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Viking Stora Hammars stones c. 7OO AD from Sweden. They are phallic shaped but currently not fully understood.

I think those are erect Valkyrie or female phalli - Phallic Valkyrie welcoming the men they have chosen into Valhalla.

Page 157 has shut down - but my thoughts are not yet finished ...

I call this photo: "Valkyrie"

" ... The picture stone Lilbjärs III, showing a helmeted woman receiving a man with a horn of mead. On picture stones, the recurring motif of a woman receiving a man with a horn is generally interpreted as a dead man being received by a valkyrie at Valhalla. ... " Wikipedia

 

 

 

 

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Viking Stora Hammars stones c. 7OO AD from Sweden.

I call this photo: "Valkyrie - 2"

" ...The four Stora Hammars image stones are phallic shaped. Similar combinations of death with this erotic symbology occur on other Gotland rune and image stones. The images on the Stora Hammars II and IV stones are very worn and not currently decipherable...

Stora Hammars I - Depicted on the Stora Hammars I stone are six panels with mythological, religious and martial background, including panels depicting a woman between two men, a sacrifice scene with a Valknut over an altar, a woman standing between a longship manned with armed warriors and another group of armed men, and a battle scene. It is interpreted as illustrating the legend of Hildr and its never-ending battle. The stone includes an image of a warrior about to be hanged from a tree, possibly as a blood eagle sacrifice, with a nearby Valknut nearby (considered to be Odin's cult symbol) giving validity to reports regarding human sacrifice in Norse paganism. Near the altar is a shaped stone, which one scholar has been suggested may be a cult stone similar to the Elgesem runestone. ... " Wikipedia

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Viking kings -  specifically Helgi Hundingsbane - were heard calling headstrong Valkyries “southern goddesses” - I had a direct experience of that in my recent rough encounter of with a nordic goddess in Greek costume

- It seems Greco-Roman power moved north after the fall of Rome - We usually see those as barbarians - but power is never barbarian - power is power. And the northern power is still firmly in the saddle more than a thousand years later…

Garden of Priapus - 517

More muscle Amazon continues to ride her penis caged mount- doggy style ... Maybe the classic greek "lioness on the cheese grater "sex position

Valkyries were northern Amazons with a southern or Greco-Roman background - that means Greek female phallus sexuality - The Vikings, for all their brutal masculine power - probably converted to the penis caged Roman style of sex; - or maybe they were always like that - Celtic queens were phallic. The strong masculine energy of Vikings was exactly the same as the strong masculine energy of Roman gladiators or "venus boys" which was directly correlated to the penis cage ...

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" ... At the end of the Heimskringla saga Hákonar saga góða, the poem Hákonarmál by the 10th century skald Eyvindr skáldaspillir is presented. The saga relates that king Haakon I of Norway died in battle, and although he is Christian, he requests that since he has died "among heathens, then give me such burial place as seems most fitting to you". The saga relates that shortly after Haakon died on the same slab of rock that he was born upon, he was greatly mourned by friend and foe alike, and that his friends moved his body northward to Sæheim in North Hordaland. Haakon was buried there in a large burial mound in full armour and his finest clothing, yet with no other valuables. Further, "words were spoken over his grave according to the custom of heathen men, and they put him on the way to Valhalla". The poem Hákonarmál is then provided.

In Hákonarmál, Odin sends forth the two valkyries Göndul and Skögul to "choose among the kings' kinsmen" and who in battle should dwell with Odin in Valhalla. A battle rages with great slaughter, and part of the description employs the kenning "Skögul's-stormblast" for "battle". Haakon and his men die in battle, and they see the valkyrie Göndul leaning on a spear shaft. Göndul comments that "groweth now the gods' following, since Hákon has been with host so goodly bidden home with holy godheads". Haakon hears "what the valkyries said", and the valkyries are described as sitting "high-hearted on horseback", wearing helmets, carrying shields and that the horses wisely bore them. A brief exchange follows between Haakon and the valkyrie Skögul:

Hákon said:
"Why didst
Geirskogul
grudge us
victory?
though worthy
we were
for the gods
to grant it?"
Skogul said:
"'Tis owing
to us
that
the issue
was won
and your
foemen fled."

Skögul says that they shall now ride forth to the "green homes of the godheads" to tell Odin the king will come to Valhalla. The poem continues, and Haakon becomes a part of the einherjar in Valhalla, awaiting to do battle with the monstrous wolf Fenrir. ... " Wikipedia

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Closing scene - muscle Amazon rides her penis caged mount

The conversion of the Scandinavian kings to Christianity in the 10th century AD was the end of the Valkyries.

Odin seems to be another form of Zeus to me and the Valkyries - all the Greco-Roman goddesses ... They still exist though - They live in the "earth sun" space - not perceptible to the Judeo-Christian mind though. Muslims call that the land of the "Jinn". And Africans and Brazilians call that the land of the "Orishas"

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" ... Viking Age stylized silver amulets depicting women wearing long gowns, their hair pulled back and knotted into a ponytail, sometimes bearing drinking horns, have been discovered throughout Scandinavia. These figures are commonly considered to represent valkyries or dísir. According to Mindy MacLeod and Bernard Mees, the amulets appear in Viking Age graves, and were presumably placed there because "they were thought to have protective powers".

The Tjängvide image stone from the Baltic island of Gotland, Sweden features a rider on an eight-legged horse, which may be Odin's eight-legged horse Sleipnir, being greeted by a female, which may be a valkyrie at Valhalla. The 11th century runestone U 1163 features a carving of a female bearing a horn that has been interpreted as the valkyrie Sigrdrífa handing the hero Sigurd (also depicted on the stone) a drinking horn.

In 2013, a small figure dated at around 800 AD was discovered in Hårby, Denmark by three amateur archaeologists. The figurine portrays a woman with long hair knotted into a ponytail who is wearing a long dress which is sleeveless and vest like at the top. Over the top of her dress she is wearing an embroidered apron. Her clothing keeps the woman's arms unobstructed so she can fight with the sword and shield she is holding. Commenting on the figure, archaeologist Mogens Bo Henriksen said that "there can hardly be any doubt that the figure depicts one of Odin's valkyries as we know them from the sagas as well as from Swedish picture stones from the time around AD700". ... " Wikipedia

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Caged Roman phallus - Roman votive plaque in the shape of a phallus.

The “Venus boys” - or gladiators furnace - and source of the Valkyries power.

Vikings were a Roman gladiator civilization - Penis caged men ruled by Greek and Roman Amazons. Odin was the king of the gods - but real power was with the Valkyries ... When you see the fibula or penis cage - you also see a phallic goddess - The Valkyries …

(Jan 27, 2022) The dream space image is the Valkyries fire being re-lit after a long, long time

- The images here are one sided - war and bloody conquest - the eros of the Valkyries is just not visible at all - but the ancient reality must have been the opposite - eros and mead in Valhalla as a reward for virtue … as shown by the phallic Viking Stora Hammars stones

There’s a recent precedent for this in Hollywood - the army of the unsullied and their teenage dragon queen in George RR Martin’s “Game of thrones” - but that does not have a garden of Priapus and the female phallus … Although many would argue the army of the dead from “game of thrones” is a better analogy - a Roman “Xibalba”

- Hitler was explicit about seeking to revive Valhalla - but his images did not have eros baked in - maybe gay eros, but certainly no phallic Amazons mounting men from the rear …

Garden of Priapus - 520

Another caged Roman phallus - Roman, Imperial Period, ca. 1st century AD cast-bronze phallic votive.

The analysis is phimosis or a medical condition that causes a blocked phallus - but there is an example from Turkey that has an inscription - it says:

“Hermes offered
this votive
to Theos Hypsistos.”

“Hypsistarians, i.e. worshippers of the Hypsistos (Greek: ?ψιστος, the "Most High" God), and similar variations of the term first appear in the writings of Gregory of Nazianzus (Orat. xviii, 5) and Gregory of Nyssa (Contra Eunom. ii), about AD 374. The term has been linked to a body of inscriptions that date from around 100 AD to around 400 AD, mostly small votive offerings, but also including altars and stelae, dedicated to Theos Hypsistos, or sometimes simply Hypsistos, mainly found in Asia Minor (Cappadocia, Bithynia and Pontus) and the Black Sea coasts that are today part of Russia.

Some modern scholars identify the group, or groups, with God-fearers, non-Jewish (gentile) sympathizers with Second Temple Judaism. However, others believe these God-fearers to be a fictional invention of the Acts of the Apostles.” - Wikipedia

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My reading is the god most high in Asia Minor was probably a goddess ...

There are boxes full of these in the Naples National Museum - Mostly clay ...

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Box full of clay caged phalli - Naples

Anatomical votive offerings from Cales (Caserta)- Naples Archaeological Museum

It was not phimosis - caging the phallus was a general condition in ancient Rome and before that Etruria - and I am sure it had a religious dimension - male sexual submission to a goddess ...

- The other side is the very large and erect phalli - fascinums associated with women members of the Vesta cult - and the general 8 inch dildo favored by Greek women ...

Garden of Priapus - 522

Bronze phallic amulet in form of priapus with hindquarters of horse, Greco-Roman, 100 BC-400 AD

- Greek and Roman women were the horse riders - I have many examples of that in previous pages - Riders of the "smooth" rears of their caged menfolk

Valkrie civilization was just after Rome - so the festivities in Valhalla must have been Valkries riding the male horses of the men they invited in ...

" ... At the end of the poem, the valkyries sing

"Start we swiftly
with steeds unsaddled
—hence to battle
with brandished swords! ... "Wikipedia

Bareback female on male sex - in another context

Garden of Priapus - 523

Tall young and vigorous Asian valkyrie about to mount her OG or old guy steed bareback - The Greek and Roman ideal sex!

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Cybele was the "most high" god in Asia Minor and later in Rome - female, not male. Her priests were castrated and most men in Asia Minor and Rome were in the penis cage - in devotion to her ...

But castrated and caged Romans still had sex - The priests of Cybele organized and took part in orgies. Those must have been female phallus orgies in the male rectum

- The priests of Cybele was also reputed to be experts at using their mouths to pleasure women - as Martial complains about here:

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Martial BOOK iii LXXXI. TO BAETICUS

" ... Baeticus,
thou
Priest of Cybele,
what
hast thou to do
with a woman's
cave?
This tongue
of thine
ought to suck
pricks.
Why has
thy penis
been amputated
by the Samian ware,
if a cunt
was so pleasing
to thee,
Baeticus?
Your head
must be
castrated,
for though
you are a true priest
in your genitals,
you elude
the rules of
Cybele;
in your mouth
you are a man. ... "

The Index Expurgatorius of Martial, Literally translated comprising all the epigrams hitherto ommitted by English translations (1868)

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Tall young and vigorous Asian valkyrie riding her OG or old guy steed bareback - boss lady looking on ...

It's an easy assumption the make that Cybele had a female phallus - that's like the phallic Aphrodite or Innana ...

Further north the Celtic women were even more sexually vigorous - Empress Julia Domna - a Syrian - the land of the female phallus -was complaining about the promiscuity of British women during the Roman siegeof Scotland.

To me that could only mean the universal penis cage was also used widely in the north ... The valkries just picked up where Cybele left off - Frigga, not her husband Odin was the phallus in chief of Valhalla!

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My impression of Frigga from personal experience is rough - She's more of a queen of hell to me - That's what the "earth sun" space is to most people today - literally hell!

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" ... Frigg ... is a goddess in Germanic mythology. In Norse mythology, the source of most surviving information about her, she is associated with marriage, prophecy, clairvoyance and motherhood, and dwells in the wetland halls of Fensalir. In wider Germanic mythology, she is known in Old High German as Frija, in Langobardic as Frea, in Old English as Frig, in Old Frisian as Fria, and in Old Saxon as Fri, all ultimately stemming from the Proto-Germanic theonym Frijjo, meaning '(the) Beloved' or '(the) Free'. Nearly all sources portray her as the wife of the god Odin.

In Old High German and Old Norse sources, she is specifically connected with Fulla, but she is also associated with the goddesses Lofn, Hlín, Gná, and ambiguously with the Earth, otherwise personified as an apparently separate entity Jörð (Old Norse: 'Earth'). The children of Frigg and Odin include the gleaming god Baldr. Due to significant thematic overlap, scholars have proposed a connection to the goddess Freyja.

The English weekday name Friday (ultimately meaning 'Frigg's Day') bears her name. After Christianization, the mention of Frigg continued to occur in Scandinavian folklore. During modern times, Frigg has appeared in popular culture, has been the subject of art and receives veneration in Germanic Neopaganism. ... " Wikipedia

Garden of Priapus - 525

Tall young and vigorous Asian valkyrie galloping her OG or old guy steed bareback - boss lady looking on ...

Big smile! - How can that be evil? That's the secret sauce that I've been talking about ...The fire that evidently had gone off in Valhalla ... Once that fire goes off - it has to come from elsewhere - and that's never a good thing ...

(Jan 29, 2022) Dreamspace image of what happens when the fire goes out - is peadophilia ... Children and their fresh energy are the main source of fire in an anti-eros world

Garden of Priapus - 526

More ancient furnace - an Ancient Etruscan Votive offering - Terracotta - 600 B.C to 2nd Century BC

Etruscans were southern Celts - The penis cage was a Celtic operation ... And the fire for the powerful libido and female phallus of the Celtic matron

Garden of Priapus - 527

OG or old guy servicing the female phallus of the young Asian - Note the tattoo of the goat lady raising her skirt - That's an ancient Roman image - the Roman matron raising her skirt to reveal a mentule!

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Pre-sex ritual with a cold phallic Roman matron called Marulla - The mans caged penis is weighed by hand - measuring the difference between soft and hard - The pleasure begins after the caged penis deflates ! The main action is in his "smooth rear" ...

Martial BOOK X LV. ON MARULLA

" ... The stalwart
prick,
just risen
to invade her,
Placid
Marulla
handles
as it swells.
And calmly poising,
like a
cautious trader,
Its
weight in pounds
and quarter ounces
tells:
And when
the feeble thing
no longer
stands.
Slack,
soddened,
and now
impatient
for pleasure,
Again
the jade
will take it
in her hands,
And note
the difference
in its
weight
and
measure.
With
systematic,
calculating ways,
The wayward
joy
she cruelly
assails;
Not hers
the coaxing
touch
that bids
love blaze,
Hers is
no hand -
it is
a huckster's
scales. ... "

The Index Expurgatorius of Martial, Literally translated comprising all the epigrams hitherto ommitted by English translations (1868)

Garden of Priapus - 528

More Roman furnace: Bronze Roman imperial phallic votive.

Roman phallic amulet cast from bronze via the lost wax (cire perdue) technique - Roman, early Imperial Period, c. 1st to 2nd century AD

- Clearly the caged phallus of a wealthy Roman - most phallic votive offerings were in clay ...

- Roman wealth meant a Roman bull matron in the background - probably his mother, sister or wife - Though male, these were probably devoted the supreme Roman deity - the phallic fire goddess Vesta ...

- Men gave caged phalli to the fire goddess , and Roman female bulls got massive erect fascinums in return ...

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Here Martial condemns a Roman grandmother who was still shaving her vagina in anticipation of sex. He calls her aged vagina a once fierce lion that should move aside for the lust of young lions

- In penis caged Greco-Roman sex the fierce lions were women, not men - and the lust did not die off with old age ...

The nordic Valkyries were just a continuation of this ancient tradition - with Odin's wife Frigga the alpha lion - The same as Hera was the alpha lion of the Greek sex pantheon


Martial: Book X. - XC TO LIGIA

" ... Why pluck
the bristles
from your worn out
cleft,
Hoary
and grizzled
by time's
onward march?
For wanton tricks
you've
no excuses left,
Age should be
all propriety
and starch.
Let blooming girls
their tender pussies
trim,
Those pouting
buds
expect some
pleasure
after;
My wife might charm me
if she drossed
her quim,
But my grandmother
would provoke
my laughter.
There is no cunt
at which
no prick
can stand,
The whitened embers
of young lust's
spent force;
Then cast
the tweezers
from you palsied hand,
Nor beard
the once
fierce lion's
rotting corse. .... "

The Index Expurgatorius of Martial, Literally translated comprising all the epigrams hitherto ommitted by English translations (1868)

Garden of Priapus - 529

The penis caged OG or old guy servicing the host of the female bull orgy from behind ...


If Roman and Greek men could indulge their lust with young female lions into old age as was the expected pattern - I suppose Roman matrons could do the same ... The life long male penis cage meant the fire of the Roman woman did not have an expiry date

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Martial was sexually servicing wealthy Roman grandma's. Here he condemns one who fondled his caged penis and called him her "mouse" and left him hard and in pain for ten hours ...


Martial BOOK XI - XXIX. TO PHYLLIS

 

" ... When you
begin
to feel
my
limp penis
with
your
wizened hand,
your thumb
kills me,
Phyllis.
For when
you call me
your mouse
and the
light of
your eyes,
I think
I barely
get over it
in ten hours;
you know
not
how to please;
say
"I will give you
a thousand sesterces,
and a rich farm
at Setium,
pray accept
wine,
houses,
slaves,
gilt vases,
tables;"
you need not
use your fingers,
Phyllis,
this is the way
to excite me. ..."

The Index Expurgatorius of Martial, Literally translated comprising all the epigrams hitherto ommitted by English translations (1868)

- Martial was old enough to get a blacksmith to remove his Fibula - but he chose not to - Removing it was probably loss of vital energy for him - A solution to the unwanted Fibula erection was the ass orgasm - usually given by a phallic female bull - but also for many Roman men - passive anal sex with boys or young men ...

Garden of Priapus - 530

More penis caged OG or old guy servicing the host of the female bull orgy from behind ...

The Suburra was the place to go if you had Martial's 10 hour Fibula pain - Those female sex workers in the Suburra brothel seem to me to be exclusively female phallus - The Roman male in the bronze penis cage had a need for that service

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An elderly Roman matron asked Martial to sodomize him for free - He said no - she was no longer a young bull who would be doing him a favor

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Martial BOOK VII - LXXV. TO A DEFORMED WOMAN

" ...You wish to give
(ie. grant
your favors),
yet you
do not wish
to give
ie, your money).
But if you
will have it
that you grant
your favours,
you must pay
all the same
since you are
an old woman.
You are
no longer
the grantor,
and yet you
do not wish
to put yourself
in the position
of the grantee,
which in fact
you are ... "

The Index Expurgatorius of Martial, Literally translated comprising all the epigrams hitherto ommitted by English translations (1868)

Garden of Priapus - 531

More penis caged OG or old guy servicing a female bull orgy from behind ... Black rider!

- That Roman fibula is hard to get your mind around - but my subjective impression is super high sexual energy

- That energy was so high they evolved out of the human space sometime in the 400's

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For Martial men anally penetrating teenage boys was not considered offensive - The real taboo was exciting the underage penis - This was deemed harmful as it accelerated puberty.

But as has been seen above, exciting the adult penis was also considered harmful - Roman men were in a permanent bronze sex cage.

All blessings seem to have flowed from the sexually passive "smooth ass" - not the active male penis ...

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Martial BOOK XI - XXII. TO A MASTUBATING SODOMITE

" ... Seeing that
you press
with your
rough
and
bearded mouth
the soft lips
of the fair
Galaesus,
and lie
with the
naked
Ganymede;
who denies it?
This lust
is excessive.
But be content;
at least
forbear
to excite
their pricks
with your
whorish hand.
This commits
a greater sin
against the
beardless striplings
than a prick,
and fingers
perform
the act
and
accelerate
the period
of puberty.
Then rapidly
came
rankness,
and hair,
and a beard,
that make
their mother stare,
and they
do not
like to take
their bath
in broad
daylight.
Nature has
made
two divisions
of man:
one is born
to love
women:
the other
their own sex.
Keep to
your choice ... "

The Index Expurgatorius of Martial, Literally translated comprising all the epigrams hitherto ommitted by English translations (1868)

Garden of Priapus - 532

More penis caged OG or old guy servicing a female bull orgy from behind - topless boss lady has a go!

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A Suburan den

Martial BOOK XI - XLV. TO CANTHARUS

" ... When you enter
the door
of the numbered room,
whether
a boy
or a girl
has attracted you,
you are not content
with the door
and the curtain
and the bolt;
but you order
far greater secresy
for yourself.
If there is
a suspicion
of the least crevice,
it is daubed out,
and so are
the punctures
made by
a wanton's bodkin.
No one,
Cantharus,
is so delicate
and so
uneasily modest
who either
sodomises
or fucks...."

The Index Expurgatorius of Martial, Literally translated comprising all the epigrams hitherto ommitted by English translations (1868)

"Fucks" for Martial is passive female phallus sex - The Roman penis did not come out of its cage

Garden of Priapus - 533

Closing scene: Penis caged OG or old guy servicing a muscle Amazon from behind - and tall Asian girl from the front.

Valkries all! - Valhalla was probably like a Suburan den - the male penis did not leave its cage ... Mead and then the Valkrie phalli in action !

Garden of Priapus - 534

Anatolian Bronze genital votive offered to the “Most High God” Theos Hypsistos. Roman imperial age, Harvard Art Museum

Inscribed “Hermes offered this votive to Theos Hypsistos.”

In Asia Minor that was goddess not a god.

- Roman men had to learn to have sex without the penis- Ass sex only - Any penis activity in this cage would just generate pain

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In contrast, Phimosis is the only serious explanation for this Roman phenomenon:

" ... The cult of Theos Hypsystos (“Most High God”), another god believed to have healing powers, was spread throughout a vast geographical area encompassing the shores of the Black Sea, the eastern Mediterranean, Anatolia, and Greece between the 2nd century B.C. and 4th century A.D. The most distinguished feature of the Theos Hypsistos belief was that people were seeking cure in this cult. In most of the offerings presented to gods, there were body parts pictured, hoped to be cured. A bronze votive providing evidence that this god also healed diseases related to the genital organs dates back to the Roman imperial age and is still being displayed at the Harvard Art Museum. The translation of the Greek writing on this votive is as follows:

“Hermes offered this votive to Theos Hypsistos.” ... "

"Understanding the genital diseases of Ancient Anatolia in the light of the inscribed male genital offerings presented to gods"

Ekrem Güner, Kamil Gökhan Seker,corresponding author and Osman Özdemir (2019)

Garden of Priapus - 535

Bonus: Penis caged OG or old guy servicing a muscle Amazon from behind

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(Jan 30, 2022) "Jinns" thought I stopped too soon last night - hence this bonus ... The way I knew was a mighty drowsiness that came out of thin air when I stopped ... I'm walking on thin ice - but someone has to venture out there with an alternate viewpoint

In this epigram two OG's or old guys famous for being catamites or sexual passives - Trojan princes Nestor and Priam - are imagined getting morning and nightly sexual injections from an homely "nurse" Phlogis - Aged Nestor in his "truss" - or penis cage and old Priam with his flaccid penis ...

Trojan men were in the sexual truss to Andromanche and other Amazon bulls - and they liked it!

All men in Asia Minor were in a sexual "truss" or castrated - to a Trojan or Amazon goddess ...


- Martial compares the fine but cold beauty of Chione to the homely by phallic Phlogis and chooses the homely female sexual bull - That was a Roman or Trojan state of affairs

Martial Book XI - LX. ON CHIONE AND PHLOGIS

" ... Chione's
a beauty divine,
of crowds of admirers
the belle,
Yet Phlogis,
not she,
shall be mine.
And the reason
I quickly
will tell.
Though heaven
with no beauty
has
blest her,
She steals
our affections
from us,
And in bed
she would make
even Nestor
Forget
both his years
and his truss.
Were she
and old Priam
together,
She'd quicken
and kindle
his blood.
And make
what was
flaccid
as leather
To redden
and swell
like
a bud.
If wantoness
be a disease
That yields
not to
a nurse's directions,
A lover
will give
the dear ease
With
evening
and
morning
injections
To Chione,
by some divine
malice,
Sweet love
and its ways
are unknown,
As fair
as a statue
of Pallas,
As cold
as a statue
of stone,
No darting,
no squeezing,
no twining
Of tongues ,
and hands,
and of thighs,
Move the bed
where her lover's
reclining,
But listless
and languid
she lies,
If ought
can be perfect
of nature's,
Ye gods
by your
beneficence
prove,
By giving
dear Phlogis
the features,
Chione
the feelings
for love! ... "

The Index Expurgatorius of Martial, Literally translated comprising all the epigrams hitherto ommitted by English translations (1868)

Garden of Priapus - 536

Another bonus: Penis caged OG or old guy servicing a muscle Amazon from behind - and a black mentule from the front


For Martial slaves in Roman baths were expected to be out of the Fibula - Slaves did not own their bodies or their vitality. In this epigram Martial is enraged that Caelia, a woman bather, confines her slaves penis to a brass Fibula

It appears the penis cage situation in Rome was the opposite of the currently assumed - masters like the aged Trojan Prince Nestor in his "truss" were locked up below the waist and the slaves were free to have erections ...

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Martial BOOK XI -LXXV. TO CAELIA

" ...Your slave,
Caelia,
goes to the bath
with you
with a brass
fibula
over his person.
Why is this pray?
since he is not
a minstrel
or a flute player.
You do not wish,
I take it,
to see his prick.
Why then
do you take
your bath
in public?
Are we all
eunuchs
in your eyes?
Therefore
that you may not appear
envious,
take off
your slave's
fibula,
Caelia. ... "

The Index Expurgatorius of Martial, Literally translated comprising all the epigrams hitherto ommitted by English translations (1868)

Garden of Priapus - 537

One more bonus: Penis caged OG or old guy servicing a smiling boss lady from behind - and the black mentule of the host from the front

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The Greco-Roman penis sometimes come out of the Fibula or penis cage - but usually that was to sodomize beardless boys not female vaginas.

For example Martial's wife scolded him for sodomizing a beardless youth reminding him the she had an ass too. But he told her she had two vagina's and no ass - giving examples of Zeus and Achilles who prefered to sodomize beardless boys rather than their wives.

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- A puzzle piece - beardless boys in the fibula were fine for anal sex, but not to be stimulated in the front. And as a grown man, the only safe outlet for the Greco-Roman penis was the ass of a beardless boy.

- Otherwise, the main sex organ of the Greco-Roman man was his ass which was ridden by the dildo of his wife and later energetic young women - and sometimes - in Egypt his own sister and daughter ...

- The ass as sex organ in the Greco- Roman world was exclusively male. That's the Ass chakra - The seat of the inner sun - but male only. The female sun is the mentule or female phallus - I think ...

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Martial BOOK XI - XLIII. TO HIS WIFE

" ... Wife,
you scold me
with a harsh voice
when I'm caught
with a boy,
and you tell me
that you too
have an arsehole.
How often has Juno
said this to
the lustful Thunderer?
and yet he lies
with the tall Ganymede.
The Tirynthian hero
put down his bow
and sodomised Hylas.
Do you think that
Megara
had no buttocks?
Daphne as she
fled
the love
of Phoebus;
but that flame
was quenched
by the Oebalian boy.
However much
Briseis lay
with her bottom
turned towards him,
the son of Aeacus
found his
beardless friend
more congenial
to his tastes.
Forebear to give
masculine names
to what you've got,
and think that you,
wife,
have two cunts. ... "

The Index Expurgatorius of Martial, Literally translated comprising all the epigrams hitherto ommitted by English translations (1868)

Garden of Priapus - 538

A tray of Roman votive penises at the Wellcome Collection. Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0)

Those are all Roman furnaces - but the fire was in the rear ... Greco-Roman men were "Trussed" up like the elderly Trojan Prince Nestor with a bronze pin - Thats why the penis is smaller than the testicles. The main male Greco-Roman sex organ was the ass ...

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The other side of these male furnaces were the Valkries - the phallic sun goddesses of Valhalla - The Roman and Greek versions all carried very large dildos - and the Vestals virgins also guarded very large phalli - Those were female phalli or suns - not male ...

***

"Not Godless,
for you serve
one God,
The Lampsacene."

Swinburne's Faustine

"The women [worshippers of Priapus] carried about in procession a large erect Phallus (known as the Ithyphallus, from ... erect, and ... , the penis). "

The Index Expurgatorius of Martial, Literally translated comprising all the epigrams hitherto ommitted by English translations (1868) at 91

Garden of Priapus - 539

A fully erect fiery Valkrie female phallus - an artwork of the Viking Stora Hammars I

"One of the four Stora Hammars image stones located in Stora Hammars, Gotland, Sweden. A group of paintings titled The Vikings. Painted in acrylic. 20 January 2012 Author Becherel" Wikimedia

That's the fire I saw as recently re-lit

That's after being attacked buy a Frigga "jinn" ... I think the way it worked in ancient times was men had to demonstrate a lack fear under attack from the "wound-giving" Valkries -

Violence as Eros - that was the Eros of the colosseum and the penis caged "venus boys" or Gladiators.

- Once in Valhalla - the men became like Islamic Mamelukes - they entered a world of privilege and power - The Nordic supermen

Garden of Priapus - 540

Modern worshippers of "The Lampsacene" or Priapus. Young and virile Asian roughly mounting an OG or old guy from the rear.

The young female mentule furnace in the "smooth" and well worn old male anal furnace for maximum combustion ...

In Egypt that would be the King shamelessly submitting the new Queen - his daughter - also in Canaan and Syria and Mesopotamia and Nubia too - and I am sure rampant in upper class Rome - The "trussed" or penis caged and chaste Augustus and his daughter the sexually ravenous and highly promiscuous Julia is probably an good example.

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Another example of Roman male lust for boys: The Roman penis came out of its cage for sex with boys.

The Roman male ass was trained from a young age for life-long service - mostly to the female phallus. Under Domitian the minimum age for boys to have anal sex was set at seventeen.

Boys from seventeen to twenty-five were "trussed" - or in an unremovable bronze fibula or penis cage. That was the socially acceptable training ground for life long anal sex in the penis cage.


Here an enraged Martial was asked for a large payment just before sodomizing Telesphorus. In myth Telesphorus is a male dwarf child god of healing.

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Martial BOOK XI - LVIII TO TELESPHORUS

" ... When you see that
I want to have you
Telesphorus,
and that I am
racked with desire,
- you ask a large price;
suppose
I do want
to have you,
you can deny me.
And unless
I swear
with an oath
"I will give it,"
you withhold
from me
those buttocks
which promise you
much
at my hands.
But suppose
my barber slave,
when his razor is
across by throat,
demands his
liberty and money;
I promise it to him,
for when he makes
such a request
he is no longer
a barber
but a highwayman:
fear is imperious.
But when his razor
is put safely away
in its case,
I will break
the barbers
legs and arms
at once.
But to you
I will do nothing:
I shall wash
my soiled hands,
and bid you
go to hell
and gamahuche me
for your
cursed avarice ..."

