Greeks - a phallic Amazon - who has to wrestle with male deities. Here she struggles with Hercules over the Delphic Tripod. I saw a version of this at the Walters - but the image of Apollo is not obviously female with a penis. This example is more explicit. - As far as I can see, I am the only person to notice that Apollo is female - with a penis. That means Bes, the ancient Legba has been around ... Or, you could say, that's Zeus' penis that has been transferred to his daughter by his penis cage - A Bes innovation - Herakles and Apollo Fighting Over the Delphic Tripod - Walters Art Museum Terracotta, wheel made; black figure c. 520 BC - Circle of Antimenes Painter (Greek) " ... Neck Amphora with Herakles and Apollo Fighting Over the Delphic Tripod This amphora pairs a scene of Dionysus with one of Herakles' exploits: the struggle between Herakles and Apollo for the Delphic tripod. According to myth, Herakles traveled to the sanctuary of Apollo at Delphi to consult the oracle, but, when no answer was forthcoming, the hero seized Apollo's tripod, prompting a fight between the two. Herakles, draped in his lion-skin and carrying a club, menaces a youthful Apollo, while Herakles' protector, Athena, and Apollo's twin sister, Artemis, remain on the sidelines. . ... " Walters Art Museum - 18th dynasty Bronze figure of Bes, with aegis of Amun on his head - Bes is in the "birthing" position. There is literal childbirth - but there is also the female "hieros-gamos" - or the birth of the female penis - The female Akhenaten being the 18th Dynasty example ... - Sphinx - Greek bronze c. 550 BC "... Sphinx, dog of Hades, whom are you guarding, watching over the dead?" -funerary inscription from Thessaly. The role of the sphinx as a guardian spirit was often a funerary one. Like the griffins that adorned earlier cauldrons of the Orientalizing period, sphinxes such as this one served as "watchdogs" over the precious contents of bronze vessels, which sometimes held the cremated remains of the deceased. ... " Walters Art Museum - To me the Sphinx is another female with a phallus. Here it's a dog - To the Egyptians it's a lioness with a phallus The mad dog Greek sphinx could also be code for the unleashed "dog" - or untamed penis - the mark of the barbarian ... - Greek bronze 525-510 BC This figure is labelled "Running Male Figure" by the Walters - but to my eye its a phallic woman. I call her a "Bes Athlete" because that's what the diminutive Bes creates - Sexual Amazons! "The hips and legs of this athletic youth are seen in profile, in a stiffly bent pose that signified running to the Archaic Greeks. His anatomy has been sculpted in detail, though there is an abrupt and awkward transition between the upper and lower body. The figure once served as a handle, perhaps for the lid of a large vessel." Walters Art Museum Dancing Dwarf - Egyptian, 3rd century BC "The peaked cap suggests that the dancer is a mime who wears the traditional headdress of a clown or buffoon. Despite, or because of, their deformity, dwarfs held a respected position in Egyptian society and were often credited with magical powers." The Walters Art Gallery cast bronze with silver inlay That's a Greek- Egyptian Bes. Dwarves were working their Amazon Bes magic as late as the Greco-Roman period. - A reductive reading of that magic is hidden pedophilia - ie the dwarf is a child sex substitute. Many high powered women or Amazons cannot have normal eros with adult sexual objects. Power is the main drive of the Amazon and eros an inferior or repressed function. Etruscan Patera with Figural Handle 4th-3rd century BC bronze with traces of gilding " ... A patera is a shallow bowl used for rituals. Around the rim of the bowl is inscribed: ANIOVM (Shuthina, in reverse, meaning "sepulchral"), an inscription indicating the object was meant to be placed in a tomb. The handle is in the form of a muscular nude woman wearing a necklace and shoes who supports the edge of the bowl with her upraised arms. ... " Walters Art Museum - Etruscan society was Amazon . It was the source culture of the ruling Roman families like the family of Julius Ceasar. - Ultimately this was probably an Egyptian colony - There's physical evidence of ancient Egypt in Etruscan ornaments - although that's usually labelled "Orientalizing" not Egyptian or African. - But there is a more direct link to Egypt. Julius Ceasar for example was of Etruscan descent - and probably obeyed the Amazon controlled penis-cage system. His "dog-leash" holder was non other than Queen Cleopatra whom he had a son with! So in this reading, Rome did not colonize Egypt, but was colonized by an Egyptian queen! Queen Cleopatra mounted Julius Ceasar and Marc Anthony in the classic horse riding sexual position - the "Muelier Equitans" after breaking and paying for their bronze penis fibulas during a temple of Amun sex and masturbation ritual ... The two men were consorts of a polyandrous Greek Egyptian Amazon. This may sound radical today, but polyandry was the accepted system in Rome and Greece. In Ceasar's class it was the custom for a woman to give a man two or three babies then move on as she saw fit. Upper class women were often sexually mounting up to 5 men at the same time, and with emperors wives, it was usually a lot more ...The pattern repeats itself, despite modern prejudices, from Socrates all the way down to the late Roman empire. Bes, and the Amazon penis-cage radically charge up female sexual appetites while making men sexually obedient to one woman. Bes-like Demon- 17th to 18th Dynasty Egyptian c. 1600 BC " ... Resembling the household-deity Bes, this benevolent demon holds a snake in each hand, symbolizing his ability to ward off the bites and stings of venomous creatures...." Walters Art Museum - My reading of the snake is the birth of the female or Amazon phallus! Pantheistic Bes, Egypt, Ptolemaic period, 3rd to 2nd century BC Bronze Pantheistic Bes, Egypt, Ptolemaic period, 3rd to 2nd century BC, Walters Art Museum - Not erect, but striding forward. Probably soon to be erect! Atum's masturubation hand was female - Male masturbation was probably an activity given over to women and restricted to women by the "Isis knot" ... Egyptian men probably prefered the peace and calm created by the sacral knot - the loose penis was the sign of the barbarian - Bronze Figurine , c. 540 BC Another Greek Kouros at the Walters that to my eye is a phallic female. Page 150 of this site has many examples of this mixing of genders look. Those early Greek images are also very similar and probably inspired by the bull-jumper figures from Minoan Crete which on close examination are female - with a phallus ... In my opinion this is the female "hieros-gamos" or the divine marriage of male and female energies. The diminutive Bes specializes in birthing this exotic state of being. " ... One of the most common types of figurines of the period is the nude male youth at the height of his physical beauty. Note the powerful upper chest, shoulders, and muscular thighs. His facial characteristics and his tall, narrow physique suggest that he was made in the Cyclades. ..." Walters Art Museum - Papposilenos Playing the Double Flute Greek 3rd-2nd century BC solid cast bronze " ... Papposilenus was an aged, semi-bestial companion of Dionysus. He is playing a double flute (restored). Both silens and satyrs were often depicted with this exotic instrument of Asian origin. According to Aristotle, the lyre calmed the emotions, but the flute excited them, as can be seen by the figure's lively and twisting pose. ... " The Walters Art Gallery - Those are dwarves feet - More likely Bes than a Silenos figure ... Bes is the reason for that "bestial" visage that is very common with Silenos figures in ancient Greek and Roman art. Those are really Negro facial figures: black African not Asian. - Seven Hathors "The Seven Hathor-Goddesses, each wearing the Solar disk with cow’s horns and the two feathers, and playing the tambourine. The seven Hathor-Goddesses are, from right to left: -“Hathor Lady of ‘Uaset’-Thebes” -“Hathor of the southern sycamore” -“Hathor of ….” -“Hathor Lady of Kos” (’Qjs’, the pronunciation is preserved in Coptic), capital city of the XIV nome of Upper Egypt; the modern arabic name derived from its original egyptian name is “Qusiya” -“Hathor Lady of Hnés (?(w)t-nn-Nswt, the pronunciation is preserved in Coptic)”, that is Herakleopolis Megale, capital city of the XX nome of Upper Egypt; the modern arabic name derived from its original egyptian name is “Ihnasya” -“Hathor Lady of Momemphi (J?t)”, capital city of the III nome of Lower Egypt -“Hathor of the Red Lake” Temple of the Goddess Isis at Philae (now on the Agilkia island), thickness of the doorway leading to the “House of Birth” (First Pylon, west tower), west side, detail from the second register (drawing from Lepsius, “Denkmäler aus Ägypten und Äthiopien”, IV-26) ... " amntenofre - tumbler " ... Egyptian religion celebrated the sensory pleasures of life, believed to be among the gods' gifts to humanity. Egyptians ate, drank, danced, and played music at their religious festivals. They perfumed the air with flowers and incense. Many of Hathor's epithets link her to celebration; she is called the mistress of music, dance, garlands, myrrh, and drunkenness. In hymns and temple reliefs, musicians play tambourines, harps, lyres, and sistra in Hathor's honor. The sistrum, a rattle-like instrument, was particularly important in Hathor's worship. Sistra had erotic connotations and, by extension, alluded to the creation of new life. These aspects of Hathor were linked with the myth of the Eye of Ra. The Eye was pacified by beer in the story of the Destruction of Mankind. In some versions of the Distant Goddess myth, the wandering Eye's wildness abated when she was appeased with products of civilization like music, dance, and wine. The water of the annual flooding of the Nile, colored red by sediment, was likened to wine, and to the red-dyed beer in the Destruction of Mankind. Festivals during the inundation therefore incorporated drink, music, and dance as a way to appease the returning goddess. A text from the Temple of Edfu says of Hathor, "the gods play the sistrum for her, the goddesses dance for her to dispel her bad temper." A hymn to the goddess Raet-Tawy as a form of Hathor at the temple of Medamud describes the Festival of Drunkenness as part of her mythic return to Egypt. Women carry bouquets of flowers, drunken revelers play drums, and people and animals from foreign lands dance for her as she enters the temple's festival booth. The noise of the celebration drives away hostile powers and ensures the goddess will remain in her joyful form as she awaits the male god of the temple, her mythological consort Montu, whose son she will bear. Sexuality, beauty, and love Hathor's joyful, ecstatic side indicates her feminine, procreative power. In some creation myths she helped produce the world itself. Atum, a creator god who contained all things within himself, was said to have produced his children Shu and Tefnut, and thus begun the process of creation, by masturbating. The hand he used for this act, the Hand of Atum, represented the female aspect of himself and could be personified by Hathor, Nebethetepet, or another goddess, Iusaaset. In a late creation myth from the Ptolemaic Period (332–30 BC), the god Khonsu is put in a central role, and Hathor is the goddess with whom Khonsu mates to enable creation. Hathor could be the consort of many male gods, of whom Ra was only the most prominent. Mut was the usual consort of Amun, the preeminent deity during the New Kingdom who was often linked with Ra. But Mut was rarely portrayed alongside Amun in contexts related to sex or fertility, and in those circumstances, Hathor or Isis stood at his side instead. In the late periods of Egyptian history, the form of Hathor from Dendera and the form of Horus from Edfu were considered husband and wife and in different versions of the myth of the Distant Goddess, Hathor-Raettawy was the consort of Montu and Hathor-Tefnut the consort of Shu. Hathor's sexual side was seen in some short stories. In a cryptic fragment of a Middle Kingdom story, known as "The Tale of the Herdsman", a herdsman encounters a hairy, animal-like goddess in a marsh and reacts with terror. On another day he encounters her as a nude, alluring woman. Most Egyptologists who study this story think this woman is Hathor or a goddess like her, one who can be wild and dangerous or benign and erotic. Thomas Schneider interprets the text as implying that between his two encounters with the goddess the herdsman has done something to pacify her. In "The Contendings of Horus and Set", a New Kingdom short story about the dispute between those two gods, Ra is upset after being insulted by another god, Babi, and lies on his back alone. After some time, Hathor exposes her genitals to Ra, making him laugh and get up again to perform his duties as ruler of the gods. Life and order were thought to be dependent on Ra's activity, and the story implies that Hathor averted the disastrous consequences of his idleness. Her act may have lifted Ra's spirits partly because it sexually aroused him, although why he laughed is not fully understood. Hathor was praised for her beautiful hair. Egyptian literature contains allusions to a myth not clearly described in any surviving texts, in which Hathor lost a lock of hair that represented her sexual allure. One text compares this loss with Horus's loss of his divine Eye and Set's loss of his testicles during the struggle between the two gods, implying that the loss of Hathor's lock was as catastrophic for her as the maiming of Horus and Set was for them. Hathor was called "mistress of love", as an extension of her sexual aspect. In the series of love poems from Papyrus Chester Beatty I, from the Twentieth Dynasty (c. 1189–1077 BC), men and women ask Hathor to bring their lovers to them: "I prayed to her [Hathor] and she heard my prayer. She destined my mistress [loved one] for me. And she came of her own free will to see me." ... " Wikipedia - My guess is Ra laughed because Hathor had a penis. That's what Set took from Tefnut causing her to flee. - Bes converts the warlike Sekhmet into the loving Hathor. These are the "seven Hathors" and they all have the horns of a bull and have a solar disc in their hands. My inner vision is that solar disc is the female phallus - those are seven fecund female bulls ... Roman male prostitutes were represented by "Spintra" - I just found out that this means "anal": " ... Spintria was used by Suetonius to refer to young male prostitutes,from Greek σφιγκτρ (sphinkter, [anal] sphincter). ...." Wikipedia. The usage was not the modern gay anal sex though - it was more a sexually submissive male in service to a phallic Roman matron - or Amazon sex that descended from ancient Egypt and the Hathor cult. ... - Statuette of Hathor Nebethetepet © 2008 Musée du Louvre / Georges Poncet 664-332 BC, Bronze " ... Hathor, the goddess of erotic drives, is shown here in her incarnation as Nebethetepet, whose name could be interpreted as “the mistress of satisfaction” On her head the goddess wears a sistrum—the two bows evoke the joined hands of the god Atum and allude to the female genitals, while the back-and-forth motion of the rods recalls the culmination of desire in the sex act. Hathor is also the incarnation adopted by Re when doing battle with the Apophis serpent, who becomes fascinated (in the literal and etymological sense of the term) with her erotic power, losing his own hypnotic power and thereby losing the battle. ... " Louvre - That's a female phallus to my eye - that's what Hathor showed her sulking father Ra causing him to laugh and resume his duties thus returning Egypt to life That was a pattern in Egypt and Rome - the sexually caged emperor and his phallic daughter - who probably inherited his "dog-leash" duties from the Emperors wife ... That's also probably what happened during Temple of Amun rituals. The prone Egyptian man had his penis-cage removed and was ritually masturbated by a priestess of the Temple.: " ... Nebethetepet is an ancient Egyptian goddess. Her name means "Lady of the Offerings" or "Satisfied Lady". She was worshipped in Heliopolis as a female counterpart of Atum. She personified Atum's hand, the female principle of creation ... " Wikpedia - Bes Erotica The penis caged wise graybeard servicing the phallic youthful Amazon goddess - That was Hathor Nebethetepet - a female bull - not a cow ... or ancient Egyptian sexuality especially during the annual festival of drunkenness during the Nile flood ... - Bes Erotica - 2 The virile young phallic Amazon mounting the wise old man in his penis cage ... Strong reaction to this in the dreamspace. The Amazon has strong libido! Whether of not this makes you gay, the Kundalini starts here - in the anus. This is one way to wake her up! Further research shows Hathor is a cow - she is shown serving milk from her udders to King/Queen Hatshepsut among other Kings of Egypt. But I am still not sure about that - my inner images show a phallic goddess - Hathor/Isis as bull Isis and Hathor are often identical. On the left is a nude Hathor/Isis as a bull - in my view the staff in her hand is phallic Baedeker, Karl. Egypt, "Handbook for Traveling, pt.1 Lower Egypt, with the Fayum and the peninsula of Sinai". K. Baedeker, Leipsic, (1885). p. 136. - Hathor as bull and Ma'at as a phallic goddess Hathor as a bull and Ma'at - both nude females in masculine poses - with a phallic staff. This was an ancient Egyptian archetype - the phallic princess - and can be seen most clearly in the Minoan Crete Minotaur myth - the daughter of the sun, Queen Pasiphae and her lust for a bull which she inhabited in a fully physical form Budge, E. A. Wallace. "The Nile: Notes for Travellers in Egypt." (Harrison and Sons, London: 1902). p. 189. - Hathor and King Seti I A tall black and Amazon goddess Hathor in a green dress offering her protection to a black-skinned King Seti I of the 19th dynasty. " ... Figure of the Egyptian goddess Hathor with King Seti I from his tomb in Thebes, discovered by Giovanni Battista Belzoni. She holds his hand and offers her menat necklace as protection. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Giulio Ferrario's Costumes Ancient and Modern of the Peoples of the World, Florence, 1834. ... " Alamy - Seti and Hathor at Abydos - Seti is black skinned - probably a prince of Punt. In Egypt males were usually painted darker than women - as in Minoan Crete and upper class Rome. - My conclusion is that's the famous "dog-leash" tan. - The ancient Egyptian penis was caged and controlled by phallic women. " ... This relief shows the goddess Hathor giving pharaoh Seti I the breath of life, in the form of an “ankh” sign (symbolizing life) flanked by two “was” sceptres (symbols for prosperity). Her head is protected by the vulture goddess Nekhbet who spreads her wings over Hathor’s hair. On top of that is a rarely seen crown, consisting of again a vulture, whose wings are protecting two cobras, wearing the crowns of Upper- and Lower-Egypt. The relief is located on the west wall of the Second Hypostyle Hall of the Seti I Temple at Abydos, between the entrances of the Chapel of Ptah and the Chapel of Ra-Horakhty. ... The Seti Temple at Abydos was begun by Seti I and completed by his son Ramses II in the 13th century BC. Photo Mick Palarczyk. ... " paulsmit.smugmug - Bull in the Temple of Dendera Raging Bull in the Temple of Dendera - which is mainly a Temple of Hathor. In my view that's a phallic Hathor ... " ... 'Zodiac sign Taurus at Dendera.' A black raging bull portrays the zodiac sign Taurus on the astronomical ceiling in the outer hypostyle hall of the Hathor Temple at Dendera. The animal seems to stoop under the weight of a big white moon. The ceiling consists of seven separate strips but here we are looking at a detail of the upper register of the EASTERNMOST STRIP. There are six zodiac signs depicted in the entire eastermost strip and the other six can be found on the westernmost ceiling strip of the hall. These signs are of Babylonic-Greek origin and are not found in Egypt before it was conquered by Alexander the Great in 332 BC. In this detail picture the bull of Taurus is followed by a god with a two-feather crown, holding a ram-headed serpent with both hands. He personifies a constellation or star north of the Ecliptic (the astronomical location is known from the famous round zodiac of Dendera in the Louvre). Behind him, carrying a staff, is the planet Mercury (called 'Sebek' by the Egyptians). In a text dating from the New Kingdom Mercury was described as "Seth in the evening twilight and a god in the morning twilight." Proof that by that time Mercury was known as both evening and morning star. The women with stars on their heads on the left are the goddesses of the 11th and 10th hour of the night and the pair on the right are their colleagues of the 9th and 8th hour. ... This part of the Dendera Temple was built during the Roman period (first century AD). Photo Mick Palarczyk. ... " paulsmit.smugmug - Rising sun boat and baboons at Hathor Temple of Dendera Temple of Dendera: three leashed black jackals or dogs hauling in the morning Hathor sun boat. On the prow is a naked Harpocrates - the female phallic Horus who was raised by the phallic Hathor. - The leashed dogs are almost certainly code for penis caged men ... Probably the Roman Augusta's three sexual "mounts" " ... 'Baboons worshipping the rising sun at Dendera.' Four baboons are welcoming and worshipping the rising sun on the astronomical ceiling in the outer hypostyle hall of the Hathor Temple at Dendera. The ceiling consists of seven separate strips but here we are looking at a detail of the lower register of the SECOND STRIP EAST from centre. Near the left edge of the picture we can just discern the bow of a boat which carries the image of a seated child. This boat carries the rising sun (which is outside the frame of the picture) and is pulled into the eastern sky by three black jackals (called "The Justified"). Four standing baboons await the sun in a worshipping position. The caption over their heads calls them the "Souls of the East". Baboons were observed by ancient Egyptians to screech at the rising sun, warming themselves in its rays, and this probably formed the inspiration for this favourite scene in Egyptian iconography. ... This part of the Dendera Temple was built during the Roman period (first century AD). Photo Paul Smit." paulsmit.smugmug - Birth of the sun in Hathor Temple of Dendera - The "dog-days" of summer were the flooding of the Nile and the rise of the "dog-star" Sirius. But dog was also code for the penis - these were the penis days of ancient Egypt - probably when the penis cage was removed and Hathor through her priestess' went to work as the hand of Atum - or masturbator of Atum ... " ... The rising sun is born from the lap of sky goddess Nut on the astronomical ceiling in the outer hypostyle hall of the Hathor Temple at Dendera. The ceiling consists of seven separate strips but here we are looking at a detail of the EASTERNMOST STRIP. The entire strip is enveloped by the outstretched body of the sky goddess Nut and her feet are visible in the left upper corner of this picture. The wave pattern on Nut's dress symbolizes the cosmic river on which the sun traveled during the night. The rays of the rising sun touch the head of the goddess Hathor which is located on top of a simplified image of a temple (seen upside down here). The scene portrays the first day of the Egyptian New Year on which a statue of Hathor, brought from a crypt in the temple and placed on its roof, was rejuvenated by the first rays of the New Year sun. To the left of the sun rays we see Cancer, one of the six zodiac signs that are represented in this ceiling strip. These signs are of Babylonic-Greek origin and are not found in Egypt before it was conquered by Alexander the Great in 332 BC On the right we see the end of the two registers which make up the rest of this strip. The upper register starts with a boat carrying the standing goddesses Anukis and Satis, who represent a constellation south of the Ecliptic (the astronomical location is known from the famous round zodiac of Dendera in the Louvre). Anukis, as personification of the Nile, is pouring water from two vessels. Satis, another water goddess, is wearing the crown of upper Egypt. This watery constellation is closely associated with the next heavenly body: Sothis (the star Sirius) depicted as a cow on a boat. The rise of Sirius on the eastern horizon, after a few weeks of invisibility, signaled the beginning of the summer Nile flood for the Egyptians and the beginning of the New Year. Next comes a constellation or star which is called 'Horus-who-is-on-his-pillar' and which is south of the Ecliptic (the astronomical location is known from the famous round zodiac of Dendera in the Louvre.) The lower register starts with a small boat carrying a lotus flower from which emerges a snake. The snake is a symbol for the rising sun on the first day of the New Year, the lotus flower being the first object that appeared on the primordial sea on the first day of the world creation. It is similar to the famous image of the sun-snake in a cosmos-bulb which is found in the southern crypt of the temple. ... Next follows a boat with a seated Isis and Hathor and a standing Harsomptus, the three most important deities of the temple. The falcon-headed god on a boat to the right of that is a decanal star (nr. 35 in the Tanis decan family of Neugebauer and Parker). ..... This part of the Dendera Temple was built during the Roman period (first century AD). Photo Mick Palarczyk. ..." paulsmit.smugmug - Sirius and Orion sailing across the sky at Dendera - Sirius as the bull in a boat being Isis and Osiris as the standing Orion. In Egypt the penis was associated with female control - so Isis is a bull not a cow - Osiris (and men) was dismembered by Set and lost his penis - which was symbolized by the penis cage. During special occasions the male penis was regenerated by phallic female priests who through cage removal and male masturbation represented the hand of Atum. In Greece Dionysus was similarly dismembered by the Titans and later brought back to life from his coffin ... " ... Sirius and Orion are sailing across the firmament in boats on the astronomical ceiling in the outer hypostyle hall of the Hathor Temple at Dendera. The ceiling consists of seven separate strips but here we are looking at a detail of the upper register of the EASTERNMOST STRIP. The star Sirius, or Sothis as it was known by the Egyptians, is depicted here as a reclining cow on a boat but the star was also identified with the goddess Isis. The rise of Sirius on the eastern horizon, after a few weeks of invisibility, signaled the beginning of the summer Nile flood for the Egyptians and the beginning of the New Year. The second boat carries a god who personifies the constellation Orion, or Sahu as he was called by the Egyptians. The text above the god describes him as 'Sahu, the soul (ba) of Osiris' and thus it can be understood that Osiris is looking back at his wife Isis (in the shape of a cow) to see if she is following him across the sky. Orion/Osiris as a god looking back first appears in Egyptian iconography in stars clocks on coffin lids of the Middle Kingdom. Between the two boats there is a constellation or star which is called 'Horus-who-is-on-his-pillar' and which is south of the Ecliptic (the astronomical location is known from the famous round zodiac of Dendera in the Louvre). The woman with a star on her head is the goddess of the 12th hour of the night. The man with a feather on his head is the god Shu, who was responsible for keeping the earth and the sky separated. The astronomers who designed this ceiling depicted him together with his sister Tefnut (who is just outside the picture) to represent the twins of the zodiac sign Gemini. ... This part of the Dendera Temple was built during the Roman period (first century AD). Photo Mick Palarczyk. ... " paulsmit.smugmug - Gilded head of Hathor as a cow or bull from the tomb of Tutankhamen - My guess is that is a bull - comparable to the Minoan symbol a bull and solar disc. But it's also female - so a fecund bull-goddess ... Having all men in a penis cage put in before puberty and controlled by women only is going to create female bulls - ie hypersexual and polyandrous women and docile monogamous and fecund men focused on the needs of their penis cager " ... The goddess Hathor was often represented in the form of a cow, and, as such, was depicted on the walls of many Theban tombs dating to the New