The Index Expurgatorius of Martial, Literally translated comprising all the epigrams hitherto ommitted by English translations (1868)

Gamahuche means "to perform oral sex"

Garden of Priapus - 541

More Modern worshippers of "The Lampsacene" or Priapus.

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Riding a rare black ass in knee high boots and a riding crop - boss lady looking on. - The black ass taboo is slowly melting away

I think my theory is right - the male sun chakra is in the ass, but the female sun chakra is in the clitoris - that’s the Innana question - "who will plow my vulva?"

Used to watch a lot of this - but the phallus was always male! I’ve been corrupted into strange eros - Strange but much stronger eros though

Inner image from last light when working on this problem was five or six female “jinn” above me with large phalli that they were pleasuring ... There’s a higher world - as well as a lower world too

I also saw a bald Roman in a purple bathrobe emerging from a Suburan den - Only strange thing was his race - he was light skinned black! Maybe an ancient Ethiopian - or really ancient Egyptian …

Suburan dens were where penis caged Roman men went to have their behinds worked on by phallic women - Julius Caesar and many other Roman bigwigs grew up there

***

Innana's question "who will plow my vulva" was considered demeaning to Martial - But in reality I am sure it was required by headstrong Roman matrons. Martial above notes that castrated priests of Cybele were experts at oral sex on women.

In this verse Manneius - an expert at oral sex on Roman matrons loses his skill when he tastes fluids from the insides of a pregnant woman ...

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Martial BOOK XI - LXL. ON MANNEIUS

" ... Manneius
who performs
a husband's part
with his tongue,
and an adulterer's
with his mouth,
is more loathsome
than the cheeks
of the vilest prostitutes.
When the
filthy brothel keeper
saw him
naked
from the window
of her Suburan den,
she slammed
the door
in his face,
and would rather
gamahuche him
than kiss him.
Manneius,
who has put his tongue
in every
secret hole
in the body,
and can tell
surely and certainly
whether
a boy or
a girl
is in the womb.
Rejoice ye cunts
for you will have
nothing more
to do with him.
His fucking tongue
has no more strength,
for while he clings
with his lips
glued to the quim
of a pregnant woman,
and listens
to the foetus
crying inside:
her courses came on
and paralysed
the root
of his tongue.
Now he can neither
be pure
nor impure. ... "

The Index Expurgatorius of Martial, Literally translated comprising all the epigrams hitherto ommitted by English translations (1868)

Garden of Priapus - 542

More modern worshippers of "The Lampsacene" or Priapus.

Riding a rare black ass in knee high boots and a riding crop - boss lady looking on.


Big smiles! - That black ass has the "secret sauce" ... Maybe that's why black ass is taboo ...

It's not race though - it's just the way we arrange our lives - In ancient Rome the brothel workers were blond and enslaved "painted Britons" - sexually vigorous Celtic women and men ...

***

Roman male slaves were not in the Fibula or penis cage - as was shown above. In this epigram the large male slave phallus was for anal sex in the baths.

That was an easy solution for a penis caged world - Sex slaves who did not have that restriction

That still does not solve the mystery of the penis cage - There is something major and secret hidden behind the Greco-Roman "truss"

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Martial BOOK XI - LXIII. TO PHILOMUSUS

"You look at us,
Philomsus,
while we
take our bath;
and you
presently ask
why I have
graceful
well hung
slaves.
I will answer
your question
directly,
they bugger
the curious,
Philomusus. ... "

The Index Expurgatorius of Martial, Literally translated comprising all the epigrams hitherto ommitted by English translations (1868)

Garden of Priapus - 543

Another scene from modern worshippers of "The Lampsacene" or Priapus.

Riding a rare black ass in knee high boots and a riding crop - boss lady looking on.

(Feb3, 2022) Dream question - at a mass level - what's a beauty like that doing in porn? My answer is that secret fire is the source of that beauty! Not a mystery for an ancient Greco-Roman-Egyptian ...

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Martial was stood up by a date and had to violate his rules by masturbating. His date was a female, so I assume she was going to sodomize him from the rear - Roman matron style.

My guess from his painful lust his penis was locked in the Fibula - painful masturbation is possible even when locked up in the bronze pin...


Martial BOOK XI - LXXIII. TO LYGDUS

"You swear
you'll come,
you name
the time
and place,
Whene'er
I ask of you
one fond
embrace:
The live long
night
I wait,
racked
with desire,
Rigid
with lust,
and all
my veins
on fire,
And oftimes
thinking of
your girlish
frame
My left hand
quenches
the devouring
flame.
In bitterness
of heart
I'll ask
my god
To curse you,
lying
and deceitful sod.
May you
ne'er stir
from out of
your
threshold's door,
Save at
the heels
of some
damned
one eye'd whore."

The Index Expurgatorius of Martial, Literally translated comprising all the epigrams hitherto ommitted by English translations (1868)

Garden of Priapus - 544

One more scene from modern worshippers of "The Lampsacene" or Priapus.

Riding a rare black ass in knee high boots and a riding crop - boss lady looking on.

Phallic Roman matrons were feeding off the fire built up by the Fibula

"Rigid with lust, and all my veins on fire, And oftimes thinking of your girlish frame My left hand quenches the devouring flame."

Martial BOOK XI - LXXIII. TO LYGDUS


- that why I call the penis cage the Roman "furnace" - The dog-leash tan was male only ... I guess the female phallus in the penis cage rectum was a transfer of erotic energy from male to female. Roman women chased and mounted men into old age ...

During the Bona Dea the switch of sexuality was complete -

"The ancients had an idea that a mouse was a most salacious animal. So Juvenal VII. 339 says of the holy rites of the Bona Dea "that a mouse conscious of its manhood would flee ..."

The Index Expurgatorius of Martial, Literally translated comprising all the epigrams hitherto ommitted by English translations (1868) at 82

- But Roman men liked it - the fire of the fibula was seductive enough for the Roman man to give up his manhood to the phallic Roman matron

Garden of Priapus - 545

Another scene from modern worshippers of "The Lampsacene" or Priapus.

Riding a rare black ass in knee high boots and a riding crop - boss lady looking on.

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According to this epigram by Martial the typical Roman matron's nurse and mother would only allowed her husband to sodomize her once - Martial suggests the young husband spend time with a Suburan "school mistress" to learn how to be a good husband ...

That's probably prudish Roman code for how a young husband becomes a good anal sex partner to his wife's mentule : ... "try a woman's embrace"

The fire or sun chakra is in the male ass only - The female fire or sun chakra - the mentule - is created in answer to Innana's question "who will plow my vulva?"


Martial BOOK XI - LXXVIII. TO VICTOR

" ... Try, Victor,
try
a woman's embrace,
and let
your prick
learn
an operation
now
unknown
to it.
The veil
is woven
for the bride,
the virgin
is ready,
your affiancee
will now
cut the hair
off you slaves.
She will allow
her husband
to sodomise her once,
while she dreads
the first wounds
of the
untried weapon.
Her nurse
and her mother
will not allow
this to be done
oftener,
and they
will say
she is
your wife
she is not
your catamite.
Oh what toil,
what labours
will you undergo,
if a cunt
is strange to you!
Therefore
hand over
the tyro
to a Suburan
school mistress:
she will
make him
a man:
a virgin
is not
a good
teacher. ..."

The Index Expurgatorius of Martial, Literally translated comprising all the epigrams hitherto ommitted by English translations (1868)

Garden of Priapus - 546

Modern worshippers of "The Lampsacene" or Priapus.

Riding a rare black ass in knee high boots and a riding crop - boss lady looking on.

Full gallop!

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In this epigram, a Roman matron has sex with two men at the same time - one a eunuch and the other an old man.

Both probably orally served her and got the same thing from the young Amazon - the female phallus or mentule in the rear - Egyptian style sex did not require a male phallus ...

That's more proof that eunuch priests of Cybele had sex with Roman matrons

Martial BOOK XI - LXXXI. ON AN OLD MAN AND A EUNUCH


"The eunuch
Dindymus
toys with
and wearies
Aegle
in common
with
an old man,
and
the poor girl
lies between them,
without love's
balmy tribute.
One has not
the power
to do it,
the other
is useless
from his years,
and therefore
they toil
without effect,
and excite
their passions.
On her knees
Aegle implores you,
O Venus
for herself
and for
her two
wretched paramours,
to make
the one young,
and the other
a man. ... "

The Index Expurgatorius of Martial, Literally translated comprising all the epigrams hitherto ommitted by English translations (1868)

Those are Martial's prejudices - I think Roman matrons really loved being the men in bed - thanks to the torrid heat created by the locked Roman penis

Garden of Priapus - 547

Modern worshippers of "The Lampsacene" or Priapus.

Boss lady has a go from behind - and tries the riding crop ...

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In this epigram Martial described something that happened to him - he prefered sodomizing boys - but could not afford it - and ended up making his living being sodomized by "lewd old dames".

That's the power of the fire of the Fibula penis cage - Roman matrons paid to sodomize men of all ages - from boys of seventeen to old men ...

Martial BOOK XI - LXXXVII. TO CHARIDEMUS

"...When erst,
Charidemus,
folks envied
your wealth,
A boy only
kindled
love's flames.
But now
it's all spent,
you melt down
your health
In the arms of
lewd
middle aged
dames.
Old women
will pay
for what
boys
must be paid,
And poverty
- horrid disaster!
That's often
converted to
whoredom
a maid
has made you
an arrant
whore-master. ... "

The Index Expurgatorius of Martial, Literally translated comprising all the epigrams hitherto ommitted by English translations (1868)

Garden of Priapus - 548

Modern worshippers of "The Lampsacene" or Priapus.

Boss lady has a go from behind - of rare black ass

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The “female embrace”: Martial could handle up to four mentules a night - except for Telesilla - who was once in four years …

Martial BOOK XI - XCVIII. TO TELESILLA

“ … Four times
a night
I manage
very well
With
decent girls
to do
the loving
stroke:
But in
four years
- may I
be damned
in hell,
If Martial
once could
Telesilla
poke! … “

The Index Expurgatorius of Martial, Literally translated comprising all the epigrams hitherto ommitted by English translations (1868)

As shown above - Roman matrons were not catamites to be “poked” - rather Martial in his penis cage or "Truss" was being poked by Roman matrons - My guess Telesilla was too rough a female lion for Martial

Garden of Priapus - 549

More modern worshippers of "The Lampsacene" or Priapus.

Topless beauty grabs a virgin horse by the balls - before deflowering him

I’m sure that was every Roman boys seventeenth birthday gift in the Suburan district - Although Martial shows that probably happened much earlier at home - Roman stepmothers were know for it

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Roman matrons lament losing the ass of horse sick with loose bowels …

More proof that the male rear not the male phallus was the main sex object of the Roman matron

Martial BOOK XI - LXXXVIII. TO LUPUS ON CHARISIANUS.

“ … The wretch,
whose
rival charms
inflame
With
jealousy
the female race,
Laments
he must
give o’er
his game
And to them
for a time
give place:
His lovers
mourn
that they
must sever,
But an ample
reason’s found,
He owns
his tastes
are loose
as ever,
But say
his bowels
are
unbound … “

The Index Expurgatorius of Martial, Literally translated comprising all the epigrams hitherto ommitted by English translations (1868)

Garden of Priapus - 550

More modern worshippers of "The Lampsacene" or Priapus.

Topless beauty deflowers a virgin horse - Penis electrically caged

Electric Fibula - That's a simple technology that would have sold like hot cakes to Roman matrons

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Martial BOOK XI - CIV. TO HIS WIFE

Martial’s wife believed in propriety - and that meant he was not allowed to sodomize her.

Also, unlike the Phrygian slaves ridden bareback by the Trojan prince Hector’s Amazon wife Andromanche “St. George” style - he was not allowed to masturbate when his wife was in the saddle sodomizing him …

There was a religious dimension to “Hector horse” sex under the Amazon Andromanche and in the Fibula or penis cage - Martial’s wife performed it “as if [she was] taking the sacrament.”

My guess is that was phallic Aphrodite temple sex - originally Innana temple sex from Syria and Mesopotamia

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Martial BOOK XI - CIV. TO HIS WIFE

“ … Wife, away,
or conform to my habits.
I am not a Curius,
or a Numa,
or a Tatius.
I like the
hours of night
prolonged
in luscious cups.
You drink water
and are
forever hurrying
from the table
with a somber mien;
you like the dark;
I like a lamp
to witness
my pleasures,
and in the
night of dawn
to tire my loins.
Drawers
and night gowns
and long robes
cover you,
but no girl
can be
too naked
for me.
For me be kisses
like the cooing dove;
your kisses are
like those
you give
your grandmother
in the morning.
You do not
condescend
to assist
the performance
of you movements,
or your sighs,
or your hand,
[you behave]
as if you were
taking
the sacrament.
The Phrygian slaves
masturbated themselves
behind the couch
whenever Hector’s wife
rode St. George,
and,
however much
Ulysses snored,
the chaste Penelope
always had
her hand there.
You forbid
my sodomising you.
Cornelia granted
this favour
to Gracchus,
Julia to Pompey,
Porcia to Brutus.
Before the Darden boy
mixed the luscious cup,
Juno was a Ganymede
to Jupiter.
If you are
so fond
of propriety,
be a Lucretia
to your
hearts content
all day;
I want a Lais
at night … “

The Index Expurgatorius of Martial, Literally translated comprising all the epigrams hitherto ommitted by English translations (1868)

Garden of Priapus - 551

More modern worshippers of "The Lampsacene" or Priapus.

Topless beauty deflowers a virgin horse - “Hector horse” sex under the Amazon Andromanche and in the Fibula or penis cage

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Roman ass sex was male only - Martial called the “fig of Chios” or anal pleasure give by a woman’s ass flavourless when compared to the flavor of man’s ass.

The unique thing about Rome though was Roman matrons routinely enjoyed the male “fig of Chios”

My guess is the fire of the penis cage or Fibula was the reason for the flavor of the male “fig of Chios”

***

In this verse Martial tries to dampen the sexual jealousy of a Roman matron - maybe his wife - for the boy sex toys of her husband …

Martial BOOK XII - XCVI. TO A JEALOUS WIFE

“ …Since your
husband’s
mode of life
and
his fidelity
are
known to you,
and
no woman
usurps your rights;
why are you
so foolish
as to be
annoyed
by his boys,
(as if they were
his mistresses),
with whom
love is
transient
and
a fleeting
affair?
I will prove
to you
that you
gain more
by the boys
than
your lord:
they make
your husband
keep to
one woman.
They give
what a wife
will not give.
I grant
that favor,
say you,
sooner than
that my
husband’s love
should wander
from
my bed.
It is not
the
same thing:
I want the
fig of Chios,
not a
flavourless fig;
and this
Chian fig
in you is
flavourless.
A woman
of sense
and a wife
ought to
know her place.
Let the boys
have what
concerns them,
and confine
yourself to
what
concerns you. … “

The Index Expurgatorius of Martial, Literally translated comprising all the epigrams hitherto ommitted by English translations (1868)

Garden of Priapus - 552

More modern worshippers of "The Lampsacene" or Priapus.

Beauty rides boss lady’s husband from the rear - with boss lady being serviced in the front

More combustion! - Or Roman fire sex … The ass of the penis caged worshipper was the fruit that was presented to the phallic goddess in the Temple of Innana … An ancient religious ritual

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Tribade lust - Seems not possible as there is no female phallus beyond the clitoris - but in the dream world it exists - I think its an archetype

MARTIAL BOOK XII - XLII. TO SABELLUS

“ … I have
read
your lines,
Sabellus,
Finished
with
poetic art,
But alas
your
raptures
tell us
Of a foul
and
sensual
heart:
Prostitutes
would
shrink amazed
At your tales
of unknown lust;
Elephantis
(also who
praised lechery)
would feel
disgust:
Forms of
venery
that might
please
Hoary sinners
lost to shame.
Stimulants
for debauchees,
Which they’d
scarcely dare
to name,
Five as
one wave
undulating,
Tribades all
or sodomites,
Shamelessly are
copulating
In the glare
of many lights.
Sabellus
you have
prostituted
The most
noble
of gifts
of God,
On obsceneness
only suited
To the most
abandoned Sod. … “

The Index Expurgatorius of Martial, Literally translated comprising all the epigrams hitherto ommitted by English translations (1868)

Martial is speaking the official line here - even as those same officials were penis caged by their phallic wives - and routinely anally sodomized by them. Rome secretly or not so secretly worshipped many phallic fire goddesses - Vesta, Cybele, Aphrodite, Isis, Hathor, Hera - Hera compelled men to live as women, Cybele castrated, Aphrodite and Hathorsodomized men and so on ...

Garden of Priapus - 553

More modern worshippers of "The Lampsacene" or Priapus.

Big smile ! - Beauty rides boss lady’s husband from the rear - Hector Horse style

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In this epigram a Roman man - maybe Martial - is having sex with boys paid for by his rich wife - and failing Venus in the marital bed.

Not sure how the Fibula worked in marriage - but my guess is the blacksmith needed the wife’s permission to break the bronze pin. - “Hector horse” sex did not require an active penis … The sexual “truss” was the source of the Andromanche sexual fire ...

The Roman system placed heavy penalties on declining the marriage vow - and I’m sure the wife’s control over the penis cage was a cornerstone of the Trojan mind.

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Martial BOOK XII - XCVII. TO BASSUS

“ … Learned,
chaste,
well born
and fair,
Bassus,
is your
wedded bride,
Surpassing far
the
wildest prayer
Ever breathed
in youthful pride.
Yet with boys
you waste
your power,
Careless
of martial vows,
Pleasures
purchased
by the dower
Which you
married
with your spouse.
On your return
your mistress
greets,
Dropping,
limp,
to Venus cold.
That limb
whose
size
and wanton feats
Made it
worthy
the lady’s gold.
Tenderly
her taper
fingers
O’er your
manly
beauties
rove,
And her
gentle pressure
lingers
O’er that
noble source
of love.
With
honey’d words
and
witching smiles,
Essaying all
that woman knows,
Dead to
her enduring wiles,
Not an inch
the sluggard
grows.
Give your lady
some diversion,
Lest an action
be brought
For your
impudent
conversion.
Of the chattel
that
she bought. … “

The Index Expurgatorius of Martial, Literally translated comprising all the epigrams hitherto ommitted by English translations (1868)

Garden of Priapus - 554

More modern worshippers of "The Lampsacene" or Priapus.

Beauty rides boss lady’s husband from the rear - Hector Horse style - Boss lady looking on ...

***

Boys were the sex objects of Ancient Rome and Greece - which is the opposite of today - Girls are todays sex objects.

But even that is changing - Playboy magazine for example does not do nudes in America - Girl as sex object is slowly being erased

And it was not just men who lusted after boys - women too - and as many examples show girls also lusted after their brothers and fathers in the ancient world - ex. the myths of Byblis and Myrrha

My guess for the cause of boy ass as sex object was the penis cage - put in as puberty started and held locked until 25.

According to Domitian’s law, sex with a boys ass was limited to 17 years old and up … Roman men in general were boy ass at some point of their lives - and like the “trussed” Trojan princes Priam and Nestor - remained boy ass for phallic Roman matrons so long as the Fibula remained in place

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Martial BOOK I - LVIII. ON THE PRICE OF A BOY

“ … A slave-dealer
asked me
a hundred thousand
sesterces
for a boy:
I smiled:
but Phoebus
gave him
his price
immediately.
My penis
is annoyed
at this,
and secretly
reproaches me,
and makes me
jealous
by praising Phoebus,
but Phoebus’s penis
gained for him
two million
sesterces.
Get me this,
and I will buy you
a more expensive
boy. … “

The Index Expurgatorius of Martial, Literally translated comprising all the epigrams hitherto ommitted by English translations (1868)

Garden of Priapus - 555

More modern worshippers of "The Lampsacene" or Priapus.

Beauty rides boss lady’s husband from the rear - Hector Horse style - Boss lady looking on ...

Female on male sodomy was a taboo subject in Rome - But I am sure was the central rite of the Roman religion - the fiery phallus of the supreme Roman deity - the goddess Vesta - in the penis caged or “trussed” Roman male ass

***

No need for the Fibula if you just removed the penis - as many Romans like Glyptus the subject of this epigram by Martial chose to do.

All Roman male sex was in the rear and "trussed" - mostly from phallic matrons though - Romans had a taboo about wasting “Pneuma” through the erect penis …

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Martial BOOK I - XLV. TO GLYPTUS

“ … Your penis,
Glyptus,
which
did not stand,
has been
amputated.
Madman,
what had you to do
with the knife?
You were
a true priest of
Cybele
before … “

The Index Expurgatorius of Martial, Literally translated comprising all the epigrams hitherto ommitted by English translations (1868)

Garden of Priapus - 556

More modern worshippers of "The Lampsacene" or Priapus.

Beauty rides boss lady’s husband from the rear - Hector Horse style - Boss lady looking on ...

I’ve had that in the dream space - and it’s much more erotic than regular sex!

I guess my encounter with the “Frigga” jinn ended like this - although I have no memory of that.

But the Valkrie fire came back on - so its a safe assumption something like that happened - Plus I saw 5 or 6 goddesses above me pleasuring themselves with large phalli! Those phalli need a destination - and that’s the trussed boy ass - for sure!

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Roman men like the pauper Hyllus in the Martial epigram below paid to have men sodomize them - but those were probably slaves who did not have the Fibula restriction

Martial BOOK I - LI. TO HYLLUS.

“ … Though
you have
but one penny
in your coffer,
and this is
more worn
than your
arsehole,
Hyllus,
you will give it
neither to the
baker
nor to the
wine merchant,
but to
any well hung man.
Your luckless belly
looks on
at your
arsehole’s
banquet,
and is ever
wretched and hungry,
while the latter
devours ravenously. … “

The Index Expurgatorius of Martial, Literally translated comprising all the epigrams hitherto ommitted by English translations (1868)

Garden of Priapus - 557

More modern worshippers of "The Lampsacene" or Priapus.

Beauty rides boss lady’s husband from the rear - Hector Horse style - Boss lady looking on ...

That’s sex in the land of the “Jinn” - Female sex goddesses do not submit to mortals !

That’s world of the “earth sun” - or memory loss for most …

***

To Martial a man anally sodomized by other men like old Philoctetes - a famous General - was a punishment from Venus. Philoctetes killed Alexander

But even greater punishment from Venus was a man who orally pleasured women’s vaginas - like Sertorius. Sertorius was punished for killing Venus’ son Eryx

I don’t know about that though - that was the question asked by Innana - “who will plow my vulva?” - Men orally pleasuring women vulva’s was a central ritual of the Temple of Aphrodite and Innana - and performed by no less than the King. - And what was good for the King was good for all …

I suppose Romans justified feats like female on male anal sex in the “truss” as punishment from or obedience to a higher power - Venus - and Priapus at a lower level

***

Martial BOOK II - LXXXIV. ON SERTORIUS

“ … Philoctetes,
forgetful of
trumpets and drum,
To all men,
the story goes,
opened his bum.
Thus Venus,
avenging beloved
Alexander,
Made a
prostitute sod
of a gallant
commander.
Sertorius does worse,
and sure it
but meet is
To assume
he has
sinned more
than old
Philoctetes.
No doubt her son
Eryx
to humored
his death,
(We know in
Sicilia
he yielded
his breath)
And the goddess
indignant
there forth
bade him suck
Those lips
of a woman
which other men
fuck … “

The Index Expurgatorius of Martial, Literally translated comprising all the epigrams hitherto ommitted by English translations (1868)

Garden of Priapus - 558

Beauty and a large phallus about to mount a horse - Boss lady looking on.

In the Priapea male violators of the women only Garden of Priapus were routinely forced to anally service 12 inch mentules welded by women

This was seen as obedience to the will of a higher power — Priapus- and therefore religiously justified and not a hedonistic pleasure or shameful addiction

***

In this epigram Martial refuses to marry Telesina because she is a notorious adulteress - but changes his mind when he finds out she sexually craves the same thing he does - boys - or more precisely the rears of “trussed” or penis caged boys …

Martial BOOK II - XLIX. TO TELESINA

“ I will not
marry
Telesina:
Why?
She is
an adulteress.
But Telesina
grants her
favours
to boys.
Then I consent.”

The Index Expurgatorius of Martial, Literally translated comprising all the epigrams hitherto ommitted by English translations (1868)

Garden of Priapus - 559

Beauty and a large phallus mounting a horse - Boss lady looking on.

Valkrie sex, which was just after Roman sex, had to be like this - goddesses do not submit to mortals - and the justifications for proud Nordic warriors - northern "venus boys" or gladiators -bending over for anal penetration by women were probably the same - Venus wills it.

The life-long Roman “Truss” or penis-cage - the Roman sexual furnace or Venus furnace - was also probably because Venus willed it … Venus comes across to me as a mysterious and extremely willful goddess ...

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Martial was asked for sex by Saufeia but she refused to go to the baths with him - even though she had a perfect body.

- That’s probably what the baths were for - and Saufeia probably wanted to anally sodomize Martial - boys were Roman sex objects - and more specifically the boy ass of the “trussed” Roman male. All Roman baths featured a sculpture of phallic goddess - hermaphroditus - as a central focus …

In this epigram it is made clear that Roman males and female bathed together naked - although the “trussed” or penis caged Roam penis was not considered to be naked. Only women and male slaves were fully naked in Roman bath!

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Martial BOOK II - LXXII. TO SAUFEIA.

“ … You wish me
to fuck you,
but you
will not go
to the bath
with me,
Saufeia.
I suspect
there is
some
horrid mystery.
Either your
bubbies
hang shriveled
on your bosom,
or you are
afraid
in your
nakedness
of exposing
the furrows
of your belly,
or your quim
gapes open,
so that
its sides
cannot be
distinguished,
or something
protrudes
from the
lips of your cunt.
But there is
nothing of this,
I believe;
when naked
you are
most lovely.
If so you have
a worse fault;
you are stupid. … “

The Index Expurgatorius of Martial, Literally translated comprising all the epigrams hitherto ommitted by English translations (1868)

Garden of Priapus - 560

Beauty and a large phallus mounting a horse - Boss lady looking on.

***

Venus can disappear - and drugs and money are of limited help - no amount of drugs or money are going to replicate the dark fire of eros …

In this epigram a wealthy but impotent Roman has no success in buying back the fire …

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Martial BOOK III - LXXV. TO LUPERCUS

“ … Your prick,
Lupercus,
has long
ceased to
stand;
yet you
madly strive
to get
an erection.
But scallions and
aphrodisiac rockets
do nothing
for you:
you derive
no benefit
from the
savory of
evil fame.
You begin
to corrupt
pure cheeks
with your wealth.
But who can
marvel enough,
or believe
that your
not standing
stands you
in so much…. “

The Index Expurgatorius of Martial, Literally translated comprising all the epigrams hitherto ommitted by English translations (1868)

Garden of Priapus - 561

Beauty and a large phallus mounting Boss lady's husband.

That’s the Greek man in short skirts and the armor-clad goddess and her large snake - Athena and Odysseus for example

- That image has always suggested the female phallus to me - but I never imagined it was actually like that!

- That movie moved north with the Valkyries after the fall of Rome - There's probably a northern Athens that we do not yet know of - Asgard!

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An OG or old guy laments the loss of pleasure of his “boy ass “

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Martial BOOK III - XXXVII. TO CHARINUS, A CATAMITE

“ Cracked
is the very
foundation
Of joys
that
Charinus
must mourn,
Still
worshipped
in deep
adoration,
Tho’ the seat
of enjoyment
is gone;
No more
blessings
the gods
dream of granting,
With curses
the poor wretch
enclasp,
Leaving luckless
Charinus
still panting
For pleasures
he’s no power
to grasp … “

The Index Expurgatorius of Martial, Literally translated comprising all the epigrams hitherto ommitted by English translations (1868)

Garden of Priapus - 561

Beauty and a large phallus in full gallop in the ass of Boss lady's husband!

That's the movie that left the Greco-Roman world in the 4th century AD when the fires of Vesta were doused by the Christian Roman Emperors.

No more myth of father/daughter love - the myth of Myrhha for OG's like the aged and "trussed" or penis caged Socrates and his young phallic Tribade or Hetairstria - Xanthippe - I think that was the hottest sex of the classical world!

The Nordic kings arrived at the church very late - 10th century AD - That’s a red flag for me - There must have been a northern Athens!

(Feb 9, 2022) I’ve seen things in dreams like Romans in modern eyeglasses - Nero was supposed to have invented them - My guess is civilization did not end in the 4th century. Rome might have moved on in isolation - complete with inventions like flight and computers long ago .. There have always been crazy rumors out there of a more advanced civilization of Aryan “supermen”

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In Rome being smooth shaven was positively correlated with virtue - specifically the smooth shaven and manly sodomized ass - The universal Roman fiery “ boy ass” - created by the Fibula or penis cage.

However, there was great shame in being a man who orally pleasured the female vagina. In this epigram a hairy Roman is advised to adapted the smooth shaven look to dispel the rumor that his mouth submitted to the Roman vagina

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Martial BOOK III - LVI, TO CHARIDEMUS

“ ….Because
your thighs
are rough
and hairy,
and your
breast shaggy,
do you think,
Charidemus,
that you
give lie
to the rumor?
Pluck out,
believe me,
the hairs
from your
whole body
and show that
you shave
your buttocks.
“Why?”
Say you.
“You know
that many men
say many things;
make them think
that you are
sodomised,
Charidemus. … “

The Index Expurgatorius of Martial, Literally translated comprising all the epigrams hitherto ommitted by English translations (1868)

Garden of Priapus - 563

Beauty and a large phallus in full gallop in the ass of Boss lady's husband! - Mirror view … maybe performing the Greek “lioness of the chesse grater” sexual position

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Romans had a fear of the vagina - In a world without birth control, unwanted pregnancy was a danger to both sexes.

It says so in the Priapea - the boy ass in contrast was penalty free sex …

In this epigram a Roman matron is told her “noisy” vagina is the reason men only have sex with her one time …

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Martial BOOK VII - XVIII. TO GALLA.

“ … Seeing that you
have a face
with which
no woman
can compare
her own;
seeing that
no blemish
mars your body,
you ask
with wonder
why
the lover
so seldom
desires you,
and why he
so seldom
repeats his visits.
Your fault is
not light one
Galla.
As often
as I come
to the scratch,
and we heave
with our
blended privates,
your cunt is
not silent
you are.
Would to heaven
that you
not speak,
and this hold
its peace.
I am offended
at the
noisiness
of you cunt.
I would rather
you farted,
for Symmachus
maintains
that this is
of some utility,
and the very thing
that makes
one laugh.
Who can laugh
at the floping sound
of the stupid cunt?
When this strikes
its note,
whose prick
and spirits
do not droop?
Say something
at any rate,
and gag
your clamorous
quim,
and if you are
so silent
take a lesson
in eloquence
from it. …”

The Index Expurgatorius of Martial, Literally translated comprising all the epigrams hitherto ommitted by English translations (1868)

Garden of Priapus - 564

Beauty and a large phallus in full gallop in the ass of Boss lady's husband!

Climax! Full gallop with mouth closed - like the finger over the mouth female phallus of Harpocrates or Horus - That was an Egyptian and Roman secret - the fully erect phallus was female, not male

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The restraint of the Fibula or penis cage was like the sex in this epigram - it lit the flame of lust - remove the restraint and the flame of lust died away …

Martial Book I - XLVI. TO HEDYLUS.

“ … When you say,
Hedylus,
“I shall spend,
finish
if you mean
to finish,”
my flame
languishes
and my lust
grows weak
and
dies away.
Bid me
keep it back:
I shall come
All the quicker,
If checked,
Heydylus,
If you are
going to spend,
tell me
not to spend….”

The Index Expurgatorius of Martial, Literally translated comprising all the epigrams hitherto ommitted by English translations (1868)

(Feb 12, 2022) Had a nasty dream about the penis cage though- - saw it as a form of pure sadism to bind the “dog” the way the Romans did …

Garden of Priapus - 565

Boss lady riding the rear of a rare black horse - Young topless lady getting oral service from the front.

- That’s two forms of enhanced lust - the taboo black male ass, and the taboo Myrrha/daddy lust - the young female phallus serviced by the caged OG or old guy

- My inner image of the forbidden father/daughter Myrrha lust is the creation of the Tree of life in ancient Egypt - The penis restraint of the old guy is what created access to the Tree of life in ancient Egypt

" ... The Tree of Life

Discover the history and religious beliefs surrounding the 'Tree of Life' which was one of the most important religious Egyptian Symbols in the mythology of ancient Egypt. The sun temple located in the City of Heliopolis, Egypt, was dedicated to Ra, the Supreme Solar God, and housed the Tree of Life. The holy Tree of Life was also referred to as the sacred Ished Tree, identified with the Persea Tree. The fruit of the Tree of Life gave Eternal Life and the Knowledge of the Divine Plan, a map of destiny. The fruit of the Tree of Life was not available to mortals, only in the rituals relating to eternity in which the gods refreshed aging Pharaohs, which further symbolized the Pharaohs unity with the gods. The Tree of Life was a prophetic puzzle and it was the Seat of the mythical Bennu Bird (phoenix).

Facts about the Tree of Life from Mythology and Egyptian History

Fact 1:
The Ished Tree of life had a particular solar meaning being associated with the rising sun and as the personification of the Sun god Ra.

Fact 2: The Tree of Life was housed in an open court yard in the Sun temple of Ra in Heliopolis together with the mysterious Ben-Ben Stone, the pyramid-shape capstone that topped a sacred Obelisk.

Fact 3: The Egyptian Tree of Life was protected by the Great Cat (believed to be Mau), a personification of Ra.

Fact 4: During the Ancient Egyptian coronation ceremony, which the ritual of 'Raising a Djed Pillar' was re-enacted, the names of each pharaoh were required to be inscribed on the leaves of this tree.

Fact 5: Thoth, the secretary of the sun god Ra and scribe of the Underworld, wrote the king's name and the length of his reign on its leaves and fruit which protected the ruler and perpetuated his name.

Fact 6: Eating the fruit of the sacred Ished tree of life offered by the gods was a guarantee of eternal life

Fact 7: The Tree of Life was believed to hold the Knowledge of the Divine Plan or the equivalent to a map of destiny which existed from when the world was created, marking the beginning of time

Fact 8: The Egyptian Tree of Life was the home of the Bennu Bird (Phoenix) and was believed to represent the soul of the Sun-God Ra and symbolized resurrection and the rising sun

Fact 9: According to ancient Egyptian mythology the Sun god Ra was said to have split the Ished tree of Life in the morning after his victory over his enemies.

Fact 10: In ancient Egyptian mythology, the first Ennead of Heliopolis were said to have emerged from the Tree of Life, "...in which life and death are enclosed."

Fact 11: Later myths tell a story in which the evil god Set killed Osiris, put him in a coffin which he threw into the Nile. The coffin became embedded in the base of a tamarisk tree of life, which became a pillar in a king’s palace. The 'Raising the Djed Pillar' ceremony symbolized the rebirth of Osiris.

Fact 12: Texts of the creation myth tell that the Tree of Life grew out of the Sacred Mound, it's branches reached out and supported the star and planet studded sky, while it's roots reached down into the watery abyss of the Netherworld

Fact 13: The trunk of the Tree of Life represented the World Pillar or Axis Munde (meaning "Axis of the Mound") around which the heavens appeared to revolve. The World Pillar was the centre of the universe.

Fact 14: The source of four rivers is believed to be located at the foot of the Tree of Life, providing water the world. The four rivers are oriented according to the cardinal points of the compass and are associated with the four elements:

Water - North
Fire - South
Air - East
Earth - West ... "

landofpyramids

- The exact same image is very very common in Mesopotamia - usually a Tree of life and two female phallic bulls on either side guarding it …

My reading is the old King’s Kundalini rising up though the crown chakra and into higher realms. The king spent his youth being ridden by phallic women his own age and older - but ended it being ridden by his daughters phallic generation - and even his own phallic daughters as in the Myth of Myrrha - that’s a pool of solar energy - white hot plasma …

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In the frosty “Aryan” North that would be the tree of the penis caged Odin guarded by the Valkyries - If Odin was a Zeus clone, then he was being sodomized by Hera and latter on his own phallic daughters

Garden of Priapus - 566

Standing tall and young topless lady getting oral service from a kneeling black OG or old guy - Boss lady looking on …

This was considered emasculating by the Romans - but I am sure it was the central rite of their religion - Innana’s question “who will plow my vulva?”

We cannot trust Martial on heterosexual sex in penis-bound Roman society. Firstly, because he preferred sex with boys - but more importantly because a phallic female was at the center of the most important Roman religion - Vesta and there was a taboo about any open discussion about her fire rites

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Passive anal sex from men or boys was virtuous for Romans, but orally servicing men or women was considered highly demeaning …

An exception was almost certainly made for orally servicing a phallic goddess through her avatar - the phallic Roman matron

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Martial BOOK III - LXXIII. TO PHOEBUS

“Phoebus was
a prick-sucker.
He did not care
for female society,
but only for
well hung men.
Now, as I am
charitably disposed,
I should like
to give you
the benefit of
any doubt,
and though,
I know that
as you can’t
get an erection
you did not bugger
your boys,
still I am willing
to believe
that you
keep boys
about you
to be buggered
by them:
but report
(or prick sucking)
will not allow me
to accept
this hypothesis,
and so I
can’t help
thinking
you a prick sucker ….”

The Index Expurgatorius of Martial, Literally translated comprising all the epigrams hitherto ommitted by English translations (1868)

Garden of Priapus - 567

Young topless lady sodomizing ass of black OG or old guy with boss lady looking on - Big smile!

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Some Roman men were proud of giving women oral sex. In this epigram oral sex is all that happens - The man was probably in the penis cage …

The “manly shove” that he did not give was probably not penis in vagina sex - my guess is it was Fibula sex - or female mentule in the rear sex

Martial BOOK III - XCVI. TO GARGILIUS

“ … You
gamahuche
the girl
I love,
And
give her not
the
manly shove,
Yet you brag
about the deed
you’ve done,
As if you were
a fucktious one;
But if I
catch you
at the trick.
I’ll stop
your talking
with my prick. … “

The Index Expurgatorius of Martial, Literally translated comprising all the epigrams hitherto ommitted by English translations (1868)

Garden of Priapus - 568

Young topless lady being orally serviced by black OG with boss lady sodomizing him from the rear

That’s almost certainly the “manly shove” from the rear of the previous epigram - That’s Roman bath sex - All Roman baths were presided over by a statue of hermaphroditus - a phallic Roman matron or goddess …

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Chrestus repaid gifts by oral sex. In this epigram Martial declined the gift as his penis was small and “honorable” - or penis caged. Instead he accepted the gift though oral sex of his Jewish slave, who was circumcised.

Martial BOOK VII. - LV. TO CHRESTUS

“ … If you make
no one
any return
for presents,
Chrestus,
and have
neither given
or made
and return to me,
I will consider
you fairly liberal.
But if you
give presents
to Apicius,
and Lupus,
and Gallus,
and Titius,
and Caesius;
you shall not suck
my pego
(for it is honorable
and small withal)
but that of my slave,
who came here
when Jerusalem
was burnt,
and which
has lately
been condemned
to pay
the tribute. … “

The Index Expurgatorius of Martial, Literally translated comprising all the epigrams hitherto ommitted by English translations (1868)

- Domitian put a levy on Jews for cutting the penis

(Feb 13, 2022) Stronger dreamscape reaction to “Roman Jewish slave” that “Roman British slave” - I guess nobody has ownership of enslaved Roman Briton. - Or maybe the Jewish myth is stronger than the British myth - our religions comes from the Jewish myth - but in a way the British slave myth is more sinister.

Dream images are raging stone throwing - and a Jewish medusa - The Medusa is a living myth today - anything sexual is going to trigger it!

Garden of Priapus - 569

Young topless lady sodomizing the ass of black OG or old guy: - This was the only sex possible for the Roman man with a small and “honorable” penis - ie the bronze Fibula.

The Roman male was trained from as early as seventeen for passive sodomy in a “smooth ass” - His phallic goddesses - Venus and the other phallic great mothers - demanded it!

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In this epigram Amillus is trying too hard to prove that he is not a sexual passive or an oral sex giver

For Romans being a sexual passive was not a taboo - there was virtue in the penis caged small and honorable penis - but oral sex giver was shameful

Martai BOOK VII - LXII. TO AMILLUS

“… You open
your doors
and bugger
tall youths,
Amillus,
and when you
play this game,
you are pleased
to be surprised;
lest the freedmen
and your father’s slaves,
and some
talkative client,
should with
his suggestive
gossip
say something.
A man
who takes
credentials
to prove that
he is not
a passive sodomite ,
often does -
what can be done
without credentials….”

The Index Expurgatorius of Martial, Literally translated comprising all the epigrams hitherto ommitted by English translations (1868)

Garden of Priapus - 570

Ancient Greek Venus furnace - Votive amulet in the form of a phallus (bronze)

A “small and honorable” Greek penis - Bronze votive offering from Ancient Greece.

That’s an aristocrats penis - tightly locked up. All sex was from the rear either from a Tribade or phallic Greek Matron or an uncaged male slave

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That's the Venus fire - not the fully erect Fascinus - that was a female tool. The fire came from male sexual restraint.

Wikipedia has short piece on Socrates Tribade or phallic young wife Xanthippe - but that word and the female phallus is missing in the article.

Socrates liked her using horse riding images - Socrates was the OG or old guy horse being ridden by the young female phallus:

" ....Xanthippe , 5th–4th century BCE) was an ancient Athenian, the wife of Socrates and mother of their three sons: Lamprocles, Sophroniscus, and Menexenus. She was likely much younger than Socrates, perhaps by as much as 40 years.

Xanthippe means "yellow horse", from Ancient Greek: ξανθ?ς xanthos "blond" and ?ππος hippos "horse". Hers is one of many Greek personal names with a horse theme (cf. Philippos "Friend of Horses", Hippocrates "Horse-tamer", etc.). The hippos in an ancient Greek name often suggested aristocratic heritage.

One additional reason for thinking Xanthippe's family was socially prominent was that her eldest son was named Lamprocles instead of "Sophroniscus" after Socrates' father Sophroniscus: the ancient Greek custom was to name one's first child after the more illustrious of the two grandfathers. Xanthippe's father is believed to have been named Lamprocles. If he was even more well-established in Athenian aristocracy than was Socrates' father, his name would have been the preferred choice for the name of the first-born son.

Plato's portrayal of Xanthippe in the Phaedo suggests that she was a devoted wife and mother; She is mentioned nowhere else in Plato. Xenophon, in his Memorabilia, portrays her in much the same light, although he does make Lamprocles complain of her harshness It is only in Xenophon's Symposium where we have Socrates agree that she is (in Antisthenes' words) "the hardest to get along with of all the women there are." Nevertheless, Socrates adds that he chose her precisely because of her argumentative spirit:

It is the example of the rider who wishes to become an expert horseman: "None of your soft-mouthed, docile animals for me," he says; "the horse for me to own must show some spirit" in the belief, no doubt, if he can manage such an animal, it will be easy enough to deal with every other horse besides. And that is just my case. I wish to deal with human beings, to associate with man in general; hence my choice of wife. I know full well, if I can tolerate her spirit, I can with ease attach myself to every human being else.

Perhaps this picture of Xanthippe originated with the historical Antisthenes, one of Socrates' pupils, since Xenophon initially puts this view into his mouth. Aelian also depicts her as a jealous shrew in his description of an episode in which she tramples underfoot a large and beautiful cake sent to Socrates by Alcibiades. Diogenes Laërtius tells of other stories involving Xanthippe's supposed abusiveness.

It seems that Xenophon's portrayal of her in his Symposium has been the most influential: Diogenes Laërtius, for example, seems to quote the Symposium passage, though he does not mention Xenophon by name, and the term "Xanthippe" has now come to mean any nagging scolding person, especially a shrewish wife.

Later writers, such as Diogenes Laërtius who cite Aristotle as the earliest source, say that Socrates had a second wife called Myrto. Plutarch tells of a similar story, reporting that it comes from a work entitled On Good Birth, but he expresses doubt as to whether it was written by Aristotle. In Plutarch's version of the story, Socrates, who was already married, attended to Myrto's financial concerns when she became a widow; this does not entail marriage. We have no more reliable evidence on this issue.[

A different account of Xanthippe and Myrto is given in Aristoxenus's Life of Socrates written in the latter part of the fourth century BC that Aristoxenus asserts is based on first-person accounts by his father. This claims that Myrto was his legitimate wife and Xanthippe his mistress, whose child became legitimate.

An unconfirmed anecdote purports that Xanthippe was once so enraged with her husband that she took a chamber pot and poured it out over Socrates' head, which – according to the tale – the philosopher accepted with the allegory: "After thunder comes the rain."

The widely cited quote from Socrates about Xanthippe, "By all means, marry. If you will get for yourself a good wife, you will be happy forever after; and if by chance you will get a common scold like my Xanthippe — why then you will become a philosopher." is misattributed.

In William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, Petruchio compares Katherina "As Socrates' Xanthippe or a worse" in Act 1 Scene 2. ... " Wikipedia

 

Garden of Priapus - 571

Statue of Hermaphroditos - Archaeological Museum of Dion, Central Macedonia, Greece.

The phallic Greek Matron disrobing for the Greek baths … Greek men like Socrates were serviced from the rear by these …

Garden of Priapus - 572

A caged phallus serviced from the rear by a smiling boss lady

The chthonic or earth is the other sex - So a girls earth is the phallus. That’s a tricky concept - but it seems to be that way. The chthonic or earth is also inaccessible for the most part - that’s the “earth sun” space - or the dragon space

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Romans did not think it manly to give oral sex to either men or women - In this epigram Martial rebukes a tribade or phallic amazon who gave oral sex to women and girls.

Early debates of translators of this epigram were how a woman sodomized boys - but to the “small and honorable” or penis caged world of Martial female on male sodomy appears to have been routine - in other epigrams he writes of approvingly and even enviously of tribade sex

- The female strap-on penis must have been standard in every Roman marriage that featured a standard caged penis

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Martial BOOK VII - LXVII. TO PHILAENIS, A TRIBADE

“ … Philaenis,
the tribade,
sodomises boys,
and more
fiercely passionate
than a
lewd husband,
gamahuches
eleven girls
a day.
With her dress
tucked up
also she plays
with the handball,
and covers herself
with sand,
and whirls
with an easy arm
dumb bells
heavy enough
for the
stoutest athletes,
and all
over dust
from the
stinking arena,
she is whipped
by the greasy
fencing master:
nor does
she sup
or lie down
at table
before she has
vomited
seven tumblers
of neat wine,
and when
she has
eaten sixteen
tonic cakes,
she thinks
it right
to return
to her cups.
After all this,
when she is
lecherous
she does not
suck pricks.
She thinks this
hardly manly
but she
regularly
devours the
quims
of girls.
May the Gods
clothe thee
in thy right mind,
Philaenis,
thou that thinkest
it manly
to gamahuche
women. … “

The Index Expurgatorius of Martial, Literally translated comprising all the epigrams hitherto ommitted by English translations (1868)

- Martial was also against oral sex of young penis caged boys. Anal sex with them was fine, but oral sex was said to hasten or shorten puberty. Same thing probably applied to young girls. I think the Romans knew something we don’t - the dragon or earth sun should be left alone - when it wants service it will ask for it

Garden of Priapus - 573

More of a caged phallus serviced - boss lady in full gallop!

Socrates had a Tribade wife - Xanthippe - described above as 40 years his junior - Her sons took her name not her fathers ! That was probably standard for Tribades - and maybe for most Greek families …

In the Greco-Roman-Etruscan penis caged system women practiced a form of polyandry - multiple sex partners, but the fathers kept the children … The phallus was female, not male !

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In this epigram Martial shows that Tribades had female mistresses. Male too - Socrates was a male mistress to his Tribade wife! The phallic Andromanche the Amazon over the penis caged prince Hector was the Greco-Roman model

That’s a lesbian couple today - but there are few lesbians today with access to the “earth-sun” - The modern world lives almost entirely in its head; we do not have access to the fire realms of the “jinn” - Rome had access to that through the universal penis cage

Martial BOOK VII - LXX. TO PHILAENIS

“ … Thou
tribade
of very
tribades,
Philaenis,
rightly dost thou
call her
whom thou
fuckest,
thy companion. [amicam]… “

The Index Expurgatorius of Martial, Literally translated comprising all the epigrams hitherto ommitted by English translations (1868)

Garden of Priapus - 574

More of a caged phallus serviced - boss lady as 1970’s James Bond BDSM vixen riding “hector horse”

That’s the precommunist Chinese dragon lady stance too - The forbidden city was dragon ladies and Eunuchs only!


It seems impossible to erotizise a Eunuch, but the Roman religion did it - Cybele’s Tribades rode Roman Eunuchs “hector horse”

A pouch went over the fibula. Jews used a pouch to conceal their cut phalli. In this epigram a large pouch fell off exposing the circumcised penis of a bather friend of Martial. Martial felt sorry for him.

Thats the pattern with Rome - the uncaged penis was seen as a dishonorable defect to be hidden - That signals strange and strong eros to me - The famous “dog-leash tan” eros of the Roman upper classes

So long as the cage went on before puberty, it was endurable I suppose.

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Martial - BOOK VIII - LXXXII. ON MENOPHILUS, WHO WAS CIRCUMCISED

“ … So large a pouch
covers the penis
of Menophilus
that it would alone
be sufficient
for all actors.
I had thought
(for we often
bathe together),
that he was
anxiously
preserving
his voice,
Flaccus.
But as he was
practising
in the
middle of
the palaestra,
before
a crowd
of spectators ,
his pouch
slipped off:
poor fellow!
He was
circumcised. ... “

(1) From this epigram some commentators have attempted to prove that there were two kinds of fibula or “pouch,” one by which the genitals were compressed at the same time that they were covered, and another which was a brass or a silver ring put around the prepuce. This opinion however cannot be sustained. For Celsus distinguishes the ring from the Fibula, and says that the fibula was put on when the ring was taken away; nor was it simply a garment, for that there was a ring is certain, either of silver of brass, and this was soldered on by a blacksmith, that it might not be easily removed, and a blacksmith had to be employed when it was undone (refibulor). What then was that sheath or pouch that covered the penis according to Martial? It could not have been anything for the preservation of the voice ( i.e. by putting a restraint on a man’s copulation), for if so, of what use could it have been if so easily removed? Nay fell off on its own accord! But the Jews made use of these drawers or pouches to conceal thier circumcision . They could not be infibulated, as they had no prepuce. Now since all who were so infibulated wore the sheath (Theca) or pouch (aluta) either to cover it, or that the ring might not hurt them in walking, or as a protection, if the penis received an accidental blow, fibula is used loosely by Martial, inasmuch as the fibula did not drop off, but the sheath or pouch which protected , or rather in this instance should have protected the fibula.

The Index Expurgatorius of Martial, Literally translated comprising all the epigrams hitherto ommitted by English translations (1868)

Garden of Priapus - 575

Tall Asian and three other phallic Amazons getting oral service from a kneeling male slave.

They have access to the dragon energy! Reminds me of Brazilian Samba at Carnaval - hot carnal Amazon eros out in the open …

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In this epigram by Martial, bathing Roman matrons enjoy the experience of gawking at naked but penis caged men in the Roman baths. From earlier epigrams, it is clear that the matrons bathed naked too.

Martial BOOK IX - XXXIII. TO FLACCUS

“ …When you hear
the
staid matrons
give signs
of delight
While bathing
secure undercover,
It’s not
the fine
swimmers
their praises
excite,
But a prick
that they
chuckling over. … “

The Index Expurgatorius of Martial, Literally translated comprising all the epigrams hitherto ommitted by English translations (1868)

Garden of Priapus - 576

Tall Asian sodomizing the kneeling male slave. Muscle Amazon with large mentule waiting her turn …

Any Roman bath sex that followed the gawking of the Roman matrons had to be female on male oral and anal sex. The Roman penis was locked up. The phallic Hermaphroditus that presided over every Roman bath was the signal of what was to come ...

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Again, Martial reminds us that the proud Roman tongue did not provide oral service …

Still not sure about that - That seems to be the central rite of the Phallic Aphrodite or Innana.

Martial BOOK XI - XXX. TO ZOILUS

“ … Foul-mouthed
all lawyers
and poets
you call.
But the mouth of
a tongue fucker’s
fouler than all…”

The Index Expurgatorius of Martial, Literally translated comprising all the epigrams hitherto ommitted by English translations (1868)

Garden of Priapus - 577

More tall Asian sodomizing the kneeling male slave.

For Martial passive sodomy was manly - he compares it to eating a fine meal in one of his epigrams. Martial sodomized boys, but was sodomized by Roman matrons and his wife in the traditional Trojan Hector horse position. There was no stigma in it - in contrast to wasting semen in masturbation which was sinful in his eyes

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The rear of an old Roman man - smoothly worn from life long anal sex - My guess mostly female on male anal

That’s a health issue though - being anal retentive is a life drain at all levels … My aphorism for that is - “ingress, no egress”.

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Martial BOOK IX - LVII. ON HEDYLUS

“ … Friend Heydylus’
cloak
is a sight
to behold
It’s ragged,
it’s tattered,
it’s battered,
it’s old.
Not the handles
of flagons
grown smoother
from wear,
Nor the handles
of wagons
grown smoother
from wear,
Nor the legs
of chained asses
more mangy
and bare,
Not the ruts
of a highway
where market carts
meet,
Not the round
shining pebbles
on which
the waves beat.
The rags of
dead paupers,
spaded ground
by the soil,
Nor the cart wheel
made bright
in its circular toil,
Not the flank
of the bison,
rubbed raw
in his lair,
Not an old boar’s
white tusk
ground down
to a stump,
Are so worn
as old Heydylus’
cloak,
yet I’d swear
That his cloak’s
much less worn
than the hole
in his rump … “

The Index Expurgatorius of Martial, Literally translated comprising all the epigrams hitherto ommitted by English translations (1868)

Garden of Priapus - 578

The muscular host Amazon has a go from the rear

- Greek and Roman matrons ended up bulkier than their effete husbands - for example the phallic Hermaphroditus of the Roman bath is always a muscular but female Roman matron …

Egyptian women tended to a lean physique - but their bald husbands were always leaner than them … I guess that was the erotic end result of the penis cage system

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The Roman matron remained virile into old age. Here Phyllis had two youths at one time - One from behind and the other from the front.

The original reading of this epigram was male phallus - but the standard meaning of Roman sexual youths was “spintra” or anal. The age from 17 to 25 and the removal of the penis cage was male ass training time.

Phyllis the old bull sodomized one youth and had oral sex with the other …

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BOOK X. - LXXXI. ON PHYLLIS

“…Two youths came
one morning
fair Phyllis to fuck.
And quarreled
which one
of them
should have
that good luck,
But she vowed
that for each
she a place
would
soon find,
Stuck one prick
in before
and the other
behind. …”

The Index Expurgatorius of Martial, Literally translated comprising all the epigrams hitherto ommitted by English translations (1868)

Garden of Priapus - 579

Black Amazon has a go from the rear with a large mentule - while Asian Amazon breaks the fourth wall from the front

In this epigram a Greek is turned into a Gaul or Gallus castrated priest of Cybele by a romantic rival.

Towards the end of Rome this was a common operation - as an avatar of the castrated Attis all eros was from the rear or the tongue

Martial BOOK XI - LXXIV. TO BACCHARA.

“ … A Greek,
a victim
to venereal disease,
To show
his penis
to a doctor
goes;
The doctor
is his rival,
and t’improve
His chances
to secure
the lady’s love,
And snatch
the damsel
from his rival’s
arms.
He’ll dock
the greatest
of his patient’s
charms,
Who’ll seem
no Grecian
after he’s
been mauled
By treachery’s
knife,
he’ll feel
so devilish
gaulled. … “

The Index Expurgatorius of Martial, Literally translated comprising all the epigrams hitherto ommitted by English translations (1868)

To late Rome the penis was the disease and hinderance to the lady love - the phallic Cybele - This poem has subterranean meanings

Garden of Priapus - 580

More Black Amazon has a go from the rear with a large mentule

To Martial in this epigram oral sex was like an infection that spread to loved ones.

Maybe all that ass sex was why Martial hated oral sex so much. …

Martial BOOK XI. - XCV. TO FLACCUS

“ … As often
Flaccus
as you sip,
Not fastidious
in your joy,
A gamahucher’s
rosy lip,
Fragrant
from its
last night’s
toy,
Think of
the mouth
you kiss
and slaver
Has been
a most
dishonored
slaver … “

The Index Expurgatorius of Martial, Literally translated comprising all the epigrams hitherto ommitted by English translations (1868)

Garden of Priapus - 581

Blond muscle Amazon has a go from the rear

Martial - like phallic Roman matrons had a taste for sodomy with boys - but he could not afford it. In this epigram a Roman loses all his land in feeding his boy lust

Several years in the penis cage made boys - 17 to 25 - highly sexually desirable (and expensive) for both men and women! Domitian made it illegal to pay for it, and also made it illegal to have anal sex with boys younger than 17 - even though he himself made good money selling himself to Roman aristocrats as a boy

Martial BOOK XII - XXXIII. TO LABIENUS

“ … To buy
boys,
Labienus
sold his
gardens:
Labienus
now has nothing
but a grove
of figs … “

(1) An untranslatable pun. The idea is, there is nothing left to Labienus from his gardens but a field sown of figs, that is, the boys from being sodomised are “ficosos” or afflicted with piles. The word “fiscus,” signifies figs and also piles. Labienus, of course, ran through his property in gratifying his sodomitical tastes.

The Index Expurgatorius of Martial, Literally translated comprising all the epigrams hitherto ommitted by English translations (1868)

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“Piles” probably means constipation caused by anal sex - which is kind of a contradiction of the effect of anal sex, which is anti-constipation …

Garden of Priapus - 582

Blond muscle Amazon has her mentule serviced from the front

That sickened Martial - but was also central to the Innana cult - “who will plow my vulva?”

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In this epigram Martial commends a Roman for confessing his taste for passive anal sex, but suspects that this honesty conceals the sexual appetites of his tongue …

Martial BOOK XXI - XXXV. TO CALLISTRATUS.

“ … Callistratus
so open
you appear,
Your
Pathic taste
so freely
you express,
That
for
the life
of me,
I can’t
but fear
One taste
remains
your tongue
would not
confess! … “

(1) The meaning of this epigram is as follows: - You confess you have been sodomised: now any man who confesses this, confesses it in order to conceal a greater vice. You think that if you tell us you are a catamite, whatever opinion we have of your morality, at any rate we shall give you credit for honesty. Not so, says Martial, we see through your ruse, you tell us this to thow us off the scent that we may not suspect the truth, i.e. that you gamahuche.

The Index Expurgatorius of Martial, Literally translated comprising all the epigrams hitherto ommitted by English translations (1868)

Garden of Priapus - 583

Blond muscle Amazon has another go from the rear - with host looking on ...

In this epigram Martial says girls should gives kisses for free but not “favors”. My guess is favors for the penis caged Roman man was the female mentule in the rear

Martial BOOK XII - LV. TO YOUNG LADIES

“ … The man
who bids you,
young ladies,
grant your
favors
for nothing,
is a most
impertinent
and
unconscionable
fellow.
Grant not your
favors
for nothing,
but give us
kisses
for nothing.
Aegle refuses:
in her avarice
she even
sells
her kisses.
But whatever
a kiss
be worth,
let her sell it
for
a good price.
She gets a price
for it
by her great
importunity.
Either she wants
a pound
of scent
or eight
new Flavii (3),
that her
kisses
many not be
dumb
or given
niggardly,
and that
her lips
may not
be closed
to the
approach of
the tongue.
Yet in this
she acts
charitably,
but there is
one thing;
Aegle who
will not kiss
for love,
will gamahuche
for love. … “

(3) The Flavians were gold coins with the “image and superscription” of Flavius Domitian. Their value was twenty-five Denarii…

The Index Expurgatorius of Martial, Literally translated comprising all the epigrams hitherto ommitted by English translations (1868)

Garden of Priapus - 584

More tall Asian having a go from the rear - muscular host being serviced from the front.

That’s fire sex - it gives access to the fire world of the “jinn” -


(Feb 21, 2022) I was bullied this weekend by the “Jinn” when working on this series - Every time I stopped and did other things I was overcome by a crushing drowsiness - I wanted to work more slowly and think more - but as with all this adult stuff - my Catholic prudish soul is also constantly blocking my path forward

- But this is Erotica - a higher form of porn - and has a religious dimension too - access to higher worlds!