Kingdom. When portrayed in the papyrus marsh, her body is usually obscured, hidden by the thicket and the western mountain. Only her head is visible, and it is perhaps this aspect of her that is rendered here in three dimensions. Hathor was known as the mistress of the western desert, where the necropolis was located, and would, therefore, be of assistance to the deceased. This wooden carving of the head and neck of a cow found in the KV62 tomb of Tutankhamun in front of the canopic chest was covered with a thin layer of gesso. The head and part of the neck were then gilded, while the lower portion of the neck and the pedestal base were coated with a dark resin. The horns, which received the same varnish, consist of gessoed wood covered with a thin metal sheet of either copper or bronze. It was located in the Luxor Museum in 1999 ... " Wikipedia - 4th Dynasty Pharaoh Menkaure (centre) flanked by the goddess Hathor (left) and goddess Bata (right) 4th Dynasty Pharaoh Menkaure (centre) flanked by the goddess Hathor (left) and goddess Bata (right), Graywacke stone sculpture, c. 2575–c. 2465 BC; in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. - That's a Giza pyramid era Pharaoh. Hathor is not obviously phallic here - but she is almost nude and wearing the horns of a bull. Other depictions of Menkaure have him closely paired with a lithe almost nude queen. Menkaure was almost certainly in the penis cage. - This was the era of Bes and the dwarf-lords of ancient Egypt and their penis cage innovations " ... Bat (or Bata) was an ancient Egyptian cow goddess associated with Upper Egypt. She was originally a deification of the Milky Way (which was compared to a pool of cows milk). Her name is the feminine form of the word “ba”, the name of one of the major elements of the soul. She was associated with the ankh (the symbol of life or breath) and with the sistrum (which was also associated with Hathor. Her cult centre was in Sheshesh (the seventh nome of Upper Egypt) known as the “Mansion of the Sistrum”. Her worship certainly dates to the early period of ancient Egyptian history as she is mentioned in the Pyramid Texts as “Bat of two faces; the one who is saved who has saved myself from all evil things”. Her dual faces may represent her ability to see both the past and future, but it is also possible that the two faces represent the two banks of the Nile or both Upper and Lower Egypt. She is rarely depicted in ancient Egyptian art (she occasionally appears as a celestial cow surrounded by stars), however, her human face with bovine features often adorned jewellery and amulets. A cow goddess who is though to be Bat appears on a pectoral from the twelfth dynasty flanked by Horus and Set (representing upper and lower Egypt) implying that she was a force which unified the two lands. It is possible that it is Bat rather than Hathor who is depicted on the Narmer Palette and Gerzeh Palette (also known as the “cow palette” or the “Hathor Palette”) as the name of the goddess depicted is not confirmed on either artifact. It is possible that Hathor and Bat were once one and the same, and that differences emerged because the area was divided into two different Nomes. Her appearance with Hathor and Menkaure would appear to support this. Hathor was worshipped in the sixth nome while Bat was worshiped in the seventh Nome. Alternatively, Bat was originally an entirely separate deity who merely shared many characteristics with her more illustrious neighbour. Unfortunately for Bat, her similarity to Hathor was so close that she was almost entirely assimilated into her by the New Kingdom. ... " ancientegyptonline - 4th Dynasty King Menkaure (Mycerinus) and queen, 2490–2472 B.C., greywacke - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston King Menkaure (Mycerinus) and queen, 2490–2472 B.C., greywacke - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - Knowing the way Egypt worked - that's the almost nude Queen and Sovereign supporting her penis caged consort Menkaure Wikipedia says she was Menkaure's sister: Transmission of power was mother to daughter or living Isis to living Horus/Harpocrates and the king as the living Osiris " ... Khamerernebty II was an ancient Egyptian queen of the 4th Dynasty. She was a daughter of Pharaoh Khafra and Queen Khamerernebty I. She married her brother Menkaure and she was the mother of Prince Khuenre. Khamerernebty II is said to be the daughter of Khamerernebty I in her tomb. Khamerernebty I is thought to be the mother of Menkaure based on a partial inscription on a flint knife in the mortuary temple of Menkaure and hence a wife of King Khafre. This would imply that Khamerernebty II was the daughter of King Khafra and Khamerernebty I. Khamerernebty II was the mother of the King's Son Khuenre, who is thought to be the son of Menkaure. This suggests that Khamerernebty II must have married her brother Menkaure. Khamerernebty II is mentioned in texts and on a statue found in the Galarza tomb in Giza. This tomb is located in the Central Field which is part of the Giza Necropolis. The tomb may have originally been built for Khamerernebty I, but was finished for her daughter Khamerernebty II.The lintel above the entrance to the chapel included an inscription mentioning both Khamerernebty I and her daughter Khamerernebty II: Mother of the King of Upper and Lower Egypt, Daughter of [the King of Upper and Lower Egypt, and Daughter of the God, She who sees Horus and Seth, Great one of the hetes-sceptre, One great of praise, Priestess of Djehuty, Priestess of Tjasepef, the Greatly loved Wife of the King, King's Daughter of his body, revered mistress, honored by the Great God, Khamerernebty (I). Her eldest daughter, She who sees Horus and Seth, Great one of the hetes-sceptre, One great of praise, Priestess of Djehuty, Priestess of Tjazepef, One who sits with Horus, She who is united with the one beloved of the Two Ladies, Greatly loved Wife of the King, King's Daughter of his body, revered mistress, honored by her father, Khamerernebty (II). (Callender and Jánosi) ..." " ... Serene ethereal beauty, raw royal power, and evidence of artistic virtuosity have rarely been simultaneously captured as well as in this breathtaking, nearly life-size statue of the pharaoh Menkaure and a queen. Smooth as silk, the meticulously finished surface of the dark stone captures the physical ideals of the time and creates a sense of eternity and immortality even today. Undoubtedly, the most iconic structures from Ancient Egypt are the massive and enigmatic Great Pyramids that stand on a natural stone shelf, now known as the Giza plateau, on the south-western edge of modern Cairo. The three primary pyramids at Giza were constructed during the height of a period known as the Old Kingdom and served as burial places, memorials, and places of worship for a series of deceased rulers–the largest belonging to King Khufu, the middle to his son Khafre, and the smallest of the three to his son Menkaure. Pyramids are not stand-alone structures. Those at Giza formed only a part of a much larger complex that included a temple at the base of the pyramid itself, long causeways and corridors, small subsidiary pyramids, and a second temple (known as a valley temple) some distance from the pyramid. These Valley Temples were used to perpetuate the cult of the deceased king and were active places of worship for hundreds of years (sometimes much longer) after the king’s death. Images of the king were placed in these temples to serve as a focus for worship—several such images have been found in these contexts, including the magnificent seated statue of Khafre, now in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. On January 10, 1910, excavators under the direction of George Reisner, head of the joint Harvard University-Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Expedition to Egypt, uncovered an astonishing collection of statuary in the Valley Temple connected to the Pyramid of Menkaure. Menkaure’s pyramid had been explored in the 1830s (using dynamite, no less). His carved granite sarcophagus was removed (and subsequently lost at sea), and while the Pyramid Temple at the base was in only mediocre condition; the Valley Temple, was—happily—basically ignored. Reisner had been excavating on the Giza plateau for several years at this point; his team had already explored the elite cemetery to the west of the Great Pyramid of Khufu before turning their attention to the Menkaure complex, most particularly the barely-touched Valley Temple. In the southwest corner of the structure, the team discovered a magnificent cache of statuary carved in a smooth-grained dark stone called greywacke or schist. There were a number of triad statues—each showing 3 figures—the king, the fundamentally important goddess Hathor, and the personification of a nome (a geographic designation, similar to the modern idea of a region, district, or county). Hathor was worshiped in the pyramid temple complexes along with the supreme sun god Re and the god Horus, who was represented by the living king. The goddess’s name is actually ‘Hwt-hor’, which means “The House of Horus,” and she was connected to the wife of the living king and the mother of the future king. Hathor was also a fierce protector who guarded her father Re; as an “Eye of Re” (the title assigned to a group of dangerous goddesses), she could embody the intense heat of the sun and use that blazing fire to destroy his enemies. There were 4 complete triads, one incomplete, and at least one other in a fragmentary condition. The precise meaning of these triads is uncertain. Reisner believed that there was one for each ancient Egyptian nome, meaning there would have originally been more than thirty of them. More recent scholarship, however, suggests that there were originally 8 triads, each connected with a major site associated with the cult of Hathor. Hathor’s prominence in the triads (she actually takes the central position in one of the sculptures) and her singular importance to kingship lends weight to this theory. In addition to the triads, Reisner’s team also revealed the extraordinary dyad statue of Menkaure and a queen that is breathtakingly singular. The two figures stand side-by-side on a simple, squared base and are supported by a shared back pillar. They both face to the front, although Menkaure’s head is noticeably turned to his right—this image was likely originally positioned within an architectural niche, making it appear as though they were emerging from the structure. The broad-shouldered, youthful body of the king is covered only with a traditional short pleated kilt, known as a shendjet, and his head sports the primary pharaonic insignia of the iconic striped nemes headdress (so well known from the mask of Tutankhamun) and an artificial royal beard. In his clenched fists, held straight down at his sides, Menkaure grasps ritual cloth rolls. His body is straight, strong, and eternally youthful with no signs of age. His facial features are remarkably individualized with prominent eyes, a fleshy nose, rounded cheeks, and full mouth with protruding lower lip. Menkaure’s queen provides the perfect female counterpart to his youthful masculine virility. Sensuously modeled with a beautifully proportioned body emphasized by a clinging garment, she articulates ideal mature feminine beauty. There is a sense of the individual in both faces. Neither Menkaure nor his queen are depicted in the purely idealized manner that was the norm for royal images. Instead, through the overlay of royal formality we see the depiction of a living person filling the role of pharaoh and the personal features of a particular individual in the representation of his queen. Menkaure and his queen stride forward with their left feet—this is entirely expected for the king, as males in Egyptian sculpture almost always do so, but it is unusual for the female since they are generally depicted with feet together. They both look beyond the present and into timeless eternity, their otherworldly visage displaying no human emotion whatsoever. The dyad was never finished—the area around the lower legs has not received a final polish, and there is no inscription. However, despite this incomplete state, the image was erected in the temple and was brightly painted—there are traces of red around the king’s ears and mouth and yellow on the queen’s face. The presence of paint atop the smooth, dark greywacke on a statue of the deceased king that was originally erected in his memorial temple courtyard brings an interesting suggestion—that the paint may have been intended to wear away through exposure and, over time, reveal the immortal, black-fleshed “Osiris” Menkaure Unusual for a pharaoh’s image, the king has no protective cobra (known as a uraeus) perched on his brow. This notable absence has led to the suggestion that both the king’s nemes and the queen’s wig were originally covered in precious metal and that the cobra would have been part of that addition. Based on comparison with other images, there is no doubt that this sculpture shows Menkaure, but the identity of the queen is a different matter. She is clearly a royal female. She stands at nearly equal height with the king and, of the two of them, she is the one who is entirely frontal. In fact, it may be that this dyad is focused on the queen as its central figure rather than Menkaure. The prominence of the royal female—at equal height and frontal—in addition to the protective gesture she extends has suggested that, rather than one of Mekaure’s wives, this is actually his queen-mother. The function of the sculpture in any case was to ensure rebirth for the king in the Afterlife. ... " smarthistory - 4th Dynasty Menkaure Triad, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Nome triad: From left topless Hare-nome goddess standing, topless Hathor "Mistress of the Sycamore" seated holding a standing King - greywacke, Boston Museum of Fine Arts "Mistress of the Sycamore" is a tree of life symbol usually associated with Nut - but apparently also with Hathor - after 30 years in the penis cage Egyptian kings began to experience the fruits and drink of the Tree of life. Hathor is topless and wearing the horns of a bull and a solar disc and almost certainly had a large bull phallus that she used to penetrate the King. That was probably an expectation of all penis-caged ancient Egyptian men ... The "Strong bull of his mother Hathor" - although the precise meaning of that royal title is uncertain ... What is certain is those are the horns of a bull and they are on a topless woman, not a man ... That's a gruesome image for the 21st century man - but is well established in African Voodoo - Mami Wata has a penis ... " ... In ancient Egyptian religion, Apis or Hapis , alternatively spelled Hapi-ankh, was a sacred bull worshiped in the Memphis region, identified as the son of Hathor, a primary deity in the pantheon of ancient Egypt. Initially, he was assigned a significant role in her worship, being sacrificed and reborn. Later, Apis also served as an intermediary between humans and other powerful deities (originally Ptah, later Osiris, then Atum). The Apis bull was an important sacred animal to the ancient Egyptians. As with the other sacred beasts Apis' importance increased over the centuries. During colonization of the conquered Egypt, Greek and Roman authors had much to say about Apis, the markings by which the black calf was recognized, the manner of his conception by a ray from heaven, his house at Memphis (with a court for his deportment), the mode of prognostication from his actions, his death, the mourning at his death, his costly burial, and the rejoicings throughout the country when a new Apis was found. Auguste Mariette's excavation of the Serapeum of Saqqara revealed the tombs of more than sixty animals, ranging from the time of Amenhotep III to that of the Ptolemaic dynasty. Originally, each animal was buried in a separate tomb with a chapel built above it. ... " Wikipedia - Armant temple (Cleopatra VII) - multiple versions of the goddess Hathor suckle a newborn king Scene from the sanctuary of the now-demolished Armant temple, recorded by Lepsius Denkmäler IV, 59b. Harpocrates - the phallic female Horus is being breast fed by Hathor who in some scenes has the head of a bull, and below is a complete bull The Ptolemies adopted the Egyptian system of rule by the female phallus That's probably a daughter of Cleopatra VII being breast fed - or a niece - not Julius Ceasar's son Ceasarion - 4th Dynasty Alabaster head of Menkaure. c. 2548-2530 B.C. - That's a more clearly Negro head of King Menkaure " ... Fragmentary statue head of Menkaura. From the Giza Valley Temple of Menkaura, made during his reign (circa 2548-2530 B.C.) Alabaster. Now residing at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Museum Expedition 09.203. ... " Wikipedia - 4th Dynasty Hathor, King Menkaure and a dwarf-lord c. 2548-2530 B.C. A near nude Hathor standing on the left, King Menkaure standing center - and what might be a 4th dynasty dwarf-lord on the right " ... One of four complete schist triad sculptures of Menkaure (Mycerinus) of the 4th dynasty. To his right is the goddess Hathor (Het-Hert), to his left the local deity of Thebes. ... " Alfred Molon - 4th Dynasty King Menkaure and his topless sister Queen Khameremebty II c. 2548-2530 B.C. Queen Khameremebty II was almost certainly the sovereign. The King was probably penis caged by his older sister - which meant she decided who he mated with when out of the cage - or which priestess masturbated him during Atum "re-animation of Osiris" rituals ... Bes erotica - 3 More Bes erotica - The young and virile phallic female bull mounts the wise old penis -caged dwarf - Or in Voodoo - the diminutive Exu/Legba married to the Amazon Pomba Gira/Madam Brigette Bes erotica - 4 Not American - the only American women with this energy are poor, large and black - And they do not have access to the "means of production". That's an east European - 4th Dynasty nude Hathor, King Menkaure and a nude goddess (Bat?) c. 2548-2530 B.C. "Triad statue of pharaoh Menkaura, accompanied by the goddess Hathor (on his right) and the personification of the nome of Diospolis Parva (on his left). Material:Graywacke. ... " Alamy - the Egyptian Museum, Cairo, Egypt - That looks like one of the dwarves above the goddess on the right. Egypt was in contact with the "wee folk" - or fairies! " ... Both Bat (right) and Hathor (left) flank Menkaure in this Fourth Dynasty triad statue, c. 2530 B.C. The goddesses provide the authority for him to be king and are identified by their crowns. The emblem on Bat's crown represents the sistrum, although the crown also includes her zoomorphic face and the feather of Ma'at. ... " Wikipedia - The sacred Apis bull shown on a Twenty-first dynasty Egyptian coffin c. 1000 BC Emphasis on the large bull phallus - 21st was a Nubian Dynasty - and that's a Hathor or female phallus! Nobody has drawn out this thought - but I am certain the orgy tradition that we ascribe to Rome was really a Trojan and ancient Egyptian affair - and driven by phallic women - not men ... All those Roman statues of women with a phallus on page 150 are trying to tell a tale ... From the Greeks we learn that that's an incarnation of the male god Ptah - not Hathor - but the Greeks were on record as having issues with the role of women in ancient Egypt. To me - those horns and that sun-disc say Hathor - who from the 4th dynasty was clearly a very important deity ... " ... In ancient Egyptian religion, Apis or Hapis , alternatively spelled Hapi-ankh, was a sacred bull worshiped in the Memphis region, identified as the son of Hathor, a primary deity in the pantheon of ancient Egypt. Initially, he was assigned a significant role in her worship, being sacrificed and reborn. Later, Apis also served as an intermediary between humans and other powerful deities (originally Ptah, later Osiris, then Atum). ... " Wikipedia The castrated Roman Galli are recorded as organizing orgies and even taking part in them. How that can be without a phallus is not explained. - My guess is was something like the Bes Erotica above - the Galli were penetrated by Amazons incarnating the bull phallus; - that was the Trojan way ... " ... The Orgia (Orgiastic festivals) of the Phrygian Mother of the Gods were introduced to Greece by way the island of Samothrake. They were closely connected with the Orgies of the god Dionysos, whose Phrygian counterpart, Sabazios, was described as a son of the goddess. The Phrygian Orgia were overseen by eunuch priests called Gallai who led devotees in nocturnal mountain rites involving much drinking, and frantic dancing accompanied by the music of rattles, kettledrums, flutes and castenets and the ritual cry "evoe saboe," "hyes attes, attes hyes." Young men armed with shield and sword also performed the high-footed, shield-clashing Korybantic dance (which Greek legend described as the dance of the Kourete-protectors of the infant Zeus). The rites also involved ritual mutilation, ranging from flaggelation to the act of self-castration performed by the Gallai priests. The Orgies introduced into Greece and Rome were toned down somewhat to accomodate local sensibilities. ... " theoi - Head of Minoan Bull with a Labrys and solar disc - Above the bull is a labrys - the double headed axe that was the symbol of the Amazons. The energy of the bull sent by Poseidon was solar when incarnated in phallic Amazons. " ... In ancient Crete, the double axe was an important sacred symbol of the supposed Minoan religion. In Crete the double axe only accompanies female goddesses, never male gods. It seems that it was the symbol of the arche of the creation (Mater-arche). ... " Wikipedia My guess is the penis cage - the "sacral knot" that all Cretan men wore from a young age was the cause of this female phallus energy. - Etruscan Pasiphae and the baby Minotaur Etruscan Pasiphae and the baby Minotaur Red-figure kylix found at Etruscan Vulci, 4th century BC, Cabinet des Médailles, Paris - To Etruscans the Minotaur was a hero - That's probably an incarnation of the solar and phallic Etruscan woman - probably after ecstatic rites and orgies - The Roman male prostitutes were Spintra - which means anal and they serviced phallic women as men were sexually caged - Roman and Etruscan sex before it was probably like Bes Erotica above ... - Bes Erotica- 5 More Bes Erotica - Female Horse phallus! Ancient Nubian men were servicing these - it's in the Kikuyu mythology - probably an artificial bull phallus There's a Roman image of a male Nubian vagina on page 150 from Pompeii - That was the African way ! - Shot partly blocked - Bes Erotica- 6 Ostrich sex - That's how Ostriches mate - a female phallus ... And polyandry - In the small world of BDSM femdom women are "served" by many men ... Mami Wata is like that - if she or they appears to you in the sleep state - which is a gift, not an imposition and can easliy be taken away. "Alien Abductees" used to report this - anal probes and semen removal - but the reports seem to have disappeared - I'm sure it still happens, but the reports do not see the light of day - - The other side of this is conquest of earth - like in the TV show "V" where a female technological civilization conquers earth - Not sure about that ... " ... V (also known as V: The Series) is an American science fiction television series for the 60-minutes (47 to 49 minutes without commercials) weekly that aired in the United States on NBC from October 26, 1984, to March 22, 1985. It is a continuation of the V franchise about an alien invasion of Earth by a carnivorous race of reptilians known as "Visitors", which was originally conceived by American writer, producer, and director Kenneth Johnson. ... " Wikipedia - Bes Erotica- 7 More young American Amazons working on a wise old man... Shot blocked. Used Workaround That might be a cure for the ED (erectile dysfunction) epidemic. A way to awaken the muladhara chakra ... - Although in America race is always going to be a factor in awakening this base or earth chakra. - The wise old man here is British though - That's an Indian problem too - India has a race problem. The Indian "earth" is the dark skinned untouchable class - who have ancient links to dark skinned black Africans - not to mention links to the classical Hindu gods who are usually black skinned " ... In Hinduism, Kundalini (Sanskrit: ... "coiled snake") is a form of divine feminine energy (or shakti) believed to be located at the base of the spine, in the muladhara. It is an important concept in shaiva Tantra, where it is believed to be a force or power associated with the divine feminine or the formless aspect of the Goddess. This energy in the body, when cultivated and awakened through tantric practice, is believed to lead to spiritual liberation. Kundalini is associated with Parvati or Adi Parashakti, the supreme being in Shaktism; and with the goddesses Bhairavi and Kubjika. The term, along with practices associated with it, was adopted into Hatha yoga in the 9th century. It has since then been adopted into other forms of Hinduism as well as modern spirituality and New age thought. Kundalini awakenings have been described as occurring by means of a variety of methods. Many systems of yoga focus on awakening Kundalini through: meditation; pranayama breathing; the practice of asana and chanting of mantras.Kundalini Yoga is influenced by Shaktism and Tantra schools of Hinduism. It derives its name from its focus upon the awakening of kundalini energy through regular practice of Mantra, Tantra, Yantra, Asanas or Meditation.The Kundalini experience is frequently reported to be a distinct feeling of electric current running along the spine. ... " Wikpedia - Bes Erotica- 8 More young American Amazons working on a wise old man - 2 Shot blocked. Used Workaround - Bes Erotica- 9 More young American Amazons working on a wise old man - 3 Shot blocked. Used Workaround - Bes Erotica- 10 More young American Amazons working on a wise old man - 4 Roman men did not come out of their bronze penis cages without a visit to the blacksmith. This must have been what everyday Roman sex was or everyday Trojan and Egyptian sex - although I have not seen physical images of this. But all those images of Roman women with a penis on page 150 of this site does not leave much room for alternative viewpoints - Bes Erotica- 11 Caged female on male sex. When you factor in the unremovable bronze Roman fistula or penis cage - and the Roman legends of sexually voracious wives and queens - and the phallic women of page 150 - and evidence from Roman poets, and the anal Spintra of Roman male prostitutes - one has to conclude that this was the dominant form of Roman sex ... It was an inheritance from Minoan Crete and ancient Egypt. Hathor was the bull that had to be kept satiated - Roman men were the caged cows that serviced her and her avatars - the phallic Roman empress and phallic Roman wives Or alternately, Cybele was the goddess that required castration of her priests - and attendance at orgies. Without a phallus the only orgies were anal - under her Amazon priestesses - the insatiable phallic Roman wives In terms of the rising of the Kundalini - the female phallus activates the male muladhara in the male anus, and vice versa - the male muladhara in the male anus in tandem with the penis cage activate the female phallus ... So the Hathor/Cybele female bull system provides an optimal outcome for both sexes - In other words - it's good, and good for you ! - Bes Erotica- 12 More caged female phallus/male muladhara erotica. My initial inner images of Roman sex on page 150 were like this - but there is no direct physical evidence ... except all those disrobing Roman and Etruscan matrons with erections ! - Bes Erotica- 13 And Egyptian too - Memnon's mother the greek goddess Eos forcibly mated with a Trojan prince producing Memnon. ... With Egyptians we have Greek testimony that the male/female sexual power was reversed - We also have images of Hathor the well endowed bull as a lithe nude Egyptian princess ... I was reading this system remained in effect in Sudan until the 19th century - A black musician was beaten by his wife for selling his musical instrument to a German archeologist. He had to take the beating - but if he beat her back she could report him to the authorities - or the Sheika/queen bee. - Sudanese women were selling Ethiopian slaves - That same German was gifted a young Ethiopian by a Sudanese queen or Sheikha who he took with him to Europe. See: Richard Lepsius "Discoveries in Egypt, Ethiopia and the Peninsula of Sinai" (1853) Kenya is also full of reports of husband beating ... It's an east African kink - Bes Erotica- 14 Hathor the well endowed bull as a lithe nude Egyptian princess ... That's a Greek/American and her British husband - You do not think of the British as being very sensual - but BDSM femdom seems to be a British thing ... Most wearers of the penis cage today are probably British The images we have of Greek women at the time of Plato are incorrect! I am sure they were more like this - more like all those Greek statues of women with a phallus on page 150 of this site - The testimony is Greek women were polyandrous by tradition - Socrates shared his wife after having children with her - But that image is still deceptive - If Socrates was in the penis cage as all those Greek athletes were - his wife was the domme ... The Greeks were colonized by Minoan Crete - which had an Amazon/Egyptian power structure - so Greek women probably did what Minoan women did - sexually cage their multiple husbands ... - Bes Erotica- 15 2 Greek Amazons and a Haitian Amazon working on a wise old man ... The Haitian domme is from Legba world - or Mami Wata/Yemonja world Yemonja has a phallus but Haitians are too poor though to really take advantage of a torrid sexual climate that is native to their culture ... Black American women have the energy - but they are also too poor and are hobbled by evangelicalChristianity - Bes Erotica- 16 Greek Amazon bodybuilder working on the old guy ... She's passed away though - I think that's a cast of her nude body. RIP - I think this plague we are in linked to the erectile dysfunction epidemic - or is a "meaningful coincidence" - the levels of penetration are low in Africa - the reason given is a young population - but it's probably more a black African link to the lower worlds of eros and the earth kingdoms Also poor African countries are open to cheap discredited remedies like Hydroxychloroquine + Zinc + Azithromycin (& vitamin D) that have nevertheless been proven to be highly effective in blocking the Corona virus ( or Ivermectin as Hydroxychloroquine is effectively banned in many countries) I saw a version of that last night after posting these shots - BDSM femdom blocks involuntary mounting - it's like what they call "vervain" in Vampire lore ... When I posted my first BDSM femdom sex print in page 134 - I startled the "eye" of Sauron (from "the lord of the rings") - in the dream it was like throwing a rider off a horse ... Sex and anal sex is fine so long as it's a male only affair - Women with a penis are a problem... - Bes Erotica- 17 More Greek bodybuilder Amazon - That's probably what survived in black Africa after the fall of Rome - "She" or the Queen of Sheba - a phallic Greek or Arab Amazon - Bes Erotica- 18 More Greek Amazon - That's South American sex - the Rhea bird during mating season! Up to five phallic female Rheas sexually penetrate one male Rhea with a female phallus that causes the male to ejaculate. The female Rheas them fertilize themselves with that sperm and give the male eggs to hatch and incubate and raise while they search out other males to mount... That's bird sex in general - and at a more esoteric level - dragon sex - Bes Erotica- 19 Amazon general preparing to mount a caged soldier - Bes Erotica- 20 Amazon general mounting a caged soldier - Bes Erotica- 21 Amazon general mounting a caged soldier That's what those phalli on those phallic Amazons in page 150 are for - penetrating men anally - The Romans go a few more steps ahead of the Egyptians - they come up to the waters edge then go silent ... The way the phallic but female Harpocrates puts her finger to her mouth - telling us to keep silent ... - Bes Erotica- 22 Amazon general mounting a caged soldier - suspended and gas masked soldier - not sure what the gas mask is ... - Bes Erotica- 23 Amazon general mounting a caged soldier - with a bull phallus - that's the Hathor ideal ... That's also the classic Bes male "birthing" position complete with a caged penis - Pepi II, a pharaoh, is shown in this position above - but the image is incomplete - the Hathor bull is missing. - Bes Erotica- 24 Topless Amazon mounting - BDSM femdom is mostly clothed rubber fetish with men hooded like captive birds ... The "caged bird" is a euphemism for the caged penis in BDSM Sex with clothes on ! That's not "the male gaze" ... - Bes Erotica- 25 Another Amazon general mounting a penis caged and hooded soldier - with a bull phallus - the Hathor ideal ... If Pepi II was being mounted by a Hathor bull in this position - all Egyptian men were probably penis caged and anally mounted too ... Egyptian men and Roman men and Minoan men were "Spintra" - because their penis was caged from a young age their main sexual organ was their anus - the center of the base chakra and the generator of the "female phallus" - Bes Erotica- 26 More Amazon general mounting a penis caged and hooded soldier - with a bull phallus - the Hathor ideal ... Mouth also caged! That's the Harpocrates "keep silent" command - Egyptians did not share their sexual secrets That's the "Strong bull of his mother Hathor" - Bes Erotica- 27 Virile young Amazon and older penis caged mount - That's an ancient Roman ideal ... That's just a reality - The wise old man and the dancing girl is found in the bible - Elijah and Salome - it's not just Egyptian and Roman. " ... As to the meaning of the two figures, Salome is an anima figure, blind because, though connecting the conscious and the unconscious, she does not see the operation of the unconscious. Elijah is the personification of the cognitional element, Salome of the erotic. Elijah is the figure of the old prophet filled with wisdom. One could speak of these two figures as personifications of Logos and Eros very specifically shaped. This is practical for intellectual play, but as Logos and Eros are purely speculative terms, not scientific in any sense, but irrational, it is very much better to leave the figures as they are, namely as events, experiences. ... " CG Jung from Jung's 1925 Seminar "Red Book, Salome, Serpent" - Bes Erotica- 28 Brazilian BDSM on the beach - with gas masks ... I guess that means "breath" - the female phallus in the male base anal chakra creates Oxygen ... That's the opposite of the plague we are in - we literally "can't breathe" - Bes Erotica- 29 Brazilian BDSM on the beach - with gas masks ... - Bes Erotica- 30 Brazilian BDSM on the beach - with gas masks ... - Bes Erotica- 31 Iconic Amazon dungeon scene ... - Bes Erotica- 32 Iconic Amazon dungeon scene - 2 I think that was a literal marriage scene - femdom style ... - Window open ! Find it hard to believe nothing blocked tonight - the "jinns" have allowed this to happen - Bes Erotica- 33 More Namio Harukawa - the virile young Amazon student dominating her wise old professor femdom style ... That's no longer legal though - professors are now banned from romancing their students by the #Me Too movement - Bes Erotica- 34 The unreachable red phallus from before ... In action this time - Bes Erotica- 35 The same couple ... The Hathor bull at work - Bes Erotica- 36 Red Phallus & whip ! - Bes Erotica- 37 Female Phallus & penis cage That's energy work ... The penis cage and the female phallus means the energy remains within - an ancient Egyptian innovation - The female phallus has to be real too - otherwise this genre of erotica would not exist The penis cage is the foundation of Amazon power: the "Gridle of Hippolyta" - That's the inner vision - once a man is caged he submits to the cager like a horse on a bridle ... It's not one way submission though - the horse receives torrid sexual energy from the phallus of the female rider ... Amazons in the case below almost certainly means Minoan Crete - but a more general definition of Amazon is the Islamic "Jinn" - a non-physical, but nonetheless real female spirit " ...In Classical Greek mythology, Hippolyta ... "was a daughter of Ares and Otrera, queen of the Amazons, and a sister of Antiope and Melanippe. She wore, as an emblem of her dignity, a girdle given to her by her father." Hippolyta figures prominently in the myths of both Heracles and Theseus. ... The name Hippolyta comes from Greek roots meaning "horse" and "let loose". ... " Wikipedia - Bes Erotica- 38 In the kitchen - or a man's place is in the kitchen ... - Bes Erotica- 39 In the kitchen 2 - That's a black British Amazon stallion in action - Bes Erotica- 40 In the kitchen 3 - Bes Erotica- 41 More General working on a bound soldier ... - Bes Erotica- 42 General working on a bound soldier ... - Bes Erotica- 43 General working on a bound soldier ... - Bes Erotica- 44 In the kitchen 4 - More young black British Amazon working on an older man - Bes Erotica- 45 In the kitchen 5 - black British Amazon stallion in action That's what used to distinguish France from Britain - it affects everything having to do with living your life - food and wine being good examples. - Bes Erotica- 46 Black British Amazon in action in the bedroom - Bes Erotica- 47 Black British Amazon in action in the bedroom - 2 - Bes Erotica- 48 Pot with a nude Roman British woman driving a chariot pulled by erect phalli - also woman anally penetrating a man on the lower right hand side. Most of the phalli are dark brown but a few are white - British Romans had the famous "dog-leash" tan. Going back to the centrality of the female only Vesta phallus cult in Rome - the fascinum was almost certainly a female phallus generated by the fires of the earth - and the life long male penis cage That's polyandry - one naked Amazon in a chariot with a whip and up to seven phallic "horses" to for her to ride ... The Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge - excavated during a dig in the mid-19th century and in the museum since the 1940s — probably from Great Chesterford, Essex, the site of a Roman camp. - Bes Erotica- 49 Another naked Amazon in a chariot with a whip and up to seven phallic "horses" on the same pot. Vesta was the senior most Roman deity but we do not hear much about her. She was of the earth or chthonic - had a phallus and required 30 years celibacy from her priestesses who guarded her sacred fire and sacred erect fire phallus. That scene of female on male anal sex above was probably a required rite of passage for all Roman men. But it was more than that - with a permanent penis cage - female on male anal sex was probably the only sex for upper class Roman men - the statutes on page 150 of this site suggests this to be the case. My guess is this was an inheritance from the Etruscans - and the ancient Egyptians The Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge - Bes Erotica- 50 Another view of the nude woman and the penis chariot. She has a phallus - I compare her to the blond Etruscan woman with a deep tan anally penetrating a man - standing next to a virile bull on page 150 - Hermaphrodite 272. That's probably an Etruscan version of the "Strong bull of my mother Hathor" " ... Romans and Greeks used to have phallic representations in objects of daily and personal use. The use of penis-shaped amulets (fascinus) was normal among Roman children, and was seen as a protection against evil. The phallus was linked to virility and regenerative powers. This vessel, found at Great Chesterton, is believed to have been used by Roman auxiliary soldiers stationed in Britain. According to the curator of the Cambridge museum, Imogen Gunn, "this vase was supposed to be funny". But he also guarantees that the phallus "can be protective - we found phalluses on the outskirts of the city, and I even saw small gold rings for children with tiny golden penises in them, to keep them safe from bad influences." The vase shows a naked woman driving a carriage pulled by four penises with crow's feet ... " apaixonadosporhistoria - Bes Erotica- 51 Modern day chariot - the black British Amazon and her mount on a motorcycle. That previous vase is the first Roman image I have seen of a female phallus penetrating a male anus - and even that is not clear. All the ancient reports - mostly Christian - lead us to believe that the fascinum was male - but I think all were representative of Vesta and her Egyptian model - Hathor - the bull phallus of an Egyptian goddess. The concept of the female phallus does not exist in Anglo culture - It's a subtle concept not easily grasped - for a black male in Anglo culture maybe a little easier to grasp ... But even that is not for sure - this category is exclusively gay in Anglo culture ... But there are other categories of sexual energy out there not easily defined ... Finally - the exposed and erect phallus was not something associated with the elite Roman or Greek male - That was for barbarians - or more commonly - the female phallus that ruled the Greco-Roman world - Bes Erotica- 52 Modern day chariot - the black British Amazon and her mount on a motorcycle. - Bes Erotic- 53 Modern day chariot - the black British Amazon and her mount on a motorcycle. - Bes Erotica- 54 Modern day chariot - the black British Amazon and her mount on a motorcycle. - Bes Erotica- 55 Modern day chariot - the black British Amazon and her mount on a motorcycle. - Bes Erotica- 56 Sekhmet-Min - the lioness with a penis over the caged Amun - the ram - That's probably the best way to maximize the Kundalini energy - the male cage and the female phallus. I'm sure something like this will eventually come up especially with the ancient Egyptians - but also the Etruscans and Minoans and Romans- And it makes sense - the Kundalini energy is female in a man - which means no penis ... I suppose it's the opposite in a woman - which means the female phallus - Bes Erotica- 57 The General working with a couple. Husband caged and hooded like a bird ... - Bes Erotica- 58 The general working with another powerful domme - from Italy. - Bes Erotica- 59 The Italian domme in action. That's ancient Roman sex. In March every year the Vestal Virgins extinguished the sacred flame and re-lit it. Also in March 25 every year a new crop of Cybele priests castrated themselves. But the fact that they were castrated did not mean celibate - Augustine called them perverts - by which it is assumed he meant homosexual. I have a different reading - they were Spintra or anal sex partners of powerful Amazon dommes ... The homosexual option was limited in Rome as most men were in the penis cage. ... - Bes Erotica- 60 The General in action. When we hear that powerful Roman women like the "she-wolf" Empress Messalina would leave the Emperor in bed to have sex orgies with up to 25 men at a time - this is probably what she was doing - mounting not being mounted ... Caesar Augustus's daughter Julia was also roughly and openly promiscuous in defiance of her father's wishes. The pattern was for Roman women to lock up the penis of their husband then begin a period of man-hunting. Knowing the problems that Roman men had to go through to remove their penis cage - anal sex with Amazon and phallic Roman wives was the more likely option. " ... The Cult of Magna Mater, the Great Mother, is probably the oldest religion of all. The earliest stone-age sculptures depict the mother- goddess, and an idol found in Catal ..., 6000 years old, depict her in the form she later became worshipped as Cybele in Phrygia, as a seated woman flanked by two leopards. The worship evolved through the millennia, but the goddess remained a symbol of the powerful female forces in the universe. Many different interpretations appeared, and various cults have interacted and mixed ideas. Not much is known about her worship in ancient times, but in her incarnation as Cybele in ancient Phrygia she started the cult which would later evolve into the cult of Magna Mater in Rome. As a small child she was put out into the wilderness to die, but instead of killing her the panthers and lions nurtured her, and she grew up into an intelligent, beautiful and headstrong woman. It is not impossible that she was a child mage who was later deified. She invented pipes and drums, and also magical medicines which she used to heal sick children and creatures on the Phrygian countryside. She became friend of not only the animals and people, but also the satyrs and other supernatural beings. She fell in love with prince Attis, but their love-story was tragic; The intense love of the divine Cybele was too much for the mortal prince, and he went mad, castrated himself and died. Cybele, driven mad by grief, roamed around to sound of pipes and drums seeking her lost love. The links between this story and the cult of Inanna/Ishtar/Asherah are quite obvious, and both cults influenced each other heavily. Attis was identified with Dumuzi and Tammuz, other dead and resurrected gods. The cults were widespread, and Ezekiel mentions the female worship of Tammuz in his lamentation over the spread of paganism in Jerusalem (Ezekiel 8:14). Around 200 BC the holy black rock of the goddess was moved from the Phrygian city of Pessinos, which had been the previous centre of her worship. Rome became the new centre, and her cult grew. The romans identified Cybele with the Greek Rhea, and called her Magna Mater, the Great Mother. The priests of the cult were men who had castrated themselves in front of her image, but most of the followers were women. The cult was a tumultuous, noisy and ecstatic affair which attracted many people. Only women (and castrated men) were allowed to attend the main celebrations of the goddess, which quickly got the reputation of being less religious ritual and more wild orgies. Much gossip went around about the indecencies and depravities of the cult, but due to the protection of influential people it avoided persecution. The cult was led by the female priestesses and the Archigalli, the high priest of the subordinate Galli; castrated male priests who were responsible for most of the dance, divination and healing of the cult. Many of the worshipers were organised into fraternities, most notably the Dendrophori ("Tree-bearers") and Cannophori ("Reed-bearers"). Members of these fraternities enjoyed a bit of social status and influence, and many important people flocked to them. The liturgy of the cult was in Greek. Many of the ceremonies commemorated the deeds of Magna Mater and her love to Attis, who represented the fertility and plants of the land. By his castration and death the land was given new life. Many festivals were held, called ludi ("plays") which were enthusiastic carnivals with banquets and comedic performances. One of the major festivals was Megalesia the 4-10 April. At the height of the celebrations the taurobolium was performed, as a bull was castrated and sacrificed, and new initiates were baptised in its blood. Another major festival was celebrated the 25th March to commemorate the castration and death of Attis. The Cannophori carried reeds and stalks to the temple together with the idol of Attis. The taurobolium was performed, and the genitals of the bull was thrown into a cave or well consecrated to Magna Mater. After three days of sorrow and grief for Attis, the carnival returned with Hilaria, the Day of Joy as Attis was resurrected and fertility yet again reigned thanks to the power of Magna Mater. Mountains and caves were sacred to Magna Mater, and her temples were often built near them. By sleeping in a temple many women hoped to get help from the goddess, who was said to help mothers and children. Midwifes were tied to the cult, and many priests were healers. The priestesses were more involved with her ecstatic side, celebrating her secret mysteries behind locked doors. Practically nothing is known about them, except that they were exclusively women only. In the end, the cult vanished together with most other mystery cults of the antique era. ... " "The Cult of Magna Mater" by Anders Sandberg - legalhistorysources - Bes Erotica- 60 Under the sign of Poseidons white bull - mounted above - The General and three Amazon bulls working on a mounted older balding man with whips... In Rome the penis caged older guy would be purified by the blood of a bull and anally mounted by virile young Roman bull matrons ... Energy coming in rather than going out ... That was the situation of all elite Roman men ... - Bes Erotica- 60 Under the sign of Poseidons white bull - 2 Level 2 of the all male mysteries of Mithras was "bride" of the sun. I've always wondered why - The bidegroom was probably a phallic Amazon - the phallic Amazon was not just Roman - she was also in Syria and ancient Iran and certainly ancient Arabia. For ancient Arabs she was the goat-legged Queen of Sheba - or Balquis with a goat libido and large goat penis and male wives who she mounted anally Any time you have a sun-goddess you have a female phallus - Bes Erotica- 61 American outdoors BDSM femdom - but they forgot the penis cage ... Shot blocked. Used workaround Hooded head - like a caged bird - that's a female on male BDSM basic - Most normal women can't process that though - most women have a problem with pure carnality - they need a face and emotion ... And they need to take energy - not to give it ... Carnality and eros are not in the face though - they are lower down ... And giving energy requires the mythical female phallus ... "You either make it - or you take it" - is a recurring thought form or dream aphorism - and we've stopped making it! I think the female phallus is a natural part of female psychic evolution - In voodoo the trend is towards a female legba and Mami Wata with her three heads and a phallus ... A recent inner image is female on male anal sex by a pool I swim in - Image was matter of fact and routine - she came out of the water and did it ... - Bes Erotica- 62 More American outdoors BDSM femdom Shot blocked. Used workaround - Bes Erotica- 63 More American outdoors BDSM femdom Shot blocked. Used workaround - Bes Erotica- 64 More American BDSM femdom - Same star indoors - No penis cage, but she's using a penis humbler to walk her dog And she's nude ... BDSM women don't do nude - no "male gaze" - Like Rome or Greece, BDSM femdom is female clothed, male nudity - female phallus, male sex cage ... That's usually read as homosexual - but Rome was in the bronze fistula or non-removable penis cage - The more likely scenario was the Amazon phallus in the Roman anus -Shot blocked. Used workaround - Bes Erotica- 65 More American BDSM femdom - Roman/Etruscan/Egyptian sex - The Amazon phallus in the male anus Shot blocked. Used workaround Flow disrupted - even had a "toothless" dream - an incisor fell out of my mouth - Those usually mean you have no power! One of the prints does not load so I removed it. BDSM femdom is a euro fetish for the time being ... American women are not there yet - Bes Erotica- 66 Walters Rhyton with a seated phallic winged goddess. That's what I mean by Amazon phallus in Roman anus! - Bes Erotica- 67 The Triumph of Titus: AD 71, The Flavians - by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema at the Walters Gallery, Baltimore (1885) " ... In this canvas, the artist shows Titus returning to Rome in triumph following his capture of Jerusalem in AD 70. His father, Emperor Vespasian, clad in a white toga, leads the procession. Titus comes next, holding the hand of his daughter, Julia, who turns to address her father's younger brother and successor, Domitian. In the background is the Temple of Jupiter Victor. Among the spoils from Jerusalem is a 7-branched candlestick from the temple. Alma-Tadema depicted these events by drawing on classical sources, like the reliefs on of the Arch of Titus and on the latest 19th-century scholarship regarding everyday life in Rome. ... " Walters Gallery - That's the end of ancient Israel ! - Rome had an ancient quarrel with the Jews and I am sure it was centered on the penis - specifically male circumcision. All the Romans pictured here were in the bronze penis cage which generated the Amazon phallus ... * That was an ancient Egyptian tradition - Emperors being penis caged by their daughters or nieces - What that meant was the daughter controlled what woman or women had access to the Emperors bed - or the Emperors anus ... More anus than penis - The Emperors penis was rarely out of its cage - that was for Temple of Amun masturbation rituals - which were done by the hands of women only. Every day sex can only have been anal ... Julia's mother was from a powerful noble family, but she moved on after giving him Julia. Julia was then raised by her father emperor in the Roman style. " ... Marcia Furnilla was born and raised in Rome. She married Titus, widowed from his first marriage, in 63. The marriage between Titus and Furnilla was an arranged one. This marriage for Titus was an influential one and promoted his political career. Suetonius describes Furnilla as a "very well-connected" woman. On September 17, 64, Furnilla bore Titus a daughter, Flavia Julia Titi or Julia Flavia in Rome. Like Titus' first marriage, this one was short. Furnilla's family was connected to the opponents of Roman Emperor Nero and after the failure of the Pisonian conspiracy in 65, they were disfavored by the Emperor. Titus didn't want to be connected with any potential plotters and ended his marriage to Furnilla, but continued raising their daughter. ... " Wikipedia " ... When growing up, Titus offered her in marriage to his brother Domitian, but he refused because of his infatuation with Domitia Longina. Later she married her second paternal cousin Titus Flavius Sabinus, brother to consul Titus Flavius Clemens, who married her first cousin Flavia Domitilla. By then Domitian had seduced her. When her father and husband died, in the words of Dio, Domitian: "lived with [her] as husband with wife, making little effort at concealment. Then upon the demands of the people he became reconciled with Domitia, but continued his relations with Julia nonetheless." Juvenal condemns this liaison as follows: "Such a man was that adulterer [i.e. Domitian] who, after lately defiling himself by a union of the tragic style, revived the stern laws that were to be a terror to all men – ay, even to Mars and Venus – just as Julia was relieving her fertile womb and giving birth to abortions that displayed the likeness of her uncle." Becoming pregnant, Julia died of what was rumoured to be a forced abortion. Julia was deified and her ashes were later mixed and burned with Domitian's by Domitian's former nurse secretly in the Temple of the Flavians. ... "Wikipedia - That was the emperor! Julia ... That was the Amazon way ... - Bes Erotica- 68 Julia Titi - the daughter of Emperor Titus and mistress of her uncle Emperor Domitian was also Augusta as is shown in this coin with the supreme phallic goddess Vesta seated on the reverse ... "Julia Titi Denarius. IVLIA IMP T AVG F AVGVSTA, draped bust right / Vesta seated left with patera & scepter, VESTA in ex. RSC 16."wildwinds - Augusta was the sovreign of Rome - both spiritual and actual ... And the fire goddess Vesta was the source of all those erect phalli or fascinus that can still be found all over Pompeii. Those are female not male phalli. The erect Amazon phallus was a central icon of the Roman mind. My penis cage analysis was right. Being number one she was probably doing what the "she wolf" Empress Messalina was doing - rampant and aggresive man hunting and mounting of caged Roman men in the Anus - Bes Erotica- 69 Statue of a Seated Cat - Walters Gallery , Baltimore Egyptian c. 664-350 BC " ... Cats were popular in Egypt and were associated with the goddess Bastet. This seated cat with its tail curled forward has golden earrings, a golden scarab inlaid on the forehead, and a necklace with a pendant in low relief. The pendant displays a standing goddess with the double-crown nursing the young Harpokrates. ... " Walters Gallery Bastet is an image associated with recent work on this page - Especially the transition from the aggresive Sekhmet to the loving Hathor. The standing goddess on the chest of the cat is probably Hathor - the bull phallus goddess ... - (Dec 10, 2020) As I was uploading this image I found out that Bastet worship was at the center of the annual "festival of drunkenness" where the dangerous Sehkmet was transformed into the loving Hathor - The lioness was transformed into a friendly cat at the the Bubastis temple island ... My inner images were not sexual - just of a very aggressive cat - But I just saw a recent art work of a female cat with breasts and a very large phallus - "the Goddess of Wet Dreams" by Jayne County (2020) : " .. Bastet is an important figure to me both historically and spiritually. The Cat Goddess of Ancient Egypt has always been fascinating to me, ever since I was a small child. I am a cat freak and have had many cats throughout my life. Bastet is the epitome of cat worship and concentration. She protects me and my cats from harm and hostility from ignorant humans, so it is my privilege to present