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In this epigram, Martial prefers his erotic friends to a very rich wife

Martial BOOK XII - LXXV. ON HIS FAVORITES

“ … Polytimus is
very lecherous
on women.
Hypnus is
slow to admit
he is my
Ganymede;
Secundus has
buttocks
fed on acorns.
Dindymus is
a catamite,
but pretends
not to be.
Amphion
would have
made
a capital girl.
My friend,
I would rather
have their
blandishments,
their haughty
airs,
their annoying
pertness,
than a wife
with three million
sesterces … “

The Index Expurgatorius of Martial, Literally translated comprising all the epigrams hitherto ommitted by English translations (1868)

Garden of Priapus - 585

Bonus tall Asian having a go from the rear …

In this epigram by Martial Roman anal sodomites quarrel with Roman oral sodomites

Martial BOOK XII - LXXXV. TO FABULLUS

“ … Fabullus
says that
he can tell
Gomorrha’s
followers
by
the smell
Their
very breathings
reek of;
If that
be so,
what odor
then,
Pervades
the lips
of
certain men,
Who tongue
what men
should never
even speak of … “

The Index Expurgatorius of Martial, Literally translated comprising all the epigrams hitherto ommitted by English translations (1868)

Garden of Priapus - 586

The host - as a bull grinding away from the rear …

That was the Hermaphroditus ideal in the ancient Roman bath!

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In this epigram Martial asks an impotent Roman man with a large male and female harem what he will do

More proof that the Roman male phallus was not that important - the mentules of girls or “young lions” and the rears of penis caged boys handled the sexual needs of Roman men

Martial BOOK XII - LXXXVI. TO A MAN WHOSE PENIS DID NOT STAND

“ … You have
thirty boys
and
thirty girls:
you have
one prick
and it
does not
stand:
what will you do? … “

The Index Expurgatorius of Martial, Literally translated comprising all the epigrams hitherto ommitted by English translations (1868)

Garden of Priapus - 587

More of the host - as a bull grinding away from the rear … Black girl getting service from the front

In this epigram Martial tells a friend avoid masturbation when reading erotica - a girl to perform the duties of a bride is recommended

Martial probably meant a female bull to ride him anally to orgasm when the pain of the Fibula became unendurable

Martial BOOK XII - XCV. TO RUFUS

“ … Read,
Instantius Rufus,
the most
lewd
volumes of
Masaeus
which vie
with those
of Hemitheon the Sybarite,
and his pages
steeped
in pruriency,
but let
your chere amie
be at your side
lest you
sing to Hymen
a song
of masturbation,
and perform
the duty
of a husband
without a bride. … “

The Index Expurgatorius of Martial, Literally translated comprising all the epigrams hitherto ommitted by English translations (1868)

The “duties of a bride” of a Roman wife are not what they were assumed to be by the translators of this epigram - ie male phallus sex. From previous epigrams, Roman wives are described as not the catamites or anal passives of their husbands - The implication was the Roman husband - in his penis cage was the sexual passive - It was recommended that he spend time in the Roman brothel to learn how to perform at home - ie "Andromache on Hector" horse sex

Garden of Priapus - 588

More of the host - giving “Andromache on Hector” horse sex

“ … Another notorious position in the ancient world, particularly in Greek culture, is for the woman to be“on top”, a position sometimes associated with another mythical couple, Hector and Andromache. Martial describes Andromache riding Hector as a horse, a position so exciting that it aroused the spectators to masturbation. Andromache was, of course Hector’s wife, prostitutes would apparently refuse the position, or charge extra. Catullus’s presentation of himself to Ipsitilla supine, but “prepared”, may be interpreted as an invitation to his partner to ride him. … “

“Sexual Knowledge, Sexual Science” ‎Roy Porter, ‎Mikulas Teich (1994)

Catullus as an upper class Roman was penis caged - his main sex organ was his “smooth” ass under Ipsitilla’s mentule

Garden of Priapus - 589

“Catullus’s presentation of himself to Ipsitilla supine, but “prepared”: - The general and friends having outdoor roman sex - Roman men preferred the young pre 25 penis caged state of their lives - when they were eromenos -

“The word eromenos describes an adolescent boy who is the passive (or ‘receptive’, ‘subordinate’) partner in a homosexual relationship (usually between males), opposite to the word erastes (to love, the older and active partner) in Ancient Greece.

What is missed is Roman and Greek women were erastes as Plato states. Active Homosexual activity required removal of the penis cage - which was not that common … A loose penis was dishonorable to the Romans - and finding boys to have passive sex with was also expensive.

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In this epigram Martial wonders why Crows are considered vulgar gamahuchers.

Romans considered Crows to have female phalli - Egyptians thought the same of Vultures. It’s generally true that many birds like Ostriches have female phalli - and dragons too. …

Martrial BOOK XIV. - LXXIV. A CROW.

“Oh
courteous
crow,
why are you
considered
a
gamahucher? (2)
No
penis
enters
your
mouth.”

(2) Crows were believed by the vulgar to copulate with their mouths, the beak of the female being inserted in that of the male (See Pliny X. CH. xii) …

The Index Expurgatorius of Martial, Literally translated comprising all the epigrams hitherto ommitted by English translations (1868)

Garden of Priapus - 590

The general gamahuchering a penis caged slave in the sunny outdoors

Martial hated that! I assume because the other destination for that mentule is the slaves rear end.

In this epigram by Martial a Spanish slave dancing girl caused a legend to commit a heinous sin against chastity - masturbation.

The whole of Greece and Spain were sold into slavery after the Roman conquest. There is surprisingly little information about this holocaust - same with the enslavement of Israel and Britain …

Martial Book XIV. - CCIII. A GIRL OF CADIZ (1)

“She waves
her loins
and hips
with such
quivering
movements,
she is
so sweetly
lewd,
that
she
would make
Hippolytus
himself
a mastubator. “

(1) Slave vendors brought dancing girls round for sale. The most celebrated came from Baetica of which Gades (Cadiz) was the capital Town.

The Index Expurgatorius of Martial, Literally translated comprising all the epigrams hitherto ommitted by English translations (1868)

The girl from Cadiz went from slave to master in the bedroom though - It’s just an ironic fact of Roman penis-caged or “trussed” sex - Young girls dominated old men in bed - Like Trojan princes Nestor and Priam and their "nurse"

Garden of Priapus - 591

The general penetrating the slave from the rear while firmly grasping his caged phallus - in the great outdoors. Most garden of Priapus sex was probably like this …

Passive anal sex with uncaged boys - eromenos - was noble for Martial - but he suspects his friend of being an unclean prick sucker.

Martial BOOK III - LXXIII. TO PHOEBUS

“ ….You sleep
with
well-hung
boys,
Phoebus,
and while
they have
erections
you do not
get a stand.
What,
I ask,
would you
make me
suspect?
I should like
to think you
a passive
sodomite,
but report
says
you
are
not
a catamite. ...”

The Index Expurgatorius of Martial, Literally translated comprising all the epigrams hitherto ommitted by English translations (1868)

Garden of Priapus - 592

The general and her penis key over a penis caged slave being worked from the rear.

My guess is Roman men had to get permission from their wives to release their caged phalli. That’s the meaning of the phallic votive offerings - The Roman matron was the avatar of a Roman phallic goddess

- That’s why Augustus made marriage mandatory. The Roman man was eromenos - or a sexual passive for life!

I’m not sure - but I think this is how the Nordic “rainbow bridge” connecting earth or Midgard to Asgard or Valhalla was generated. Nordic mythology is full of images of giant women marrying human mortals. And they are usually not passive women but armed Amazons - the Valkyries

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CG Jung in Wotan (1936) thinks that an awakening of Wotan or Odin from a deep sleep was what led to the Nazi movement. My impression from working on this page is that was a failed awakening. Wotan was still trapped on Midgard or earth where he had fallen more than 1000 years ago:

"... When we look back to the time before 1914, we find ourselves living in a world of events which would have been inconceivable before the war. We were even beginning to regard war between civilized nations as a fable, thinking that such an absurdity would become less and less possible on our rational, internationally organized world. And what came after the war was a veritable witches’ sabbath. Everywhere fantastic revolutions, violent alterations of the map, reversions in politics to medieval or even antique prototypes, totalitarian states that engulf their neighbours and outdo all previous theocracies in their absolutist claims, persecutions of Christians andJews, wholesale political murder, and finally we have witnessed a light-hearted piratical raid on a peaceful, half-civilized people.


With such goings on in the wide world it is not in the least surprising that there should be equally curious manifestations on a smaller scale in other spheres. In the realm of philosophy we shall have to wait some time before anyone is able to assess the kind of age we are living in. But in the sphere of religion we can see at once that some very significant things have been happening. We need feel no surprise that in Russia the colourful splendours of the Eastern Orthodox Church have been superseded by the Movement of the Godless — indeed, one breathed a sigh of relief oneself when one emerged from the haze of an Orthodox church with its multitude of lamps and entered an honest mosque, where the sublime and invisible omnipresence of God was not crowded out by a superfluity of sacred paraphernalia. Tasteless and pitiably unintelligent as it is, and however deplorable the low spiritual level of the “scientific” reaction, it was inevitable that nineteenth-century “scientific” enlightenment should one day dawn in Russia.


But what is more than curious — indeed, piquant to a degree — is that an ancient god of storm and frenzy, the long quiescent Wotan,should awake, like an extinct volcano, to new activity, in a civilized country that had long been supposed to have outgrown the Middle Ages. We have seen him come to life in the German Youth Movement, and right at the beginning the blood of several sheep was shed in honour of his resurrection. Armed with rucksack and lute, blond youths, and sometimes girls as well, were to be seen as restless wanderers on every road from the North Cape to Sicily, faithful votaries of the roving god. Later, towards the end of the Weimar Republic, the wandering role was taken over by thousands of unemployed, who were to be met with everywhere on their aimless journeys. By 1933 they wandered no longer, but marched in their hundreds of thousands. The Hitler movement literally brought the whole of Germany to its feet, from five-year-olds to veterans, and produced a spectacle of a nation migrating from one place to another. Wotan the wanderer was on the move. He could be seen, looking rather shamefaced, in the meeting-house of a sect of simple folk in North Germany, disguised as Christ sitting on a white horse. I do not know if these people were aware of Wotan’s ancient connection with the figures of Christ and Dionysus, but it is not very probable.


Wotan is a restless wanderer who creates unrest and stirs up strife, now here, now there, and works magic. He was soon changed by Christianity into the devil, and only lived on in fading local traditions as a ghostly hunter who was seen with his retinue, flickering like a will o’ the wisp through the stormy night. In the Middle Ages the role of the restless wanderer was taken over by Ahasuerus, the Wandering Jew, which is not a Jewish but a Christian legend. The motif of the wanderer who has not accepted Christ was projected on the Jews, in the same way as we always rediscover our unconscious psychic contents in other people. At any rate the coincidence of anti-Semitism with the reawakening of Wotan is a psychological subtlety that may perhaps be worth mentioning. ...

… It seems to me that Wotan hits the mark as an hypothesis. Apparently he really was only asleep in the Kyffhauser mountain until the ravens called him and announced the break of day. He is a fundamental attribute of the German psyche, an irrational psychic factor which acts on the high pressure of civilization like a cyclone and blows it away. Despite their crankiness, the Wotan-worshippers seem to have judged things more correctly than the worshippers of reason. Apparently everyone had forgotten that Wotan is a Germanic datum of first importance, the truest expression and unsurpassed personification of a fundamental quality that is particularly characteristic of the Germans. Houston Stewart Chamberlain is a symptom which arouses suspicion that other veiled gods may be sleeping elsewhere. The emphasis on the Germanic race — commonly called “Aryan” — the Germanic heritage, blood and soil, the Wagalaweia songs, the ride of the Valkyries, Jesus as a blond and blue-eyed hero, the Greek mother of St Paul, the devil as an international Alberich in Jewish or Masonic guise, the Nordic aurora borealis as the light of civilization, the inferior Mediterranean races — all this is the indispensable scenery for the drama that is taking place and at the bottom they all mean the same thing: a god has taken possession of the Germans and their house is filled with a “mighty rushing wind.” It was soon after Hitler seized power,if I am not mistaken, that a cartoon appeared in PUNCH of a raving berserker tearing himself free from his bonds. A hurricane has broken loose in Germany while we still believe it is fine weather.... " CG Jung, Wotan (1936)

Garden of Priapus - 593

Another phallic Amazon has a go from behind.

There are images of Odin or Wotan as a world tree - That’s only possible in conjunction with a phallic Amazon - Other examples can be found on page 134 of this site - for example Africans still have Legba and the phallic amazons

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I believe there was an earthly counterpart to Asgard somewhere in Europe - my guess is in the Kievan Rus - the homeland of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus.

Hitler and Napoleon had an irrational obsession with conquering Russia - maybe they were searching for the successor of the Roman Empire … The northen Athens or Valkyrie/Aryan civilization

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" ... Odin is a widely revered god in Germanic mythology. Norse mythology, the source of most surviving information about him, associates him with wisdom, healing, death, royalty, the gallows, knowledge, war, battle, victory, sorcery, poetry, frenzy, and the runic alphabet, and depicts him as the husband of the goddess Frigg. In wider Germanic mythology and paganism, the god was known in Old English as Woden, in Old Saxon as Uuôden, in Old Dutch as Wuodan, in Old Frisian as Wêda, and in Old High German as Wuotan, all ultimately stemming from the Proto-Germanic theonym *Wodanaz, meaning 'lord of frenzy', or 'leader of the possessed'.

Odin appears as a prominent god throughout the recorded history of Northern Europe, from the Roman occupation of regions of Germania (from c. 2 BCE) through movement of peoples during the Migration Period (4th to 6th centuries CE) and the Viking Age (8th to 11th centuries CE). In the modern period the rural folklore of Germanic Europe continued to acknowledge Odin. References to him appear in place names throughout regions historically inhabited by the ancient Germanic peoples, and the day of the week Wednesday bears his name in many Germanic languages, including in English.

In Old English texts, Odin holds a particular place as a euhemerized ancestral figure among royalty, and he is frequently referred to as a founding figure among various other Germanic peoples, such as the Langobards, while some Old Norse sources depict him as an enthroned ruler of the gods. Forms of his name appear frequently throughout the Germanic record, though narratives regarding Odin are mainly found in Old Norse works recorded in Iceland, primarily around the 13th century. These texts make up the bulk of modern understanding of Norse mythology.

Old Norse texts portray Odin as the son of Bestla and Borr along with two brothers, Vili and Vé, and he fathered many sons, most famously the gods Thor (with Jörð) and Baldr (with Frigg). He is known by hundreds of names. Odin is frequently portrayed as one-eyed and long-bearded, wielding a spear named Gungnir or appearing in disguise wearing a cloak and a broad hat. He is often accompanied by his animal familiars—the wolves Geri and Freki and the ravens Huginn and Muninn, who bring him information from all over Midgard—and he rides the flying, eight-legged steed Sleipnir across the sky and into the underworld. In these texts he frequently seeks greater knowledge, most famously by obtaining the Mead of Poetry, and makes wagers with his wife Frigg over his endeavors. He takes part both in the creation of the world by slaying the primordial being Ymir and in giving life to the first two humans Ask and Embla. He also provides mankind knowledge of runic writing and poetry, showing aspects of a culture hero. He has a particular association with the Yule holiday.

Odin is also associated with the divine battlefield maidens, the valkyries, and he oversees Valhalla, where he receives half of those who die in battle, the einherjar, sending the other half to the goddess Freyja's Fólkvangr. Odin consults the disembodied, herb-embalmed head of the wise Mímir, who foretells the doom of Ragnarök and urges Odin to lead the einherjar into battle before being consumed by the monstrous wolf Fenrir. In later folklore, Odin sometimes appears as a leader of the Wild Hunt, a ghostly procession of the dead through the winter sky. He is associated with charms and other forms of magic, particularly in Old English and Old Norse texts.

The figure of Odin is a frequent subject of interest in Germanic studies, and scholars have advanced numerous theories regarding his development. Some of these focus on Odin's particular relation to other figures; for example, Freyja's husband Óðr appears to be something of an etymological doublet of the god, while Odin's wife Frigg is in many ways similar to Freyja, and Odin has a particular relation to Loki. Other approaches focus on Odin's place in the historical record, exploring whether Odin derives from Proto-Indo-European mythology or developed later in Germanic society. In the modern period Odin has inspired numerous works of poetry, music, and other cultural expressions. He is venerated with other Germanic gods in most forms of the new religious movement Heathenry; some branches focus particularly on him. ... " Wikipedia

Garden of Priapus - 594

Last phallic Amazon has a go - in the sunny outdoors.

The female phallus energy seems to be enhanced by fresh sunlight - but as of now most of it is in dark BDSM dungeons - The world is not yet there …

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There might be some truth in Wagner’s “ring” mythology. Tolkien carried the story further in his “Lord of the Rings” - My impression from dream feedback on work on this website is Sauron the villain in Tolkien is a product of male/male erotic energy - Like Martial … Male/Female eros is disruptive to his power …

" … The story of Die Walküre is based on the Norse mythology told in the Volsunga Saga and the Poetic Edda. In this version the Volsung twins Sieglinde and Siegmund, separated in childhood, meet and fall in love. This union angers the gods who demand that Siegmund must die. Sieglinde and the couple's unborn child are saved by the defiant actions of Wotan's daughter, the title character, Valkyrie Brünnhilde, who as a result faces the gods' retribution. …

...Wagner began work on what became his Ring project in October 1848 when he prepared a prose outline for Siegfried's Death, based on the legendary hero of Germanic myth. During the following months he developed the outline into a full "poem" or libretto.


After his flight to Switzerland in May 1849, Wagner continued to expand his project, having decided that a single work would not suffice for his purposes. He would therefore create a series of music dramas, each telling a stage of the story, basing the narrative on a combination of myth and imagination; Siegfried's Death would provide the culmination. In 1851 he outlined his purposes in his essay "A Communication to My Friends": "I propose to produce my myth in three complete dramas, preceded by a lengthy Prelude (Vorspiel)". Each of these dramas would, he said, constitute an independent whole, but would not be performed separately. "At a specially-appointed Festival, I propose, some future time, to produce those three Dramas with their Prelude, in the course of three days and a fore-evening".

In accordance with this scheme Wagner preceded Siegfried's Death (later Götterdämmerung (The Twilight of the Gods) with the story of Siegfried's youth, Young Siegfried, later renamed Siegfried. This was in turn preceded by Die Walküre (The Valkyrie), dealing with Siegfried's origins, the whole tetralogy being fronted by a prologue, Das Rheingold. Because Wagner prepared his texts in reverse chronological sequence, Die Walküre was the third of the dramas to be conceived and written, but appears second in the tetralogy.... " Wikipedia

Garden of Priapus - 595

The general roughly working another penis caged slave from behind in the sunny garden

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“Wotan’s” awakening in Hitler’s Germany was not a complete failure - on 4/4/1944 CG Jung reports that after a heart attack and near death in a hospital bed he attained the “heiros - gamos” - or a higher form of consciousness. All his later works were written by “surrendering to the current of his thoughts” …

Jung reports that one of his death bed images was the consummation of the marriage of Zeus and Hera - but he leaves it at that.

Knowledge of Greek eros produces a scandalous image of this coupling - Hera was usually the phallus in Greek sexuality - ancient Etruscan statues of Zeus and Hera clearly portray a nude and penis caged Zeus being towered over by a clothed and Amazon-like Hera!

The General in this image is probably what the Zeus/Hera consumation was like in real life

Garden of Priapus - 596

More of the general roughly working a penis caged slave from behind in the sunny garden - other caged slave in the background …

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Odin/Wotan reminds me of Merlin - he even looks like Merlin - And Merlin also had a tragic ending which he foresaw - His lover and apprentice Vivianne betrayed him after he had taught her all his secrets she put him down into an eternal sleep:

" ... The Lady of the Lake ... is a name or a title used by several fairy-like enchantresses in the Matter of Britain, the body of medieval literature and mythology associated with the legend of King Arthur. They play pivotal roles in many stories, including providing Arthur with the sword Excalibur, eliminating Merlin, raising Lancelot after the death of his father, and helping to take the dying Arthur to Avalon. Different sorceresses known as the Lady of the Lake appear concurrently as separate characters in some versions of the legend since at least the Post-Vulgate Cycle and consequently the seminal Le Morte d'Arthur, with the latter describing them as a hierarchical group, while some texts also give this title to either Morgan or her sister.

... The Vulgate Cycle is first to tell of either a different or the same Lady of the Lake in the Prose Merlin-derived section. It takes place before its main Vulgate Lancelot section but was written later, linking her with the disappearance of Merlin from the romance tradition of Arthurian legend. She is given the name Viviane (or similar) and a human origin, although she is still being called a fairy. In the Vulgate Merlin, Viviane refuses to give Merlin (who at this time is already old but appears to her in the guise of a handsome young man) her love until he has taught her all his secrets, after which she uses her power to seal him by making him sleep forever. The Post-Vulgate revision changes it into Viviane causing Merlin's death out of her hatred and fear of him. Though Merlin knows beforehand that this will happen due to his power of foresight, he is unable to counteract her because of the 'truth' this ability of foresight holds. He decides to do nothing for his situation other than to continue to teach her his secrets until she takes the opportunity to get rid of him. She then entraps and entombs him within a tree, in a hole underneath a large stone, or inside a cave, depending on the version of this story as told in the different texts.

In the Prophéties de Merlin, for instance, Viviane is especially cruel in the way she disposes of Merlin and then takes Tristan's brother Meliadus the Younger as her actual lover. There she is proud of how Merlin had never taken her virginity, unlike what happened with his other female students (including Morgan). The Prose Lancelot explains this by a spell she put "on her groin which, as long as it lasted, prevented anyone from deflowering her and having relations with her." The Lancelot too has Viviane leave Merlin for another lover, in this case the evil king Brandin of the Isles, whom she teaches some magic that he then applies to his terrible castle Dolorous Gard; in the Vulgate Merlin, an incognito Viviane abortively turns King Brandegorre's son Evadeam into the deformed Dwarf Knight for refusing her love. Conversely, the Livre d'Artus, a late variant of the Prose Lancelot, shows a completely peaceful scene taking place under a blooming hawthorn tree where Merlin is lovingly put to sleep by Viviane, as it is required by his destined fate that she has learned of. He then wakes up inside an impossibly high and indestructible tower, invisible from the outside, where she will come to meet him there almost every day or night (a motif reminiscent of Ganieda's visits of Merlin's house in an earlier version of Merlin's life as described by Geoffrey in Vita Merlin). In any case, as a result of their usually final encounter Merlin almost always either dies or is never seen again by anyone else. Only in the recently found, alternative Bristol Merlin fragment, she resists his seduction with the help of a magic ring during the week they spend together; this particular text ends with him reuniting with Arthur.

According to her backstory in the chronologically later (but happening earlier plotwise) Vulgate Merlin, Viviane was a daughter of the knight Dionas (Dyonas) and a niece of the Duke of Burgundy. She was born in Dionas' domain of Briosque near the forest Brocéliande, and it was an enchantment of her fairy godmother Diana the Huntress Goddess that caused Viviane to be so alluring to Merlin when she first met him there as a young teenager. The Vulgate Lancelot informs the reader that, back "in the time of Virgil", Diana had been a Queen of Sicily that was considered a goddess by her subjects. The Post-Vulgate Suite de Merlin describes how Viviane was born and lived in a magnificent castle at the foot of a mountain in Brittany as a daughter of the King of Northumbria. She is initially known as the beautiful 12-years-old Damsel Huntress (Damoiselle Cacheresse) in her introductory episode, in which she serves the role of a damsel in distress in the adventure of the three knights separately sent by Merlin to rescue her from kidnapping; the quest is soon completed by King Pellinore who tracks down and kills her abductor. The Post-Vulgate rewrite also describes how Diana had killed her partner Faunus to be with a man named Felix, but then she was herself killed by her lover at that lake, which came to be called the Lake of Diana (Lac Diane). This is presumably the place at where Lancelot du Lac ("of the Lake") is later raised, at first not knowing his real parentage, by Viviane after she is 18 years old. Nevertheless, in the French romances only the narration of the Vulgate Lancelot actually makes it clear that its Lady of the Lake and Viviane are in fact the one and same character. ... " Wikipedia

Garden of Priapus - 597

Scorching hot scene for the general! The penis caged slave is in transition to the female sex - maybe that’s why the sex is so hot.

In Rome those were “Galla” - a priest of Cybele - Those were castrated, and that probably locked in their sexual heat for phallic Roman matrons. Not just priests of Cybele, Roman matrons used castration and the Fibula or penis cage as a form of birth control - and sexual heat preservation - since the phallus or mentule was female, the male phallus was not that important

Merlin did not consummate his love affair with Viviene - In true Roman style her vagina was off limits - My guess in true Roman style, Merlin was also penis caged …

Or maybe the affair was consummated - in the Roman Garden of Priapus style - female phallus in male anus

My guess is Merlin is Odin is Wotan … and the lady of the lake is a Valkyrie - That male energy disappeared in Asgard - which eventually caused the fire to go out - is my guess.

Garden of Priapus - 598

Another phallic Amazon has a go from the rear … That’s a trend today - like in late Rome - nobody want’s to be a "dick" - once Greek eromenos sex is discovered, the male phallus becomes less important. …

Garden of Priapus - 599

Another hot scene from behind of a penis caged slave in the sunny garden for the general - She really got into it!

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Odin seems to be Merlin - see this portrait of Odin Odin, in his guise as a wanderer, by Georg von Rosen (1886).

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The world tree in Nordic myth seems to be Yggdrasil

“ … Yggdrasil (from Old Norse Yggdrasill ), in Norse cosmology, is an immense and central sacred tree. Around it exists all else, including the Nine Worlds.

Yggdrasil is attested in the Poetic Edda compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and in the Prose Edda written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson. In both sources, Yggdrasil is an immense ash tree that is center to the cosmos and considered very holy. The gods go to Yggdrasil daily to assemble at their traditional governing assemblies, called things. The branches of Yggdrasil extend far into the heavens, and the tree is supported by three roots that extend far away into other locations; one to the well Urðarbrunnr in the heavens, one to the spring Hvergelmir, and another to the well Mímisbrunnr. Creatures live within Yggdrasil, including the dragon Níðhöggr, an unnamed eagle, and the stags Dáinn, Dvalinn, Duneyrr and Duraþrór.

Scholars generally consider Hoddmímis holt, Mímameiðr, and Læraðr to be other names for the tree. The tree is an example of sacred trees and groves in Germanic paganism and mythology, and scholars in the field of Germanic philology have long discussed its implications. … “ Wikipedia

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- From the African example, no world tree without papa Legba - that was the downfall of Asgard - When those Valkyries got rid of Merlin they sealed their fates ...

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Fortunately there are other world trees - That’s the Egyptian Djed pillar - The Greco-Romans democratized the Djed pillar system - From one Djed Tree - ie Pharoah, to many …

But those take time to grow - minimum of 30 years each …

Garden of Priapus - 600

The general dog-training in the sunny woods

(Feb 28, 2022) I do not associate Merlin with hyper sexuality - I associate him with training King Arthur - " The Sword in the Stone" (1938)- Lots of sylvan or "woodsy" imagery in that book by T.H. White which I cherished as a child!

But just days ago I realized that Merlin also had Roman or even negro sexual tastes! Merlin was probably a late Roman magus …

" ... In chivalric romance tradition, Merlin has a major weakness that leads him to his relatively early doom: young beautiful women of femme fatale archetype. His apprentice is often Arthur's half-sister Morgan le Fay (in the Prophéties de Merlin along with Sebile and two other witch queens and the Lady of the Isle of Avalon (Dama di Isola do Vallone); the others who have learnt sorcery from Merlin include the Wise Damsel in the Italian Historia di Merlino, and the male wizard Mabon in the Post-Vulgate Merlin Continuation and the Prose Tristan). While Merlin does share his magic with his apprentices, his prophetic powers cannot be passed on. As for Morgan, she is sometimes depicted as Merlin's lover and sometimes as just an unrequited love interest. Contrary to the many modern works in which they are archenemies, Merlin and Morgan are never opposed to each other in any medieval tradition, other than Morgan forcibly rejecting him in some texts; in fact, his love for Morgan is so great that he even lies to the king in order to save her in the Huth Merlin, which is the only instance of him ever intentionally misleading Arthur. Instead, Merlin's eventual undoing comes from his lusting after another of his female students: the one often named Viviane, among various other names and spellings, including Malory's (or really his editor Caxton's) now-popular form Nimue (originally Nymue). She is also called a fairy (French fee) like Morgan and described as a Lady of the Lake (the "chief Lady of the Lake" in case of Malory's Nimue). Malory's telling of this episode would later become a major inspiration for Romantic authors and artists of the 19th century. ... " Wikipedia

Garden of Priapus - 601

More general dog-training in the sunny woods. Large mentule in a penis caged slave - Egyptian Bes erotica style ...

Roman style sex means the Fibula or penis cage and a hermaphroditus - which in Norse mythology is any of the giant Valkyries!

The heavily armed and "wound giving" Brunhilde and her sisters has a Roman mentule or penis - I am sure of it!

" ... Brunhild, also known as Brunhilda or Brynhild, is a female character from Germanic heroic legend. She may have her origins in the Visigothic princess Brunhilda of Austrasia.

In the Norse tradition, Brunhild is a shieldmaiden or valkyrie, who appears as a main character in the Völsunga saga and some Eddic poems treating the same events. In the continental Germanic tradition, where she is a central character in the Nibelungenlied, she is a powerful Amazon-like queen. In both traditions, she is instrumental in bringing about the death of the hero Sigurd or Siegfried after he deceives her into marrying the Burgundian king Gunther or Gunnar. In both traditions, the immediate cause for her desire to have Sigurd murdered is a quarrel with the hero's wife, Gudrun or Kriemhild. In the Scandinavian tradition, but not in the continental tradition, Brunhild kills herself after Sigurd's death.

Richard Wagner made Brunhild (as Brünnhilde) an important character in his opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen. The majority of modern conceptions of the figure have been inspired or influenced by Wagner's depiction.

Brunhild has been called "the paramount figure of Germanic legend."The Nibelungenlied introduces her by saying:

" ... There was
a queen
who resided
over the sea,
Whose like
no one
knew of
anywhere.
She was
exceedingly
beautiful
and great
in physical
strength.
She shot
the shaft
with bold knights
— love
was the prize. ... "

Wikipedia

 

Garden of Priapus - 602

More general dog-training in the sunny woods. Friend has a go from behind ...

"[Brunhilde] shot
the shaft
with bold knights
— love
was the prize"

The image that presents itself is Roman Fibula sex - That's just a reality that we have to accept ... Without that no djed pillar - the world tree takes too much energy to create. ...

Garden of Priapus - 603

That's Socrates sex - a penis caged OG or "old guy" aristocrat under the phallus of a young athletic Tribade ...

I feel like a traitor to the male animal - but the real treason is losing your fire to the system - The Roman fibula and Amazon phallus kept men sexually viable into old age ...

Garden of Priapus - 604

More general dog-training in the sunny woods. Other, friend has a go from the rear ...

Garden of Priapus - 605

More general dog-training in the sunny woods. Other, friend has a go from the rear ...

Locked phallus sex - Or Greco-Roman sex. Or Merlin and Odin and the Valkyries! Until the fall of Rome that was upper class sex - what Martial calls the “Honorable and small” penis - For thousands of years that was the norm…

Garden of Priapus - 606

Closing scene from general dog-training in the sunny woods. Locked phallus firmly in hand.

The disappearance of Merlin/Odin was like going from color to black and white - The world of Chivalry is fully de-sexed

Garden of Priapus - 607

More general in a large mentule dog-training in the sunny woods - With another friend and two slaves.

First version of this print partially blocked. Or the censor is still there!

I can safely compare Legba to Merlin and Odin -

Legba's erect phallus opens the door to the spiritual world - but that’s female phallic - which is kind of hard to conceptualize. The Valkyries like Brunhild are explicitly described as Amazons of the North.

Garden of Priapus - 608

More general in a large mentule dog-training in the sunny woods -

Friend penetrating slave tied to a tree - Thats a version of the world tree - a phallic Amazon and her penis caged mate help incarnate the world tree

Odin was said to create the world tree by hanging himself from it - My reading of that is he locked or "hanged" his phallus and had anal sex with a Valkyrie

" ... The generally accepted meaning of Old Norse Yggdrasill is "Odin's horse", meaning "gallows". This interpretation comes about because drasill means "horse" and Ygg(r) is one of Odin's many names. The Poetic Edda poem Hávamál describes how Odin sacrificed himself by hanging from a tree, making this tree Odin's gallows. This tree may have been Yggdrasil. Gallows can be called "the horse of the hanged" and therefore Odin's gallows may have developed into the expression "Odin's horse", which then became the name of the tree.

Nevertheless, scholarly opinions regarding the precise meaning of the name Yggdrasill vary, particularly on the issue of whether Yggdrasill is the name of the tree itself or if only the full term askr Yggdrasil (where Old Norse askr means "ash tree") refers specifically to the tree. According to this interpretation, askr Yggdrasils would mean the world tree upon which "the horse [Odin's horse] of the highest god [Odin] is bound". Both of these etymologies rely on a presumed but unattested *Yggsdrasill.

A third interpretation, presented by F. Detter, is that the name Yggdrasill refers to the word yggr ("terror"), yet not in reference to the Odinic name, and so Yggdrasill would then mean "tree of terror, gallows". F. R. Schröder has proposed a fourth etymology according to which yggdrasill means "yew pillar", deriving yggia from *igwja (meaning "yew-tree"), and drasill from *dher- (meaning "support"). ... " Wikipedia

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( March 1, 2022) " ... The generally accepted meaning of Old Norse Yggdrasill is "Odin's horse" : Odin’s horse had eight legs - That’s the penis caged Odin under the mentule of a Valkyrie!

Garden of Priapus - 609

More general in a large mentule dog-training in the sunny woods

Roman sex - Female friend with a mentule penetrating penis caged male slave tied to a tree:

"Nevertheless, scholarly opinions regarding the precise meaning of the name Yggdrasill vary, particularly on the issue of whether Yggdrasill is the name of the tree itself or if only the full term askr Yggdrasil (where Old Norse askr means "ash tree") refers specifically to the tree. According to this interpretation, askr Yggdrasils would mean the world tree upon which "the horse [Odin's horse] of the highest god [Odin] is bound". Both of these etymologies rely on a presumed but unattested *Yggsdrasill."

Again: Odin’s horse had eight legs - That’s the penis caged Odin under the mentule of a Valkyrie!

Garden of Priapus - 610

More general in a large mentule dog-training in the sunny woods - With another friend and two slaves- The general in a large mentule has a go at the tree bound and penis caged slave

Garden of Priapus - 611

More general in a large mentule dog-training in the sunny woods - With another friend and two slaves

(March 2, 2022) Odin’s eight legged horse - That’s a northern Trojan Hector Horse …

Strong heat generation in the dream space - I think it’s a combination of the fresh sunshine and the forest - Nature is like a form of psychic insulation

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Odin’s horse was born from a male mare! Loki turned himself into a mare in heat to trick a stallion that was being used by giants to build Asgard

That’s got to be another clue of Amazon female phallus sex - or Amazon stallions - created by the penis cage…

“ … Sleipnir was the eight-legged horse born of Loki, and belonged to Odin. Loki gave birth to Sleipnir after turning himself into a female horse when his father demanded he sabotage the work of a craftsman from being able to complete the fortification of Asgard in one season.

In the early days of Valhalla, a craftsman came to visit. He offered to create a citadel around Asgard which could keep out the giants who may attack from any direction. The man claimed he could complete the fortification of Asgard in three seasons, and for payment demanded that the goddess Freyja be his bride and that he receives the sun and the moon also. The gods however thought his choice of payment was steep and negotiated that he would be paid in full, if he completed the wall in just one season and that he receives no help from any man. The man accepted this with the condition that his stallion, Svadilfari, could help. The gods were unsure, but Loki convinced them that even with the help of his horse, the man would not be able to uphold his end of the bargain, so Freyja, and the sun and moon were not at risk at all.

And so the man set to work on the first day of winter, yet it was his huge stallion that did all the work, effortlessly hauling huge boulders. The progress of the citadel progressed swiftly, and it was so tall and strong that no enemy would be able to take Asgard. Three days before the winter was over the gods sat down for counsel and discussed how they could avoid giving the man payment. Whilst discussing this the gods began to question who had agreed to the man’s terms in the first place. The consensus was that Loki was to blame. The evil Loki was demanded to obstruct the craftsman from completing the last part of the citadel so that they would not need to pay him. Loki would face violence and death if not, so he swore oath that he would stop the man and his horse from completing the citadel.

Whilst the man was working that evening, a mare appeared from a nearby forest and neighed towards the stallion. The mare was in heat, and the stallion broke away from his work and ran away into the woods, following the other horse. The man was not happy that his stallion had got away. He became enraged when Svadilfan ran with the mare all night and the next day and he could not finish the citadel in time.

The gods, noticing the man’s wrath, realised that he was in fact a giant, and they had been well and truly duped. They called for Thor to kill the giant. Thor swung Mjollnir into the giant’s head. The heavy blow killed him instantly, the force sending his body flying to Niflheim, and cast tiny pieces of his skull across the nine realms.

It then became clear that it was Loki who had stopped the completion of the citadel. He had disguised himself as the mare to which Svadilfari left the giant to be with, and had become pregnant with the stallion’s foal. Loki later gave birth to a grey, eight-legged horse he called Sleipnir. It was the best horse among gods and men, so Loki gifted him to Odin. … “ asgard.scot

Garden of Priapus - 612

The general taking the spurs to a male mare - or riding “Odin horse”

I’m sure research will eventually show the penis cage or Fibula was basic to northern Valkyrie culture - Without the cage no northern Amazons !

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Merlin like Odin was reputed to only have one eye.

I’m almost certain Merlin is Odin is Wotan:

" Sleipnir is generally considered as appearing in a sequence of events described in book I of Gesta Danorum.

In book I, the young Hadingus encounters "a certain man of great age who had lost an eye" who allies him with Liserus. Hadingus and Liserus set out to wage war on Lokerus, ruler of Kurland. Meeting defeat, the old man takes Hadingus with him onto his horse as they flee to the old man's house, and the two drink an invigorating draught. The old man sings a prophecy, and takes Hadingus back to where he found him on his horse. During the ride back, Hadingus trembles beneath the old man's mantle, and peers out of its holes. Hadingus realizes that he is flying through the air: "and he saw that before the steps of the horse lay the sea; but was told not to steal a glimpse of the forbidden thing, and therefore turned his amazed eyes from the dread spectacle of the roads that he journeyed."

In book II, Biarco mentions Odin and Sleipnir: "If I may look on the awful husband of Frigg, howsoever he be covered in his white shield, and guide his tall steed, he shall in no way go safe out of Leire; it is lawful to lay low in war the war-waging god." ... " Wikipedia

Garden of Priapus - 613

Young amazon has another go from behind the OG Or "Old guy"

I think the Amazon Valkyrie culture followed the Babylonian model - Young Amazon daughters sexually ravished their old fathers and took their phallic power for themselves - Like the Canaanite god El conquered by his daughter Anat and Innana sexually conquering her father Enki .

Egypt and Nubia had the same ritual - The penis caged king had to sexually submit to his daughter who he had to marry to stay king when the old queen died

That’s maybe why the old Merlin accepted his fate from the young Viviane - Kind of a super erotic Amazon death and rebirth or Phoenix ritual for the old penis caged father - the notorious father/daughter sexual myth of Myrrha

Garden of Priapus - 614

Closing scene: Young amazon ravishes the OG “or old guy” from behind in the sunny woods while other OG kneels on left - and general watches from the right

That’s Roman archetypal sex - The Garden of Priapus and the Bona Dea festival, the roman baths and the state taxed Roman brothel - the Suburra …Roman matrons were in a permanent sexual heat from early teens into old age - all caused by the Fibula or penis cage

Garden of Priapus - 615

Death of Merlin/Odin/Wotan:

"Waving her hands and uttering the charm, [she] presently enclosed him fast within the tree."

Lancelot Speed's illustration for James Thomas Knowles' The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights (1912)

I'm sure that was a much more erotic scene than has been presented ... Phallic Amazon Viviane over penis caged Merlin- "Odin horse" The young Viviane then claimed the phallic power of Merlin.

My question is who was the next Merlin ... At some time the orderly process failed and the phallic fire stopped being transferred in the old Amazon way. My guess is Lancelot the orphaned son of Viviane was the next Merlin :

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" ... According to her backstory in the chronologically later (but happening earlier plotwise) Vulgate Merlin, Viviane was a daughter of the knight Dionas (Dyonas) and a niece of the Duke of Burgundy. She was born in Dionas' domain of Briosque near the forest Brocéliande, and it was an enchantment of her fairy godmother Diana the Huntress Goddess that caused Viviane to be so alluring to Merlin when she first met him there as a young teenager. The Vulgate Lancelot informs the reader that, back "in the time of Virgil", Diana had been a Queen of Sicily that was considered a goddess by her subjects. The Post-Vulgate Suite de Merlin describes how Viviane was born and lived in a magnificent castle at the foot of a mountain in Brittany as a daughter of the King of Northumbria. She is initially known as the beautiful 12-years-old Damsel Huntress (Damoiselle Cacheresse) in her introductory episode, in which she serves the role of a damsel in distress in the adventure of the three knights separately sent by Merlin to rescue her from kidnapping; the quest is soon completed by King Pellinore who tracks down and kills her abductor. The Post-Vulgate rewrite also describes how Diana had killed her partner Faunus to be with a man named Felix, but then she was herself killed by her lover at that lake, which came to be called the Lake of Diana (Lac Diane). This is presumably the place at where Lancelot du Lac ("of the Lake") is later raised, at first not knowing his real parentage, by Viviane after she is 18 years old. Nevertheless, in the French romances only the narration of the Vulgate Lancelot actually makes it clear that its Lady of the Lake and Viviane are in fact the one and same character. ... " Wikipedia

Garden of Priapus - 616

More general sponsored mentule sex. Sun sex by the pool ... A penis caged "male mare" about the have anal sex under an Amazon stallion - like Loki under the Asgard stallion.

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The obvious answer as to who would succeed Merlin after his death is King Arthur. But that's not the image that came to me. Lancelot - the anti hero who violated the rules of chivalry by having sex with many women including King Arthur's wife Genevieve was the inner answer to that question. And he may have been Merlin's son through the Lady of the lake Viviane.

The illicit sex Lancelot was having has a roman matron ring to it for me - ie aggressive female phallus sex over penis caged men. That's not the chivalry image - but to me that's probably what was actually going on during those late Roman days ...

The next inner image the presented itself is the Holy Grail. Lancelot is linked by illicit sex to the Grail - his illegitimate son Galahad was prophesied to achieve the holy grail and heal the wasteland:

"The Lancelot-Grail (Vulgate) prose cycle includes a more elaborate history for the Fisher King. Many in his line are wounded for their failings, and the only two that survive to Arthur's day are the Wounded King, named Pellehan (Pellam of Listeneise in Malory), and the Fisher King, Pelles. Pelles engineers the birth of Galahad by tricking Lancelot into bed with his daughter Elaine, and it is prophesied that Galahad will achieve the Grail and heal the Wasteland. Galahad, the knight prophesied to achieve the Holy Grail and heal the Maimed King, is conceived when Elaine gets Dame Brisen to use magic to trick Lancelot into thinking that he is coming to visit Guenever. So Lancelot sleeps with Elaine, thinking her Guenever, but flees when he realizes what he has done. Galahad is raised by his aunt in a convent, and when he is eighteen, comes to King Arthur's court and begins the Grail Quest. Only he, Percival, and Bors are virtuous enough to achieve the Grail and restore Pelles. ... " Wikipedia

Garden of Priapus - 617

More Sun sex by the pool .- That’s Martial’s “manly shove” by a Roman bath! Powerful Roman queens like Arthur's wife Genevieve were expected to take many young penis caged lovers … That was just the Roman way … And being penis caged, Lancelot was not really violating any rules of chastity by having anal sex

" ... Lancelot du Lac (French for Lancelot of the Lake), also written as Launcelot and other variants (such as early German Lanzelet, early French Lanselos, early Welsh Lanslod Lak, Italian Lancillotto, Spanish Lanzarote del Lago, and Welsh Lawnslot y Llyn), is a character in some versions of Arthurian legend, where he is typically depicted as King Arthur's close companion and one of the greatest Knights of the Round Table. In the French-inspired Arthurian chivalric romance tradition, Lancelot is the orphaned son of King Ban of the lost kingdom of Benwick, raised in the fairy realm by the Lady of the Lake. A hero of many battles, quests and tournaments, and famed as a nearly unrivalled swordsman and jouster, Lancelot becomes the lord of the castle Joyous Gard and personal champion of Arthur's wife Queen Guinevere. But when his adulterous affair with Guinevere is discovered, it causes a civil war that is exploited by Mordred to end Arthur's kingdom.

His first appearance as a main character is found in Chrétien de Troyes' poem Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart, written in the 12th century. Later, his character was expanded upon in other works of Arthurian romance, especially the vast Lancelot-Grail prose cycle that presented the now-familiar version of his legend following its retelling in Le Morte d'Arthur. There, Lancelot's and Lady Elaine's son Galahad, devoid of his father's flaws of character, becomes the perfect knight and succeeds in completing the greatest of all quests by achieving the Holy Grail after Lancelot himself fails due to his sins. ... " Wikipedia

Garden of Priapus - 618

More Sun sex by the pool - the general has a go ...

Lancelot was raised by a water fairy or Roman water Nymph - the Lady of the Lake. - Those are always hyper sexual phallic females! Mami wata is an African example ...

" ... Lancelot's character was further developed during the 13th century in the Old French prose romance Vulgate Cycle, where he appears prominently in the later parts, known as the Prose Lancelot (or Lancelot du Lac), the Queste del Saint Graal (The Quest for the Holy Grail), and the Mort Artu (The Death of Arthur). When Chrétien de Troyes wrote at the request of Countess Marie, she was only interested in the romantic relationship between Lancelot and the queen. However, the Lancelot in prose greatly expands the story: he is assigned a family, a descent from lost kingdom, and many further adventures. Gaston Paris argued that the Guinevere-Meleagant episode of the Prose Lancelot is an almost literal adaptation of Chrétien's poem, the courtly love theme of which seemed to be forced on the unwilling Chrétien by Marie, though it can be seen as a considerable amplification. Much of the Prose Lancelot material from the Vulgate Cycle has been later removed in the rewriting known as the Post-Vulgate Cycle, with the surviving parts being reworked and attached to the other parts of this cycle. The forbidden love affair between Lancelot and Guinevere can be seen as a parallel to that of Tristan and Iseult, with Lancelot ultimately being identified with the tragedy of chance and human failing that is responsible for the downfall of the Round Table in the later works continuing Chrétien's story.

Lancelot is often tied to the Christian themes within Arthurian legend. Lancelot's quest for Guinevere in Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart is similar to Christ's quest for the human soul. His adventure among the tombs is described in terms that suggest Christ's harrowing of Hell and resurrection; he effortlessly lifts the lid off the sarcophagus, which bears an inscription foretelling his freeing of the captives. Lancelot would later become one of the chief knights associated with the Holy Grail, but Chrétien does not include him at all in his final romance, Perceval, le Conte du Graal (Perceval, or the Story of the Grail), the unfinished story that introduced the motif into medieval literature. Perceval is the sole seeker of the Grail in Chrétien's treatment; Lancelot's involvement in the Grail quest is first recorded in the romance Perlesvaus, written between 1200 and 1210.

The Middle Dutch Lancelot Compilation (c. 1320) contains seven Arthurian romances, including a new Lancelot one, folded into the three parts of the cycle. This new formulation of a Lancelot romance in the Netherlands indicates the character's widespread popularity even prior to the Lancelot-Grail story. In this story, "Lanceloet en het hert met het witte voet" ("Lancelot and the Hart with the White Foot"), Lancelot fights seven lions to get the white foot from a hart (deer) which will allow him to marry a princess. Near the end of the 15th century, Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur followed the Lancelot-Grail cycle in presenting Lancelot as the best knight, a departure from the preceding English tradition in which Gawain had been the most prominent. ... " Wikipedia

Garden of Priapus - 619

More Sun sex by the pool - the general working the "male mare" from the rear.

Loki as a "male mare" in Asgard was probably the dominant form of Asgardian sex - thanks to the Fibula or "venus furnace".

The dying of the Asgard female phallus flame is not an abstract image to me - I saw and felt it as a major tragedy to Frigga the Greek-dressed "jinn" that assaulted me ... It's not a small thing to lose - No fire, no world tree, no Asgard. - They've been stuck on earth for over a thousand years ...

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" ... [Lancelot's] adventure among the tombs is described in terms that suggest Christ's harrowing of Hell and resurrection; he effortlessly lifts the lid off the sarcophagus, which bears an inscription foretelling his freeing of the captives. ... "

I prefer my sarcophagus images - the tomb of Dionysus - or the resurrection of Dionysus - which is a form of what happened in Nazi Germany - the awakening of the storm god Wotan

Garden of Priapus - 620

More Sun sex by the pool - Red getting ready to work the "male mare" from the rear.

The holy Grail may be related to the cup of mead the Valkyries fed to all warriors accepted into Valhalla … That seems to be an obvious reference from Asgard

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One of these meads was Odin's mead of poetry - stolen from the dwarves - who made it with an ingredient that included human blood ..

" ... In Norse mythology, the Poetic Mead or Mead of Poetry, also known as Mead of Suttungr, is a mythical beverage that whoever "drinks becomes a skald or scholar" able to recite any information and solve any question. This myth was reported by Snorri Sturluson in Skáldskaparmál. The drink is a vivid metaphor for poetic inspiration, often associated with Odin the god of 'possession' via berserker rage or poetic inspiration. ... " Wikipedia


" ... Creation of the mead of poetry and murder of Kvasir

After the Æsir-Vanir War, the gods sealed the truce they had just concluded by spitting in a vat. To keep a symbol of this truce, they created from their spittle a man named Kvasir. He was so wise that there were no questions he could not answer. He travelled around the world to give knowledge to mankind. One day, he visited the dwarves Fjalar and Galar. They killed him and poured his blood into two vats and a pot called Boðn, Són and Óðrerir. They mixed his blood with honey, thus creating a mead which made anybody who drank it a "poet or scholar" ("skáld eða frœðamaðr"). The dwarves explained to the gods that Kvasir had suffocated in intelligence. ... " Wikipedia

 

Garden of Priapus - 621

More Sun sex by the pool - Red working the "male mare" from the rear. - Red hot Hathor bull! That's what Loki was having in Asgard - Roman sex ... Or eight footed "Odin Horse" sex

- My guess is sometime around the arrival of Christianity in the Scandinavian courts, the Roman Fibula fell out fashion - and with it the "venus furnace" - The Nordic rulers of Kievan Rus were described as "ruddy" skinned by early moslems - that's the famous "dog-leash" tan -

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The libidinous Lancelot did not attain the Grail - but his son Galahad and two two other knights Bor and Percival did. Only Bor lived to tell the tale - Galahad was lifted up to heaven and it seems Percival became the next guardian of the Grail. So the grail mission is still incomplete …

" ... After many adventures, Galahad and his companions find themselves in the mystical castle of Corbenic at the court of King Pelles and his son Eliazarr. His grandfather and uncle bring Galahad into a room where he is finally allowed to see the Holy Grail. Galahad is asked to take the vessel to the holy island Sarras. After seeing the Grail, Galahad, however, makes the request that he may die at the time of his choosing. So it is, while making his way back to Arthur's court, Galahad is visited by Joseph of Arimathea, and thus experiences such glorious rapture that he makes his request to die. Galahad bids Percival and Bors farewell, after which angels appear to take him to Heaven. His ascension is witnessed by Bors and Percival. Depending on the telling, Galahad is either physically taken, completely vanishes in the bright light, or his mortal body is left behind and later buried by his friends. ... " Wikipedia

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My reading of the grail is sexual - the "earth-sun" space and all that comes with it including the world tree and the female phallus - That's still in the future ...

Garden of Priapus - 622

Red driving from the rear of the penis caged slave … Martial was able to take four mentules a night … Roman mentule sex was a scandalous thing, but it gave them access to realities not open to us today …

Martial describes those realities in some of his epigrams - a world floating above the temples of Jupiter but not accessible to the world of the noise of a busy Roman empire - It’s always going to be like that I suppose …

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" ... The Holy Grail ... is a treasure that serves as an important motif in Arthurian literature. Different traditions describe it as a cup, dish or stone with miraculous powers that provides eternal youth or sustenance in infinite abundance, often in the custody of the Fisher King. The term "holy grail" is often used to denote an elusive object or goal that is sought after for its great significance.

A "grail", wondrous but not explicitly holy, first appears in Perceval, le Conte du Graal, an unfinished romance written by Chrétien de Troyes around 1190. Chrétien's story attracted many continuators, translators and interpreters in the later 12th and early 13th centuries, including Wolfram von Eschenbach, who perceived the Grail as a stone. In the late 12th century, Robert de Boron wrote in Joseph d'Arimathie that the Grail was Jesus's vessel from the Last Supper, which Joseph of Arimathea used to catch Christ's blood at the crucifixion. Thereafter, the Holy Grail became interwoven with the legend of the Holy Chalice, the Last Supper cup, a theme continued in works such as the Lancelot-Grail cycle and consequently Le Morte d'Arthur. ... " Wikipedia

Garden of Priapus - 623

Tattooed Blond has a go

- Or “painted Briton” as the Romans called Roman Britons - Celtic women managed harems of up to 12 men according to Julius Caesar - the only way that happens is if all the men were penis caged! - Like the Etruscans and the Romans and Egyptians and Syrians etc, etc

- That's 3 Britons and a Romanian - There are many Britains - and this is one of them.

Garden of Priapus - 624

More tattooed Blond driving from the rear of a penis caged slave ...

Asgard was destroyed by fire giants - I think that's a clue as to why Roman mentule sex or Amazon fire sex - is so important ... The "earth sun" space requires it ...

" ... Ragnarök consists of a series of foretold events that ultimately lead to the destruction and subsequent renewal of the world.

Ragnarök begins after the invasion of fire giants from Muspelheim, who destroy the Bifröst. This causes Heimdallr to blow the Gjallarhorn, announcing the upcoming doom of gods. Odin swiftly consults with the head of Mimir, who foretells the destruction of Asgard and Odin's death.

Æsir gods decide to march into battle, gathering their forces on the battlefield Vigrid (“Plain Where Battle Surges”). Their enemies, led by the fire giant Surt, march through Asgard, destroying many of the palaces and fortifications. Odin, Thor, Loki, Heimdallr, and other gods, die in the battle. As the Vigrid grounds become soaking wet with blood, the world is submerged underwater, ending everything that ever existed.

As attested in the Völuspá, after the destruction of the old world, a new one emerges. Several gods survive and restore Asgard, bringing it to the highest-ever levels of prosperity. ... " Wikipedia

Garden of Priapus - 625

Bonus Red driving from the rear of the penis caged slave … She performed with the most heart - or fire ...

Garden of Priapus - 626

More Roman myth Myrrha sex. Beauty and two friends ravish a penis caged OG or “old guy” .

Not all young mentules are going to light that fire - but a few will - and it’s a hot fire ! That was a problem highlighted by the Lysistrata - women have only a short time to reproduce, but men could father children into old age. But the fire is a different issue from children - As Martial and Juvenal show Roman women continued to ravish men into old age …

(March 5, 2022) The fire helps you to “see” - or it opens the inner eye - Last night saw another repeated disturbing vision of what happens when the inner fire fails to light - Peadophilia …

"...Myrrha, also known as Smyrna, is the mother of Adonis in Greek mythology. She was transformed into a myrrh tree after having had intercourse with her father, and gave birth to Adonis in tree form. ... Myrrha falls in love with her father and tricks him into sexual intercourse...." Wikipedia

- Wikipedia does not mention the Fibula - The penis cage meant that Myrrha ravished her penis caged father from the rear in the classic Babylonian style

- The fire lit is female not male - the mysterious female phallus

Garden of Priapus - 627

More Roman myth Myrrha sex. Beauty and two friends ravish a penis caged OG or “old guy” .


- Muscular Jim Morrison Tattoo lady has a go from behind with a large and reptilian red mentule ...

That's Sabaen or Queen of Sheba sex - that's where Adonis was born - ancient Ethiopia and Arabia

- as a coincidence Jim Morrison of the tattoo was an American Adonis!

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After ravishing her father for 9 nights in the pitch dark, he sneaked a peek to see who was sexing him ...

" ... Myrrha fled and ran through Arabia for nine months, before she started pleading to gods for help and mercy. The gods decided to help her, so they transformed her into a myrrh-tree. Her tears became the sap of the tree, and she later gave birth to a baby, who was named Adonis. ... " greekmythology

I think this was an institution in ancient Egypt. Importing Myrrha trees from Punt was clearly a very big deal - there are fine examples of that in tombs all over Egypt ...

My reading is that was a secret ritual to awaken the female lust - or the reptilian red snake. - With pharoahs its was not secret at all! Rameses married at least two of his daughters ...

Garden of Priapus - 628

More Roman myth Myrrha sex. Beauty and two friends ravish a penis caged OG or “old guy” .

Beauty has a go from the rear.

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The Myrrha tree is the female phallus - My guess is female pharoahs became male through them ...

Not just female pharaohs - The Myrrha tree was an alchemical object - the Egyptian female gained her mentule through it - becoming a "female Adonis" and sexually penetrating men ...

 


" ... DESPITE ATTEMPTS TO ERASE EVIDENCE of her reign, Pharaoh Hatshepsut’s mark on history proved indelible. Even now, we revere the New Kingdom’s pharaoh queen as having been one of the best rulers not just in ancient Egypt but in the history of the world. At Hatshepsut’s mortuary temple on the Nile, a withered ancient tree stump defies the unrelenting Egyptian sun, still standing as a testimony to the female royal’s influence and political prowess.

Supposedly, this myrrh tree dates back to one of the many expeditions commissioned by Hatshepsut some 3,500 years ago. According to the narrative, the tree was brought back from one of the monarch’s seafaring delegations to Punt, which is described as a land on the Red Sea (most likely present-day Somalia and other parts of the Horn of Africa). The myrrh was then planted next to the grand mortuary temple of Hatshepsut, also called Djeser-Djeseru, which translates to “Holy of Holies.”

While it’s difficult to verify this particular claim without damaging the fragile, dry stump, there is no doubt that Hatshepsut ordered many expeditions, one of them to Punt. Relief carvings still decorated with traces of the once-brilliant colors that coated them depict this journey to this exotic land, including the trees and other goods transported back to Egypt.

Constructed as a mortuary complex for the great pharaoh queen, Djeser-Djeseru was covered in images commemorating Hatshepsut and her accomplishments. At times, she elected to be depicted as a male, perhaps to emphasize the fact that she governed with a power and authority previously wielded only by men. In many ways, Hatshepsut was more successful than most of her male predecessors. She built more structures than any male ruler of Egypt before her. Under her sagacious guidance, Egypt enjoyed enormous prosperity thanks to her successful raids on Nubia and her distribution of wealth.

Unfortunately, many of the carved records recounting this remarkable sovereign’s exploits and achievements were effaced once her stepson and nephew, Thutmose III, came into power after her death. At first, scholars assumed that Thutmose III sought revenge; after all, it was he who was supposed to inherit the throne from his father, but Hatshepsut seized the chance to rule in his stead as a regent. She supported her claim by arguing that the infant pharaoh was too young to direct an empire at the time of his father’s death. Many assumed that Thutmose III was angered by this usurping of power and thus strove to expunge Hatshepsut from history as retribution.

However, some recent scholarship suggests that perhaps Thutmose III did not hold any ill will towards his stepmother-aunt—especially given the fact that he co-ruled with her for a time—and that his motivation for erasing evidence of her rule was merely pragmatic. He hoped to solidify his claim to the throne by giving the impression of a direct transmission of power from his father to him. Whatever the reason, despite his efforts, a record of Hatshepsut and her great deeds eventually surfaced.

Djeser-Djeseru was never demolished; the worse damage it sustained was due to falling rocks. Despite the passage of thousands of years, enough of it remained to be reconstructed. The northern section of the upper terrace houses a Sun Complex. The temple also includes chapels to Amun-Re and Anubis. Parts of the temple were eventually repurposed. Beginning with St. Mark’s proselytizing, Egyptians began to convert from their pharaonic religion to Christianity. As with many ancient Egyptian sites, Hatshepsut’s temple was reused by locals, and in the 600s, a mudbrick Coptic monastery was built on the remains of the temple’s upper terrace. The entire complex was eventually excavated and rebuilt with the help of the Polish Academy of Science. Restored to its former glory, the temple’s epic presence punctures the looming cliffs on the west side of the Nile River. ... " atlasobscura

Garden of Priapus - 629

More Roman myth Myrrha sex. - Muscular Jim Morrison Tattoo lady has a go from behind with a large and reptilian red mentule ...

The Myrrha myth I think is the reason for all those Greek and Roman statutes of women with a penis. The penis was gained by illicit sex with a penis caged father or a father figure ...

That was the Amazon way of transmitting phallic power from father to daughter - like the Sumerian Innana stealing the phallic power from her father Enki - and many other examples .

.. After torrid anal sex with the penis caged father or father figure over more than a week in the dark the daughter symbolically "birthed" a penis when Adonis emerged from the Myrrh tree ...

- That's an alchemical operation - the female integration of the phallus or male side - The Djed pillar would be the male integration of the vagina or female side - enforced by long periods of time in the female controlled penis cage or Fibula.