Bastet. She comes in dreams and has sexual inclinations, as she once did in Ancient Egypt, thus, the Goddess of Wet Dreams. The Ancient Greeks referred to incubus and succubus, creatures that visited mortals in their dreams in order to have sex with them. I have depicted her as a fertility goddess with multiple breasts and huge snake-like penises, a representation of the fertility of both sexes, male and female, as one. Bastet, the Goddess of Wet Dreams! – Jayne County ... " viewingroom - That's an image that I have been struggling with since page 150 - The penis was female not male in ancient Egypt - and Etruscans and Minoans and Romans too! It's a powerful inner image - what the Japanese call "Futanari" " .... Bastet or Bast was a goddess of ancient Egyptian religion, worshiped as early as the Second Dynasty (2890 BCE). Her name also is rendered as B'sst, Baast, Ubaste, and Baset. In ancient Greek religion, she was known as Ailuros ... Bastet was worshiped in Bubastis in Lower Egypt, originally as a lioness goddess, a role shared by other deities such as Sekhmet. Eventually Bastet and Sekhmet were characterized as two aspects of the same goddess, with Sekhmet representing the powerful warrior and protector aspect and Bastet, who increasingly was depicted as a cat, representing a gentler aspect. ... Bastet was originally a fierce lioness warrior goddess of the sun worshiped throughout most of ancient Egyptian history, but later she was changed into the cat goddess that is familiar today, becoming Bastet. She then was depicted as the daughter of Ra and Isis, and the consort of Ptah, with whom she had a son Maahes. As protector of Lower Egypt, she was seen as defender of the king, and consequently of the sun god, Ra. Along with other deities such as Hathor, Sekhmet, and Isis, Bastet was associated with the Eye of Ra. She has been depicted as fighting the evil snake named Apep, an enemy of Ra. In addition to her solar connections, sometimes she was called "eye of the moon". Bastet was also a goddess of pregnancy and childbirth, possibly because of the fertility of the domestic cat. Images of Bastet were often created from alabaster. The goddess was sometimes depicted holding a ceremonial sistrum in one hand and an aegis in the other—the aegis usually resembling a collar or gorget, embellished with a lioness head. Bastet was also depicted as the goddess of protection against contagious diseases and evil spirits. ... Bastet first appears in the third millennium BC, where she is depicted as either a fierce lioness or a woman with the head of a lioness. Two thousand years later, during the Third Intermediate Period of Egypt (c. 1070–712 BC), Bastet began to be depicted as a domestic cat or a cat-headed woman. Scribes of the New Kingdom and later eras began referring to her with an additional feminine suffix, as Bastet. The name change is thought to have been added to emphasize pronunciation of the ending t sound, often left silent. Cats in ancient Egypt were highly revered, partly due to their ability to combat vermin such as mice, rats (which threatened key food supplies), and snakes—especially cobras. Cats of royalty were, in some instances, known to be dressed in golden jewelry and were allowed to eat from the plates of their owners. Dennis C. Turner and Patrick Bateson estimate that during the Twenty-second Dynasty (c. 945–715 BC), Bastet worship changed from being a lioness deity into being predominantly a major cat deity. Because domestic cats tend to be tender and protective of their offspring, Bastet was also regarded as a good mother and sometimes was depicted with numerous kittens. The native Egyptian rulers were replaced by Greeks during an occupation of Ancient Egypt in the Ptolemaic Dynasty that lasted almost 300 years. The Greeks sometimes equated Bastet with one of their goddesses, Artemis. Herodotus, an ancient Greek historian who traveled in Egypt in the fifth century BCE, describes Bastet's temple at some length: Save for the entrance, it stands on an island; two separate channels approach it from the Nile, and after coming up to the entry of the temple, they run round it on opposite sides; each of them a hundred feet wide, and overshadowed by trees. The temple is in the midst of the city, the whole circuit of which commands a view down into it; for the city's level has been raised, but that of the temple has been left as it was from the first, so that it can be seen into from without. A stone wall, carven with figures, runs round it; within is a grove of very tall trees growing round a great shrine, wherein is the image of the goddess; the temple is a square, each side measuring a furlong. A road, paved with stone, of about three furlongs' length leads to the entrance, running eastward through the market place, towards the temple of Hermes; this road is about 400 feet wide, and bordered by trees reaching to heaven. This description by Herodotus and several Egyptian texts suggest that water surrounded the temple on three (out of four) sides, forming a type of lake known as, isheru, not too dissimilar from that surrounding the temple of the mother goddess Mut in Karnak at Thebes. These lakes were typical components of temples devoted to a number of lioness goddesses, who are said to represent one original goddess, Bastet, Mut, Tefnut, Hathor, and Sakhmet, and came to be associated with sun gods such as Horus and Ra as well as the Eye of Ra. Each of them had to be appeased by a specific set of rituals. One myth relates that a lioness, fiery and wrathful, was once cooled down by the water of the lake, transformed into a gentle cat, and settled in the temple. At the Bubastis temple, some cats were found to have been mummified and buried, many next to their owners. More than 300,000 mummified cats were discovered when Bastet's temple was excavated. Turner and Bateson suggest that the status of the cat was roughly equivalent to that of the cow in modern India. The death of a cat might leave a family in great mourning and those who could, would have them embalmed or buried in cat cemeteries—pointing to the great prevalence of the cult of Bastet. Extensive burials of cat remains were found not only at Bubastis, but also at Beni Hasan and Saqqara. In 1888, a farmer uncovered a burial site of many hundreds of thousands of cats in Beni Hasan. ... Herodotus also relates that of the many solemn festivals held in Egypt, the most important and most popular one was that celebrated in Bubastis in honor of this goddess. Each year on the day of her festival, the town was said to have attracted some 700,000 visitors, both men and women (but not children), who arrived in numerous crowded ships. The women engaged in music, song, and dance on their way to the place. Great sacrifices were made and prodigious amounts of wine were drunk—more than was the case throughout the year. This accords well with Egyptian sources that prescribe that lioness goddesses are to be appeased with the "feasts of drunkenness". A festival of Bastet was known to be celebrated during the New Kingdom at Bubastis. The block statue from the eighteenth dynasty (c. 1380 BC) of Nefer-ka, the wab-priest of Sekhmet,provides written evidence for this. The inscription suggests that the king, Amenhotep III, was present at the event and had great offerings made to the deity. ... " Wikipedia - Bes Erotica- 70 More Sehmet-Min. Sekhmet because the black-clad Greek American woman roughly mounting her British husband with a red phallus recently referred to herself and a phallic female friend as two lioness' hard at work ... Ancient Egyptian men who spent their lives in the "knot of isis" or penis cage were almost certainly calming Sekhmet in a similar fashion during the annual "festival of drunkenness" - Bes Erotica- 71 The same couple and a friend - and a pair of large bull phalli That was the Minotaur - the "star-like" Asterion. Usually assumed to be male - but to me that was a female-bull - the model of the phallic but female Minoan bull-jumpers Or more accurately - Hathor and her bull phallus ... - Bes Erotica- 72 A scene from the scrubbed American indoor scene above - it loaded tonight. - Bes Erotica- 73 More of that same couple and a friend - and a pair of large bull phalli I experienced this briefly in a dream after I posted the first Pompeii image of Queen Pasiphaë and the white bull sent by Poseidon on page 150. I quickly woke myself up though - rather than enjoy it! It was too X-rated at first for me to mention ... The message was clear - it was a female phallus or rather the queen Pasiphaë in the bull ... - Bes Erotica- 74 Three Votive Phalloi - Etruscan, 4th-2nd cent. BC - The Erotica Collection Christian von Faber-Castell, Küsnacht ZH, Switzerland Those are 3 "dog-leashed" phalli. The Etruscan penis was firmly locked up for the goddess ... My theory is that was the source of the female phallus that ruled Rome " ... Phalloi were popular votive offerings in healing and fertility sanctuaries and were widespread throughout the Italic region, especially in Etruria. Their purpose was to give thanks to the goddess for recovery or to reinforce the worshiper's prayer for help. In rare cases, the phallos explicitly depicted the pathological change to the organ. ... " the-saleroom. " ... Did Priapus Have a Penis Disorder? Rossella Lorenzi wrote in Discovery News: “One of Pompeii's most recognized frescoes, the portrait of the Greek god of fertility Priapus, holds an embarrassing truth, according to a new study of the 1st-century A.D. wall painting. Found in the entrance hall to the House of the Vettii, perhaps the most famous house to survive Mount Vesuvius's devastating eruption, the fresco shows the ever-erect Priapus with his engorged penis. “But this phallus-flaunting symbol of male potency and procreative power shows signs of a condition which can result in difficult sexual relations and infertility, says a study published in Urology journal. "The disproportionate virile member is distinctively characterized by a patent phimosis, more specifically a shut phimosis," Francesco Maria Galassi told Discovery News. Galassi is an M.D. now back in Italy who recently worked at Imperial College London. He co-authored the paper with his father Stefano, also an M.D. “An inability to fully retract the foreskin, phimosis was treated only with circumcision or prepuceplasty before the introduction of topical corticosteroids. "This condition presents different grades of severity, and in this specific case appears to be of the highest grade, in which there is no skin retractability on the glans," Galassi said. Defects of the genitourinary tract, including phimosis, have been depicted in artistic representation since prehistory, showing a high degree of precision. “But why someone would portray the god of fertility with a severe phimosis? "It is not unlikely the painter might have desired to report objective evidence of a high prevalence of that anatomic defect in Pompeii, at a time mixing it with fertility attributes traditionally ascribed to Priapus," Galassi said. “In this view, widespread among the male population in Pompeii, phimosis might have been the reason for the abundance in Pompeii of anatomical votive artifacts used to dispel that anatomical and functional defect. "Anatomical votive offerings made in Italy between the fourth to second centuries B.C. do often show the penis with the foreskin closed around the top, as in the later Priapus painting from Pompeii," Jessica Hughes, lecturer in classical studies at UK's Open University, told Discovery News. “Hughes, co-author of a research project on votive offerings, noted these objects have sometimes been interpreted as offerings made by men suffering from phimosis, and the idea isn't discordant with the overarching interpretation of anatomical votives as objects related to healing and fertility. “She found the interpretation of the Pompeian Priapus "very intriguing," as the image is conventionally seen as a representation of fertility, abundance and prosperity. "In this case it's more challenging for us to understand why the artist would have chosen to represent a biological condition that may have been seen to threaten fertility and health," Hughes said. "Perhaps we need to see this painting as a comment on the power of the divine body, which didn't suffer from the same biological limitations as the mortal body," she added." ... " factsanddetails - Bes Erotica- 75 Caged Phalloi " ... Stamnos with phallic plastic decorations, “phalloi”. This pot was used in orgiastic rites; it may have been used to prepare infusion for propitiating female fertility. The surface is decorated with a symposium and erotic scenes. Athens; Attic red figured Stamnos; About 475 - 425 BC; From Spina Necropolis;Ferrara, Archaeological Museum..." Egisto Sani That was the state of the penis in Athens are the time of Plato - firmly locked up to the goddess But it seems from the excerpt below that the caged penis was also common in ancient India - To me that seems be true ... We also learn below that the penis cage meant that Roman matrons went to public baths naked with male slaves in attendance where the male slaves worked nude in front of other Roman matrons ... Those Roman baths were often funded by the Empress of the day - and many times had a statue of a powerful nude woman with a phallus. It's a safe assumption that male slaves in the penis cage were being roughly mounted in the anus at the baths - In a group sex setting. ... When I posted one of the Roman bath prints on page 150 - with four phallic goddess statues, I saw four massive serpents rising up where the four statues were ... Those baths were about servicing those large female phalli ... [- Roman Hermaphrodite 307. Marble statues of Apollo Citaredo and four muses - frigidarium of the Baths of Faustina, Miletus, Turkey. Roman Civilization, 2nd century AD. Istanbul, Arkeoloji Muzerleri (Archaeological Museum)] " ... Leonard C. Smithers and Sir Richard Burton wrote in the notes of “Sportive Epigrams on Priapus”: “Holyday, in his illustrations to the sixth Satire of Juvenal, describes the fibula as a 'buckle, clasp or suchlike stay, applied to those that were employed to sing upon the stage; the Praetor, who set forth plays for the delight of the people, buying youths for that purpose. And that such might not by lust spoil their voice, their overseers dosed their shame with a case of metal, having a sharp pike of the same matter passing by the side of it, and sometimes used one of another form; or by a nearer cruelty they thrust a brazen or silver wire through that part, which the Jew did lose in circumcision.' This description is accompanied by an engraving showing two forms of the instrument, taken from Pignerius de Servis. François Noël states that they were used: 1) to prevent singers from losing their voice, 2) to keep youths from masturbating themselves, 3) to conceal the organ of generation through modesty. [Source: “Sportive Epigrams on Priapus” translation by Leonard C. Smithers and Sir Richard Burton, 1890, sacred-texts.com] “Roman gladiators also were frequently infibulated in order to preserve their vigour. The operation was performed by having the prepuce drawn over the glans; it was then pierced, and a thick thread was passed through it, remaining there until the cicatrising of the hole; when that had taken place a rather large ring was substituted. Juvenal speaks of the Roman ladies paying great sums of money to have these instruments removed from the persons of the comedians and singers to whom they had taken a fancy. Pliny notes the use of the fibula as a preventive of masturbation; and Martial has an epigram against Caelia whose slave's privities are concealed by a fibula whenever he accompanies his mistress to the bath--'for modesty's sake', Caelia says, but, according to the satirist, to conceal her slave's noble proportions from the envious eyes of other dames. Again he ridicules a man who wore an immense fibula to hide the fact that he was circumcised.. The practice was very common in India from religious motives. ... " factsanddetails - Bes Erotica- 76 Nude woman riding an enormous phallus in the shape of a flying dog. This was an icon of Pompeii; dog was a euphemism for the penis. That's probably derived from the female Hathor bull phallus - From this icon we can infer a very high libido for women of Pompeii; caused by the universal penis cage - My guess is that libido was directed at the anus of the caged male Pompeiian through a large strap-on dildo ... "Hanging thigh" below might refer to a female phallus - or strap on dildo: " ... Leonard C. Smithers and Sir Richard Burton wrote in the notes of “Sportive Epigrams on Priapus”: In Martial's Epigram 18, “reference is made to that posture 'in congress in which the man lies supine, whilst the woman mounts on him, and procures the orgasm by her movements; vulgarly called 'St George' and 'le postillon', this appears to have been a favourite position amongst the Romans, Judging from the frequent references to it in their writings. Juvenal, in speaking of the debauchery of women, says of Saufeia: ‘She challenges them, and bears off the prize of her hanging thigh ... [Source: “Sportive Epigrams on Priapus” translation by Leonard C. Smithers and Sir Richard Burton, 1890, sacred-texts.com] ... " factsanddetails Hector Horse or female on male horse sex: " ... “Horace in the Satires says: ‘When keen nature inflames me, any lascivious slut who, naked under the light of the lanthorn, takes the strokes of my swollen tail, or wriggles with her buttocks on her supine horse. Hector Horse - behind the door - or female on male anal sex: Martial says, 'The Phrygian slaves masturbated themselves behind the door when ever his wife seated herself on the Hectorean horse.' But Ovid recommends this posture to little women, and states that on account of her tall figure Andromache never assumed this attitude with Hector. ... " More Hector horse sex: " ... Afranius, Donatus and Plautus also mention the subject. Aristophanes, in the Wasps, describes the wrath of the woman who, when asked by Xanthias to mount him, demanded of him if he wished to re-establish the tyranny of Hippias (playing on the double sense of the word Hippias, which means also a horse). Similar references occur in another of the same author's plays, Lysistrata; and in the Analecta of Brunck are several epigrams of Asclepiades, in which the fair votaries boast of their prowess in the art of riding their gallants. ... " Virile young phallic female riding an old man: “In the Satyricon of Petronius we read: ‘Eumolpus, who was so incontinent that even I was a boy in his eyes, lost no time in inviting the girl to the pygiacic mysteries." But he had told everybody that he was gouty and crippled in the loins, and if he did not fully keep up the pretence, he ran great risk of ruining the whole drama. In order to preserve an appearance of truthfulness, he prayed the damsel to seat herself on the goodness which had been commended to her, and commanded Corax to get under the bed on which he was lying, and with his hands pressed on the floor, to assist his master by the movement of his loins. Ordered to move gently, he responds with slow undulations, equal in speed to those of the girl above. The orgasm approaching, Eumolpus with clear voice exhorted Corax to hasten his movements. And so, placed between the servant and the damsel, the old man enjoyed as if in a swing. In this manner amidst our great laughter, in which he joined, Eumolpus furnished more than one course. [Source: “Sportive Epigrams on Priapus” translation by Leonard C. Smithers and Sir Richard Burton, 1890, sacred-texts.com] Female on male Sodomy in Ancient Rome: " ... Leonard C. Smithers and Sir Richard Burton wrote in the notes of “Sportive Epigrams on Priapus”: ““Paedico means to pedicate, to sodomise, to indulge in unnatural lewdness with a woman often in the sense of to abuse. In Epigrams 10, 16 and 31 jesting allusion is made to the injury done to the buttocks of the catamite by the introduction of the 'twelve-inch pole' of Priapus, and Ausonius speaks of the battered clazomenes (incusas clazomenas), or buttocks of a passive. ... Martial directs an epigram against Carinus, whose anus was split and lacerated by his excessive indulgence in these practices. [Source: “Sportive Epigrams on Priapus” translation by Leonard C. Smithers and Sir Richard Burton, 1890, sacred-texts.com] ... " - Bes Erotica- 77 A female orgy - Three large female phalli and one male vagina ... Pompeii was like this - most men were in the penis cage and any sexual activity was from the "backdoor" - It was not a medical condition - phimosis - or homosexuality; - it was goddess worship ... - Bes Erotica- 78 - They have phimosis or the closed foreskin penis and are waving stand back - My reading is - that's the source of the fire in the brazier - the three caged phalli ... - Bes Erotica- 79 Satyrs' tripod, brazier from the house of Julia Felix, Pompeii. 1st century AD. Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale From Caesar to the Roman poor - that was the state of the Roman penis in the 1st century AD - Phimosis was not just a Pompeii problem ... The front door was locked - and generated the Vestal fires that burned in all Roman homes. That did not mean sex did not occur - Roman matrons were famous for multiple sexual partners ... Usually this is read as breaking the fibula - but I do not think so - female on male anal sex was probably much more common - Bes Erotica- 80 Roman Gold Phallic Ring, c. 1st-2nd Century AD " ...Ancient Romans wore phallic jewelry (fascinus) as talismans against the evil eye. .... " archaicwonder.tumblr - Fully erect penis - That means no phimosis - which means female phallus. That's a general rule with Roman phalli - fully erect means female, not male sexual potency My guess is that's the erect phallus of the senior Roman god - the phallic goddess Vesta ... And her avatars the Vestal Virgins and more generally phallic Roman wives. Once a Roman woman married, she "locked" her husbands penis - "belted and bonded" - which transferred that phallic energy to her female phallus ... - Bes Erotica- 81 The original scene from page 134 that "threw" a Sauron like energy off his horse: I called it "man-pony" but I left out the large female phallus in older male anus detail ... - Bes Erotica- 82 More "man-pony" - That's analogous to the Roman sculptures of a woman riding a phallus. - Bes Erotica- 83 This was probably the "She-wolf" Roman Empress Messalina was doing while her husband was asleep. Breaking the bronze fibula is too much work and too expensive. Messalina was more likely to have been penetrating Roman men in the anus ... "Spintra" or male prostitute means anal ... Bes Erotica- 84 Female on male anal sex with the penis in a humbler. The male is forced to experience an alternate sexual zone. I recently experienced this in a dream and the anal orgasm was much stronger and uncontrolled than the penis orgasm The anal orgasm was the only orgasm Roman men experienced due to the bronze fibula or Humbler. Now I know why Galen cautioned against excessive sex - which he said had been know to lead to death from pleasure ... Bes Erotica- 85 More female on male anal sex with the penis in a humbler. The Minoan and Etruscan and Egyptian "sacral knots" were also humblers designed to force male eros though the more powerful male anal erogenous zones: the Hindu Muladhara chakra The Egyptian "hand of Atum" masturbation was probably limited to rare occasions and probably restricted to female on male masturbation. Bes Erotica- 86 More female on male anal sex with the penis in a humbler. My guess is this was originally Hindu - from the mysterious ancient Sanskrit civilization. There is a comment above that ancient Indians caged the penis for religious reasons. That would explain the black skin (blue/black) of male Indian gods like Krishna - a product of the penis cage is the "dog-leash" tan : " ...The name "Krishna" originates from the Sanskrit word Krsna, which is primarily an adjective meaning "black", "dark", "dark blue" or “the all attractive”. The waning moon is called Krishna Paksha, relating to the adjective meaning "darkening". The name is also interpreted sometimes as "all-attractive". ... " Wikipedia The would also explain the fierceness of Hindu goddess' like Kali - the male penis cage amplifies female sexual power and aggression Bes Erotica- 87 More female on male anal sex with the penis in a humbler. Bes Erotica- 88 More female on male anal sex with the penis in a humbler. Virile young woman mounting a caged older man - this was a standard in Rome and Egypt. All old pharaohs ended up like this - being roughly sexed by their daughters generation or even grand-daughters peers. The penis of an older pharaoh was always under the authority of a young and virile daughter or niece or grand daughter... the "god's wife of Amun" (Dec 24, 2020) Received the image "Bull's wife of Amun" as I uploaded this. The god's wife - or the head of the Temple of Amun was probably the human wife of the Apis bull and the bull's penis cager - which means she gained a bull phallus ... Bes Erotica- 89 More General in action ... with a bull phallus - That's a Hathor bull ! Bes Erotica- 90 More General in action ... in furs under Sardax femdom art and mounting a caged older man on a couch Bes Erotica- 91 Sardax: Meeting the enthroned Amazon queen - naked and on all fours and under an Amazon with a whip! That's what the humbler was for - submission to the the female authority - In ancient Egypt the pharaoh was almost certainly submissive to the god's wife of Amun - who controlled his penis cage - the "Bull's wife of Amun" That's like Augusta Julia Titi out-ranking her father the Augustus Titus and the next Ceasar her uncle the Augustus Domitian. It was probably more x-rated than we have been led to believe ... Another example would be the sexually aggressive Julia defying the anti adultery edicts of her father Augustus. The history books make it seem she pushed him too far with her lustful debaucheries - but I don't think so - Julia was doing what came naturally to Roman matrons. Augustus himself was probably in a Julia controlled penis cage as was the ancient Egyptian custom. Julia was probably done in by her mother in law the Augusta Livia. Bes Erotica- 92 Sardax: Amazon whips and leather - probably and older man submitting to his daughter and her pack of she-wolves Bes Erotica- 93 Sardax: From Queen Nefertiti with a whip to Queen Marie Antoinette with a whip - about to enter a caged-penis horse drawn coach. Bes Erotica- 94 Old man in a virile young woman's humbler. Augustus was probably in this relationship with his daughter Julia - a Roman's penis cage was kept in young virile female hands. Bes Erotica- 95 Married boss lady joyfully mounting her older husband Bes Erotica- 96 Sardax: China femdom - From as far back as the Ming dynasty the male penis and balls were prohibited from spending the night in the Forbidden city - only exception was the Emperor. Eunuchs only allowed. I've always wondered about that - China seems to be a natural penis cage/female phallus superpower! There must be a Phyringian-like Cybele testicle removing dragon at the center of the Chinese empire ... Bes Erotica- 97 Female phallus in male anus in the land of bamboo! There is no evidence of Chinese femdom but sex does not need to end just because the front door is closed. There is another sex zone in the backdoor ... Maybe China inherited this from the Phyringians Bes Erotica- 98 Sardax: Shanghai bizarre - male human horse drawn taxi My guess is that really exists - a female dominant species above and dominating humans. They are hypersexual female dommes with a phallus - or dragons. And China is the the world epicenter of the dragon! Bes Erotica- 99 More female phallus in the male anus The Roman temples of Artemis and Cybele required castration of her male priests - as did the Syrian mermaid temple of Atargatis. But all these temples were also highly sexualized; the frequent image is a bee-hive. Something like this scene was probably a Roman archetype. - The regular Roman was not castrated, but the bronze fibula or penis cage was a symbolic castration - transferring sexual power to the highly sexualized Roman matron. Bes Erotica- 100 Topless Women as the falcon god Horus - young and old - from The Tomb of Senet and Antefoqer (TT 60), Luxor. " ...It was the tomb of a woman, Senet, but provides a place for Antefoqer, a vizier known from various documents as one who served king Amenemhat I, then his son Sesostris I, at the beginning of the 12th Dynasty. ... " Digital Maps of the Ancient World " ... On the third craft is a coffin supported by animal shaped legs, and thus