That integration is also what's not happening today - the phallus has been forced from view, but as always happens it finds it's way back to the source but in uncontrollable ways

" ... While Sappho does not describe the myth of Adonis, later sources flesh out the details. According to the retelling of the story found in the poem Metamorphoses by the Roman poet Ovid (43 BC – 17/18 AD), Adonis was the son of Myrrha, who was cursed by Aphrodite with insatiable lust for her own father, King Cinyras of Cyprus, after Myrrha's mother bragged that her daughter was more beautiful than the goddess. It was her nurse that, with much reluctance, Myrrha revealed her shameful passion to. Sometime later, during a festival in honor of Demeter, the nurse found Cinyras half-passed out with wine, and Myrrha's mother nowhere near him. Thus she spoke to him of a girl that truly loved him and desired to sleep with him, giving a fictitious name and simply describing her as Myrrha's age. Cinyras agreed, and the nurse was quick to bring Myrrha to him. Myrrha left her father's room impregnated. After several couplings, Cinyras discovered his lover's identity, and drew his sword to kill her; driven out after becoming pregnant, Myrrha was changed into a myrrh tree, but still gave birth to Adonis. ... " Wikipedia""

Garden of Priapus - 630

Closing scene of Roman myth Myrrha sex. - Muscular Jim Morrison Tattoo lady births Adonis - her large and reptilian red phallus

Adonis, like Dionysus, is a dying and resurrected god - just like the flaccid and erect phallus is constantly dying after eros and being reborn before eros ...

" ... The worship of Aphrodite and Adonis is probably a Greek continuation of the ancient Sumerian worship of Inanna and Dumuzid. The Greek name Ádonis, is derived from the Canaanite word adon, meaning "lord". This word is related to Adonai, one of the titles used to refer to the God of the Hebrew Bible and still used in Judaism to the present day. The Syrian name for Adonis is Gauas.

The cult of Inanna and Dumuzid may have been introduced to the Kingdom of Judah during the reign of King Manasseh. Ezekiel 8:14 mentions Adonis under his earlier East Semitic name Tammuz and describes a group of women mourning Tammuz's death while sitting near the north gate of the Temple in Jerusalem. ... "

Garden of Priapus - 631

More pool myth Myrrha sex. Topless general from the rear of penis caged slaves …

Myth Myrrha was 18th dynasty sex - the images from the reign of Akhenaten on page 151 of this site are of a nude female pharaoh who insisted on being called male - and is still called male!

Myth Myrrha neatly explains all this - after the alchemical transformation and the birth of the Adonis female phallus - Akhenaten was male … And her bald and bent over male subjects went through the opposite process in their penis cages. … The same thing was going on in Minoan Crete at the same time - those “phallic” bull jumpers are really women!

The 18th dynasty elites were in “the haze” - that’s a form or erotic intoxication that sometimes occurs when the heat is high enough. - Thats when hours turn into minutes or seconds and everything flows seemlessly. That may seem like a passive state of being but it’s actually a higher state of being. - My guess is that how groups of humans move up and out of the human sphere …

Garden of Priapus - 632

More pool and sun myth Myrrha sex. General from the rear of penis caged slave

Myth Myrhha is from Africa and Arabia - but more African. I8th dynasty in Egypt was really a Punt dynasty. There are no ruins in black Africa - no civilization - and maybe Myth Myrrha is the explanation - they evolved out and into nature …

Garden of Priapus - 633

The general and friend in the sun by the pool driving their point home to penis caged slaves …

(March 7, 2022) The previous image appeared in a dream just hours after posting it - This does not happen! - The dream space does its own thing and mostly ignores human activities. In the dream the general was in that same pose but represented as a super-successful male quarterback … She was an “MVP” or most valuable player - She probably has some Roman Matron blood in her - as a Romanian!

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To me that’s mid-summer energy - mid week in mid summer - not sexual - just that mid-summer super silent energy …

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“ … Tammuz is identical with Adonis. The latter name, Adon, “Lord,” is not a proper name, being applicable to any great god, but when the myth found its way to Greece, the word became a proper name. The name Tammuz is Babylonian Dumu-zi, Dûzi, said to signify “son of life,” and to indicate the eternal youth of the sun-god (cf. Fried. Del. in Baer’s Ezek.; Schrader, KAT. on Ezekiel 8:14; Sayce, Hibbert Lect. IV). The story of the death of Tammuz is said to be a solar myth, having reference to the death of the sun-god. The explanations given by Assyrian scholars are not very clear. Sometimes the death is said to be that which he undergoes each night, sometimes that which he undergoes when he expires before the touch of winter, and sometimes the death is that of the lusty, life-giving vernal god, who perishes along with all life on earth amidst the summer fires which he himself has kindled. The town of Gebal or Byblos, eight miles north of Beirut, was the great seat of the Adonis worship in Phenicia. It is possible that the cult passed westward from Babylonia, but it may be that in Syria the rites had an independent origin and a different meaning, and that it was not till later that they were interpreted in the sense of the Babylonian myth (W. R. Smith, Religion of the Semites, index under Adonis). It was probably from Phenicia that the worship entered Judæa. Milton’s interpretation of the rites may not quite exhaust their meaning:

the love tale
Infected
Zion’s daughters
with like heat;
Whose
wanton passions
in the
sacred porch
Ezekiel saw.

Such myths may originally be only beautiful nature poetry, but we are so allied to nature that we see our feelings reflected in her, as on the other hand her moods repeat themselves in us. Particularly in times of decay and loss the sadder aspects of nature intensify our own feeling by presenting to our minds a universal decay in which we and all things are involved. It is only the sorrowful side of the Tammuz rite that the prophet refers to. … “

Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

Garden of Priapus - 634

More of the general and friend in the sun by the pool driving their point home to penis caged slaves …

To the dream psyche - the general in sexual action is male - like Roman and Greek Tribades considered themselves male - and like Akhenaten considered herself male …

That was caused by the alchemical transformation of Myth Myrhha - the birth of Adonis was the birth of the female phallus …

But its was more general than that - so long as Roman men were in the penis cage, they were considered female to their wives mentules - Roman boys until 25 were called “lesbian boys” - The Greco - Roman male was the primary caregiver to and guardian of the children - and the Roman matron was expected to be sexually adventurous …

The Roman religion headed by the phallic fire goddess Vesta demanded the sexual switch - and almost certainly provided a lavish compensation for it - Otherwise, Roman men would not have put up with it …

Garden of Priapus - 635

Closing scene - Topless friend of the general in the sun by the pool driving her point home to a trans-sexual penis caged slave …

First 2 versions of this shot blocked. Why? - maybe an issue with the trans. That seems to be heightened eros - female bull over feminine trans - although that's not my fetish.

To Martial that's a priest of Cybele or Galla - for him Galla needed to remain in their lane - ie. remain fully female in all things sexual ... Galla had scorching hot but passive sex with Amazon bulls ...


Message - The censor is still there!

Garden of Priapus - 636

Young lion Amazon and trussed slave in the dungeon. Lion - because the dream psyche says myth Myrrha makes Amazons men.

And I suppose the Fibula makes men women! Not an exciting thought for a man - but exciting sex though …

- A better way to think of that is the Fibula brings out the creative in man and the Adonis in woman

(March 11, 2022) War was the Valkyrie version of this - the eros of war - like the eros of the war that just started in Kievan Rus - the Valkyrie space - a sinister coincidence!

But my guess was the female phallus was probably more important … Those massive erect phalli at the top of this page suggest that a long time ago the Aryan Amazons were phallic!

Garden of Priapus - 637

Boss lady driving her point home to her caged slave …

That’s what gladiators - or “venus boys” - were for … The Satyricon is explicit about that - Encolpius a retired gladiator introduces us to the strange and secretive world of the female phallus …

Garden of Priapus - 638

Boss lady, her whip and her trussed slave …

Adonis - or myth Myrhha’s female phallus was in constant need of renewal. Like I intuited, his death was like the flaccid phallus after eros, and his birth was like the erect phallus before eros … And it’s true - carnal eros is in constant need of resurrection …

Garden of Priapus - 639

Boss lady finishing up with a deep stroke …

The Nazi outfit is out - but I am not sold on the reasons why … The whole Nazi movement was not contained to Hitler’s Germany - as Jung wrote - it was an general awakening of the Wotan archetype - an ancient Aryan deity …

Boss lady just had sex with a male mare - like Loki as a male mare did to birth the eight legged “Odin horse” - which was probably the same as the Roman Hector horse! The Aryan male was almost certainly penis caged …

- Nothing blocked in this series but the spirit of Loki is active on this page - the links repeat on my iPhone, but work just fine on my laptop ! Manually typing in the right number may be needed -

Garden of Priapus - 640

Boss lady driving from the rear of her husband - “Hector Horse” - or “Odin horse” in a large mentule

The whipping scene above is being toyed with … It loads for my laptop - but not outside

My guess is the censor wants more lashing performances …

The myth Myrhha energy is real - I saw it in the dreamscape - That’s what the Egyptian lion goddesses - Sekhmet Min and others demanded from Egyptian men - and got from Egyptian men - Akhenaten was probably roughly sodomising her father Memnon - Incest was not an issue for Egyptians ..

Myth Myrrha opens up the creative in man - Women give birth - men can experience a similar creative power as male mares and like Loki “give birth” ….

Garden of Priapus - 641

More Boss lady driving from the rear of her husband - “Hector Horse” - or “Odin horse” in a large mentule

Inner images are this is a road around the peadophilia plague - The old saying “devil takes the hindmost” may have a grain of truth …

From male/male - or even alien/male and alien/female to female/male energy … A disruption but also a model that gets around the child fixation

It does not need to be physical - I think most sex happens after sleep begins - Only problem is what kind of sex …

Garden of Priapus - 642

Another Aryan boss lady driving it home from the rear. …

Plate 641 in the garden of Priapus ! … That’s a lot - a veritable Roman cornucopiea …

The garden of Priapus and the Sambadrome have devoured my little website - but writers and artists should consider themselves lucky when their work takes a life of it own …

Garden of Priapus - 643

Aryan boss lady and large mentule and whip before driving it home from the rear. …

Reminds me of Martial’s epigram on the kissers of Rome - Roman women were aggressive kissers - and only lost interest when the target stopped running ! All that flows from the Fibula or penis cage - a sinister invention of ancient Babylon

Its the opposite now - the modern woman assumes men are chasing her! But that’s pure vanity ! It just isn’t true - Its a lie that I as a black man has to live with on a daily basis. ….

Garden of Priapus - 644

Aryan boss lady driving it home from the rear. … Husband caged on the cross ...

From Martial we learn that Roman women also caged their male slaves - Martial was complaining about a Roman matron putting a brass Fibula on her bath slave … That’s a complete reversal of sex roles …. Not sure how that could happen - but it did 2000 years ago!

- That’s also the sexually trussed and elderly Socrates the father of philosophy under the mentule his young Tribade wife - Greek men were eromenos - That erotic intoxication was transformed into the miracle of classical Athens

Garden of Priapus - 645

More general driving her point home from the rear to a penis caged slave - like sacrificing a goat in the garden - In the Priapea the Roman goat man Priapus was complaining of the decreased heat in his Roman gardens - the Nymphs in goat gardens ancient Greece had enjoyed better heat.

According to an epigram in Martial during Rome’s time the greek oracles had gone silent - The reason being the enslavement of the greek population by the Roman conquest.

Eromenos or female phallus sex is the reason why for example Plato’s works are full of mentions of higher powers and spirits that are ever-present and for many like Socrates actually dictated to and guided him - Socrates had a “deamon” … Without the heat of the Fibula or “venus furnace” those higher powers would be restricted to a few shamans or oracles …

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" ... In Plato's Symposium, the priestess Diotima teaches Socrates that love is not a deity, but rather a "great daemon". She goes on to explain that "everything daemonic is between divine and mortal", and she describes daemons as "interpreting and transporting human things to the gods and divine things to men; entreaties and sacrifices from below, and ordinances and requitals from above..." . In Plato's Apology of Socrates, Socrates claimed to have a daimonion .... that frequently warned him—in the form of a "voice"—against mistakes but never told him what to do. The Platonic Socrates, however, never refers to the daimonion as a daimon; it was always referred to as an impersonal "something" or "sign". .... Regarding the charge brought against Socrates in 399 BC, Plato surmised "Socrates does wrong because he does not believe in the gods in whom the city believes, but introduces other daemonic beings..." wikiwand

Garden of Priapus - 646

More general driving her point home from the rear of a penis caged slave in a garden

The priestess Diotima who taught Socrates about love was almost without doubt an enthusiastic participant in the goat sex rites of garden of Priapus - as a mentule - and maybe even over Socrates himself!

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" ... In the Symposium, Plato says that Diotima taught Socrates “the art of love” — an ambiguous phrase. As she was teaching him this art, Socrates made the claim that love was a great and powerful god. Diotima challenged him. Socrates was astonished by the challenge: but surely, he protested, love can’t be mortal. Diotima conceded the point, but then she said something interesting. Love, she argued, is neither immortal nor mortal, but somewhere in between. Love is an intermediary because it binds together the mortal and the immortal, and this is why love has the power to lead mortals to more enduring truths.

In the Symposium, this idea is developed through the image of a ladder of love. First, we might love an individual body. Through this love, we come to recognise that all bodies are worthy of love. And through recognising this, we begin to see that all souls are worthy of love. After this, we see that the social institutions and customs that are put in place by those with loveable souls are themselves worthy of love .... Next, we come to see that knowledge itself is something we should love. And finally — at the top of the ladder — we end up loving love itself.

One reason that Plato is interested in this is because it says something about philosophy. After all, philosophy is the love of wisdom. And the fact that philosophy is not wisdom, but instead the love of wisdom, makes it an intermediary between knowledge and ignorance.

In the story in the Symposium, Diotima asks Socrates if anything exists that occupies the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. At first Socrates can’t think of anything. But then Diotima proposes judgement as something that sits in this in-between position. Judgement is not knowledge because when we judge something to be true, this isn't the same as knowing it to be true. But judgement is not ignorance either because good judgement often hits the mark of truth, “and how could what hits the truth be ignorance?”

Philosophy, like judgement, may be not quite the same as wisdom; but neither is it full-blown ignorance. It is wise, after all, to want to become wise. So anybody who wants to become wise cannot be totally ignorant. But if you want to become wise, by definition you are not yet wise. So you are between ignorance and wisdom, or ignorance and knowledge, driven by love to become wiser. ... " lookingforwisdom

Garden of Priapus - 647

More general and a friend driving her point home from the rear of a penis caged slave in a garden

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" ... In Plato's Symposium the members of a party discuss the meaning of love. Socrates says that in his youth he was taught "the philosophy of love" by Diotima, who was a seer or priestess. Socrates also claims that Diotima successfully postponed the Plague of Athens. In a dialogue that Socrates recounts at the symposium, Diotima says that Socrates has confused the idea of love with the idea of the beloved. Love, she says, is neither fully beautiful nor good, as the earlier speakers in the dialogue had argued. Diotima gives Socrates a genealogy of Love (Eros), stating that he is the son of "resource (poros) and poverty (penia)". In her view, love drives the individual to seek beauty, first earthly beauty, or beautiful bodies. Then as a lover grows in wisdom, the beauty that is sought is spiritual, or beautiful souls. For Diotima, the most correct use of love of other human beings is to direct one's mind to love of wisdom, or philosophy. The beautiful beloved inspires the mind and the soul and directs one's attention to spiritual things. One proceeds from recognition of another's beauty, to appreciation of Beauty apart from any individual, to consideration of Divinity, the source of Beauty, to love of Divinity.

. . . and directing his gaze from now, on towards beauty as a whole, he should turn to the great ocean of beauty, and in contemplation of it give birth to many beautiful and magnificent speeches and thoughts in the abundance of philosophy.

Diotima to Socrates in Plato's Symposium. ... " Wikipedia

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That's the advice that "mother Ayahausca" is said to give many ... creation is what will exist after the individual has passed away ...

Diotoma as a priestess or love or eros had to include carnal eros - or the eros of Pan and Priapus, the goat man - and that had to include the male penis cage and the female mentule ... Becoming a seer requires the fire of the mentule ...

Garden of Priapus - 648

Closing scene of the general and a friend driving her point home from the rear of a penis caged slave in a garden ...

Garden of Priapus - 649

The general in white - Amazons are usually in black - I guess symbolizing black earth or eros - But sometimes like when celebrating the Fon rainbow serpent they are in white

When I first intuited the role of the Roman Fibula or penis cage I had a powerful and highly erotic dream in a creamy white light linking me up to the world of the fanged and phallic Roman ladies of the night … Up high into another world

Fanged ladies as in fangs or serpent fangs I guess - or maybe vampire fangs! Or dragon fangs - The dragon fire is reptilian …

Garden of Priapus - 650

The general in white driving from the rear of a penis caged slave in pink …

Pink is for feminized male - but its also a preppy straight male color …

Garden of Priapus - 651

More of general in white driving from the rear of a penis caged slave in pink …

That’s “Hector Horse” sex - the aged and trussed Trojan prince Hector under the towering and young Amazon Andromache - and maybe the sex the young Socrates was initiated into by his teacher on eros the seer and priestess Diotima. Socrates became a life long horse under Tribades as I am sure the whole of eronomenos male Greece was.

Garden of Priapus - 652

Closing scene - general in white driving from the rear of a penis caged slave - balls in hand …

(March 14, 2022) There’s something they are not telling us. Sex in ancient Greece was probably exactly the same as in Rome - caging of the penis at puberty and anal sex or eronomenos training from 17 to 25 when the penis cage came off.

Until today I did not know the young Socrates has a woman teacher of love Diotima. But for ancient Greeks love could not be separated from carnal eros … So Diotima a probably initiated a young and penis caged Socrates into female dominant anal sex

All those Roman statutes of women with a phallus on page 150 are based in Greek models - so that must have been the dominant form of sex in Ancient Greece.

Garden of Priapus - 653

Muscle Amazon entering a penis caged slave on the table

Socrates shared his first wife after having children with her - and in old age his young Tribade wife Xanthippe gave her name to her children. Ancient Greece was under the Amazon phallus.

Can’t find visual evidence of this though … beyond the large number of sculptures’ of disrobing phallic Amazons on page 150 of this site. Plus the vases of athletic nude Greek women playing with large dildos …

Whenever I work on these scenes of mentule sex - the world around me comes to life - and that can be at 4 am! - It’s tricky to do for obvious reasons. That’s the “resurrection” part of the Dionysus myth!

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" ... Socrates was born in 470 or 469 BC to Sophroniscus and Phaenarete, a stoneworker and a midwife, respectively, in the Athenian deme of Alopece; therefore, he was an Athenian citizen, having been born to relatively affluent Athenians. He lived close to his father's relatives and inherited, as was customary, part of his father's estate, securing a life reasonably free of financial concerns. His education followed the laws and customs of Athens. He learned the basic skills of reading and writing and, like most wealthy Athenians, received extra lessons in various other fields such as gymnastics, poetry and music. He was married twice (which came first is not clear): his marriage to Xanthippe took place when Socrates was in his fifties, and another marriage was with a daughter of Aristides, an Athenian statesman. He had three sons with Xanthippe. ... "Wikipedia

Garden of Priapus - 654

More muscle Amazon entering a penis caged slave on the table

As usual any focus on Socrates and sex is Greek man/boy love - or eronomenos sex. My intuition is eronomenos sex was manly phallic Amazon over penis caged man - not man over young boy.

Man over boy sex was expensive as Martial shows in his epigrams, plus there was the issue of removing the penis cage which was not casually done but required a trip to the blacksmith - and maybe the wives written consent too ... Any man boy sex was probably a boy with a free penis sodomizing an elder penis caged man ...

“ … Socrates attracted great interest from the Athenian public and especially the Athenian youth. He was notoriously ugly, having a flat turned-up nose, bulging eyes and a large belly; his friends joked about his appearance. Socrates was indifferent to material pleasures, including his own appearance and personal comfort. He neglected personal hygiene, bathed rarely, walked barefoot, and owned only one ragged coat. He moderated his eating, drinking, and sex, although he did not practice full abstention. Although Socrates was attracted to youth, as was common and accepted in ancient Greece, he resisted his passion for young men because, as Plato describes, he was more interested in educating their souls. Socrates did not seek sex from his disciples, as was often the case between older and younger men in Athens.… “ Wikipedia

Garden of Priapus - 655

More muscle Amazon entering a penis caged slave from the rear on the table

Socrates view of the human soul and the deity too was female - in accordance with the Athenians call to the two goddesses in the Lysistrata. Not just female but phallic female I'm sure - a Tribade goddess ...

Eromenos sex would therefore be a carnal version of the phallic female human soul sexually penetrating the mortal man ...


" ... Socrates's religious nonconformity challenged the views of his times and his critique reshaped religious discourse for the coming centuries. In Ancient Greece, organized religion was fragmented, celebrated in a number of festivals for specific gods, such as the City Dionysia, or in domestic rituals, and there were no sacred texts. Religion intermingled with the daily life of citizens, who performed their personal religious duties mainly with sacrifices to various gods. Whether Socrates was a practicing man of religion or a 'provocateur atheist' has been a point of debate since ancient times; his trial included impiety accusations, and the controversy hasn't yet ceased.

Socrates discusses divinity and the soul mostly in Alcibiades, Euthyphro, and Apology. In Alcibiades Socrates links the human soul to divinity, concluding "Then this part of her resembles God, and whoever looks at this, and comes to know all that is divine, will gain thereby the best knowledge of himself." ..." Wikipedia

Garden of Priapus - 656

More muscle Amazon entering a penis caged slave from the rear on the table

With her large black mentule she resembles the sculpture of Domitian's "Genius" - a phallic Amazon. Socrates was being sodomized by one of these in old age - Xanthippe was a tribade avatar of his soul ...

Socrates was in direct contact with his deamon who like Domitian's "Genius" was probably a phallic female. He rejected the traditional sacrifices in favor of direct knowledge:

" ... Socrates, in Euthyphro, reaches a conclusion which takes him far from the age's usual practice: he considers sacrifices to the gods to be useless, especially when they are driven by the hope of receiving a reward in return. Instead he calls for philosophy and the pursuit of knowledge to be the principal way of worshipping the gods. His rejection of traditional forms of piety, connecting them to self-interest, implied that Athenians should seek religious experience by self-examination. ... " Wikipedia

Part of this knowledge was must have been carnal - sexual penetration by a Tribade ... That's what Tribades were for - and even after the Roman conquest, Greek Tribades dominated the state taxed Brothel trade ...

Garden of Priapus - 657

More muscle Amazon entering a penis caged slave from the rear on the table - big smile!

(March 16, 2022) Sticky issue - eromenos - The consensus is it is man/boy love - But I received negative feedback about this as I slept from the “jinn” - sometimes my legs will cramp up in sleep - I usually read that as a rage reaction from higher ups - a wound from the Valkyries! Maybe it is - not sure.

But this issue of peadophilia seems pretty central - preventing carnal sex with boys was probably the main reason for the Roman penis cage - Nevertheless writers like Martial lionized man/boy love and it was clearly popular in ancient Athens. In Rome Domitian limited anal sex with boys to 17 years and older

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" ... Socrates remarks in the dialogue Phaedrus that sexual pederasty is driven by the appetital part of the soul, but can be balanced by self-control and reason. He likens wanton lust for a boy to allowing a disobedient horse to control a chariot, but remarks that sexual desire for a boy if combined with a love for their other qualities is acceptable.

.... In Laws, Plato takes a much more austere stance to homosexuality than in previous works, stating:

... one certainly should not fail to observe that when male unites with female for procreation the pleasure experienced is held to be due to nature, but contrary to nature when male mates with male or female with female, and that those first guilty of such enormities [the Cretans] were impelled by their slavery to pleasure. And we all accuse the Cretans of concocting the story about Ganymede.

Plato states here that "we all", possibly referring to society as a whole or simply his social group, believe the story of Ganymede's homosexuality to have been fabricated by the Cretans to justify immoral behaviours.

The Athenian stranger in Plato's Laws blames pederasty for promoting civil strife and driving many to their wits' end, and recommends the prohibition of sexual intercourse with youths, laying out a path whereby this may be accomplished. ... " Wikipedia

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In Socrates case, his soul was female - a phallic female probably like the “genius” of Domitian and the Roman genius in general - that’s always a phallic female. Any sex for him would be modeled on Tribade or female phallus sex

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" ... In Roman religion, the genius (Latin: ... plural genii) is the individual instance of a general divine nature that is present in every individual person, place, or thing. Much like a guardian angel, the genius would follow each man from the hour of his birth until the day he died. For women, it was the Juno spirit that would accompany each of them. ... " Wikipedia

Garden of Priapus - 658

Muscle Amazon preparing to mount penis caged slave.

That’s an image of Socrates and his “genius” or soul - and probably the cause of Tribade or female phallus sex. :

Plato's theory of the soul does not give this Tribade image - but Athens and Rome were clearly ruled by phallic goddesses:

" ... The Platonic soul consists of three parts which are located in different regions of the body:

the logos ... , or logistikon, located in the head, is related to reason and regulates the other parts.
the thymos ..., or thumoeides, located near the chest region, is related to spirit.
the eros ... , or epithumetikon, located in the stomach, is related to one's desires.

In his treatise the Republic, and also with the chariot allegory in Phaedrus, Plato asserted that the three parts of the psyche also correspond to the three classes of a society (viz. the rulers, the military, and the ordinary citizens). The function of the epithymetikon is to produce and seek pleasure. The function of the logistikon is to gently rule through the love of learning. The function of the thymoeides is to obey the directions of the logistikon while ferociously defending the whole from external invasion and internal disorder.

Whether in a city or an individual, justice is declared to be the state of the whole in which each part fulfills its function, while temperance is the state of the whole where each part does not attempt to interfere in the functions of the others. Injustice ... is the contrary state of the whole, often taking the specific form in which the spirited is obedient to the appetitive, while they together either ignore the logical entirely or employ it in their pursuits of pleasure. ... " Wikipedia

Garden of Priapus - 659

Closing scene: muscle Amazon deep thrust into a “trussed” or penis caged slave.

That’s the Trojan/Amazon sex of Princes Nestor and Priam and Hector and the Bona Dea festival and the whole Roman elite … And the whole Egyptian elite and Sumerian elite and Syrian elite and Canaanite elite and so on …

Garden of Priapus - 660

General and horse phallus over a penis caged slave

Tribades and Greco-Roman matrons were erates and the young penis caged were eromenos. It’s laid out in the Priapea. Penis caged life is just a startling fact of the classical world that has not yet been discovered.

Martial provides more proof - homosexual sex with penis caged youths was too expensive and required coming out of the penis cage which was a cumbersome operation that required a trip to the blacksmith and maybe permission of the wife.

The Greek homosexual text book consensus is flawed at the source - Plato did not find gay sex natural and Socrates ended up in a passive sexual relationship with a Tribade.

The prime greco-roman deity was a phallic female fire goddess - represented on earth by the tribade and the sexually ravenous Greek and Roman matrons …

Garden of Priapus - 661

General and horse phallus entering over a penis caged slave from the rear balls in hand

Not sure who the “twin goddesses” in the Lysistrata but my guess is Artemis and Apollo. Apollo is universally depicted as a phallic female by both greeks and Romans.

Apollo probably inherits the phallus of her father Zeus in the classical Amazon way - sodomizing a penis caged Zeus Myth Myrrha style …

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“ … CHORUS
Lead on the dance, bring on the Graces,
and summon Artemis and her twin, Apollo, the god who heals us all,
call on Bacchus, Nysa’s god,
whose eyes blaze forth
amid his Maenads’ ecstasy,
and Zeus alight with flaming fire, and Hera, Zeus’s blessed wife,
and other gods whom we will use
as witnesses who won’t forget
the meaning of the gentle Peace
made here by goddess Aphrodite. Alalai! Raise the cry of joy,
raise it high, iai!
the cry of victory, iai!
Evoi, evoi, evoi, evoi! … “

Lysistrata

Garden of Priapus - 662

General and horse phallus meeting a penis caged slave - my guess is a rite of passage for all eromenos penis caged Greek and Roman youth. Passive sex under and older Erates phallic Greek or Roman matron.

The Greco-Roman penis did not come out of it’s bronze cage until 25. Until that time Greek and Roman men were “lesbian boys” with all sex probably “pedico” or anal under phallic Greek and Roman matrons …

That goes back to ancient Egypt and the Djed pillar - That took four 7 year periods or 28 years to fully mature - a time period paralelled by the Vestal Virgins three 10 year periods or 30 years of strict celibacy …

A common late Roman problem was men refusing to move to the bearded erates or phallic stage of their lives - they preferred being young lean clean shaven and eromenos - the sex was hotter and took less effort !

Garden of Priapus - 663

Another “Venus furnace” - probably Etruscan: Anatomical Votive Offering from Central Italy, 4th century BC

Etruscan civilization has an Egyptian influence and penis caging was probably part of that.

Friedrich Nietzsche wanted to refresh western civilization by resurrecting the Dionysus cult - the penis cage was probably what he was looking for - as horrifying as that sounds …

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" ... The Apollonian and the Dionysian are philosophical and literary concepts represented by a duality between the figures of Apollo and Dionysus from Greek mythology. Its popularization is widely attributed to the work The Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietzsche, though the terms had already been in use prior to this, such as in the writings of poet Friedrich Hölderlin, historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann, and others. The word Dionysian occurs as early as 1608 in Edward Topsell’s zoological treatise, The History of Serpents. The concept has since been widely invoked and discussed within Western philosophy and literature.

In Greek mythology, Apollo and Dionysus are both sons of Zeus. Apollo, son of Leto, is the god of the sun, of rational thinking and order, and appeals to logic, prudence and purity and stands for reason. Dionysus, son of Semele, is the god of wine and dance, of irrationality and chaos, representing passion, emotions and instincts. The Ancient Greeks did not consider the two gods to be opposites or rivals, although they were often entwined by nature. ...

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Nietzsche found in classical Athenian tragedy an art form that transcended the pessimism found in the so-called wisdom of Silenus. The Greek spectators, by looking into the abyss of human suffering depicted by characters on stage, passionately and joyously affirmed life, finding it worth living. The main theme in The Birth of Tragedy is that the fusion of Dionysian and Apollonian Kunsttriebe ("artistic impulses") forms dramatic arts or tragedies. He argued that this fusion has not been achieved since the ancient Greek tragedians. Apollo represents harmony, progress, clarity, logic and the principle of individuation, whereas Dionysus represents disorder, intoxication, emotion, ecstasy and unity (hence the omission of the principle of individuation). Nietzsche used these two forces because, for him, the world of mind and order on one side, and passion and chaos on the other, formed principles that were fundamental to the Greek culture: the Apollonian a dreaming state, full of illusions; and Dionysian a state of intoxication, representing the liberations of instinct and dissolution of boundaries. In this mold, a man appears as the satyr. He is the horror of the annihilation of the principle of individuality and at the same time someone who delights in its destruction. Both of these principles are meant to represent cognitive states that appear through art as the power of nature in man.

Apollonian and Dionysian juxtapositions appear in the interplay of tragedy: the tragic hero of the drama, the main protagonist, struggles to make (Apollonian) order of his unjust and chaotic (Dionysian) fate, though he dies unfulfilled. Elaborating on the conception of Hamlet as an intellectual who cannot make up his mind, and is a living antithesis to the man of action, Nietzsche argues that a Dionysian figure possesses the knowledge that his actions cannot change the eternal balance of things, and it disgusts him enough not to act at all. Hamlet falls under this category—he glimpsed the supernatural reality through the Ghost, he has gained true knowledge and knows that no action of his has the power to change this. For the audience of such drama, this tragedy allows them to sense what Nietzsche called the Primordial Unity, which revives Dionysian nature. He describes primordial unity as the increase of strength, the experience of fullness and plenitude bestowed by frenzy. Frenzy acts as intoxication and is crucial for the physiological condition that enables the creation of any art. Stimulated by this state, a person's artistic will is enhanced:

In this state one enriches everything out of one's own fullness: whatever one sees, whatever wills is seen swelled, taut, strong, overloaded with strength. A man in this state transforms things until they mirror his power—until they are reflections of his perfection. This having to transform into perfection is—art.

Nietzsche is adamant that the works of Aeschylus and Sophocles represent the apex of artistic creation, the true realization of tragedy; it is with Euripides, that tragedy begins its Untergang (literally 'going under' or 'downward-way;' meaning decline, deterioration, downfall, death, etc.). Nietzsche objects to Euripides' use of Socratic rationalism and morality in his tragedies, claiming that the infusion of ethics and reason robs tragedy of its foundation, namely the fragile balance of the Dionysian and Apollonian. Socrates emphasized reason to such a degree that he diffused the value of myth and suffering to human knowledge. Plato continued along this path in his dialogues, and the modern world eventually inherited reason at the expense of artistic impulses found in the Apollonian and Dionysian dichotomy. He notes that without the Apollonian, the Dionysian lacks the form and structure to make a coherent piece of art, and without the Dionysian, the Apollonian lacks the necessary vitality and passion. Only the fertile interplay of these two forces brought together as an art represented the best of Greek tragedy. ... " Wikipedia

Garden of Priapus - 664

Boss lady working the rear of a penis caged black horse with a large mentule

What Friedrich Nietzsche and the “Aryans” never found out is Apollo the “son” of Zeus and god of reason is really a phallic female - and Dionysus the god of passion and frenzy was a black African god - and probably a penis caged satyr.

- Anyone who has seen images of satyrs on greek vases will see that are not Europeans - My guess is the “ugly” Socrates and father of philosophy was also not European … Black Africa is always lurking at the roots of western civilization …

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In this poem Catullus denounces Julius Ceasar and Mamurrae as catamites who enjoyed sex with shared young girls.

"Mamurrae pathicoque Caesarique."

Pathic is defined in modern usage as "A man or boy who is the passive partner in homosexual anal intercourse." Wikipedia

But in this poem Ceasar and Mamurrae are pathic to young girls!

Ceasar was raised in the Suburran brothel district and as a normal penis caged Roman nobleman was used to anal sex under phallic Roman matrons

" ...57. You Two! : to Caius Julius Caesar

Beautifully matched the perverse buggers,
Mamurra the catamite and Caesar.
No wonder: both equally spotted,
one from Formia, the other the City,
marks that remain, not to be lessened.
diseased the same, both of these twins,
both somewhat skilled in the selfsame couch,
this one no greedier an adulterer than that,
rivals in shared little girls.
Beautifully matched the perverse buggers. ... "

Catullus, Translated by A. S. Kline Copyright 2001

Garden of Priapus - 665

Boss lady sodomizes her husband topless with a large mentule.

In this poem Catullus is envious of the men that the love of his life Lesbia has a habit of sodomizing in public places.

The word used is glubit which is translates as "jerks off men" but is more literally "tears the bark off" men -

The imagery is consistent with the locked Roman phallus and the sexually ravenous and phallic Roman matron

" ... 58. Lament for Lesbia: to Marcus Caelius Rufus

Caelius, our Lesbia, that Lesbia,
that Lesbia, Catullus alone loved
more than himself, and all of his own,
now at crossroads, and down alleyways,
jerks off the brave sons of Rome. ... "

Catullus, Translated by A. S. Kline Copyright 2001

“ … The word glubit in Catullus 58 has long been a puzzle. Glubo normally appears in agricultural works, where it describes stripping bark or fleecing sheep. Its use in the last line of poem 58 is the only occurrence outside of Cato and Varro and is unique in Catullus’ corpus … “

Stripping their spoils: Lesbia and glubit in Catullus 58

Garden of Priapus - 666

Boss lady working a bound and penis caged slave from the rear

My reading of this poem is of a surprised penis caged boy being initiated into anal sex by a female friend of Catullus. Catullus then passed the boy to the next mentule ... the "rigid succeeding shaft"

" ... 56. Threesome: to Cato

O Cato, an amusing ridiculous thing,
worth your ears and your laughter!
Cato laugh as you love Catullus:
the thing is amusing, and quite ridiculous.
I caught my girl’s little pupil thrusting away:
if only to please Dione, I sacrificed him
to my rigid succeeding shaft. ... "

Catullus, Translated by A. S. Kline Copyright 2001

In addition to the famous "dog-leash tan" the energy generation of the "venus furnace" or penis cage also created a need to periodically "glubit" or "sheep shear" or sodomize the penis caged Roman man - that was the cause of the perpetual lust of the Roman matron

The women only Bona Dea festival was a “glubit” or sheep sheep-shearing festival - Roman men and Roman slaves invited but only dressed as women!

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The young boy was sacrificed to Dione - That's an obscure water nymph and goddess of love - sometimes the mother of the phallic Aphrodite - But Dione is also associated with the hyper-phallic Canaanite goddess Asherah - the wife of Yahweh. We can assume that was the fate of the young pupil of Catullus's girl ... And the fate of all Roman men too ...

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Dione ... is the name of four women in ancient Greek mythology, and one in the Phoenician religion described by Sanchuniathon. Dione is translated as "Goddess", and given the same etymological derivation as the names Zeus, Diana, et al.Very little information exists about these nymphs or goddesses, although at least one is described as beautiful and is sometimes associated with water or the sea. Perhaps this same one was worshiped as a mother goddess who presided over the oracle at Dodona, Greece and was called the mother of Aphrodite.

One Dione is identified as the mother of the Roman goddess of love, Venus, or equivalently as the mother of the Greek goddess of love, Aphrodite; but Dione is also sometimes identified with Aphrodite.

... Dione is among the Titanides or Titanesses. She is called a daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, hence an Oceanid, a water-nymph. She is otherwise called a daughter of Gaia; according to worshippers of Orpheus her father is the sky-god Uranus, while others identify her father as Aether. She and Zeus are called the parents of Aphrodite by some ancient sources. Hesiod listed Dione among the wives of Zeus who were daughters of Tethys and Oceanus; she is described as beautiful in the "sacred books of Orpheus". She was one of the goddesses assembled to witness the birth of Apollo.

The Greek goddess of love sometimes takes the name Dione: this may identify her with Aphrodite, though Homer calls Dione the mother of Aphrodite. Károly Kerényi notes in this context that the name Dione resembles the Latin name Diana, and is a feminine form of the name Zeus (cf Latin deus, god), hence meaning "goddess of the bright sky". This association does not prevent her, however, from being worshipped along with Zeus as a deity of springs, making her a water-goddess.

... In the Phoenician History, a literary work attributed to Sanchuniathon, a daughter of Uranus/Heaven and Gaia/Earth is called Dione and also Baaltis. She is a sister of Kronos/Elus whom the latter made his wife after their father sent her, and her sisters, to kill Kronos/Elus. The latter gave the city Byblos to Dione. The exact identity of this Dione is uncertain: Sanchuniathon may have meant to identify her with Dione the Titaness. From her name Baaltis and association with Byblos she is taken to be Ba‘alat Gebal, the patron goddess of Byblos. However, some scholars identify her with Asherah, proposing that Sanchuniathon merely uses Dione as a translation of Asherah's epithet Elat. ... "Wikipedia

Garden of Priapus - 667

Boss lady enjoys her husbands rear with a tall Amazon

In this poem a whorish girlfriend of Catullus tries to borrow his litter-bearer slaves from Bithynia - in present day Turkey. Litter bearers both carried Roman women and were sex objects of Roman matrons. They are usually assumed to be black - but were really from Asia Minor the land of the phallic goddesses like Cybele and Innanna

" ... 10. Home Truths for Varus’s girl: to Varus

Varus drags me into his affairs
out of the Forum, where I’m seen idling:
to a little whore I immediately saw,
not very inelegant, not unattractive,
who, when we came there, met us
with varied chatter, including, how might
Bithynia stand now, what’s it like, and where
might the benefit have been to me in cash.
I told her what’s true, nothing at all,
while neither the praetors nor their aides,
return any the richer, especially since
our Praetor, Memmius, the bugger,
cared not a jot for his followers.
‘But surely,’ they said, you could have bought
slaves they say are made for the litter there.’
I, so the girl might take me to be wealthy,
said ‘no, for me things weren’t so bad,
that coming across one bad province,
I couldn’t buy eight good men.’
But I’d no one, neither here nor there,
who might even raise to his shoulder
the shattered foot of an old couch.
At this she, like the shameless thing she was, said
‘I beg you, my dear Catullus, for the loan of them,
just for a while: I’d like to be carried
to Serap’s temple.’ ‘Wait’ I said to the girl,
‘what I just said was mine, isn’t actually in
my possession: my friend Cinna, that’s Gaius,
purchased the thing for himself.
Whether they’re his or mine, what difference to me?
I use them just as well as if I’d bought them myself.
But you are quite tasteless, and annoying,
you with whom no inexactness is allowed.’ ... "

Catullus, Translated by A. S. Kline Copyright 2001

Garden of Priapus - 668

More Roman Votive offerings. Phimosis or a blocked phallus seems to have been a very common disease in ancient Rome - but that's just not a credible explanation of all those votive offerings - Greco-Roman men sacrificed their front sexual organ to the deity - almost certainly a variation of Asherah the wife of Yahweh. The main Roman male sex organ was in the rear ...

In the Amazon system Yahweh had to submit to his daughter when his wife died - Which is what happened for the most part - Anat and the Greek goddesses Apollo and Artemis succeeded the world that Asherah and her consort Yahweh used to rule ...

Asherah had an African and Arab background - the lands of the queen of Sheba.

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In this poem the image of the circumcised phallus of Priapus is presented by Catullus - By which he means free and erect phallus for rear penetration

Almost certainly the mentule of a Roman matron - A phallus worshipping female member of the Priapus cult

" ... 47. Preferment: to Porcius and Socration

Porcius and Socration, two left hands
of Piso, the world’s itches and famines,
that circumcised Priapus prefers you
to my Veraniolus and my Fabullus?
You, indulged with great sumptuous banquets
every day: my friends
looking for work at the crossroads? ... "

Catullus, Translated by A. S. Kline Copyright 2001

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*(April 3, 2022) Dreamscape image - nightmare of one eyed mother/son communities - Found myself back at Westlands Primary school in Nairobi - standard 5 or 5th grade in a community of rigid and even cruel mothers and aunts

- When I grew up that was literally true - we had rigid female discipline both at home and at school

Nightmare feature that woke me up was everyone - both students and teachers suddenly had an inner eye suddenly activate

That’s an Asherah dream - the strict wife of Yahweh and the mother or aunt of 70 gods. The one eye activating is the dragon eye or inner eye opening up

Along with the inner dragon eye is the circumcised phallus of the poem above ! - The female phallus is an African archetype

That’s why all African women have their clitoris cut off at puberty - Sometimes the Labia too - African women would be like Japanese futa without female genital mutilation

When the clit is removed the dragon still remains - but in other forms - mostly money lust in Kenya

Garden of Priapus - 669

Boss lady working the rear of a a caged slave

That’s the circumcised phallus working at the crossroads that Catullus is talking about. There were other Roman examples, for example circumcised Jews and uncaged Roman bath slaves - but the circumcised Priapus at the crossroads reference is specific to the Priapus cult - which was an upper class Roman matron cult.

Asherah the fecund wife of Yahweh always give me vivid dreams - a strict goddess of the sea but also the goddess who first caged the male African phallus in very ancient days - that’s the birth of Bacchus and the Dionysus cult of the hills Nysa and the African Amazon female phallus

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“ … 35. Cybele: to Caecilius

Paper, I’d like you to say to Caecilius,
that tender poet, that friend of mine,
leave Lake Como, come now to Verona,
abandon the town there and the shore.
Because there are certain thoughts that I want
him to hear of, from his friend and yours.
So, if he’s wise, he’ll eat up the road,
though some lovely girl calls to him
asks his return, clasping both hands
round his neck, and begging delay.
Who, if the truth’s been told me now
love’s him with violent desire.
For, since the moment she read his unfinished
Lady of Dindymus, the poor little thing
has been eaten by fire to the core of her bones.
I forgive you, girl, more learned
than the Sapphic Muse: it’s truly lovely,
Caecilius’s unfinished Great Mother Cybele. … “

Catullus, Translated by A. S. Kline Copyright 2001

Garden of Priapus - 670

Boss lady driving her point from the rear of a caged slave

That was the condition of the upper class Roman - Women and men, but more women fliting from bed to bed - but the how of penis caged sex is is left unsaid. Romans did not talk of the female phallus - She was their deity - the " Great Mother Cybele."

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“… 29. Catamite

       
Who could see it, who could endure it,
unless he were shameless, greedy, a gambler?
Mamurra owns riches that Transalpine Gaul
and furthest Britain once owned.
Roman sodomite, do you see this and bear it?
And now shall the man, arrogant, overbearing,
flit through all of the beds
like a whitish dove or an Adonis?
Roman sodomite, do you see this and bear it?
You’re shameless, greedy, a gambler.
Surely it wasn’t for this, you, the unique leader,
were in the furthest western isle,
so that this loose-living tool of yours
might squander two or three hundred times its worth?
What is it but perverted generosity?
Hasn’t he squandered enough, or been elevated enough?
First his inheritance was well and truly spent,
then the booty from Pontus, then
Spain’s, to make three, as the gold-bearing Tagus knows:
now be afraid for Gaul’s and Britain’s.
Why cherish this evil? What’s he good for
but to devour his rich patrimony?
Was it for this, the city’s wealthiest,
you, father-in law, son-in-law, wasted a world? … “

Catullus, Translated by A. S. Kline Copyright 2001

Garden of Priapus - 671

Roman bath house sex - In this poem Catullus shows it was the young male ass that was the sex object of the Roman bath.

The Roman woman was the opposite - from hints from Catullus she probably went through a symbolic “circumcision” at puberty when her female phallus was symbolically unleashed - the circumcised phallus of Priapus - and the standard 8 inch Greek female dildo

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“ … 33. A Suggestion: to Vibennius

O first of the bath-house thieves
Vibennius the father, with sodomite son
(since the father’s right hand is dirtier,
and the son’s arse more all-consuming),
why not go into exile, to some vile place?
Seeing the father’s pillage is known
to us all, and the son’s hairy arse,
you can’t sell for a farthing. … “

Catullus, Translated by A. S. Kline Copyright 2001

Garden of Priapus - 672

Boss lady drives her point home while a friend watches over a feminized and penis caged slave …

Despite denouncing catamites, Catullus was also a catamite. He like all Roman men was raised under the Roman deity - a phallic great mother. - In this poem a ripe and “supine” Catullus asks a girlfriend to order him to come to her house for nine sessions of mid -day sex

“ … Catullus. 32

Please,
my sweet
Ipsithilla,
my delight,
my charmer:
order me
to come
to you
at noon.
And if you
should order this,
it will be useful
if no one
makes fast
the outer door
[against me],
and don't
be minded
to go out,
but
stay
at home
and
prepare
for us
nine continuous
love-makings.
In truth
if you are
minded,
give the order
at once:
for breakfast over,
I lie supine
and ripe,
poking through
both tunic
and cloak. … “

Catullus. The Carmina of Gaius Valerius Catullus. Leonard C. Smithers. London. Smithers. 1894.

Garden of Priapus - 673

More "Venus Furnace" penis cage- Another Roman Votive plaque in the form of a phallus (bronze), Roman, (1st century AD)

That's a rich Romans votive offering - Behind that was almost certainly a female phallic bull - his mother, or aunt or wife and sister and even his daughter and granddaughter at the end of his life.

With the ED or erectile dysfunction epidemic of today the Roman penis cage is of no use - there is nothing to cage! I suppose the time to catch that is during the puberty years ... And ED is now universal - black men are fully paid up members of the ED country club.

That's been a nagging question for me - can the penis cage reverse ED in older years? That's probably not that easy to do - we are talking about the Dragon - or the human will at maximum force. Once let loose, there's no way to control that greek "deamon" - it does what it wants to ...

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In this poem Catullus laments being dumped by a girlfriend - but forces himself to accept it.

The naturally erect penis is like that girlfriend - she comes and goes as she pleases*

“ … 8. Advice: to himself

Sad Catullus, stop playing the fool,
and let what you know leads you to ruin, end.
Once, bright days shone for you,
when you came often drawn to the girl
loved as no other will be loved by you.
Then there were many pleasures with her,
that you wished, and the girl not unwilling,
truly the bright days shone for you.
And now she no longer wants you: and you
weak man, be unwilling to chase what flees,
or live in misery: be strong-minded, stand firm.
Goodbye girl, now Catullus is firm,
he doesn’t search for you, won’t ask unwillingly.
But you’ll grieve, when nobody asks.
Woe to you, wicked girl, what life’s left for you?
Who’ll submit to you now? Who’ll see your beauty?
Who now will you love? Whose will they say you’ll be?
Who will you kiss? Whose lips will you bite?
But you, Catullus, be resolved to be firm. … “

Catullus, Translated by A. S. Kline Copyright 2001

Garden of Priapus - 674

Boss lady as a horse trainer

- That’s the Greek female erastes/male eromenos model - Like a horse, the Greek and Roman elite male was penis caged and sexually broken in by a phallic Amazon. - Priapus sex at “the crossroads” and in alleyways was Pedico or anal. It was also selective - not all Roman men were selected

- This set up continued into old age with young phallic Tribades and bald graybeards in the Trojan phallic “truss” …

But the modern reading of this is all gay and lesbian - the universal male penis cage and the female fascinum are subjects for future research!

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In this poem Catullus mentions a votive offering - but it’s his girlfriend that offers it to the goddess of love. I assume that’s what happened - the boyfriend or eromenos horse offered his phallus to his erastes girlfriend who then offered it to the goddess of love and fire

“ … 36. Burnt-Offering: to Volusius’s Droppings

Annals, of Volusius, papyrus droppings,
discharge my girl’s votive offering.
Since, by sacred Venus and Cupid, she promised,
that if I were given back to her,
and I left off launching wild iambics,
she’d offer the gods the choicest words,
of the worst of limping poets,
consumed with malignant wood.
And the girl thought this was the worst,
with charming laughter, to move the gods.
Now O goddess created from the blue sea,
whose is holy Idalia, Urii, Ancona,
reed-bound Cnidos, and Amathusia,
Golgos, and Adriatic Dyrrachium,
make the vow acceptable, fulfilled,
if its not lacking in wit and charm.
But meanwhile, you, enter the fire,
you, full of boorishness and crudities,
Volusian annals, papyrus droppings. … “

Catullus, Translated by A. S. Kline Copyright 2001

Garden of Priapus - 675

More boss lady as horse trainer.

The Venus furnace fire was the penis cage.

It’s no different than modern horse girls - no stallions - gelds only. What that means is a transfer of the phallus fire to the female! Thats the source of the extreme lust of the Greco-Roman matrons.

The penis cage was also a safeguard of the male fire or male eros into old age …

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*In this poem Catullus sketches a Cybele beer and sex tavern. His girlfriend has left him and has been helping herself to tens or even hundreds of men and boys - both rich and poor who frequent the tavern.

Catullus threatens to bugger or sodomize the men having sex with her - I assume being buggered or sodomized was all the sex that penis caged Roman men got

“ … 7. Free for All: to the Regulars and Egnatius

Lecherous tavern, and you its regulars,
nine pillars along from the Twins’ pillars,
do you think you’re the only ones with cocks,
the only ones who’re allowed to trouble
young girls, and consider the rest of us goats?
Or, because a hundred or two of you sit in a row, you,
dullards, that I daren’t bugger two hundred together?
Think on: I’ll draw all over the front
of the tavern with your leavings.
Because my girl, who’s left my arms,
whom I loved as no other girl’s ever been loved,
for whom so many great battles were fought,
is there. You, all the rich and the fortunate, love her,
and, what’s so shameful, it’s true, all the lesser ones,
all the adulterous frequenters of by-ways:
you, above all, one of the hairy ones,
rabbit-faced offspring of Spain,
Egnatius. Whom a shadowy beard improves,
and teeth scrubbed with Iberian piss. … “

Catullus, Translated by A. S. Kline Copyright 2001

Garden of Priapus - 676

More boss lady as horse trainer - Inspecting the horse’s rear -

The penis caged Roman front was sacrificed to Venus the fire goddess - The rear which was “buggered” by phallic Roman matrons was the main male sex organ

Garden of Priapus - 677

Venus in the Royal purple - attended by Mars. Venus and Mars, fresco from Pompeii, c. 20 BC — 50 AD

Note the famous “dog-leash tan” on Mars.

Venus was the deity the accepted the locked phalli of Roman men as a sacrifice to her fire.

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" ... Venus has been described as perhaps "the most original creation of the Roman pantheon", ... and "an ill-defined and assimilative" native goddess, combined "with a strange and exotic Aphrodite". Her cults may represent the religiously legitimate charm and seduction of the divine by mortals, in contrast to the formal, contractual relations between most members of Rome's official pantheon and the state, and the unofficial, illicit manipulation of divine forces through magic. ... The ambivalence of her persuasive functions has been perceived in the relationship of the root *wenos- with its Latin derivative venenum ('poison'; from *wenes-no 'love drink' or 'addicting'), in the sense of "a charm, magic philtre".

In myth, Venus-Aphrodite was born, already in adult form, from the sea foam ... produced by the severed genitals of Caelus-Uranus. Roman theology presents Venus as the yielding, watery female principle, essential to the generation and balance of life. Her male counterparts in the Roman pantheon, Vulcan and Mars, are active and fiery. Venus absorbs and tempers the male essence, uniting the opposites of male and female in mutual affection. She is essentially assimilative and benign, and embraces several otherwise quite disparate functions. She can give military victory, sexual success, good fortune and prosperity. In one context, she is a goddess of prostitutes; in another, she turns the hearts of men and women from sexual vice to virtue. Varro's theology identifies Venus with water as an aspect of the female principle. To generate life, the watery matrix of the womb requires the virile warmth of fire. To sustain life, water and fire must be balanced; excess of either one, or their mutual antagonism, are unproductive or destructive.

Prospective brides offered Venus a gift "before the wedding"; the nature of the gift, and its timing, are unknown. The wedding ceremony itself, and the state of lawful marriage, belonged to Juno – whose mythology allows her only a single marriage, and no divorce from her habitually errant spouse, Jupiter – but Venus and Juno are also likely "bookends" for the ceremony; Venus prepares the bride for "conubial bliss" and expectations of fertility within lawful marriage. Some Roman sources say that girls who come of age offer their toys to Venus; it is unclear where the offering is made, and others say this gift is to the Lares. In dice-games played with knucklebones, a popular pastime among Romans of all classes, the luckiest, best possible roll was known as "Venus". ... " Wikipedia

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My guess is the main offering new brides made to Venus was their husbands phallic votive offering - of the locked Roman phallus or venus furnace ... Not just brides but any female who wanted fire in her sexual conquests ...

Garden of Priapus - 678

Boss lady and a friend preparing to mount a penis caged horse from the rear.

In return for the votive phallic offering of the caged Roman phallus, Roman women probably received their female phallus - the universal and always erect fascinum which was not symbolic - Roman matrons sodomized Roman men …

The fascinum was Venus and Aphrodite in their primal form - the phallus of Uranus

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*In this poem Catullus reveals an expectation of Roman polyandry - If a Roman bride was confined to her home she was likely to sodomise her penis caged uncles - as in Myth Myrhha when the young girl explores her sexual awakening by sodomizing her penis caged father …

“ … 111. Preferable: to Aufilena

To live content with one man, Aufilena,
is the glory of highest glories for a bride:
but its better to sleep with whoever she likes,
than be mother of her cousins by her uncle. … “

Catullus, Translated by A. S. Kline Copyright 2001

Garden of Priapus - 679

Boss lady mounts the penis caged horse from the rear while friend looks on

The Cybele beer taverns of the poem above were prowled by young Roman girls - But as Martial shows the female Roman libido did not yield to age - the life long penis cage was a life long Venus furnace

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In this poem the ass of a man who has sex with many girls is found to be more pleasant than his mouth … That’s one of the more direct expressions of Roman female phallus sex

“ … 97. Disgusting: to Aemilius

I did not (may the gods love me) think it mattered,
whether I might be smelling Aemilius’s mouth or arse.
The one’s no cleaner, the other’s no dirtier,
in fact his arse is both cleaner and nicer:
since it’s no teeth. Indeed, the other has
foot long teeth, gums like an old box-cart,
and jaws that usually gape like the open
cunt of a pissing mule on heat.
He fucks lots of women, and makes himself out
to be charming, and isn’t set to the mill with the ass?
Shouldn’t we think, of any girl touching him,
she’s capable of licking a foul hangman’s arse? … “

Catullus, Translated by A. S. Kline Copyright 2001

Garden of Priapus - 680

Boss lady driving her point home from the rear of a penis caged slave, while her friend looks on…

The erect Menutule or phallus in the Roman context is not male - In this poem by Catullus the Mentula or female phallus is celebrated as being a fountain of wealth - But also a spendthrift who must rely on his “pastures” or male asses to remain solvent …

“ … 114. Mirage: to Mentula

They say, no lie, that Mentula the Cock is rich
with the pastures of Firmum, full of good things,
fowling of every kind, fish, meadows, fields and game.
In vain: his income’s surpassed by his costs.
So, I concede he’s rich, while everything’s lacking.
lets praise the pastures, so long as he’s in want. … “

Catullus, Translated by A. S. Kline Copyright 2001

Garden of Priapus - 681

More boss lady driving her point home from the rear of a penis caged slave, while her friend looks on…

A “pasture”of male ass being plowed - Catallus compares the wealth of the Roman Mentule or female phallus to the mythical Croesus - The eromenos Greco- Roman male preferred being the plowed pasture to being the erastes plower:

“… 115. Menace: to Mentula

Mentula’s good for thirty acres of meadows,
forty of fields: the rest of it’s marsh.
Why shouldn’t he exceed Croesus in riches,
one who possesses so many assets, in land,
meadows, fields, vast woods and pastures and pools
as far as the Hyperboreans, and Ocean’s seas?
All this is great, but he’s the greatest of all,
not a man, but, in truth, a great projecting Cock. … “

Catullus, Translated by A. S. Kline Copyright 2001

Garden of Priapus - 682

More boss lady driving her point home from the rear of a penis caged slave -

The Roman female phallus had agency - she picked the male asses or pastures that she wanted to plow - Usually of free. Except when as in Martial or Juvenal older crones had to pay young male ass "spintra" for sex

“ … 94. Naturally: to Mentula

Mentula the Cock fornicates. Does a Cock fuck? For sure.
That’s what they say: the pot picks its own herbs. … “

Catullus, Translated by A. S. Kline Copyright 2001

Garden of Priapus - 683

Boss lady’s friend has a go from the rear

Catallus touches on a form of female phallus sex from Persia that was said to create Magi - Mother/Son sex modeled on the sex Queen Semiramis of Babylon was said to have had with her son. Semiramis was considered by Romans to have been the first woman to cage the male phallus.

Mother son incest myths are rare but Asherah the wife of Yahweh was said to have sodomized Baal her son!

“ .. 90. Too Much! : to Gellius

Let a Magus be born from the sinful union
of Gellius and his mother, and learn Persian soothsaying:
since a Magus ought to be born from a mother and son,
if the impious religion of the Persians is true,
so with acceptable chants he’ll pleasingly worship the gods
melting the entrails in the greasy flame. … “

Catullus, Translated by A. S. Kline Copyright 2001

Garden of Priapus - 684

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Asherah sex is horse trainer sex - That’s mother/son sex or the “mother complex” - The Jewish nation used to have an Asherah community - I guess it was the ruling class

The book of Ezekiel is explicit about that - its also explicit about the so called spirit world - that’s forbidden …

That taboo also applies to all Christians - Moslems are different though - Mohammed was from a world where the “Jinn” were a day to day reality

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“ … 34. Song: to Diana

Under Diana’s protection,
we pure girls, and boys:
we pure boys, and girls,
we sing of Diana.
O, daughter of Latona,
greatest child of great Jove,
whose mother gave birth
near the Delian olive,
mistress of mountains
and the green groves,
the secret glades,
and the sounding streams:
you, called Juno Lucina
in childbirth’s pains,
you, called all-powerful Trivia,
and Luna, of counterfeit daylight.
Your monthly passage
measures the course of the year,
you fill the rustic farmer’s
roof with good crops.
Take whatever sacred name
pleases you, be a sweet help
to the people of Rome,
as you have been of old. … “

Catullus, Translated by A. S. Kline Copyright 2001

Garden of Priapus - 685

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Asherah was like Venus - her fire came from the penis cage or Fibula - the "Venus furnace".

Below is a christian perspective on Asherah - My only correction is Asherah was not the mistress of El - Its the opposite - in the Amazon system, El was the consort of Asherah. Baal owed his power to the new Queen his sister Anat - not from any warrior prowess on his part…

The Asherah pole is a Jewish Djed pillar - exactly that same as the world tree of Odin and the Legba “Poto Mitan” the west African Axis Mundi

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“ … CANAAN'S GODS

Baal

The earliest deity recognized by the peoples of the ancient Near East was the creator god El. His mistress, the fertility goddess Asherah, gave birth to many gods, including a powerful god named Baal ("Lord"). There appears to have been only one Baal, who was manifested in lesser Baals at different places and times. Over the years, Baal became the dominant deity, and the worship of El faded.