resembling the frame of a bed. The external case is oblong, as was the custom of the Middle Kingdom, surmounted by a coving at the top. Two udjat eyes, which are usually found during this period, are located in the side, which allow those of the deceased inside to gaze out. The descriptive text above the coffin and the two men, according to Davies, states: "the boat of columns, (with the) man of Wet, coming to the shore." (Note: Wet, written with the Aa2 sign of Gardiner, can designate "the embalmer"). Four characters are present: a lector priest, a sem-priest, and two women identified as the "young falcon", at the front and the "old falcon", at the rear. These are to be understood as Nephthys and Isis, the two mourners, sisters of Osiris, who took care of their husband and lover's remains, and will do the same for the deceased. On the western bank, a man holding a long staff in his hand greets the arrivals with the words: "the flood brought (it) ", alluding to the flooding created by the tears of Isis when she mourned the death of Osiris, killed by his brother Seth. ... " Osirisnet - That was both a coffin and a bed - The location of festival of drunkenness festivals "re-animation of Osiris" - probably including female on male anal sex. Males are darker than females - that's the "dog-leash" tan ... Female on male anal sex has some evidence - Queen Hatshepsut can be seen getting an erect penis from worshipping Min the god of fertility. I am sure she used that phallus in the anus of her men ... This is the first direct evidence that I have seen that Horus is female - or rather phallic female Bes Erotica- 101 Topless female dancers welcoming Hathor - the "golden goddess" - The younger women are nude except for a male loin-cloth and are probably going to be given a bull phallus which they will use on their husbands and other prone men in festival of drunkenness orgies... " ...It was the tomb of a woman, Senet, but provides a place for Antefoqer, a vizier known from various documents as one who served king Amenemhat I, then his son Sesostris I, at the beginning of the 12th Dynasty. ... " Digital Maps of the Ancient World " ... This represents a dance which is purely ritual or also festive in nature, but which is not clear. It is linked to the goddess Hathor (of whom Senet was a priestess). The artist tried to display movement, but the result is disappointing. The three women at the centre are obviously older than the others. They each wear a long dress and a large necklace. Extending their arms, they clap their hands to create a rhythm, whilst chanting "The doors of heaven open and the god comes forth". According to Davies, the older females form a double row (three on each side), so as to form an avenue for the young girls. These younger girls wear a simple loincloth around their hips, performing somewhat acrobatic movements. Those on the left wear a long ponytail ending in a bright disc, which their rhythmic movements puts in motion. These two girls chant: "The golden goddess has come" (referring to one of the names of Hathor). The two other young women facing them, point with their index finger. On the right, only the upper parts of the heads and arms of three more dancers has escaped the large area of damage, described above. ... " Osirisnet Bes Erotica- 102 Products from the land of Hathor - Punt in Hatshepsut's Temple. “You have said in your letter that you have come down in safety from Yam with the army and brought many beautiful gifts which Hathor, Lady of Yamu, has given to the King of Upper and Lower Egypt...." Pepi II Note the Giraffe and the Hathor bulls and the Trees - probably Sycamore - the tree of the goddess Nut and Hathor. - That could be Kenya - maybe the "lonely mountain" of Mount Kenya. I got that image from JRR Tolkiens' the "Lord of the Rings" - the devastated lonely mountain Erebor - the ancient home of Bes and his dwarves. Mt Kenya has a legendary dwarf race: the Ndorobo - The Kikuyu of Mt. Kenya found them there and displaced them. ... " ... Dorobo (or Ndorobo, Wadorobo, dorobo, Torobo) is a derogatory umbrella term for several unrelated hunter-gatherer groups of Kenya and Tanzania. They comprised client groups to the Maasai and did not practice cattle pastoralism. ... The term 'Dorobo' derives from the Maa expression il-tóróbò (singular ol-torróbònì) 'hunters; the ones without cattle'. Living from hunting wild animals implies being primitive, and being without cattle implies being very poor in the pastoralist Maa culture. ... " Wikipedia " ... The Lonely Mountain, known in Sindarin as Erebor, referred to both a mountain in northern Rhovanion and the subterranean Dwarven city contained within it. In the latter half of the Third Age, it became the greatest city in Middle-earth. It was located northeast of Mirkwood, near the Grey Mountains, and was the source of the River Running. Durin's Folk discovered the mineral wealth of the Lonely Mountain and the colony became the ancestral home of the King under the Mountain. By TA 1999, it had become a Dwarven stronghold, where the Dwarves became a numerous and prosperous people. In this time, they became very rich and amassed a large amount of gold and treasure which included the jewel known as the Arkenstone. Thrain I used the Arkenstone as a symbol of his rule, and his sons and grandsons under him who were to follow. For two-hundred and eleven years the kingdom advanced, expanded, prospered, and endured until Thorin I abandoned it to join his kin in the Grey Mountains, and the Lonely Mountain was abandoned for three-hundred and eighty years. However, the Dwarves of the Grey Mountains began receiving attacks from the dragons that still lived in those mountains, and became embroiled in a costly war against them, which forced the Dwarves to abandon the Grey Mountains in TA 2590. While Thorin Oakenshield was out hunting one day in TA 2770, Smaug flew in from the northern mountains and attacked the Lonely Mountain. After laying waste to both Erebor and the neighboring town of Dale, Smaug made the mountain his domain and hoarded the kingdom's wealth for himself. Thráin II and several companions escaped through a secret door. For many years thereafter the Dwarves lived in exile in the Blue Mountains until, seemingly by chance, Gandalf met Thorin in Bree, where together they planned to reclaim the mountain..." lotr.fandom * (Dec 28, 2020) There's a feeling of something lost or hidden - something big and awesome but also obstructed at all turns ... And all levels. Recently there's also the feeing of an attempt to absorb forcibly - like a dark energy trying to take back its creation ... There's a very powerful dragon here - and it's effects are not limited to Kenya - This was ground zero for the launching of Islam. It was also where the British Aristocracy - "Happy Valley" came to a sudden and silent end sometime in the 1950's ... (Also where Princess Elizabeth became Queen Elizabeth in 1952 ) - Mount Kenya on the cover of Elspeth Huxley's: "White Man's Country: Lord Delamere and the Making of Kenya, Volume One, 1870-1914" - Jan 16, 2021 After many years of searching for this book by Elspeth Huxley I finally found an affordable copy - I think it was a fluke - An untouched copy for $35 dollars on the internet. "White Man's Country: Lord Delamere and the making of Kenya part 1" is either sold out or missing or going for $ 700 and up on the internet. This is a trend with pre 1963 colonial Kenya literature. A conscious or unconscious attempt to erase it - Especially the large community of Afrikaners who moved to western Kenya from South Africa in 1903. One of my copies of Huxleys description of this trek in another of her books is missing this chapter completely - due to a printing error. Although I began to read it focused on Mount Kenya - the material on the Mau plateau in western Kenya is much more interesting because almost nothing is known about this Alpine "water tower" of western Kenya. Lord Lugard was clearly very excited about this part of Africa in the 1890's and considered it to be a new California or New Zealand in his book "The rise of our East African Empire" (1893). Excerpts: - Preface Shot blocked. Used workaround. - Mau Escarpment Shot blocked. Used workaround. - White Highlands Shot blocked. Used workaround. - White Highlands - 2 Shot blocked. Used workaround. Bes Erotica- 103 Line drawing from 1879 - Hathor and Isis are the nudes at bottom right. A lithe nude queen on the bottom right. They managed the re-animation rites of Osiris - and these probably involved the sexual manipulation of prone men in and out of the penis cage. Hathor is depicted as a lithe nude female with the head of a bull - may be related to the "bull's wife of Amun" - the head of the temple of Amun. She had a bull phallus and was probably a precursor of the Vesta female phallus in the city of Rome. " ... 2. Cneph ou Noum; 9. Athyr ou Hathor; 10. Isis; 11. Sate; 12. Neith; 14. Thoth. Artist/engraver/cartographer: Engraved by H. Roux, aine. Provenance: "Complement de L'Encyclopedie Moderne ou Dictionnaire Abrege des Sciences, des Lettres des Arts de L'industrie, de L'agriculture et du commerce Atlas ... " Published by Librairie de Firmin-Didot et, Paris. Type: Antique engraved print. (1879) Bes Erotica- 104 Hathor as a lithe nude manipulating a phallic pole From the 18th dynasty during the time of Amenhotep III. Amenhotep III was the product of the goddess of the dawn Eos forcibly having sex with a Trojan Prince ... This image forcibly suggests the phallus was female not male during the 18th dynasty and was probably penetrating Egyptian men anally ... Italy, Piedmont, Turin, Egyptian Museum, Statuary room - Hathor goddess Bes Erotica- 105 Re-animation rite of Osiris. King Seti I as Osiris being re-animated on the right by Isis and a Horus princess burning incense. Probably one of his daughters - although the analysis below says that's his son. The side-lock of youth says female. Her dark skin was probably because this was a Punt dynasty. Seti I was probably completing his 30 year Sed period in the penis cage. " ... ’West wall of Seti Shrine at Abydos’. The Seti Shrine is one of three small sanctuaries that are located north of the Inner Osiris Hall in the Seti I Temple at Abydos ... In this shrine Seti appears as the dead, deified king, who is identified as an Osiris himself. Here we are looking at reliefs on the west wall of the shrine. On the left we see the jackal-headed god Wepwawet presenting a set of scepters to Seti with his right hand. In his other hand he is holding a staff from the top of which the Breath of Life is emitted towards the mouth of Seti in an evocative way: it is depicted as a kind of ray which consists of two “ankh” signs separated by a “was” sceptre. The god says to the king: “I come to you, bearing life and dominion; may you be young like Horus as king . . . may your name endure by reason of what you have accomplished. As long as the sky shall exist, you shall exist.” Wepwawet (“Opener of the Ways”) was the god who opened the ways for the dead, guiding them in the netherworld. Then follows a scene in which the god Inmutef (dressed as a sem-priest) burns incense before a mummified Seti. Inmutef (a god who symbolizes the son who attends to his dead father) must be identified in this scene with the young Ramses II who performs the Opening of the Mouth Ritual on the mummy of his father, enabling him to breath in the afterlife. Behind Inmutef stand Isis who is making sacred music by rattling a sistrum and a “menat” necklace. The text next to her reads: “shaking the sistrum before your beautiful face forever and ever.” The Seti Temple at Abydos was begun by Seti I and completed by his son Ramses II in the 13th century BC. Photo Mick Palarczyk.... " paulsmit.smugmug Bes Erotica- 106 Sardax: Sexually bound men as horses of phallic women - That applied to the Pharaoh in Egypt too who had to spend 30 years with a mummified penis. Even Pharaoh had to submit sexually - probably to his mother, wife and daughters and the Bull's wife of Amun Bes Erotica- 107 Sex with a bound or locked penis ... Can still happen but follows different energy pathways - inwards not outwards. Also requires a female phallus ... Those were nights in ancient Egypt and Rome. All those phallic matrons on page 150 strongly suggest this "This staff of office cut from tree as 'tis, No more with leafage green for aye to bloom; Staff by the pathic damsels fondly loved, Which e'en the kings delight in hand to hold And oft by noble catamites bekissed-- This staff in robbers' vitals deep shall plunge Up to its bushy base and bag of balls." “Sportive Epigrams on Priapus” by Leonard C. Smithers and Sir Richard Burton (1890) Original Latin: :Hoc sceptrum, quod ab arbore est recisum, nulla iam poterit virere fronde, sceptrum, quod pathicae petunt puellae, quod quidam cupiunt tenere reges, cui dant oscula nobiles cinaedi, intra viscera furis ibit usque ad pubem capulumque coleorum. Literal: This staff of office, which, severed from the tree, can now shoot forth no verdure; sceptre, which pathic maidens crave, and some kings love to hold; to which patrician catamites give kisses; shall go right into the very bowels of the thief, as far as the hair and the bag of balls. "Pathic maidens" - my reading is maidens that love to mount pathic men - That seems to have been a feature Roman matrons - caused by the universal penis cage Bes Erotica- 108 Three Votive Phalloi Shot blocked. Used workaround " ... Clay, partially with Mica or dark volcanic inclusions, traces of beige slip. Italic, Etruscan, 4th-2nd cent. B.C. ... " the-saleroom - More locked Etruscan phalloi. The present consensus is this is a medical condition called Phimosis. But to me that's goddess worship. That was Julius Caesar's tribe and so the elite of the Roman world were all like this. Etruscan sex was probably female on male anal sex. Phimosis means that was the only option - the front door was locked! Descriptions by the Greeks indicate Polyandry and especially a culture of young boys being broken in anally early in communal female on male orgies: " ... Theopompus wrote in “Histories” 115: Sharing wives is an established Etruscan custom. Etruscan women take particular care of their bodies and exercise often, sometimes along with the men, and sometimes by themselves. It is not a disgrace for them to be seen naked. They do not share their couches with their husbands but with the other men who happen to be present, and they propose toasts to anyone they choose. They are expert drinkers and very attractive. “The Etruscans raise all the children that are born, without knowing who their fathers are. The children live the way their parents live, often attending drinking parties and having sexual relations with all the women. It is no disgrace for them to do anything in the open, or to be seen having it done to them, for they consider it a native custom. So far from thinking it disgraceful, they say when someone ask to see the master of the house, and he is making love, that he is doing so-and-so, calling the indecent action by its name. “When they are having sexual relations either with courtesans or within their family, they do as follows: after they have stopped drinking and are about to go to bed, while the lamps are still lit, servants bring in courtesans, or boys, or sometimes even their wives. And when they have enjoyed these they bring in boys, and make love to them. They sometimes make love and have intercourse while people are watching them, but most of the time they put screens woven of sticks around the beds, and throw cloths on top of them. “They are keen on making love to women, but they particularly enjoy boys and youths. The youths in Etruria are very good-looking, because they live in luxury and keep their bodies smooth. In fact all the barbarians in the West use pitch to pull out and shave off the hair on their bodies. ... "factsanddetails Bes Erotica- 109 Etruscan statue of Apollo of Veii wearing the tabenna and tunic garments. Shot blocked, used workaround - That's the Etruscan Horus or Harpocrates - a phallic woman. The body is male with an exposed phallus, but the head is female. Bes Erotica- 110 Statuette of Apollo with lyre - Archaeological Museum of Bologna A rare museum that calls Apollo a "she" despite the visible penis! " ... This statuette is one of the few bronze divinity images found in the Po area. Her significance is further enhanced by the fact that she was found precisely in the urban sanctuary of Felsina, so she represent one of the divinities venerated by the Bolognese Etruscans. ... The god Apollo, called Aplu by the Etruscans, is shown as a nude, standing figure with plaited hair and arms open. The left hand holds a lyre, while the right (missing) hand would have held the plectrum. This is a modest work by a local craftsman, but it nonetheless reveals the influence of Greek artistic models. It is rare to find Apollo with lyre in Etruscan bronzes, while the combination of the cult of Apollo and Heracles in the same sacred area is well known, especially in the great Veio temple of southern Etruria. Provenance: Bologna, Villa Cassarini sanctuary Datation: Late 5th century BC Material: Bronze Dimensions: Height: 8,1cm Inventory #: 27832 ... " museibologna Bes Erotica- 111 Etruscan Hercules subduing deer and Apollo - Veii, c. 510-500 BC. Terracotta - My reading is more sexual - that's a subdued and caged young male being made ready for female on male anal sex Bes Erotica- 112 Etruscan Tomb of the Bulls - Tarquinia Etruscan female on male anal sex. Black female! There is a large amount of black African Etruscan art That's an Egyptian image - the Bull's wife of Amun - or even a Hathor bull Not gay sex - Etruscans men were in the penis cage ... Bes Erotica- 113 Etruscan Tomb of the Bulls - Tarquinia Not sure what's happening here. It looks like straight sexual activity, but due to the Etruscan penis cage, that's not certain. That could be two phallic black skinned women having sex with light skinned man or woman. Bes Erotica- 114 Etruscan Hercules subduing a deer.- Veii, c. 510-500 BC. Terracotta Nude and in a tight penis cage. I think the rule is an exposed penis and an erect penis means female in Etruscan art. Dark brown skin - that's the "dog-leash" tan which is very common in Etruscan art. But like Minoan Crete there is also a large amount of black African skin ... Bes Erotica- 115 " ... Statue of Latona with the little Apollo in her arms flees threatened by the snake. Polychrome terracotta, hand-molded from Veio 510 to 500 BC - National Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia - Rome, Italy ... " Alamy - Latona - the mother of Apollo is dressed like the adult Etruscan Apollo above - a long gown and similar hair - as opposed to nude dark skinned Etruscan men. The phallic Etruscans were female not male ... Bes Erotica- 116 " ... Etruscan statuette of Zeus and Hera - in the Louvre Museum ... " Ahmet Usta - Zeus is nude and his phallus is "dog-leashed" ! Hera is dressed in a long gown and clearly the dominant partner. The phallus in this couple was eventually transferred to Zeus' daughter Apollo in the ancient Egyptian style ... That's when Zeus went sexually free - after his customary 30 year period in the penis cage ... Hera was Uni to the Etruscans - the supreme Etruscan deity - followed by her husband Tinia and her daughter Menrva ... The phallus was female ... " ... Uni is the ancient goddess of marriage, fertility, family, and women in Etruscan religion and myth, and the patron goddess of Perugia. She is identified as the Etruscan equivalent of Juno in Roman mythology, and Hera in Greek mythology. As the supreme goddess of the Etruscan pantheon, she is part of the Etruscan trinity, an original precursor to the Capitoline Triad, made up of her husband Tinia, the god of the sky, and daughter Menrva, the goddess of wisdom. She is often depicted with a goatskin cloak and sandals whilst holding a shield, similarly to Juno, wearing a bridal veil, or completely nude. Livy states (Book V, Ab Urbe Condita) that Juno was an Etruscan goddess of the Veientes, who was adopted ceremonially into the Roman pantheon when Veii was sacked in 396 BC. This seems to refer to Uni. She also appears on the Liver of Piacenza. ... " Wikipedia " ... Tinia, also called Tin, or Tina, principal Etruscan deity, god of the thunderbolt, sky, and storm. He was identified with the Greek god Zeus and the Roman god Jupiter. Tinia together with his wife Uni (identified with Greek Hera and Roman Juno) and Menerva (or Menrva, Roman Minerva) formed the supreme triad of the Etruscan pantheon. ... " Britannica The Etruscan pantheon of the phallic queen Uni, the penis-caged King Tinia and the phallic princess Menrva had many Egyptian parallels - the most obvious being the phallic queen Mut, the penis caged King Amun, and the phallic princess Khonsu. Bes was the god of the female phallus - both in Egypt and in Rome - Bes helped incarnate the phallic Hathor bull in her Egyptian and Roman avatars the Empress and Roman matrons Bes Erotica- 118 " ... Typhon Foot Element, about 500-480 BCE, Etruscan, bronze ... " Cleveland Art Museum - Jeh (J. E.) Bruce Etruscan Typhon is the Etruscan Set and is has a fully erect male phallus - But to me that looks like the black African Bes with a full erection! Bes is probably the better answer - an African import You see a lot of this in Etruscan Art - what are called ugly or "monkey" images - Those were really African noblemen in ancient Europe Bes Erotica- 119 The supreme Etruscan goddess Uni adopting an adult Hercules into the Etruscan pantheon by sucking him on her breast. To the left are two phallic Etruscan goddess' ... Female hair and jewels and no beard - on a masculine phallic nude body. As opposed to the beared men in the mirror ... " ... A notable mirror from Volterra depicts Uni nursing an adult demigod Hercle (the Greek Heracles or Roman Hercules). Tinia, amongst other gods present at the scene, points to a tablet with the inscription indicating the significance of the event: "eca: sren: tva: iχnac hercle:unial clan: θra:sce" meaning "this picture shows how Hercle mecame Uni's son". In other depictions of this myth, deities such as Menrva, Turan, and Mean - the goddess of victory - are present as part of an animated crowd bearing witness to the adoption. The motif of Hercle suckling Uni is understood as holding Greek origins, where counterpart Hera was unknowingly deceived by Zeus (Tinia) into nursing, and by that process adopting, an infant Heracles against her will. Depiction of this myth in which the adoption process features an adult Hercle, and an obliging Uni is widely acknowledged as having developed entirely in Etruria. Most scholars view this interpretation of the myth as the Hercle's welcome initiation to godhood; it has also been suggested that the scene represents Uni and Hercle's reconciliation, where the Etruscan recount accurately represents the meaning of Hercle's Greek name "Glory of Hera". ... " Wikipedia Bes Erotica- 120 Etruscan mirror with Turan, Atunis and Menrva - 4th century BC - Etruscan sex - or Roman sex. In the center the phallic Turan or Etruscan Venus and her clean shaven young escort the nude and penis caged Atunis (Adonis). From their embrace Atunis was a catamite - or a man who has sex anally under a phallic Roman matron - the male Etruscan front door was closed - or caged ... On either side are two phallic Etruscan goddess's - on the right the phallic Menrva or Minerva The modern definition of Catamite is older male on younger male anal sex. But I am sure in Etruria and Rome and Greece is was phallic Roman matron having anal sex with young Roman men or boys. Male on male does not work when all men are in the penis cage: " ... In ancient Greece and Rome, a catamite (Latin: catamitus) was a pubescent boy who was the intimate companion of a young man, usually in a pederastic relationship. It was generally a term of affection and literally means "Ganymede" in Latin, but it was also used as a term of insult when directed toward a grown man. The word derives from the proper noun Catamitus, the Latinized form of Ganymede, the name of the beautiful Trojan youth abducted by Zeus to be his companion and cupbearer, according to Greek mythology. The Etruscan form of the name was Catmite, from an alternative Greek form of the name, Gadymedes. In its modern usage, the term catamite refers to a boy as the passive or receiving partner in anal intercourse with a man. ... " Wikipedia * (Jan 3, 2021) The Ganymede myth is usually traced to Minoan Crete and was mentioned by Plato as a justification of "un-natural" Cretan sexual practices: " ... Ganymede was abducted by Zeus from Mount Ida near Troy in Phrygia. Ganymede had been tending sheep, a rustic or humble pursuit characteristic of a hero's boyhood before his privileged status is revealed. Zeus either summoned an eagle or turned into an eagle himself to transport the youth to Mount Olympus On Olympus, Zeus had him granted eternal youth and immortality and the office of cupbearer to the gods, in place of his daughter Hebe who was relieved of her duties as cupbearer upon her marriage to Herakles. Alternatively, the Iliad presents Hebe (and at one instance, Hephaestus) as the cupbearer of the gods with Ganymede acting as Zeus’s personal cupbearer. Edmund Veckenstedt associated Ganymede with the genesis of the intoxicating drink mead, which had a traditional origin in Phrygia. In some literature such as the Aeneid, Hera, Zeus's wife, regards Ganymede as a rival for her husband's affection. In some traditions, Zeus later put Ganymede in the sky as the constellation Aquarius (the "water-carrier" or "cup-carrier"), which is adjacent to Aquila (the Eagle). ... In the Iliad, Zeus is said to have compensated Ganymede's father Tros by the gift of fine horses, "the same that carry the immortals", delivered by the messenger god Hermes.Tros was consoled that his son was now immortal and would be the cupbearer for the gods, a position of much distinction. Plato accounts for the pederastic aspect of the myth by attributing its origin to Crete, where the social custom of paiderastía was supposed to have originated. Athenaeus recorded a version of the myth where Ganymede was abducted by the legendary King Minos to serve as his cupbearer instead of Zeus. Some authors have equated this version of the myth to Cretan pederasty practices, as recorded by Strabo and Ephoros, that involved abduction of a youth by an older lover for a period of two months before the youth was able to re-enter society as a man. Xenophon portrays Socrates as denying that Ganymede was the catamite of Zeus, instead asserting that the god loved him for his psyche, "mind" or "soul," giving the etymology of his name as ganu- "taking pleasure" and med- "mind." Xenophon's Socrates points out that Zeus did not grant any of his lovers immortality, but that he did grant immortality to Ganymede. In poetry, Ganymede became a symbol for the beautiful young male who attracted homosexual desire and love. He is not always portrayed as acquiescent, however, as in the Argonautica of Apollonius of Rhodes, Ganymede is furious at the god Eros for having cheated him at the game of chance played with knucklebones, and Aphrodite scolds her son for "cheating a beginner." The Augustan poet Virgil portrays the abduction with pathos: the boy's aged tutors try in vain to draw him back to Earth, and his hounds bay uselessly at the sky.The loyal hounds left calling after their abducted master is a frequent motif in visual depictions, and is referenced by Statius: Here the Phrygian hunter is borne aloft on tawny wings, Gargara’s range sinks downwards as he rises, and Troy grows dim beneath him; sadly stand his comrades; vainly the hounds weary their throats with barking, pursue his shadow or bay at the clouds. ... " Wikipedia - However a closer reading of the texts does not make this to be clearly man/boy love and the scholarly articles asserting that this is man/boy love use images that I used on page 150 like the "Chieftains cup"- (Roman Hermaphrodite 533) - but assume that those are men with large phallic cod-pieces ... I am fairly certain those Minoan cod pieces cover Amazon or female phalli - not male. The dream images are also pretty clear - Minoan women gained large bull phalli from their "bull-jumping" rituals. Those phalli were almost certainly used in "un-natural" female on male anal sex. Also Zeus was in the penis-cage as shown above. It is more likely that a phallic Hera was the one doing the anal penetration of the young Ganymede ... There was probably a 2 month ritual before full manhood when penis-caged Minoan boys serviced phallic older Amazons - in a Knight/page relationship maybe that included female on male anal sexual initiation. - As preparation for Amazon marriage and female on male anal sex ... Minoan men were farmers and fishermen and left the fighting and boxing and wrestling to women and foreign mercenaries. See for example: Roman Hermaphrodite 536Graphic from Boxer Vase - Hagia Triadia, c. 1600 B. C. - Candia Museum. They probably practiced the Egyptian 30 year in the penis - cage ritual ... Also see an a tanned and penis-caged Minoan male cup-bearer:- Roman Hermaphrodite 488 - Nude male fresco, from the excavation site of Akrotiri,Santorini, Greece 1700 BC Unlike Minoan bull-leapers and their massive phallic cod-pieces, Minoan men were depicted buck naked with tiny phalli .. Bes Erotica- 121 Turan and Atunis: consummation of the marriage. (Venus and Adonis) Etruscan mirror in Tarquinia, Museo Archeologico Nazionale - The modern day assumption is this is straight sex. But Atunis is in the penis cage and is clearly the passive sexual partner. - An anal device to insert into Atunis was probably just outside the picture frame - what the Romans called "mulier equitans" or horse riding. Bes Erotica- 122 Tinia and Semla: conception of Fufluns (Dionysos). London, British Museum - Zeus and Semele - the conception of Dionysus. But even here Tinia is in the penis cage. And the nude Semla is mounting him - rather than the usual male on female mounting. Unless the penis cage was removed - there was probably a female phallus just outside the picture frame. Tinia was probably a catamite just like all other Etruscan men. Bes Erotica- 123 Birth of Fufluns (Dionysos). Etruscan mirror in Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale - Male birth. And it was not only Fufluns. Tinia also gave birth to Menrva (Athena was born from the head of Zeus): " ... Divine births, the outcome of successful marriages, appear on a number of mirrors. Birth scenes in general, including the egg of Helen, are much more popular in Etruscan than in Greek art. An Etruscanized version of the Greek myth shows Tinia (Zeus) giving birth to a large, fully armed Menerva. As on the Greek vases, two attendants flank the god : they are beautifully dressed, properly attired for their aristocratic duties as they comfort him and bandage his aching head. Another mirror shows the birth of the baby Fufluns, wearing protective amulets ; he is the Etruscan Dionysos, who has been incubated in Tinia’s thigh. An attendant nurse, Mean, holds the unguent jar and dipstick. Is it to anoint Tinia, the father giving birth, or the new-born divine baby ? ... " Larissa Bonfante, Etruscan mirrors and the grave - Male birth is the other side of the female phallus - a Bes innovation from ancient Africa Bes Erotica- 124 Nude dog-leashed Kouros from the time of Plato and Socrates- Like Minoan men and boys the Greek front door was "locked" ... " ... The Kroisos Kouros is a marble kouros from Anavyssos in Attica which functioned as a grave marker for a fallen young warrior named Kroisos The free-standing sculpture strides forward with the "archaic smile" playing slightly on his face. The sculpture is dated to c. 540–515 BC and stands 1.95 meters high. It is now situated in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens The inscription on the base of the statue reads: Stop and show pity beside the marker of Kroisos, dead, whom, when he was in the front ranks, raging Ares destroyed. The Kroisos Kouros is central to two ongoing archeological debates: first, whether kouroi represented specific young men or were generic representations of idealized archetypes which might not actually resemble a specific person commemorated, and thus are symbolic representations embodying the ideal of the male warrior en promáchois , "in the front line" of battle, not naturalistic ones; and second the authenticity of the Getty kouros, which bears a falsified provenance and displays a suspicious similarity to the Kroisos kouros. ... " Wikipedia Bes Erotica- 125 Louise Bourgeois, ‘Janus Fleurie’, Bronze, gold patina (1968) MoMA. That's both a clitoris and a penis. A Mentule. In Burton's "Priapeia: Sportive Epigrams on Priapus" (1890) Mentule is translated as penis - but I think that's a mistake. Penis has its own word in Latin. Mentule is used whenever Roman Matrons are involved. " ... Very pleasant article in Le Monde of August 28 on the work of Louise Bourgeois, spirited, facetious and elegant. We find there a word, mentule , which does not appear in the dictionaries and probably makes its first appearance in the reference daily - it has nevertheless existed for centuries and Rabelais was already using it. It is one of the innumerable ways of designating the male sex, directly taken from the Latin mentula , soberly translated by the Gaffiot "virile member", and affectionate by Catullus and Martial. For the "vertical smile", in other words the female sex, the author is more timid and is content to repeat the word "vulva", while charming synonyms are available, like the "moniche". ... " Le Monde AUG 29, 2015 The image that came to me when I first saw this work of art was the caged male penis on the left of ‘Janus Fleurie’ and the erect female clitoris on the right. - The penis cage creates the sexually insatiable Roman matron ... The following verse seems to have mentule as male though. I think mentule is like Legba and his erect phallus - that's female eros not male ... 22: Priapus Latin: Quicumque hic violam rosamve carpet furtivumve holus aut inempta poma, defectus pueroque feminaque hac tentigine, quam videtis in me, rumpatur, precor, usque mentulaque nequiquam sibi pulset umbilicum. Burton translation: Whoso of violets here shall pluck or rose, Or furtive greens or apples never bought, May he in want of woman or of boy By the same tension you in me behold Go burst, I ever pray, and may his yard Against his navel throb and rap in vain. Plain English: Whoever shall herein pluck a violet or a rose, or pilfer vegetables or unbought apples, I pray that in the absence of both woman and boy he may continually burst with that rigid tension which you see in me, and that his mentule may in vain beat throbbing on his navel. Bes Erotica- 126 Boss lady and a friend "horse riding" The following verse from Priapia has Burton speculating on the female phallus and female on male sexual penetration in ancient Rome: 25: Priapus Latin: Porro - nam quis erit modus? - Quirites, aut praecidite seminale membrum, quod totis mihi noctibus fatigant vicinae sine fine prurientes vernis passeribus salaciores, aut rumpar, nec habebitis Priapum. ipsi cernitis, effututus ut sim confectusque macerque pallidusque, qui quondam ruber et valens solebam fures caedere quamlibet valentes. defecit latus et periculosam cum tussi miser exspuo salivam. Burton Translation: Hither, Quirites! (here what limit is?) Either my member seminal lop ye off Which thro' the livelong nights for aye fatigue The neighbour-women rutting endlessly, Lewder than sparrows in the lusty spring; Or I shall burst and ye Priapus lose. How I be futtered-out yourselves espy Used-up, bejaded, lean and pallid grown, Who erstwhile ruddy, in my doughtiness wont To kill with poking thieves however doughty. My side has failed me and poor I with cough The perilous spittle ever must outspew. Plain English Hither! ye Romans' Either lop off my seminal member, which the neighbouring women, ever itching with desire, exhaust the whole night through[1] --more lecherous than sparrows in the spring[2] --or I shall be ruptured (for where is the limit of their lust?), nor will ye have a Priapus. Ye see that I am spent with venery, jaded, thin and pale, who once, ruddy and vigorous, used to thrust through the stoutest thieves. My strength has faded me; and, wretched with coughing, I spit out noxious saliva.[3] 1. Either the women exhausted Priapus with their mouths or by riding upon him. 2. Scioppius recounts having seen sparrows in spring copulate so many times in succession that, when trying to fly away, they fell to the ground exhausted. 3. In connection with this epigram may be mentioned the practice of tribadism with phalli amongst the Roman ladies. Giraldus tells us that the Lesbian women used dildoes made of glass, ivory, gold and silken stuffs and linen to satisfy their lechery. Suidas and Aristophanes speak of the use by Milesian women of a leathern penis succedaneum, called olisbos. Martial and Suetonius hint at the use of a snake for a similar purpose. Petronius makes Oenothea introduce a leathern fascinum, smeared with oil, pepper and crushed nettle seeds, into the anus of Encolpius as an aphrodisiac. Bes Erotica- 127 Etruscan Kouros - Looks like woman with a penis to me, but is labelled male by the British museum: " ... Male statuette Department of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities/ Etruscan Art (9th-1st centuries BC)..." According to Burton in Priapeia, lustful roman women had a practice of marking the number of men they rode on a particular night with wooden furnace pokers dedicated to Priapus. I used to think "rode" was female on top vaginal sex, but I now think it was female on male anal sex - Cutting the bronze fistula or penis cage was too cumbersome ... And putting it back on too risky as red hot charcoal was needed 34:To Priapus Latin Cum sacrum fieret deo salaci, conducta est pretio puella parvo communis satis omnibus futura, quae quot nocte viros peregit una, tot verpas tibi dedicat salignas. Burton translation At holy offering to the Lustful God Hired was a harlot for a slender price To meet the common wants of commonweal; And for as many men one night outworked So many willow yards she'll give to thee. Plain English" At a sacrifice made to the God of Lechery, a girl was cheaply hired as sufficient for the wants of the common weal, who as many men she spent in a single night, dedicates to thee so many willow-wood pokers.[1] 1. In the original Latin verpa, meaning the virile member. So called from its similarity in shape to the instrument used in scouring furnace fires. The damsel laid on the altar of Priapus, as ex-votos, a quantity of wooden members equal in number to the men with whom she had had connection in a single night. This seems to have been a customary practice amongst the lower classes of women. Juvenal relates how the Empress Messalina was accustomed in disguise to visit a brothel at night, and borrowing her cell from Lycisca, one of the courtesans, to show such capability for the work that she exhausted all who cared to visit her, and returned to the palace in the early morning, still raging with unsatisfied lust. It is said that within twenty hours she surpassed the above-named courtesan by twenty-five 'rides'. Bes Erotica- 128 Sardax: Pathic women. Roman women prostitutes are described as "Pathic girls" - or catamites - which in the homosexual sense means anal sex in the dominant position. It seems there was a widespread practice of women from Babylon to Greece to "prostitute" themselves with strangers in the temple soon after marriage - My reading is phallic women in the ancient world were given religious sanction to sodomise men outside marriage ... 40: To Priapus Latin: Nota Suburanas inter Telethusa puellas, quae, puto, de quaestu libera facta suo est, cingit inaurata penem tibi, sancte, corona: hunc pathicae summi numinis instar habent. Burton translation Yon Telethusa befamèd amid the damsels Suburran (Who by her gains I hold freedwoman now is become) Girds with a gilded crown, O Holy! thine inguinal organ, Held by the pathic girls like in degree to a god. Plain English: Telethusa, notorious amongst the damsels of the Via Subura,[1] who, I believe, has bought her freedom with the profits of prostitution,[2] encircles thy penis, O venerable one, with a golden crown, for these pathic women consider it equal in eminence to a god. 1. The Via Subura was a street in Rome, in the second region, under the eastern wall of the Carinae, at the foot of the Coelian Hill, where provisions were chiefly sold, and where many thieves and prostitutes dwelt. Martial writes, of Subura: 'Then hand over the tyro to a Suburan mistress in the art. She will make a man of him; but a virgin is an inexperienced teacher.' And: 'A young lady of not over good reputation, such as sit in the middle of the Subura.' 2. For the female slaves to gain their freedom by prostitution was not uncommon. Plautus writes: 'You will speedily be free if you will often lie on your dowry in the same manner. Plautus attributes this to the Tuscans, Augustus to the Phoenicians, Justinus to the Cyprians and Strabo to the Armenians. Herodotus under Clio states that the women of Lydia prostituted themselves to obtain their marriage portion, and that it was a custom amongst the Babylonians that every woman should once in her life prostitute herself at the temple of Venus to a stranger. This practice is confirmed by Jeremiah and Strabo; The prostitution of women, considered as a religious institution, was not only practised in Babylon, but at Heliopolis; at Aphace, a place betwixt Heliopolis and Biblus; at Sicca Veneria, in Africa, and also on the Isle of Cyprus. It was at Aphace that Venus was supposed, according to the author of the Etymologicum Magnum, to have first received the embraces of Adonis. At Argalae, in Africa, women were prostituted on the wedding night. The Loricans, when hard pressed in war, vowed to offer up their daughters to be deflowered in a festival in honour of Venus, if they should be victorious. The Marquis de Sade in his priapistic book La Philsophie dans le Boudoir states Babylonian children were deflowered at the temple of Venus at an early age; and gives some curious details on the subject of prostitution in Pegu and Tarta Bes Erotica- 129 Boss lady sexually mounting a man in a penis cage. Pathic Roman girls sacrificed to Priapus in order to gain a fiery Mentule or female phallus: 75:Priapus Latin: Obliquis quid me, pathicae, spectatis ocellis? non stat in inguinibus mentula tenta meis. quae tamen exanimis nunc est et inutile lignum, utilis haec, aram si dederitis, erit. Burton translation: Why, O ye pathic girls, with sidelong oglings observe me? Never this mentule of mine riseth erect from my groin. Yet though lifeless now and a pole to no one of service, Build me an altar and it shall be of service to all. Plain English: With sidelong glances, O pathic girls, why look ye on me? My mentule stands not erect from my groin. Although 'tis now vigourless and unserviceable wood, 'twill be of use if ye sacrifice at my altar. Bes Erotica- 130 The Roman Legba: 19th Century Engraving of a Bas-Relief from Pompeii - of an erect Priapus - similar to Bes - dimunitive and erect Bes Erotica- 131 The Roman female phallus - Roman matrons were tending their virility into old age. Here an old woman prays to the gods that she should not lack the Mentule - or penis. The meaning is probably misread by modern readers - I think she's talking about her own penis which she uses on men and boys in the anus, and not the other way around. 11 Priapus Latin: Quaedam haud iunior Hectoris parente, Cumaeae soror, ut puto, Sibyllae, aequalis tibi, quam domum revertens Theseus repperit in rogo iacentem, infirmo solet huc gradu venire rugosasque manus ad astra tollens, ne desit sibi, mentulam rogare. hesterna quoque luce dum precatur, dentem de tribus exscreavit unum. 'tolle' inquam 'procul ac iube latere scissa sub tunica stolaque rufa, ut semper solet, et timere lucem, qui tanto patet indecens hiatu, barbato macer eminente naso, ut credas Epicuron oscitari'. Burton translation: A she (than Hector's parent longer aged, Sister to Cumae's Sibyl seemeth me; Equal to thee whom, to his home returned, Theseus found lying in the fosse a-cold!) Hither with tottering gait is wont to come; And, wrinkled hands upraising to the stars, Begs that she'll never fail a yard to find; And, as yester'een she prayed ere daylight fled One of three teeth she happened out to crache. 'Bear it afar (cried I) and let it lurk Beneath thy tattered robe and tawny stole; (Fen as 'tis ever wont); and dread the fight Of meagre jaws which ope with such a gape-- By hairy nostrils capped and eminent nose-- Thou hadst deemed to see an Epicurean yawn.' Plain English: A certain hag, more aged than the mother [Hecuba] of Hector (the sister, I opine, of the Cumaean Sibyl), old as thou whom Theseus when he came back home found lying in the grave, often comes hither with tottering steps, and lifting her shrivelled hands to the stars, begs that she may not lack the mentule. In yesterday's fight too, while praying, she spat out one of her three teeth. Take it far away, I say, and bid it be concealed under thy tattered tunic and thy scarlet stole, as 'tis its custom; let it shun the fight of thy meagre jaws, which, thy hairy nose in the air, gape with a chasm so foul and enormous that you would think an Epicurean was yawning. Bes Erotica- 132 Sardax: The bridge of sighs ... Priapus 48 Priapus ejaculates to the thought of pathic girls: Pathic girl is probably phallic girl or girl with a mentule to place in the anus of a catamite boy - or the penis caged Roman man. - pathicae is latin for sodomite and puellae is latin for girls ... Latin Quod partem madidam mei videtis, per quam significor Priapus esse, non ros est, mihi crede, nec pruina, sed quod sponte sua solet remitti, cum mens est pathicae memor puellae. Burton translation Tho' see you drenchèd wet that part of me Whereby Priapus I am signified; Nor dew (believe me!) 'twas nor hoary frost, But whatso gusheth of its own accord When I bethink me of a pathic god. Plain English Altho' you see that part of me to be wet by which I'm signified to be Priapus, 'tis not dew, believe me, nor hoarfrost, but what is wont to gush forth spontaneously when my mind recalls a pathic girl Bes Erotica- 133 Old man disciplined by a young woman. (Note the penis cage key around her neck) I think Priapus was a secret chthonic female fire and garden deity. His female worshippers gained a mentule from him becoming pathic and sodomizing catamite men. In this passage we learn that Trojan princes like Titonum, Priam and Nestor were sodomized by the mentule of Priapus. In this passage Priapus also mentions the penis cage or Roman fibula - asking that his mentule not be caged ... 78: To Priapus Latin: Quod sum iam senior meumque canis Cum barba caput albicet capillis: Deprensos ego perforare possum Tithonum Priamumque Nestoremque. Immanem stomachum mihi movetis, qui densam facitis subinde saepem et fures prohibetis huc adire. hoc est laedere, dum iuvatis; hoc est non admittere ad aucupem volucres. obstructa est via, nec licet iacenti iactura natis expiare culpam. ergo qui prius usque et usque et usque furum scindere podices solebam, per noctes aliquot diesque cesso. poenas do quoque, quot satis superque est, in semenque abeo salaxque quondam nunc vitam perago - quis hoc putaret? - ut clusus citharoedus abstinentem. at vos, ne peream situ senili, quaeso, desinite esse diligentes neve imponite fibulam Priapo. Burton translation Though I be agèd now, though head and chin Now show them hoary-hue'd with grizzling hair, Still can I perforate those caught by me, Tithonus, Priam, Nestor--every one. You see how mightily my rage ye rouse Who hem me ever with a bullfinch hedge Forbidding robbers from approaching me. This is to hurt while helping, this is but To scare the birdies from the birder's snare. The way is closèd nor prone-fallen thief Can with his backside expiate his crime. Thus I who erstwhile ever, ever and aye Buttocks of plundering wights was wont to cleave, For many a night and day in idlesse stand. I also, suffering pains enough and more, Flow off in semen and a lecher whiles Unlive my life-tide. Who could ever think From lute the lutanist should cut him clear? But you, ereeld's marasmus do me dead, Desist, I pray you from vain diligence, Nor hang a buckle on Priapus' yard. Plain English Although I am now growing old, and my beard and locks whiten with hoary hairs, I am still able to perforate [sodomise] a Tithonus, a Priam, and a Nestor, when caught. Ye see that ye stir up my bile, who continually raise a thick fence, and thus prevent thieves from approaching hither. This is hindering, whilst ye help me; this is not to admit birds to the fowler's snare. The way is blocked up, nor can the prostrate one expiate his crime at the expense of his buttocks. So that I who erstwhile was wont ever and ever and ever to cleave the buttocks of pilferers have had naught of employment this many a day and night. I also suffer punishment enough and more than enough; I flow off in seed, and once lecherous, no longer carry out my life's aim. Who would think of the lutist abstaining from his melody? But, lest I perish from senile decay, pray ye desist from such diligence, nor place a fibula on Priapus. Bes Erotica- 134 Old man being in a young woman's trap (Korean domme) Looks like men could leave offerings to Priapus - but they ran the risk of being trapped by a pack of women with mentules and forced to irrumate them or give them "blow jobs" in addition to being sodomized by them. 71 Priapus Illusit mihi pauper inquilinus: cum libum dederat molaque fusa, quadrae partibus abditis in ignem, sacro protinus hinc abit peracto. vicini canis huc subinde venit nidorem, puto, persecuta fumi, quae libamine mentulae comeso tota nocte mihi litat rigendo. at vos amplius hoc loco cavete quicquam ponere, ne famelicorum ad me turba velit canum venire, ne dum me colitis meumque numen, custodes habeatis irrumatos. A starveling stranger made me laughing-stock, Bringing me cakes and spelt with salt bestrown; Then, having scattered part upon the fire, Forthright he hied him, duty duly done. Hereat a neighbour's bitch incontinent comes-- Led by the savour of the smoke, I ween-- And gobbling all that offering to my yard Atones by lusting through the livelong night. But you, be wary of this place, nor give More of like offerings lest of hungry hounds A pack come hurrying here to visit me; And, when you worship me and godhead mine, Ye have your very guardians irrumate. A stranger of small means has made me a laughing stock. He had offered up the libum [a cake], strown with spelt and mingled salt, and, having scattered portions on the fire, straightway departed hence, his offering finished. Thereupon comes hither a neighbour's dog, having, I dare say, made for the fumes of smoke; which animal, having devoured the whole of the libation to the mentule, makes atonement to me by its 'rigidity' through the whole night. But do ye be wary of making any more offerings on this spot lest a pack of starving hounds hasten towards me; and lest, in worshipping me and my power, ye have your custodians irrumated. Irrumation The tertia poena (third punishment) referred to in Epigram 12 on page 42 is irrumation or coition with the mouth. The patient (fellator or sucker) provokes the orgasm by the manipulation of his (or her) lips and tongue on the agent's member. Galienus calls it lesbiari (Greek lesbiázein), as the Lesbian women were supposed to have been the introducers of this practice. Lampridius says: 'Libidinosus, ore quoque pollutus et constupratus fuit' (That lecherous man, whose mouth even is defiled and dishonest) and Minutius Felix: 'Qui medios viros lambunt, libidinoso ore inguinibus inhaerescunt' (They who lick men's middles, cleave to their inguina with lustful mouth). In old Latin it was called offendere buccam, to offend the cheek. Suetonius calls the vice illudere ori--to sport with the mouth. Ausonius says that the Campanians were addicted to the practice, and calls it capitalis luxus--the debauchery of the head.[1] Arnobius uses the expression stuprum oris--the defilement of the mouth. Other terms used are: to corrupt the mouth; to attack the head; to defy to one's face; not to spare the head; to split the mouth; to gain the heights; to strike higher; to compress the tongue; complacently lending the mouth; the labour of the mouth; to lick men's middles; to lick and to make silent. Suetonius relates that Parrhasius bequeathed to Tiberius a picture which he had painted, representing Atalanta kneeling before Meleager [1. Martial says: Corve salutator, quare fellator baberis, In caput intravit mentula nulla tamen? O greetings raven, how is it thou art considered a sucker, though no mentule has ever entered thy mouth? He refers to the ancient belief that the raven ejected the semen in coition from its beak into the female. Aristotle refutes this belief.] and caressing him with her mouth.[1] This picture Tiberius caused to be hung in his bedchamber. The Romans regarded irrumation as a far more shameful vice than sodomy. - I think Burton made a mistake - the Tiberius painting was probably the other way around - Roman men were in the penis cage and so were unable to receive blow jobs. Tiberius was married to the sexually aggressive and highly promiscuous Julia daughter of Augustus who he was probably irrumating as well as being anally sodomized by. Bes Erotica- 135 Old man being in a young woman's trap (Korean domme) Men violating the garden of Priapus were assured an encounter with the female mentule in the anus: 14 Priapus Latin Commisso mihi non satis modestas quicumque attulerit manus agello, is me sentiet esse non spadonem. dicat forsitan haec sibi ipse: 'nemo hic inter frutices loco remoto percisum sciet esse me', sed errat: magnis testibus ista res agetur. Burton's translation: Charged to my charge the fieldlet who shall dare With hand not modest anywise molest, Me fox no eunuch he shall know and feet. Here in a distant place the hurst amid He peradventure to himself shall say-- 'None! saw me so misused.' But he is wrong: These huge attestors shall the cause maintain. Plain English: He who shall plunder with dishonest hand the little field committed to my charge, shall feel me to be no eunuch[1] in this lonely place among the bushes. Here, perhaps, he will say this to himself, 'None will know that I have been thrust through.'[2] He will be mistaken; that cause will be sustained by 'weighty' witnesses![3] [1. Martial and Juvenal have many references to eunuchism and the use to which the Roman ladies put these castratos, who were of various kinds: castrati (castare, meaning to cut oft)--those who had lost both penis and testicles; spadones (either spata, a Gallic word meaning a razor, or Spada, a Persian village where the operation of eunuchism is performed)--those who still retained the penis; thlibiae (from the Greek meaning to rub with hemlock, etc.)--those whose testicles had been extracted by compression; thliasiae (from the Greek meaning to crush); cremaster (so called from the destruction of the muscle, cremaster, by which the testicle is suspended or drawn up or compressed in the act of coition); and bagoas. The subject scarcely calls for extended notice in this work, but I would refer those interested in the subject to The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, translated by Sir Richard F. Burton. 2. Praecidere (literally meaning to cut off). Here means to cut through the bowels. It has a similar meaning in Juvenal--'to run against yesterday's supper'. Like expressions are billas dividere, 'to divide the bowels', and cacare mentulam, 'to defile the mentule with ordure'. 3. In the original, magnis testibus, meaning trustworthy witness; and, by a play upon words, large testicles.] According to Juvenal Roman sexuality was completely female dominant: "... The secrets of Bona Dea are well known. When the pipe excites them, and inflamed alike with the horn and wine, these Mænads of Priapus rush wildly round, and whirl their locks and howl! Then, as their passions rise, how burning is their lust, how frantic their words, when all power of restraining their desires is lost! A prize is proposed, and Saufeia challenges the vilest of her sex, and bears off the prize. In these games nothing is counterfeit, all is acted to the life; so that even the aged Priam, effete from years, or Nestor himself, might be inflamed at the sight. Then their lust admits of no delay. Then the woman appears in all her native depravity; and by all alike is the shout re-echoed from the whole den—"Now is the proper time. Let in the men!" But the adulterer still sleeps; so she bids the youth put on a female hood, and speed to the spot. If none can be found, they have recourse to slaves. If there is no hope of slaves, they will hire some water-carrier to come. If this fails too, and no men can be found, she would not hesitate to descend still lower in the scale of creation. ... I hear the advice that my good friends of ancient days would give—"Put on a lock! keep her in confinement!" But who is to guard the guards themselves? Your wife is as cunning as you, and begins with them. And, in our days, the highest and the lowest are fired with the same lust. Nor is she that wears out the black pavement with her feet, better than she who is borne on the shoulders of her tall Syrian slaves. Ogulnia, in order that she may go in due state to the games, hires a dress, and attendants, and a sedan, and pillow, and female friends; and a nurse, and yellow-haired girl to whom she may issue her commands. Yet all that remains of her family plate, and even the very last remnants of it, she gives to well-oiled Athletes. Many women are in straitened circumstances at home; yet none of them has the modest selfrestraint that should accompany poverty, or limits herself within that measure which her poverty has allotted and assigned to her. Yet men do sometimes look forward to what may be to their interest hereafter, and, with the ant for their instructress, some have at last felt a dread of cold and hunger. Yet woman, in her prodigality, perceives not that her fortune is fast coming to naught; and as though money, with vegetative power, would bloom afresh from the drained chest, and the heap from which she takes would be ever full, she never reflects how great a sum her pleasures cost her. Some women ever take delight in unwarlike eunuchs, and soft kisses, and the loss of all hope of beard, that precludes the necessity of abortives. Yet the summit of their pleasure is when this operation has been performed in the heat and prime of manhood, and the only loss sustained is that the surgeon Heliodorus cheats the barber of his fees. Such is his mistress' will: and, conspicuous from afar, and attracting the eyes of all, he enters the baths, and vies even with the god that guards our vines and gardens. Let him sleep with his mistress! ... " Juvenal, Satire VI Bes Erotica- 137 Shot blocked. Used workaround. More Korea action. This is an actual penis cage/penis key scene. The previous one was not really Priapus has a disappointing Wikipedia. He's seen as a minor Roman deity - more lite porn. But, I do not agree - Priapus was a secret key to the Roman psyche - the Roman female phallus and the Roman Horus or Harpocrates is not a minor deity ... 19 Priapus Fulmina sub Iove sunt, Neptuni fuscina telum, ense potens Mars est, hasta, Minerva, tua est, sutilibus Liber committit proelia thyrsis, fertur Apollinea missa sagitta manu, Herculis armata est invicta dextera clava: at me terribilem mentula tenta facit. Burton translation Thunders are under Jove; with the trident weaponed is Neptune; Forceful is Mars with brand, spear, O Minerva, is thine; Liber engages in fray, confiding on sheaflets of Thyrsi; By th' Apollinean hand shafts (they assure us) are shot; Hercules' right is armed with the club that cannot be conquer'd; But a distended yard makes me an object of awe. Plain English Jove controls the thunderbolts; the trident is Neptune's weapon; Mars is mighty by the sword; thine, Minerva, is the spear. Bacchus fights his battles with a bundle of thyrsi; the bolt, we are told, is shot by Apollo's hand. Hercules' invincible right arm is equipped with a club; but a mentule at full stretch makes me appalling. Bes Erotica- 138 Shot blocked. Used workaround. More Korea action. Dancing for the Amazon queen nude and in the penis cage - that's the key to the penis cage in her left hand. I suppose the whip is her female phallus. 58 Priapus Latin Quicumque nostram fur fefellerit curam, effeminato verminet procul culo; quaeque hic proterva carpserit manu poma puella, nullum reperiat fututorem. Burton translation Whatever thief shall trick my faith may he Wither, far banisht from th' effeminate bum! Whatever damsel plucks with wanton hand This fruitage, never find she one to strum! Plain English Whatever thief who deceives my faith may he wither away, far from the buttocks of a catamite. And whatso girl who with audacious hand plucks off these apples, may she meet with no futterer. - Burton may have made a mistake here though: in an Amazon society like upperclass Rome, men were catamites or anal and women were Pathic or phallic Bes Erotica- 139 More Korean action - in white this time In the passage below, Priapus notes that catamite Roman men enter his forbidden garden knowing full well that they will be sodomized by pathic girls as a sureproof punishment - Reminds me of Genesis and the forbidden fruit! Is this the serpent in the garden? - Maybe - but the sex is hotter ... 51 Priapus Latin Quid hoc negoti est quave suspicer causa venire in hortum plurimos meum fures, cum quisquis in nos incidit, luat poenas et usque curvos excavetur ad lumbos? non ficus hic est praeferenda vicinae uvaeque, quales flava legit Arete, non mala truncis adserenda Picenis pirumve, tanto quod periculo captes, magisque cera luteum nova prunum sorbumve ventres lubricos moraturum. praesigne rami nec mei ferunt morum nucemve longam, quam vocant Abellanam, amygdalumve flore purpurae fulgens. non brassicarum ferre glorior caules betasve, quantas hortus educat nullus, crescensve semper in suum caput porrum. nec seminosas ad cucurbitas quemquam ad ocimumve cucumeresque humi fusos venire credo, sessilesve lactucas acresque cepas aliumque furatum, nec ut salaces nocte tollat erucas mentamque olentem cum salubribus rutis. quae cuncta quamvis nostro habemus in saepto, non pauciora proximi ferunt horti. quibus relictis in mihi laboratum locum venitis, improbissimi fures: nimirum apertam convolatis ad poenam, hoc vos et ipsum, quod minamur, invitat. Burton translation What be this pother? For what cause suspects My mind so many thieves will rob my garth, When all pay forfeit (as on us they light) Of being diggèd deep to bending loins? Here be no better Figs than neighbours, figs Nor Grapes as pluckt by blond-haired Areté, Nor Apples grafted on Picenian stock, Nor Pear-fruits worthy such a risk to run, Nor Plum though yellower than wax virginal, Nor Sorb that stayeth slippery stomach-flux. My branches bear not best of Mulberries, Or oval Filbert men 'Avellan' clepe, Or Almond gleaming with a rosy flame. I greed not Coleworts or fine greens to grow, Or Beets of bigness by no garden borne, Or Scallion ever shooting at the head, Ne'er deem I any for the seed-full Gourd, Basil or Cucumbers aground bestrown, Come to my garth; or sessile Lettuces; Or that one nightly lustful Rockets rob, The Mint strong-smelling and the healthful Rue, The fibrous Garlic and the Onion sharp-- Which all though safely fenced and hedged by us Not less are cultured in the neighbouring garths. Yet, these abandoning, to what grounds I worked (Most villainous of thieves!), you're fain to flock. Doubtless for open penalty ye come And that attracts you wherewithal we threat. Plain English What is this? Or wherefore do I suspect the greatest number of thieves to come into my garden, when everyone of them who happens unexpectedly upon me pays the penalty and is excavated up to his undulating loins? The fig tree here is no better than my neighbour is, nor are the grapes such as golden-haired Arete[1] gathered; nor are the apples meet to be the produce of the trees of Picenum. Neither is the pear, which at such hazard you try to pilfer; nor the plum, more mellow in colour than new wax, nor the service-apple which stays slippery stomachs. Neither do my branches yield an excellent mulberry, the oblong nut, hight filbert, nor the almond bright with purple blossom. I do not, more gluttonously, grow divers kind of cabbage and beet, larger than any other garden trains, and the scallion with its ever-growing head; nor think I that any come for the seed-abounding gourd, the clover, the cucumbers extended along the soil, or the dwarfish lettuce. Nor that any bear away in the night-time lust-exciting rockets, and fragrant mint with healthy rue, pungent onions and fibrous garlic. All of which, though enclosed within my hedgerow, grow with no sparser measure in the neighbouring garden, which having left, ye come to the place which I cultivate, O most vile thieves. Without doubt, ye flock to the open punishment,[2] and the very thing with which I threaten, allures you.[3] [1. The wife of Alcinous, King of the Phaeacians. 2. So called because the natural parts of Priapus were always exposed to view. 3. The thieves came for the pleasure of being sodomised, instead of looking on it as a punishment.] Bes Erotica- 140 More Korean action - paddling her college professor to make sure she gets an "A" or better ... That's kind of where we are today - college professors give bad grades at their own risk ... A better association with the forbidden garden of Priapus and his pathic girls is the Egyptian star Sirius - the star of Isis - and her guardian "dog-star" as seen in the passage below. This garden where sexually caged men were sodomized by phallic women was an African import! 62 Priapus Securi dormite, canes: custodiet hortum cum sibi dilecta Sirius Erigone. Burton translation Sleep, O ye watchdogs! safe, while aid in guarding the garden Lover his leman beloved, Seirius Erigone. Plain English Sleep dogs in safety: Sirius will watch over the garden with his beloved Erigone.[1] [1. Sirius, the Dog Star, Erigone, the constellation Virgo. Icarus, the father of Erigone, having been slain by some intoxicated shepherds, his dog Maera, returning home, drew his daughter by her robe to where her father lay. She hanged herself for grief, and the dog perished of hunger. In compassion, Bacchus raised them to the sides, calling Icarus by the name of Boötes; Erigone the Virgin; and Maera, Canicula, Sirius, 'the Dog Star' or Procyon.] Bes Erotica- 141 More Korean action - in gold this time - working on another old horse! Shot blocked. Used workaround Priapus was a humble Chthonic or "lower" god - unlike the higher gods, sexual activity did not prevent men from worshiping Priapus - so long as they had a female guide ... 13 Priapus Latin Huc huc, quisquis es, in dei salacis deverti grave ne puta sacellum. et si nocte fuit puella tecum, hac re quod metuas adire, non est. istuc caelitibus datur severis: nos vappae sumus et pusilla culti ruris numina, nos pudore pulso stamus sub Iove coleis apertis. ergo quilibet huc licebit intret nigra fornicis oblitus favilla. Burton Translation Here' Here! nor dare expect (whoe'er thou be) To 'scape the Lecher God's fane venerand; And, if a damsel lay the night with thee, From this my presence fear not to be bann'd Fen as the sterner Gods of Heaven command. The Ne'er-do-wells and paltry gods are we Of rural worship and 'spite modesty Aye under Jove with balls a-bare we stand: Then enter whoso hither entry seek Reckless of bawdy-house's blackened reek! Plain English Hither, hither, whoever thou art, to the venerable sanctuary of the lecherous God, nor think to be turned away. And if a girl were with thee in the night, 'tis no reason why thou shouldst fear to approach my altar; though it is otherwise with the stem Gods above.[1] I am a good-for-naught, a paltry rustic deity of scant culture. I stand in the open air, my modesty thrust aside, My bollocks exposed to view. Therefore, 'tis permitted to enter hither all who will, besmirched with the black filth of the stews.[2] [1. The ancients thought that those defiled by carnal coition generally were precluded from worship of the gods until they had been purified by bathing. 2. In the stews, they had lamps hanging, on the back part of which was expressed, hieroglyphically, to whom they were dedicated. Many of these lamps bore phallic emblems: I have seen one on the upper part of which was a sculpture representing Leda in the act of coition with the swan. The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter and the Satires of Juvenal and Horace all speak of the Roman brothels, which were constructed in the form of a gallery along which were ranged, on each side like a nunnery, a number of contiguous cells or chambers. Over the door of each of these was posted a bill with the price and name of the tenant, who stood at the entrance soliciting the preferences of the visitors.] - - From reading Priapus it seems clear to me that the Roman brothels were exclusively female on male anal sodomy - what happened in the garden of Priapus was probably what happened in the the Roman brothel - The female mentule in the male anus Bes Erotica- 142 - More Korean action on another old horse - better whipping is better riding! Always erect Priapus always ready to pedicate (sodomize) those who stole apples from his orchard. But since only women were allowed in his garden, that had to be a mentule or female phallus 38 Priapus Latin Simpliciter tibi me, quodcumque est, dicere oportet, natura est quoniam semper aperta mihi: pedicare volo, tu vis decerpere poma; quod peto, si dederis, quod petis, accipies. Burton Translation Simply to thee I say whatever to say shall behove me, Since my 'nature' alway openly showeth to fight; Fain would I pedicate thee who'rt Fain to plunder my apples; An my want thou shalt grant, eke shall be granted thy want. Plain English Since my nature[1] is always open, it behoves me to say to thee--whate'er it is--frankly. I wish to pedicate; thou wishest to pluck apples. What I desire, if thou wilt give: what thou desirest, thou shalt receive. [1. In the original Latin, natura, punningly used in the double sense 'native character' and 'privy part'.] -- "Pluck apples" had a sexual meaning in ancient Rome. In one of the passages of Priapus a man accepts an apple from an emperors wife - meaning consents to sex, which causes the emperor to kill him when he finds out ... The full meaning probably means consents to female on male anal sex - especially coming from the empress Bes Erotica- 143 - More Korean action whipping in white in front of the queens throne Introduction to Priapus's tool - the Mentule. Burton calls it the "male member" - but I disagree. The roman male member was in the fibula or penis cage ... The Mentule was more likely the female phallus - based on the clitoris but also including dildos -or the Fascinum and whips. 1 To Priapus Latin Ludens haec ego teste te, Priape, horto carmina digna, non libello, scripsi non nimium laboriose. nec Musas tamen, ut solent poetae, ad non virgineum locum vocavi. nam sensus mihi corque defuisset castas, Pierium chorum, sorores auso ducere mentulam ad Priapi. ergo quicquid id est, quod otiosus templi parietibus tui notavi, in partem accipias bonam, rogamus. Burton Translation In play, Priapus (thou canst testify), Songs, fit for garden not for book-work, I Wrote and none over-care applied thereto. No Muses dared I (like the verseful crew) Invite to visit such unvirginal site. For heart and senses did forbid me quite To set the choir Pïérian, chaste and fair, Before Priapus' tool--such deed to dare. Then whatsoe'er I wrote when idly gay, And on this Temple-wall for note I lay, Take in good part--such is the prayer I pray. Plain English For pastime, and with little care, have I written these verses, thee attesting,[1] O Priapus--verses worthy a garden,[2] not a little book! Nor have I, as poets are wont, invoked the Muses to this unvirginal spot. For I had neither mind nor heart for the emprise, to bring the chaste sisters, the chorus of Pïérides, to the mentule[3] of Priapus. Therefore, whatever it is I have jotted in an idle hour on the walls of thy temple, take it in good part, I pray thee. [1. Possibly with a punning allusion to testicles. 2. A double entendre intended to be conveyed by the word 'garden'. 3. The male member--mentula.] Bes Erotica- 144 Boss lady working the bull whip on a nude in the penis cage. In this second verse we learn what Priapus and his mentule desire in simple terms - the buttocks! - What Ganymede gave to Zeus ... But I challenge the Romans on that one - Ganymede gave his buttocks to Hera's mentule - Zeus was just the messenger! 2 Priapus Latin Obscure poteram tibi dicere: 'da mihi, quod tu des licet assidue, nil tamen inde perit. da mihi, quod cupies frustra dare forsitan olim, cum tenet obsessas invida barba genas, quodque Iovi dederat, qui raptus ab alite sacra miscet amatori pocula grata suo, quod virgo prima cupido dat nocte marito, dum timet alterius vulnus inepta loci.' simplicius multo est 'da pedicare' Latine dicere: quid faciam? crassa Minerva mea est. Burton Translation Darkly might I to thee say: Oh give me for ever and ever What thou may'st constantly give while of it nothing be lost: Give me what vainly thou'lt long to bestow in the days that are coming When that invidious beard either soft cheek shall invade; What unto Jove gave he who, borne by the worshipful flyer, Mixes the gratefullest cups, ever his leman's delight; What on the primal night maid gives to her love-longing bridegroom Dreading ineptly the hurt dealt to a different part. Simpler far to declare in our Latin, Lend me thy buttocks; What shall I say to thee else? Dull's the Minerva of me. Plain English Covertly I might say to thee, 'Give me what thou may'st continually give, without anything being thence lost to thee. Give to me what thou wilt, perchance, vainly long to give in time to come, when the envious beard invades thy youthful checks; what he gave to Jove, who, carried off by the sacred bird, now mingles luscious cups for his Royal lover; what the virgin-bride gives on the first night to her eager husband, while she is senselessly fearing the wound in another part.' 'Tis much simpler to say, in plain English, 'Give me thy buttocks!'; how else can I put it? Mine is a dull brain. Bes Erotica- 145 Boss lady applying the bull whip to a rear of a nude penis caged man - In this verse Burton introduces the ancient notion that accepting apples from a garden is code for the promise of a sexual favor - In this case a Roman acceoting apples from the Empress and being killed by the Emperor as a result ... He was almost certainly sexually mounted in the rear by the mentule of the Empress - in the manner of the "she-wolf" Empress Messalina 15 To Priapus Latin Qualibus Hippomenes rapuit Schoeneida pomis, qualibus Hesperidum nobilis hortus erat, qualia credibile est spatiantem rure paterno Nausicaam pleno saepe tulisse sinu, quale fuit malum quod littera pinxit Aconti, qua lecta cupido pacta puella viro est: taliacumque pius dominus florentis agelli imposuit mensae, nude Priape, tuae. Burton Translation Rare as those apples wherewith Hippomenes Schoeneïs ravished; Fair as the fruits that enfam'd Garths of the Hesperid maids; Fen as one fancies the lot which, pacing her patrial vergers, Nausicaä full oft bare in her well-fillèd lap; Sweet as the pome whereon Acontius limnèd the letters Which being read his Fair pledged to her love-longing swain; Such be the fruits that youth who owneth the flourishing fieldlet Placed on the table of stone, naked Priapus! for thee. Plain English As the apples with which Hippomenes raped the daughter of Schoeneus;[1] for which the garden of the Hesperides was renowned; which one may imagine Nausicaa[2] often carrying in her teeming lap as she walked in her father's domains; as was that apple graced by the words of Acontius, which, read aloud [by Cydippe], pledged the maiden to this ardent lover[3]--such are those which the boy-owner of a small but fertile field has placed on thy sacrificial table, O naked Priapus. [1. Referring to the story of the race between Hippomenes and Atalanta, and how the crafty lover tricked the damsel into defeat by the three gold apples. 2. Nausicaa was the daughter of Alcinous, king of Phaeacia, whose pleasure demensnes and luxuriousness became a proverb. 3. The story is very prettily told by Aristaenetus. The words on the apple were--'I swear to thee inviolably, by the mystic rites of Diana, that I will join myself to thee as thy companion and will become thy bride.' According to Vossius the gift of an apple was equivalent to a promise of the last favour. The Emperor Theodosius caused Paulinus to be murdered for receiving an apple from his empress.] Bes Erotica- 146 Boss lady: two whips, a mentule and spit before rough female on male sex on her older husband ... In this passage we learn that there were no minor thefts in the garden of Priapus - stealing a cabbage mandated anal sodomy by the mentule as punishment: The annual women only Bona Dea festival involved inviting men into the garden after the festival women were in a frenzy of drunken lust - there was only one penalty to forgive that crime - anal sodomy via the mentule ... 23 Priapus Latin Hic me custodem fecundi vilicus horti mandati curam iussit habere loci. fur habeas poenam, licet indignere 'feram'que 'propter holus' dicas 'hoc ego?' 'propter holus'. Burton's translation Here has the bailiff, now of this plentiful garden the guardian, Bidden me care for the place he to my service entrusts. Thief! thou shalt suffer the pain albeit crying in anger-- 'What! for a cabbage all this? This for a cabbage I bear?' Plain English The steward has bidden me, the protector of this fertile garden, have a care of the place committed to my charge. Thou, O thief, shalt be punished; thou mayst be enraged, and say, 'On account of a cabbage am I to endure this? On account of a cabbage?'[1] [1. Some read prope, meaning near--'Am I to be sodomised near a cabbage?' instead of propter, meaning on account of. Because, it is presumed, the thief thought a cabbage plot too open a space for such a punishment.] Bes Erotica- 147 Boss lady sodomizing her older husband with a large mentule Priapus - Shameless balls! But not male balls though ... 28: To Priapus Latin Obscenis, peream, Priape, si non uti me pudet improbisque verbis. sed cum tu posito deus pudore ostendas mihi coleos patentes, cum cunno mihi mentula est vocanda. Burton Translation: Priapus! perish I an words obscene And wicked terms to use I'm not ashamed: But whenas thou, a god (bylaying shame), To me displayest bollocks evident, With Coynte the Prickle I must baldly name. Plain English: May I die,[2] Priapus, if I do not blush to make use of lewd and impure words; but when you, a deity without shame, display to me your balls in all openness, I must call a tool a tool, a coynte a coynte. [1. Thy mouth shall serve as the instrument of thy punishment. 2. A favourite formula of oath amongst the Romans.] Bes Erotica- 148 Boss lady using a black bullwhip on her restrained husband Don't touch the grapes in Priapus' forbidden garden if you want to remain as chaste as Vesta ... 31 Priapus Latin: Donec proterva nil mei manu carpes, licebit ipsa sis pudicior Vesta. sin, haec mei te ventris arma laxabunt, exire ut ipse de tuo queas culo. Burtons translation: Long as thy wanton hand to pluck refrain Chaster than Vesta's self thou may'st remain Else thee my belly's arm shall loosen so Out of thy proper anus thou shalt flow. Plain English: So long as thou snatchest nothing from me with audacious hand, thou mayst be chaster than Vesta herself. But, if thou dost, these belly-weapons of mine will so stretch thee that thou wilt be able to slip through thy own anus. [1. If on his way to drink at the fountain, the wayfarer plucked the grapes in the orchard guarded by the god, Priapus threatened him with irrumation. He would then require water, not only to quench his thirst, but also to cleanse his mouth. 'Because you suck, and gargle your mouth with water, Lesbia, you do no wrong. You take water where there is need of it, Lesbia.' Following the example of other women, who after coition bathe their privy parts, Lesbia rinses her mouth. The poet calls her Lesbia because the Lesbians were given to this fantasy.] Bes Erotica- 149 Under the white bull sent by Poseidon - The General flogging an older swiss "slave"! - Burton says female on male flogging is an Anglo sexual fetish - or more accurately an aristocratic fetish - he did not see it in the ancient Roman context. It probably existed in Minoan Crete - that was a clearly femdom or female bull society - rough Amazons and Ganymede anally submissive males. And the amazons had a preference for well oiled unbearded male youths - thats what the Fibula or penis cage was for - to slow down male sexual maturation . That's also why the early church fathers reported a high rate of male self castration in Asia Minor - the Phyringian goddess and Amazons preferred to arrest male sexual development at the lean teen age level. - Sounds nightmarish - but on the other hand maybe not - there was probably a hidden sexual powerhouse in this form of sexuality that is not apparent ... Punishment for theft from the forbidden garden of Priapus was anal sodomy first. Second time was forced oral sex, third time was both. Irrumate is male on female oral sex though - Irrumate was a Lesbian sexual practice but seen as more shameful than anal sodomy in ancient Rome. 35: Priapus Latin: Pedicabere, fur, semel; sed idem si deprensus eris bis, irrumabo. quod si tertia furta molieris, ut poenam patiare et hanc et illam, pedicaberis irrumaberisque. Burton's translation: Thief, for first thieving shalt be swived, but an Again arrested shalt be irrumate; And, shouldst attempt to plunder time the third, This and that penalty thou shalt endure, Being both pedicate and irrumate. Plain English: Thou shalt be bardashed,[1] thief, for the first theft; and if twice caught, I will irrumate thee. But if thou shalt attempt a third theft, that thou mayst suffer penalties twain, I will both sodomise and irrumate thee. [1. Bardache, meaning a catamite. Italian bardascia, from the Arabic baradaj, a captive, a slave. The old English was ingle or yngle (a bardachio, a catamite, a boy kept for sodomy). In Latin Bulgarus means a Bulgarian or a heretic, from which our vulgar modern word 'bugger' is derived, as is the Italian bugiardo and the French bougre.] Bes Erotica- 150 Under the white bull sent by Poseidon - The General and friends flogging an older swiss "slave"! The Roman garden of Priapus was probably something like this - group femdom sex on restrained men. - Just an iteration up from the sexual restraint on all Roman men caused by the fibula or penis cage ... As the following passage from Priapus shows the large Mentule was a feature of Priapus alone among the gods - but the twist is the Mentule is a female phallus - not male ... I do not get the impression that Burton received this insight when he was working on his translation ... 36 Priapus Latin: Notas habemus quisque corporis formas: Phoebus comosus, Hercules lacertosus, trahit figuram virginis tener Bacchus, Minerva ravo lumine est, Venus paeto, in fronte cornua Arcados vides Fauni, habet decentes nuntius deum plantas, tutela Lemni dispares movet gressus, intonsa semper Aesculapio barba est, nemo est feroci pectorosior Marte: quod si quis inter hos locus mihi restat, deus Priapo mentulatior non est. Burtons translation: We all show special notes of bodily shape: Long-haired is Phoebus, arm-strong Hercules, And tender Bacchus owneth virginal form; Pallas hath grey-blue eyes, Venus a cast; Th' Arcadian Fauns thou seest bloody-browed And the Gods' Messenger shows proper feet; The Guard of Lemnos moves unequal steps; Ever untrimmed is Aesculapius' beard; None hath a broader breast than bully Mars; But, an Priapus' rank 'mid these remain, There be no better-membered deity. Plain English: We have each distinguishing features in the formation of our bodies: in Phoebus 'tis luxuriant locks, in Hercules muscular power; and the effeminate Bacchus has the figure of a girl. Minerva's eye is light in colour, Venus's prettily blinking. You see the forehead of the Arcadian Fauns rubicund with colour. The messenger of the gods, [Mercury] has shapely feet, the guardian of Lemnos walks with an uneven step [the lame Vulcan] and Aesculapius always wears a never shaven beard. No man is more broad-chested than the warlike Mars; but if 'mid this array there remain any place for me, than Priapus no Deity hath a larger or better-hung mentule! Bes Erotica- 151 Under the Cross - The General and friends caning an older swiss "slave"! I suppose Roman men did to their subjects what Roman women did to men ! Christ's flogging and crucifixion has a poorly concealed BDSM undertone ... Lecture to a girl on which god to pray to for a magnificent Mentule - Priapus! 39 Priapus Forma Mercurius potest placere, forma conspiciendus est Apollo, formosus quoque pingitur Lyaeus, formosissimus omnium est Cupido. me pulchra fateor carere forma, verum mentula luculenta nostra est: hanc mavult sibi quam deos priores, si qua est non fatui puella cunni. Form-charms in Mercury have might to please; Form in Apollo is conspicuous charm; Formose in picture is Lyaeus limned And Cupid most formose of all is shown. Freely of lovely form the lack I own; Yet is our mentule a resplendent gem; And this to th'erst-named gods shall aye prefer The damsel dowered with no fatuous coynte. Mercury has a pleasing form, Apollo's is eminent for its beauty; Lyaeus too is painted of comely figure; Cupid is handsomest of all. My figure is, I confess, wanting in beauty, but my mentule is, in truth, magnificent; and if there be a girl with a sensible coynte, she had rather have that for herself than all the former gods. Bes Erotica- 152 Under the Cross - The General and a friend caning a bootlicking older swiss "slave"! Priapus lectures a catamite dressed like a girl ... The ladies of the Bona Dea festival would ask young men to visit them dressed as women during their annual wild orgies - as reported in Juvenal's satires ... 45 Priapus Latin: Cum quendam rigidus deus videret ferventi caput ustulare ferro, ut Maurae similis foret puellae, 'heus' inquit 'tibi dicimus, cinaede, uras te licet usque torqueasque, num tandem prior es puella, quaeso, quod sunt, mentula quos habet, capilli?' Burton's Translation: Whenas the Rigid God espied a wight Crisping his head with curling-tongs aglow That he be likest to a Moorish maid, 'Ho thou! (cried he) we tell thee, catamite; However much thou toast and curl thyself Is then a damsel more of worth, I ask, Than are the hairy honours of thy yard?' Plain English: When the Rigid God beheld an effeminate crisping his hair with the heated curling-irons, to liken himself to a Moorish damsel, 'Ho there, thou catamite,' quoth he. 'We tell thee, thou mayst crisp and curl to thy liking, but is a girl, prithee, of more value than are the hairs which deck thy mentule?'[2] [1. It needs no augur, because the girl's kisses have put the spear (although it is only wooden) into such a state of erection as self-evidently shows its willingness to swive her. 2. Is it worthwhile disturbing a hair even on thy mentule, much less thy head, to take the semblance of a girl?] Bes Erotica- 153 More Under the Cross - The General and a friend caning a floor-licking older swiss "slave"! In this passage is another proof that Roman sex was women mounting men and boys - An old lady complains that she will not be able to find a lover on account of her age. Priapus disagrees - he tells her that all that she needs is money to stay in the saddle! Rome did not realize that the cross would be the end of that female bull phallus party! - a party going back thousands of years ... The Hathor bull rough sex anal romp ... 57 Priapus Cornix et caries vetusque bustum, turba putida facta saeculorum, quae forsan potuisset esse nutrix Tithoni Priamique Nestorisque, illis ni pueris anus fuisset, ne desit sibi, me rogat, fututor. quid si nunc roget, ut puella fiat? si nummos tamen haec habet, puella est. A chough, a caries, an eld-worn grave, By lapse of crowding centuries rotten grown, Who as a wetnurse haply may have fed Tithonus, Priam, Nestor, and perchance When they were little lads was agèd crone, Sues me for swiver she may never lack! How if she pray me to be girl again? Yet, if she's moneyed, she's again a girl. An old crow, a thing of decay, a very sepulchre, grown rotten through the lapse of generations, who perchance might have been the wet-nurse of Tithonus, of Priam, and of Nestor, or who was an old woman maybe when they were boys, beseeches me that a futterer may not be wanting to her. How if she were now to pray that she may become a girl again? Nevertheless if she hath- money, she is a girl.[1] [1. Suggesting she may obtain a lover if she will pay for him. Martial writes, 'Lesbia swears that she has never been futtered gratis. It is true: for when she wants to futter, she is wont to pay.' And, Wouldst thou be wimbled gratis when thou art A wrinkled wretch deformed in every part? O 'tis a thing more than ridiculous: To take a man's full sum, and not pay Use!] Bes Erotica- 154 More General in action: - A Hathor bull phallus and the Roman fibula - or penis cage. The fibula creates the Hathor phallus ... In this passage we witness the raging lust of a Roman matron who brings her "futterer" to the garden of Priapus to work on him anally ... Probably the exact same thing happened in the Roman brothel - Roman matrons paying men to sodomize them! Empress Messalina was the model ... 63 Priapus Parum est quod hic ut fiximus semel sedem, agente terra per caniculam rimas siticulosam sustinemus aestatem? parum, quod hiemis perfluunt sinus imbres et in capillos grandines cadunt nostros rigetque dura barba vincta crystallo? parum, quod acta sub laboribus luce parem diebus pervigil traho noctem? huc adde, quod me fuste de rudi vilem manus sine arte rusticae dolaverunt, interque cunctos ultimum deos numen cucurbitarum ligneus vocor custos. accedit istis impudentiae signum, libidinoso tenta pyramis nervo. ad hanc puella - paene nomen adieci - solet venire cum suo fututore, quae tot figuris, quot Philaenis enarrat, non inventis, pruriosa discedit. 'Tis not enough, my friends, I set my seat Where earth gapes chinky under Canicule, Ever enduring thirsty summer's drought. 'Tis not enough the showers flow down my breast And beat the hail-storms on my naked hair, With beard fast frozen, rigid by the rime. 'Tis not enough that days in labour spent Sleepless I lengthen through the nights as long. Add that a godhead terrible of staff Hewed me the rustic's rude unartful hand And made me vilest of all deities, Invoked as wooden guardian of the gourds. And more, for shameless note to me was 'signed With lustful nerve a pyramid distent, Whereto a damsel (whom well nigh I'd named) Is with her fornicator wont to come And save in every mode Philaenis tells Futtered, in furious lust her way she wends. 'Tis not enough, O friends, that I have fixed my abode here, where the earth gapes into chinks through the heat of the dog days, and that I daily endure the summer's drought; 'tis not enough that the rains flow down my bosom, that hail-storms beat amongst my bared locks, and that my beard frozen together is stiffened by the ice: 'tis too little that having spent the day in labour, I protract it, sleepless, through a night equally long. Add to this, that the unskilled hands of a rustic have chopped me, the awe-inspiring god with a cudgel, and that, amongst all the gods the lowest deity, I am called the wooden guardian of gourds. A pyramid [the virile member] stretched forth with libidinous vigour joins to these the symbol of shamelessness. Hither a damsel (I had almost added her name) is wont to come with her futterer: who if as many forms as Philaenis narrates she does not experience, she departs raging with unsated lust. Bes Erotica- 155 More General - a wall mounting in the penis cage. In this passage the men who steal from the garden with the intent of being sodomized are called a herd of pigs that risks being annihilated unless strong security is placed around the garden. The priestess of Priapus wore the hides of a pig symbolizing the female on male conquest that took place in the garden. ... 65 To Priapus Hic tibi, qui rostro crescentia lilia mersit, caeditur e tepida victima porcus hara: ne tamen exanimum facias pecus omne, Priape, horti sit, facias, ianua clausa tui. This, with his snout aye alert to uproot the lilies a-blowing, Slain for thy victim 's the pig bred in the stye's tepid reek. But, an thy will be not to murther the herd, O Priapus, Grant of thy grace yon gate into the garden be shut. This pig, which has crushed the rising lilies with his snout, is sacrificed to thee--a victim warm from the stye. But lest thou shouldst cause the whole herd to be annihilated, O Priapus, bid the gate of thy garden to be closed.[2] [1. The effeminate come, allured by the pleasure of being sodomised. 2. The priestesses of Priapus were sometimes represented in marble sculptures as clothed with hides of swine.] - Summary of a paper online noting the female phallus and male penetration by the Priestess of Priapus - "Ritual Power and Male Impotence: Quartilla’s Rites in Petronius’ Satyrica" The paper is not broad enough though - male sexual penetration by women was the norm in Roman society ... " ... Powerful female characters form the fabric of both Greek and Latin literature, even if their presence is largely dictated by the needs of narratives which are driven forward by men. Anexamination of the representation of women’s rituals in Latin texts is a fruitful avenue which allows us to explore the complex and contested place of women both in Roman literature and society. Such an examination reveals that women as performers of religious activity become visible and powerful and often articulate a point of view which runs opposite to that of the men. This paper offers a case study of female ritual activity as enabling female power. In Petronius’ Satyrica, Quartilla’s religious identity as a priestess of the phallic god Priapus is a vehicle through which the voracious female sexual appetite is given free rein and threatens the integrity of male sexuality and identity. As a priestess of Priapus in Cumae, Quartilla has been identified as a parody of Aeneid’s Sibyl (Walsh 1970, Connors 1998). Scholars have noted the links between theatrical performance and the episode’s sexual content (e.g. Slater 1990, Courtney 2001, Panayotakis 1994) but the ritual framework of the pervigilium Priapi within which the episode unfolds has not been examined. I argue that Quartilla’s religious identity is an empowering force, enabling and abetting the destruction of male sexual agency and potency. Despite the fragmentary nature of the episode, ritualistic elements abound and attest to the importance of the Priapic religious framework for its satirical impact. The episode begins with Quartilla’s servant addressing Encolpius and his companions by employing language properly belonging to the realm of ritual (ecce ipsa venit: ecce is often used to denote divine epiphany, cf. Aeneid 6.46; nolite perturbari, 16) and ends with a hieros gamos between Pannychis and Giton. Quartilla’s identity as a priestess of Priapus enables her to take Priapic vengeance on Encolpius and his company, who intruded into the gods’ secret rites. Priapus’ symbolic penetration by Encolpius is reflected in Quartilla’s initial representation as a helpless woman, which is conveyed in ritual terms as a supplication. Other important elements that intensify the ritual framework of the narrative are: the priestess’ special relationship with the god, who appears to her in dreams; the employment of the word cella (25) to describe the room where the pervigilium takes place, a term which could also refer to a temple; the cymbals Quartilla’s female musicians employ at the banquet, typically used in Bacchus’ and Cybele’s rites. The distorted wedding ceremony between Giton and Pannychis with its mockery of ritual protocol forms an apt ending to the ritual context of the pervigilium.. Quartilla, cast as a ritual agent of the phallic god, is thus rendered capable of repeatedly causing the sexual penetration of the men during the pervigilium. Yet, as other scholars have noted, the penetrators are women, a cinaedus, and possibly a eunuch, all unlikely Priapic agents (Slater 1990, 42). The female or feminized figures thus assume the male role of the sexual aggressor and penetrator of the male heroes. In turn, Encolpius and Ascyltos are feminized, robbed of their capacity to operate as sexual agents and thus of the constitutive performance of their male identity. The paper ends by suggesting a link between this comic sexual reversal and the problem of maintaining the integrity of the self in the socio-political milieu of the Neronian era. ... " Bes Erotica- 156 More Korean action with the whip Priapus was also a god of the Circus Maximus in addition to the brothels and his forbidden garden. Here his maenads send the crowd into a an erotic frenzy - which in the penis cage was a form of torture ... 26 To Priapus Latin Deliciae populi, magno notissima circo Quintia, vibratas docta movere nates, cymbala cum crotalis, pruriginis arma, Priapo ponit et adducta tympana pulsa manu. pro quibus, ut semper placeat spectantibus, orat, tentaque ad exemplum sit sua turba dei. Well-known darling of folk in the Circus Maximus far famed, Quinctia, tremulous hips trainèd and artful to wag, Cymbals and castanets (the wanton arms) to Priapus Offers and tambourine struck with the hand to self drawn. Wherefore prays she that aye she please her mob of admirers; Let one and all stand stiff after the wont of her god. Quinctia, the people's darling, renowned in the Great Circus, cunning to flirt her tremulous buttocks to and fro, the cymbals and the castanet, the weapons of wantonness,[1] dedicates to Priapus, and the tambour, struck by the hand towards her drawn. And she prays for them, that she may always find favour with her spectators; and that her crowd of admirers may be 'rigid'[2], after the manner of the god. [1. So called because the songs and dances to which the cymbals and castanets were accompaniments were of a loose and wanton character, inciting the spectators to venery. 2. This was looked on as a mark of the dancer's success in arousing the spectators' passions by her lascivious movements and postures.] Bes Erotica- 157 More boss lady mounting her husband. Priapus drew inspiration from illustrated sex-books written by Elephantis a Greek woman that have not survived. That's indirect proof that ancient Greek men were being sodomized by women ... The role of young boys in texts like the Petronius’ Satyrica is probably the same as the phallic women - adult men were in the penis cage and young boys were free to have natural erections ... 3: To Priapus Latin Obscenas rigido deo tabellas dicans ex Elephantidos libellis dat donum Lalage rogatque, temptes, si pictas opus edat ad figuras. Burton's Translation: These tablets, sacred to the Rigid God, From Elephantis' obscene booklets drawn, Lalage offers and she prays thee try To ply the painted figures' every part. Plain English: Lalage dedicates a votive offering to the God of the standing prickle, bringing pictures from the shameless books of Elephantis, and begs him to try and imitate with her all the different coitions of the painted figures. Bes Erotica- 158 Boss lady whipping a restrained nude older man. One of the punishments for violating the secret rites of Priapus was flogging - In Petronius’ Satyrica, Quartilla the high priestess of Priapus orders the flogging of the heroes for violating the secret rites of her cult. - Here Priapus complains about the lack of Nymphs to sate his desire - he has to make do with masturbation 33 Priapus Latin: Naidas antiqui Dryadasque habuere Priapi, et quo tenta dei vena subiret, erat. nunc adeo nihil est, adeo mea plena libido est, ut Nymphas omnis interiisse putem. turpe quidem factu, sed ne tentigine rumpar, falce mihi posita fiet amica manus. Burton translation: Wont the Priapi of old were to have both Naiads and Dryads And the stiff vein of the God all had what causes to droop; Now there's naught of the kind; now so fulfilled my desire is Fain am I left to believe every Nymph to be dead. Vile thing 'twere to be done, but lest I burst me with straining Sickle unhanding I mistress must make of my hand. Plain English: Of old, the Priapi enjoyed the Naiads and Dryads, and there was the wherewithal to cause the swollen vein of the God to droop. Now there is naught of this; moreover, I am so full of desire that I think the whole of the Nymphs have perished. 'Tis doubtless an unseemly thing to do, but lest I burst with the excessive tension [of my member], my hand, the sickle laid aside, shall become my mistress. Bes Erotica- 150 Priapus - as a woman with a large Mentule, a fruit basket and the head and beard of a man. The priestesses of the Priapus cult incarnated the god and anally sodomized men in his garden ... In this passage robbers in the forbidden garden of Priapus are threatened with anal sodomy with a 12 inch Fascinum - or larger 27: To Priapus Latin Tu, qui non bene cogitas et aegre carpendo tibi temperas ab horto, pedicabere fascino pedali. quod si tam gravis et molesta poena non profecerit, altiora tangam. Burton Translation: Thou, of unrighteous thought, that hardly canst Refrain from robbing this my garden-plot, With foot-long fascinum shalt bulghar'd be: Yet if so mighty grievous punishment Profit thee naught, at higher stead I'll strike. Plain English: Thou who wickedly designest, and scarce forbearest from robbing my garden, shall be sodomised with my twelve-inch fascinum [phallus]. But if so severe and unpleasant a punishment shall not avail., I will strike higher. Bes Erotica- 151 Greek Priapus coin - That's a girl with a very large and erect phallus or mentule. The Priapus cult was probably more virile and pure during the days of Greek power. Like Rome, Greek men were in the penis cage from a young age and this had the side effect of stoking female lust and birthing the female phallus In the verse verse below a man asks Priapus with his magnificent phallus for the way to a water fountain ... That was also probably a coded request for a sexual quenching in the form of female on male anal sex! 29: To Priapus Latin: 'Falce minax et parte tui maiore, Priape, ad fontem, quaeso, dic mihi qua sit iter.' Burton Translation: Dreadful wi' sickle and dire with thy greater part, O Priapus! Prithee to me point out which be the way to the fount? Plain English: Priapus, terrific with thy sickle and thy greater part, tell me, prithee, which is the way to the fountain?[1] [1. Scaliger says that figures of Priapus and of Mercury were placed at crossroads, with rods in their hands, pointing out the way to fountains. 'The figure of Hermes had, like that of Priapus, a long and massive phallus; I have seen them in a cardinal's palace at Rome; and another proof is the saying of the philosophers, who, deriding the gluttony and lust of the youths, compared them to tois ermais [statues of Mercury], which had nothing but the head and the penis.' Therefore, Priapus is here referred to as a god of the road.] Bes Erotica- 152 Sardax - Leather-clad women guardians of the garden of Priapus - and a nude male crawling on his knees on a dog-leash In the verse below, a sexually dried up woman seeks out the help of Priapus. Women probably joined the secret Priapus cult to "re-juice" themselves - maybe by working on his garden and guarding his sacred vines and cabbages and sacred geese (see Petronius’ Satyrica) and other farm products - just generally contact with the soil - and working their mentules on rear ends of men violating the garden 32 Priapus Latin: Uvis aridior puella passis, buxo pallidior novaque cera, collatas sibi quae suisque membris formicas facit altiles videri, cuius viscera non aperta Tuscus per pellem poterit videre haruspex, quae suco caret ut putrisque pumex, nemo viderit hanc ut exspuentem, quam pro sanguine pulverem scobemque in venis medici putant habere, ad me nocte solet venire et affert pallorem maciemque larualem. ductor ferreus insularis aeque et lanternae videor fricare cornu. Burton Translation: A damsel drier than the raisin'd grape, Warmer than boxwood or than virgin wax, Who pismires clustering on her every limb Maketh a bulky-corpulent folk appear; One whose unopened bowels through her skin The Tuscan wizard can at will prospect; One who like rotten pounce so lacking juice None ever saw her with a slavering lip; One whom for blood her arteries within To have sand or sawdust differing leeches deem-- Such one to visit me anights is wont Bringing with ghostly leanness ghastly hue; Whist I (like island iron-forger) seem To rub and rasp me on a lanthorn's horn Plain English: Girl, more meagre than dried grapes,[1] more dusky-white than boxwood or unsullied wax; who makes the ants congregated on her body and members seem corpulent; whose bowels the Etruscan soothsayer could without opening see through the skin; who, like pumice, has no sap, insomuch as no one has seen her sputter; who, physicians think, has sand for blood, and in her veins sawdust--[this girl] is wont to come to me in the night, and approaches me, wan, attenuate and ghostlike, whilst I, as an insular iron-worker scrapes,[2] seem to be rubbing in the horn of a lantern.[3] [1. This is reminiscent of an epigram by Catullus against Furius, in which he describes him as having a body more dried than horn by extreme poverty; adding, 'Sweat, saliva, mucus and nasal snivelling, all these are absent from thee. Add to this cleanliness the still greater cleanliness that thy buttocks are purer than a salt-cellar. Thou does not cack ten times in the whole of the year, and then it is harder than a bean or than pebbles, so that if thou rubbest and crumblest it in thy hands thou canst never dirty a finger.' 2. Islands abound in metals, hence convicts in ancient times were transported to work on them. 3. Here used in a jocular comparison of the girl's parts with the horn of a lantern for hardness and dryness in coition.] Bes Erotica- 153 More black British Amazon stallion in action Shot blocked. Used workaround. This verse is a prayer to Priapus for the healing of a damaged phallus in the form of a painted penis tablet. This prayer which seems to be made by a male about a male penis is more likely to be that of a female asking to revive a dead mentule ... The Roman male penis was in the cage and rarely used ... The female phallus on the other hand was expected to be virile and polyandrous - like the bird phallus ... 37 The Interpretation of a Votive Offering[1] Latin: Cur pictum memori sit in tabella membrum, quaeritis, unde procreamur? cum penis mihi forte laesus esset chirurgamque manum miser timerem, dis me legitimis nimisque magnis, ut Phoebo puta filioque Phoebi, curatum dare mentulam verebar. huic dixi: 'fer opem, Priape, parti, cuius tu, pater, ipse pars videris, qua salva sine sectione facta ponetur tibi picta, quam levaris, compar consimilisque concolorque'. promisit fore mentulamque movit pro nutu deus et rogata fecit. Burton Translation: Why on memorial tablet do they limn (You ask) the member which begets us all? Whenas by accident my yard was hurt And I (unhappy!) feared the surgeon's hand To such legitimate almighty gods-- Phoebus for instance take or Phoebus' son-- I blushed to offer for a cure my cock And prayed--'Priapus, an thou heal the part, O Sire, whose very counterpart thou seem'st And without hacking make it whole again, One linmed on tablet shall to thee be given Like-sized, like-coloured and alike of shape.' The God to promise deigning wagged his yard, By way of nod divine, and did my bede. Plain English: You ask why the instrument of procreation has been painted on the memorable tablet. When by accident I had bruised my penis, and wretched with suffering, dreaded the hand of the surgeon (moreover I was afraid to give the cure of my mentule to the legitimate and almighty gods, such as Phoebus, for instance, and Phoebus's son),[2] 'Help, O Priapus,' quoth I, 'help thou the part whose very counterpart, O Sire, thou seemest; and if thou shalt restore it safely to health without amputation,[3] I will consecrate to thee, painted on a tablet, a very facsimile of it, alike in size, shape and colour! 'The God promised; for nod bobbed his mentule;[4] and has granted my prayer. [1. Pacificus Maximus addresses a similar entreaty to Priapus, when suffering from the pox, offering, if cured, to dedicate to the god a waxen column equal in size to that of the sufferer. Cures were sought to such morbi venerii as inflamatio coleomm (swollen testicles), tubercula circa glandem (warts on the glans penis), cancri carbunculi (chancre or shanker) and a few others. 2. Phoebus was the god of the healing art. Aesculapius was his son. 3. Reminding one of Don Juan's healthy horror when they proposed to circumcise him. 4. Parodying the majestic nod of Jupiter when grating a request.] Bes Erotica- 154 Large American mentule in the rear of an older British man That was probably the central but secret rite of the Cybele cult - The Amazon mentule in the rear of the Roman man ... Shot blocked, used workaround In this verse a girl kisses Priapus' mentule in the hope that it works it's magic on her 44: Priapus Latin: Velle quid hanc dicas, quamvis sim ligneus, hastam, oscula dat medio si qua puella mihi? augure non opus est: 'in me' mihi credite, dixit 'aptetur veris usibus hasta rudis'. Burton translation: What shouldest say this spear (although I'm wooden) be wishing Whenas a maiden chance me in the middle to kiss? Here none augur we: need: believe my word she is saying - 'Let the rude spear in me work with its natural wont!' Plain English What dost thou say this spear, although I be wooden, is wishing, if any girl give kisses to my middle? It needs no soothsayer, for, believe me, she has said, 'The rude spear will exercise its true functions on me.' Bes Erotica- 155 American Amazon roughly mounts the rear of an American man Shot blocked. Used workaround Priapus demands poetry from a man eating at his table - and if there is no verse, he wishes his wife has rough sex with a rival 47 Priapus Latin: Quicumque vestrum, qui venitis ad cenam, libare nullos sustinet mihi versus, illius uxor aut amica rivalem lasciviendo languidum, precor, reddat, et ipse longa nocte dormiat solus libidinosis incitatus erucis. Burtons Translation Who of you people here shall come to sup Yet bring no verses suited to my taste; I pray his wife or punk, hot-wantoning, Reduce his rival to most languid state; While he, all lonely through the livelong night, Lie, by the lustful rockets sore disturbed. Plain English Whichever of you, who, coming to my banquet, abstains from inscribing to me any verses, I pray that his wife or mistress may make languid his rival with lascivious sporting, whilst he himself sleeps alone through the weary night, excited by lustful rockets.[1] [1. Rocket which he had eaten at supp Bes Erotica- 155 Boss lady and a friend roughly sodomize her husband Thieves in the garden of Priapus could expect to be sodomized by more than one watchman - or really sodomized by a watchwoman with a mentule! 52 Priapus Latin: Heus tu, non bene qui manum rapacem mandato mihi contines ab horto, iam primum stator hic libidinosus alternis et eundo et exeundo porta te faciet patentiorem. accedent duo, qui latus tuentur, pulchre pensilibus peculiati; qui cum te male foderint iacentem, ad partes veniet salax asellus nilo deterius mutuniatus. quare qui sapiet, malum cavebit, cum tantum sciet esse mentularum. Burtons Transltion: Ho thou, which hardly thy rapacious hand Canst from the garden in my charge contain, First shall this watchman, ever lustful loon, Entering and exiting alternate-wise Widen thy portal to its fullest stretch Then shall the couple guarding either flank, Grandly provided with those pensile parts, After they've sorely pierced thee prostrate thrown Bring to the self-same part an ass-foal lewd Gifted with pizzle not a whit the worse. Then who is wise beware of working ill, Knowing so much of pego waits him here. Plain English: Hark ye, thou who scarcely withholdest thy greedy hand from the garden entrusted to me. Now, first the watchman, full of lechery, with alternate entrance and exit, shall make thy passage an open one. Then two shall approach, who stand guard at each side, nobly provided with pensile property. Who, when they have grievously ploughed thee, stretched prostrate, to the same part shall come a rampant little ass, by no means inferior in well-hung pizzle. Wherefore, he who is wise will beware of ill-doing, when he knows that here is so much of the mentule.	--	Full screen version


	Jubilee Vessel of Pepi I Egyptian, c. 2290 BC, 6th Dynasty alabaster (calcite) and pigment, Saqqara (Place of Origin) " ... The beautiful hieroglyphs on this vessel identify its owner and the ritual in which it was used. On the left is King Pepi I's Horus name (one of a king's five names), "Beloved of the Two Lands [Egypt]." At center is his throne name, Mery-re; below are brief, symmetrical texts reading, "given life and dominion forever." On the right is a text, "First day of the Sed-festival." If an Egyptian king reigned for thirty years, he performed a ritual of renewal, the Sed-festival, in which this vessel would have been used. ... [Translation] The Horus, Mery-tawy (Beloved of the Two Lands); King of Upper and Lower Egypt, Mery-re (Beloved of Re); First occasion of the Sed-festival; Given life and dominion forever, given life and dominion forever; [Translation] Right column: "First of the Sed Festival" Middle column: "King of Upper and Lower Egypt", Mery-Ra Left column: "Horus name=Mery-tawy"; Horizontally " Given life and happiness forever" (this twice) ... " Walters Art Museum - That's probably the celebration of the end of the king's penis-cage ... and probably his "hieros-gamos" after his snake/Kundalini leaves his body and the new child begins to breath freely ... (The previous page-151 like page 150 before it has been blocked from further updates) I call this photo taken in October 2020: "Pepi Sed Vessel"		Full screen version