Baal won his dominance by defeating the other deities, including the god of the sea, the god of storms (also of rain, thunder, and lightning), and the god of death. Baal's victory over death was thought to be repeated each year when he returned from the land of death (underworld), bringing rain to renew the earth's fertility. Hebrew culture viewed the sea as evil and destructive, so Baal?s promise to prevent storms and control the sea, as well as his ability to produce abundant harvests, made him attractive to the Israelites. It's hard to know why Yahweh's people failed to see that he alone had power over these things. Possibly, their desert origins led them to question God's sovereignty over fertile land. Or maybe it was simply the sinful pagan practices that attracted them to Baal.

Baal is portrayed as a man with the head and horns of a bull, an image similar to that in biblical accounts. His right hand (sometimes both hands) is raised, and he holds a lightning bolt, signifying both destruction and fertility. Baal has also been portrayed seated on a throne, possibly as the king or lord of the gods.

Asherah
Asherah was honored as the fertility goddess in various forms and with varying names (Judg. 3:7). The Bible does not actually describe the goddess, but archaeologists have discovered figurines believed to be representations of her. She is portrayed as a nude female, sometimes pregnant, with exaggerated breasts that she holds out, apparently as symbols of the fertility she promises her followers. The Bible indicates that she was worshiped near trees and poles, called Asherah poles (Deut. 7:5, 12:2-3; 2 Kings 16:4, 17:10; Jer. 3:6,13; Ezek. 6:13).

CULTIC PRACTICES
Baal's worshipers appeased him by offering sacrifices, usually animals such as sheep or bulls (1 Kings 18:23). Some scholars believe that the Canaanites also sacrificed pigs and that God prohibited his people from eating pork in part to prevent this horrible cult from being established among them. (See Isa. 65:1-5 for an example of Israel's participating in the pagan practices of the Canaanites.) At times of crisis, Baal's followers sacrificed their children, apparently the firstborn of the community, to gain personal prosperity. The Bible called this practice "detestable" (Deut. 12:31, 18:9-10). God specifically appointed the tribe of Levi as his special servants, in place of the firstborn of the Israelites, so they had no excuse for offering their children (Num. 3:11-13). The Bible's repeated condemnation of child sacrifice shows God's hated of it, especially among his people.

Asherah was worshiped in various ways, including through ritual sex. Although she was believed to be Baal's mother, she was also his mistress. Pagans practiced "sympathetic magic", that is, they believed they could influence the gods' actions by performing the behavior they wished the gods to demonstrate. Believing the sexual union of Baal and Asherah produced fertility, their worshipers engaged in immoral sex to cause the gods to join together, ensuring good harvests. This practice became the basis for religious prostitution (1 Kings 14:23-24). The priest or a male member of the community represented Baal. The priestess or a female members of the community represented Asherah. In this way, God's incredible gift of sexuality was perverted to the most obscene public prostitution. No wonder God's anger burned against his people and their leaders. … “ thattheworldmayknow

Garden of Priapus - 686

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The warrior prowess was Anat not Baal - Anat was a Jewish Valkyrie - My guess is the priority was on preserving Baal’s fecundity by locking it up - all martial and sexual aggression was female in the Amazon system … That’s the female phallus system

King Solomon was part of this system - he was very promiscuous which was consistent with Greek and Roman sexuality - Egyptian princesses, The Queen of Sheba and hundreds of other women all spent time in Solomon’s bed - probably penetrating him from the rear in the Greek style …That’s the only way he could have bedded so many women - The uncaged male phallus does not have that kind of staying power

The Amazon woman had an expectation of polyandry - and also sodomized her penis caged male relatives myth Myrrha style when the urge struck

Garden of Priapus - 687

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Fire sex in the cemetary/crematorium/oven - I’m.sure this is a coded female phallus poem by Catallus about a sexually ravenous Roman Matron named Rufa. The Bread dildo from bakers furnace was an icon of the female phallus. The fire was an icon of the Venus fire phallus

“ … 59. The Leavings: on Rufa

Rufa from Bologna gives head to Rufulus,
she’s Menenius’s wife, whom you’ve often seen,
snatching food, from the pyre itself, in the cemetery,
chasing the bread when it rolls from the flames,
being thumped by the half-shaven cremator…. “

Catullus, Translated by A. S. Kline Copyright 2001

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The bread dildo is assumed to be for female sexual penetration - but I think it was for the rears of penis caged Greek and Roman men … There is an example of jewish medical use of bread dildos on men in ancient Babylon

" ... The Ancient Greek term kollix refers to bread, olisbos refers to a dildo, and the term olisbokollix is found as a hapax legomenon in the Ancient Greek lexicon of Hesychius "written in the fifth century A.D."

… The Babylonian Talmud offers another example where bread is used as a means to cause ejaculation.

Here the bread is used for medicinal purposes. In the text, Abba ben Joseph bar Hama, often referred to as "Rava" in the Talmud, asks Rav Yosef bar Hiyya a question about what to do if a man's urinary meatus, also known as the external urethral orifice, is obstructed.

Rav Yosef suggests the following remedy: "We bring warm barley bread and place it upon his anus, and owing to the heat he emits semen, and we observe what happens and see whether or not the perforation remains closed." ... " Wikipedia

- That's a round the way of saying that many men in Jewish Babylon were penis caged!

Garden of Priapus - 688

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Asherah was the religion of the “starry ones” of the book of Ezekiel - The Venus penis cage and the Djed pillar give access to higher worlds that are not perceptible without access to the scorching flames of the Venus furnace and the inner eye of Osiris!

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In this poem Catullus takes us up to the “starry ones” including the Ethiopian Memnon and his winged horses


“ … 66. The Lock of Hair: Berenice

He who gazed at all the lights in the vast heavens,
who learnt the rise and setting of the stars,
how the fiery beauty of the swift sun’s darkened,
how constellations vanish at fixed times,
how sweet love entices Diana, secretly passing
near the Latmian cliffs, in her airy course:
that same Conon, the astronomer, saw me shining brightly
at heaven’s threshold, a lock of hair from Berenice’s head,
she who stretching out her delicate arms
made promises to a multitude of gods,
at that time when the great king newly married
was gone to lay waste the borders of Assyria,
bearing sweet traces of nocturnal strife,
those that are brought about by virgin spoils.
Is Venus really hated by new brides? Is parents’ joy
deceived by their false tears, shed copiously within
the threshold of the bed? If it were truth they sighed
they’d not have supported my divinity so. 
My queen taught me that, with her many woeful cries,
when her new husband went off to grim battle.
And is it not the bereavement of an empty bed you mourn,
but the tearful separation from a dear brother?
How sad cares eat at the heart’s core from within!
As though, troubled, your mind is wholly lost,
robbed of all feeling in your breast!
But I recognise true greatness in a girl.
Surely that brave act is not forgotten by which a husband’s
kingdom was gained, that no one stronger dared?
But what sad words were said in sending off this husband!
Jupiter, how often your eyes were brushed by your hand!
What god has changed you so? Or is it a lovers wish
not to be absent from the beloved body for long?’
And, there too, you promised me, to all the gods,
not without blood of bulls, for your dear husband,
if it brought his return. It did not take him long
to add captive Asia to the bounds of Egypt.
I discharge former promises, for those deeds,
by this new tribute that joins me to the heavens.
Unwillingly, O Queen, I was parted from your hair,
unwillingly: I swear it by you and that head of yours,
that is worthy, even though one were to swear in vain:
but who could claim to be equal to steel itself?
Even the mountain’s overthrown by it, the greatest
bright child of Macedonia’s shores, over-passed
when the Persians created a new sea, when barbarians
drove their fleet through the midst of Athos.
What can hair do when such things fall to the blade?
By Jupiter, that the tribe of Chalybes might all perish,
and those who first pursued the search for veins of metal
below the earth, and how to cut tough things with iron!
A little while ago the sisters were mourning my fate
as a shorn lock, when, out of Locri, Arsínoe sent
the winged horses of Ethiopian Memnon himself,
beating, with quivering wings, Zephyrus’s,
the West Wind’s, air, the brother born with him,
and carrying me through the shadowed sky, he flew,
and placed me in chaste Venus’s lap.
Arsínoe herself sent her servant there,
Greek inhabitant of the Canoptic shore.
My arrival changed the heavens, so the golden crown
from Ariadne’s brow might not be fixed alone
in the bright sky: but, so that I too might shine,
a faithful spoil of that golden hair, the goddess
passing, wet from the flood, to the gods’ temple,
placed me as a new constellation among the old.
For, touching the Virgin’s stars and the savage Lion,
joined to Callisto daughter of Lycaon,
I fall towards the west, leading slow Bootës,
who merges tardily with the deep Ocean.
But though the footsteps of the gods touch me by night,
light still returns me to the ancient sea.
(Let this be known, by your leave, Fate, Virgin Ramnusia,
since I hide nothing of the truth through fear,
nor though the stars disperse me with angry words,
do I choose to hide the buried truth of the heart.)
I don’t delight in these things, as much as I suffer
from being parted, parted from my lady’s hair,
with which, when the girl used to try out
all perfumes, I myself absorbed many thousands.
Now you, whom the longed-for marriage torches join,
don’t surrender your bodies to mutual embrace,
baring your breasts with clothes removed,
before the onyx delights me with its pleasing gift,
your onyx, you who by right adorn the chaste bed.
But she who gives herself to impure adulteries,
let her absorb from sin the vain gift of light dust:
since I seek no prize from the undeserving.
But let great harmony, O brides, always inhabit
your house, continual love always.
You, my Queen, when you see your divine constellation,
as you placate Venus with festive lights,
don’t leave me free of your perfumes,
but endow me with more great gifts.
I wish that the stars would fall! I’d become royal hair,
and then let Orion shine next to Aquarius! … “

Catullus, Translated by A. S. Kline Copyright 2001

Garden of Priapus - 689

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- In this poem Catallus calls his love for his girlfriend like that of a father for a daughter - Probably a typical young tribade/older penis caged Roman relationship - In other poems Lesbia was also practicing polyandry like all sexually ravenous Roman matrons

The lust of the Roman matron was modeled on the Venus/Vulcan relationship - the heat travelled from the Venus furnace of the penis caged Roman into the mentule or female phallus of the Roman matron

“ … 72. Familiarity: to Lesbia

Once you said you preferred Catullus alone,
Lesbia: would not have Jupiter before me.
I prized you then not like an ordinary lover,
but as a father prizes his children, his family.
Now I know you: so, though I burn more fiercely,
yet you’re worth much less to me, and slighter.
How is that, you ask? The pain of such love
makes a lover love more, but like less. …

Catullus, Translated by A. S. Kline Copyright 2001

Garden of Priapus - 690

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Roman lust was female, and like in Egypt Roman matrons did not hesitate to sodomize their young nephews and sons on law - Asherah style

“ … 74. Security: to Gellius

Gellius had heard his uncle used to rebuke,
anyone who performed or spoke about love’s delights.
To avoid this misfortune himself, he seduced
his uncle’s wife, and made his uncle a silent Harpocrates.
What he wanted, he did: for, now though he buggered
his uncle himself, his uncle would not say a word. … “

Catullus, Translated by A. S. Kline Copyright 2001

Garden of Priapus - 691

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The Roman young Tribade/Old man sexual relationship was like a horse and rider - the penis caged old guy was the horse was chained to the phallic Tribade - as Catallus shows in this poem of being chained forcefully to Lesbia who had many lovers at one time

“ … 75. Chained: to Lesbia

My mind’s reduced to this, by your faults, Lesbia,
and has ruined itself so in your service,
that now it couldn’t wish you well,
were you to become what’s best,
or stop loving you if you do what’s worst. … “

Catullus, Translated by A. S. Kline Copyright 2001

Garden of Priapus - 692

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The penis cage created a horse and rider affair - My guess is Roman men consented to it because of the addictive nature of the Venus cage fire. - The Roman man was holstered and had no expectation of female sexual fidelity.

In this poem Cattulus accepts that a chaste lover is impossible, but he at least hopes for love

“ … 76. Past Kindness: to the Gods

If recalling past good deeds is pleasant to a man,
when he thinks himself to have been virtuous,
not violating sacred ties, nor using the names of gods
in any contract in order to deceive men,
then there are many pleasures left to you, Catullus,
in the rest of life, due to this thankless passion.
Since whatever good a man can do or say
to anyone, has been said and done by you.
All, that entrusted to a thankless heart is lost.
Why torment yourself then any longer?
Why not harden your mind, and shrink from it,
and cease to be unhappy, since the gods are hostile?
It’s difficult to suddenly let go of a former love,
it’s difficult, but it would gratify you to do it:
That’s your one salvation. That’s for you to prove,
for you to try, whether you can or not.
O gods, if mercy is yours, or if you ever brought help
to a man at the very moment of his death,
gaze at my pain and, if I’ve lived purely,
lift this plague, this destruction from me,
so that the torpor that creeps into my body’s depths
drives out every joy from my heart.
I no longer ask that she loves me to my face,
or, the impossible, that she be chaste:
I choose health, and to rid myself of this foul illness.
O gods, grant me this for all my kindness. … “

Catullus, Translated by A. S. Kline Copyright 2001

Garden of Priapus - 693

More horse sex - muscle amazon topping a chained slave …

In this poem Catallus makes note that Naso, though a big man was also a Pathic - or a sexual passive

The whole Roman penis caged ruling class was pathic though - the only difference was pathic to girls or pathic to uncaged men. My guess is the vast majority were pathic to sexually ravenous Roman matrons

- For example , The first thing a conquering general received when he returned to Rome was an erect phallus from the vestal virgins - That was not a male phallus though. My guess is that was also not a symbolic gift either - Ceasar was denounced as a Pathic by Catullus in a poem above!

“ … 112. To Naso

You’re a lot of man, 
Naso,
but lots of men
wouldn’t stoop to you:
Naso,
a lot of man
and a pathic. … “

Catullus, Translated by A. S. Kline Copyright 2001

Garden of Priapus - 694

More horse sex - muscle amazon topping a supine slave …

In this poem Catallus compares the mentule or female phallus to a poet whose verse is rejected by the muses!

“ … 105. No Poet: to Mentula

Mentula the Cock
tries to climb
the Parnassian Mount:
the Muses 
with pitchforks
toss him out,
head first. … “

Catullus, Translated by A. S. Kline Copyright 2001

Garden of Priapus - 695

More horse sex - muscle amazon grabbing a slave by the balls

In this poem Catallus’ lover Lesbia is complaining about him to her husband! - The Roman matron had an expectation of polyandry. That was a basic message of the marriage ceremony - she ceremonially “belted and bound” her husband - like a horse - and took his phallus.

- And, as in the poem of a nephew/aunt sexual relationship above, the husband was expected to remain “silent as Harpocrates” about his wife’s sexual conquests

Harpocrates was a phallic female Horus - Roman penis lock up was an Egyptian inheritance

“ … 83. The Husband: to Lesbia

Lesbia says
bad things
about me
to her
husband’s face:
it’s the
greatest delight
to that fool.
Mule,
don’t you see?
If she forgot
and was silent
about me,
that would be right:
now since she
moans and abuses,
she not only
remembers,
but something
more serious,
she’s angry.
That is,
she’s inflamed,
so she speaks. … “

Catullus, Translated by A. S. Kline Copyright 2001

Garden of Priapus - 696

More horse sex - penis lock up

The Roman wife locked up her husband’s phallus and became the "Mentula” , he the Gallus - In this poem Catallus suggests that Gallus - if he was a pious Roman uncle - should instruct his nephew on his aunts sexual conquests: Endurance - The “Mentula” was a sexual Croesus able to service vast pastures of Gallus ass - as Catallus says in poems above. When you compare to regular sex, Mentula sex is clearly superior

“ … 78. The Pandar: to Gallus

Gallus has brothers,
of whom one
has the loveliest wife
the other
the loveliest son.
Gallus is
a cute man:
since he joins
them as lovers,
so that beautiful boy
beds with beautiful girl.
Gallus is
a stupid man,
not seeing himself
as a husband,
who instructs
a nephew
in an uncle’s
wife’s adultery. … “

Catullus, Translated by A. S. Kline Copyright 2001

Garden of Priapus - 697

More horse sex - The Mentula about to mount the Gallus - that’s basic Trojan and Egyptian sex. The Gallus was expected to remain “silent as a Harpocrates” about the Mentula’s conquests …

Why? My guess is there was a religious reason - the phallic fire goddess could withdraw her blessings - killing the living fire that was the most important part of all Roman life …

In this poem Cattulus wishes he could be like a sparrow pecking at his girlfriends fingers. The last line refers to swift footed Atalanta who refused to marry but agreed to unloose her girdle and marry after being tricked by a golden apple made by Venus.

The golden apple and the girdle are Innana temple images - In Sumeria naked men entered the sex temple with gifts of apples - The apples being a symbol of their sex - Specifically their rears - the Sumerian phallus was locked - "belted and bound" by the amazon girdle.

Catullus 2: Sparrow, darling of my girl

“ … Sparrow,
darling of my girl,
with which
she plays,
which she
presses
to her
bosom,
to whom
she gives
her fingertip,
arousing
sharp bites
as he seeks
after it,
when gleaming
with desire
of me
she jests
a light joke
of it,
so that,
I think,
it is a solace
for her pain
when the
heavy burning
is at rest.
Could I
but play
with you
just as
she does
and lighten
the sad cares
of mind. ...
This was
as pleasing
to me
as the
golden apple
was to
the fleet footed girl,
which unloosed
her girdle
long-time
fastened. … “

Catullus. The Carmina of Gaius Valerius Catullus. Leonard C. Smithers. London. Smithers. 1894.

Garden of Priapus - 698

More horse sex - Mentula enters Gallus.

- All Roman men were penis locked Galli - in this poem Cattulus threatens to sodomize and face fuck (Pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo) two Galli who can’t “shake their stiffies” who think his poems are not chaste enough.

Venus required male chastity - enforced by the Fibula - the “Venus furnace” which sexually ravenous Roman matrons offered to the the fire goddess in the form of votive offerings …

Cattulus 16

“ … I will make you
my boys
and bone you,
sexually submissive
Aurelius
and Furius
the sodomite,
who think,
because my
verses are voluptuous,
that I am
not chaste enough.
For it is right
that a poet
be chaste himself;
it is not
at all necessary
for his verses
to be.
My verses,
in a word,
may have
a spice
and charm,
if they are
voluptuous
and not
chaste enough,
and because
they are sexy
and can arouse
—I do not say boys
—but this hairy pair
who can't
shake their stiffies.
Because you have
read of many
thousand kisses,
do you think me
less a man?
I will make you
my boys
and bone you! … “

Catullus. The Carmina of Gaius Valerius Catullus. Leonard C. Smithers. London. Smithers. 1894.

Garden of Priapus - 699

Gallus orally serves Mentula

Irrumabo - or facefucking was servicing the Mentula of the Roman matron in the Sumerian style - Servicing her Mentula and plowing her vulva - as in Innana’s question “who will plow my vulva?”

The Roman phallus was not necessary for Roman sex. Male chastity - the Fibula “venus furnace” - was the sex - That’s how Cybele’s castrated Galli priests were organizers of Amazon orgies …

In this poem Catullus asks his girl to ignore the evil eye of the “moral” and indulge in love and kisses before the neverending sleep of death

“ … 5. Let’s Live and Love: to Lesbia

Let us live,
my Lesbia,
let us love,
and all
the words
of the old,
and
so moral,
may they be worth
less than
nothing
to us!
Suns may set,
and suns
may rise again:
but when
our brief light
has set,
night is
one long
everlasting
sleep.
Give me
a thousand kisses,
a hundred more,
another thousand,
and another hundred,
and, when we’ve
counted up
the many thousands,
confuse them
so as not to
know them all,
so that
no enemy
may cast
an evil eye,
by knowing
that there
were so many
kisses. … “

Catullus, Translated by A. S. Kline Copyright 2001

Garden of Priapus - 700

More Venus furnace - Large locked Etruscan phallus . Etruscan Terracotta Votive Offering 400 - 600 B.C.

In this poem by Catullus a Roman is ashamed to admit being in love with a “feverish little whore” whose “spread thighs” he was servicing- In the penis locked Roman context he was irrumating and being sodomized by the little thing - a Roman Old man/Young tribade classic!

“ … 6. Flavius’s Girl: to Flavius

Flavius,
unless your
delights
were
tasteless
and inelegant,
you’d want
to tell,
and
couldn’t
be silent.
Surely you’re
in love
with some
feverish
little whore:
you’re
ashamed
to
confess it.
Now,
pointlessly silent,
you don’t
seem to be
idle
of nights,
it’s proclaimed
by your bed
garlanded,
fragrant with
Syrian perfume,
squashed
cushions
and pillows,
here and there,
and the
trembling frame
shaken,
quivering
and
wandering about.
But being silent
does nothing
for you.
Why?
Spread thighs
blab
it’s not so,
if not quite
what foolishness
you commit.
How and
whatever
you’ve got,
good or bad,
tell us.
I want to name
you and
your loves
to the heavens
in charming verse. … “

Catullus, Translated by A. S. Kline Copyright 2001

Garden of Priapus - 701

Ancient Greek locked phallus: Terracotta vase in the form of a phallus
c. 550–500 B.C. - Met Gallery 152

“ … Phallus vases are a rare and distinctive feature of Archaic Greek pottery. They were used to store perfumed oils, presumably of an erotic or medicinal nature. This vase is the product of an East Greek workshop, probably on Rhodes. Archaic Greek potters fashioned sculptural vases in a wide variety of shapes, including human heads, legs, and animals. This particular class reflects an element of playfulness recurrent throughout Greek art. … “

The Met does not go there! But that’s the venus furnace again. Once the young bride locked her new husbands phallus she was expected to range freely sexually - and the husband was bound to remain “silent as Harpocrates” about his wife’s sexual conquests …

Sounds outrageous today, but Roman and Greek society really were polyandrous at the elite level

In this poem Cattulus describes an elite Roman wedding - Venus is central to a successful Roman marriage - and that meant male chastity after wedlock

“ … 61. Epithalamion: for Vinia and Manlius

You, who live on Helicon’s
hills, the son of Urania,
who carry the tender virgin
to her man, O Hymanaee Hymen,
O Hymen Hymenaee:
crown your brow with sweet flowers
of marjoram fragrance,
put on the glad veil, here,
come, wearing the saffron shoes
on your snow-white feet:
summoned to the happy day
singing the nuptial songs
with ringing voice,
strike your feet on the ground, shake
the pine torch in your hand.
Now Vinia comes to her Manlius,
as Venus, adorning Mount Ida,
came to Paris, her Phrygian judge,
a rare girl wedded to rare fortune,
like the myrtle of Asia born
on the flowering branches,
that the divine Hamadryads
playfully tend themselves
with shining dew.
So come, suffer yourself to approach,
leave the Aonian cave among
the cliffs of Thespia,
leave the nymph Aganippe
and her cooling stream.
And call the bride to her
new husband’s loving home,
her heart bound fast with love,
as the clinging ivy enfolds the tree,
winding here and there.
And you chaste virgins too,
whose own day will come,
singing harmoniously
cry,  O Hymanaee Hymen,
O Hymen Hymenaee.
That, hearing himself called
to perform his service, he may
suffer himself to approach,
the commander of wedding joys,
the true uniter-in-love.
What greater god do you love
sought out by lovers?
What divine one do men
worship more, O Hymanaee Hymen,
O Hymen Hymenaee?
You her trembling father
invokes: for you
the virgin belt’s untied:
for you the bridegroom waits,
fearful with new desire.
You give the young girl fresh
from her mother’s breast,
to the young novice’s
hands, O Hymanaee Hymen,
O Hymen Hymenaee.
Venus can take no advantage
of what good custom allows,
without you, but she can
if you’re willing. What god dare
compare with you in this?
No house bears offspring
without you, no parent can be
brightened by children: but they can
if you’re willing. What god dare
compare with you in this?
No ruler can set the boundaries
to his country: but he can
if you’re willing. What god dare
compare with you in this?
Open the lock of the door.
The virgin comes. Do you see how
the torches scatter brilliant sparks?
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Noble shame holds back.
However obedient she is,
she weeps that she has to go.
Don’t weep. There’s no danger
to you Aurunculeia,
nor will bright day see
a lovelier girl than you
rise from the Ocean waves.
Such a hyacinth flower
as blooms in a rich man’s
colourful little garden.
But you linger: the day vanishes.
Let the new bride appear.
Let the new bride appear, so
she can now be viewed, and listen
to my words. See? The torches
scatter golden sparks:
let the new bride appear.
Your husband’s not fickle,
given to sinful adulteries,
chasing shameful vices,
does not wish to flee from
sleep in your tender breasts,
and as the vines slowly wind
about the trees they claim,
he’ll be wound in your
embrace. But the day vanishes:
let the new bride appear.
O bridal-bed, that for all
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at the foot of the shining couch,
comes to your master,
what joy, what wandering
night, what noon
delights! But the day goes by:
let the new bride appear.
O, you boys, lift the torches:
I see the flame approach.
Come: let the song sound in harmony
‘io Hymen Hymenaee io,
io Hymen Hymenaee.’
Don’t hold back the bold
Fescennine laughter,
don’t let this obedient concubine
abandoning his master’s love
deny the boys their nuts.
Give nuts to the boys, you idle
concubine! You’ve toyed
with the nuts long enough:
now be pleased to serve Hymen.
Concubine, give them nuts.
Girls seemed vile to you,
concubine, yesterday, till today:
now the hair-curler smooths
your beard. Wretch of a wretch,
concubine, give them nuts.
You’ll speak ill of abstaining
from your slaves, perfumed
husband, but abstain.
Io Hymen Hymenaee io,
io Hymen Hymenaee.
We know what’s allowed to you
when you’re known to be single,
but married it’s not allowed.
Io Hymen Hymenaee io,
io Hymen Hymenaee.
Bride, beware you don’t deny
what your man comes seeking,
lest he goes seeking elsewhere.
Io Hymen Hymenaee io,
io Hymen Hymenaee.
Powerful in your house,
and happy in your powers,
that act without you there,
Io Hymen Hymenaee io,
io Hymen Hymenaee,
until with trembling motion
white-haired old age
nods at all and everything.
Io Hymen Hymenaee io,
io Hymen Hymenaee.
In your saffron shoes cross
the threshold with good omens,
and enter the shining door.
Io Hymen Hymenaee io,
io Hymen Hymenaee.
Look inside where your man
lies on a Tyrian bed
waiting for you alone.
Io Hymen Hymenaee io,
io Hymen Hymenaee.
He no less than you
burns with fire in his heart,
but inwardly much greater.
Io Hymen Hymenaee io,
io Hymen Hymenaee.
Page, let go the young
girl’s shapely arm: now
she reaches her husband’s bed.
Io Hymen Hymenaee io,
io Hymen Hymenaee.
You good wives who know
the powers of old to bring
young girls to marriage.
Io Hymen Hymenaee io,
io Hymen Hymenaee.
Now bridegroom, you may come:
your wife waits in your bed,
her lovely face gleaming,
like a white poppy,
on a saffron field.
But, husband, let the gods
joy, you are no less
handsome, nor does Venus
neglect you. But the daylight flies:
come now, don’t delay.
He’s not lingered:
now he comes. Kind Venus
shall aid you, since you desire
openly what you desire, you
won’t forget kind love.
He who would count your joys,
many thousands, must first
tally the grains of Africa’s sands,
and the glittering stars.
Play as you wish, and quickly
give her children. It’s not right
for an ancient name to be
childless, but it should create
from the same root.
I want a young Torquatus
to stretch out his tender hand
from his mother’s lap
sweetly smiling to his father
from half-open lips.
Let him be like his father
Manlius, let that be known
by all the unknowing,
and let his face reveal,
his mother’s faithfulness.
So our praise approves
one born of a noble mother,
just as unparalleled fame echoes
from Penelope, the mother
of excellent Telemachus.
Close the doorways, virgins:
we’re satisfied with our play. But you
brave partners live truly, and
do your duty constantly,
with vigour and with joy. … “

Catullus, Translated by A. S. Kline Copyright 2001

Garden of Priapus - 702

Boss lady and horse

Roman marriage - Juvenal describes it as being haltered - and wonders why anyone would consent to it!

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62. Wedding Song

Evening is here, young men, arise: evening, awaited
so long by the heavens, barely still shows the light.
Now is the time to rise, to leave the rich banquet,
now the virgin comes, now the wedding-song is sung.
Hymen O Hymenaee, Hymen be near, O Hymenaee!
Do you see the unmarried girls, you young men?
Rise to meet them: the evening star shows Thessalian fire.
Such is the contest: see how they spring up so nimbly?
Don’t fear to rise, they sing to win a partner.
Hymen O Hymenaee, Hymen be near, O Hymenaee!
The palm’s not easily won by us men as equals:
consider, the girls need to prepare amongst themselves.
not a vain preparation: they truly know what’s what:
no wonder, since they concentrate their whole mind.
Our minds are elsewhere: our ears turn elsewhere:
so we’ll be defeated by willpower: victory needs attention.
Therefore turn your minds to it at the least:
now they begin to sing, now you must reply.
Hymen O Hymenaee, Hymen be near, O Hymenaee!
Hesperus what fire, they say, is crueller than yours?
Who can tear a daughter away from her mother’s arms,
from a mother’s detaining arms tear a daughter away,
and give a virgin girl to an ardent young man.
What do the enemy do that’s crueller, in capturing a city?
Hymen O Hymenaee, Hymen be near, O Hymenaee!
Hesperus, who shines with happier fire in the sky?
You who strengthen the bond of marriage with your flame,
with what men swear, swearing it to the parents,
not to be joined together before your own brightness rises.
What wished-for hour by the gods is more happily granted?
Hymen O Hymenaee, Hymen be near, O Hymenaee!
Hesperus has stolen one like us away.

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And now at your rising the watchman always wakes,
thieves hide by night, who often likewise return,
Hesperus, you catch them, as your name alters, at dawn,
but the girls love to slander you with false complaints.
Why do they complain, if they secretly wish it then?
Hymen O Hymenaee, Hymen be near, O Hymenaee!
As the hidden flower born in the hedged garden
unknown to the beasts, untouched by the plough,
that the breezes sweeten, the sun strengthens, the rain feeds:
that many young men would choose, and many young girls:
when that same flower fades, plucked by a tender hand,
no young boy would choose it, and no young girl:
so the virgin, while she’s untouched, while she’s their love:
if she loses her flower of chastity, her body dishonoured,
she’s no longer the boy’s delight, the girls’ beloved.
Hymen O Hymenaee, Hymen be near, O Hymenaee!
As the vine we see, grown in the open field,
never lifting its head, never bearing sweet grapes,
its delicate stem bending downwards with the weight,
so that in a moment its tallest shoot will touch its roots:
no countryman, no farm-hand will cherish it:
but if the same plant is fastened tight, wedded to an elm,
many countrymen and farm-hands will cherish it.
So a virgin who stays untouched, and uncultivated, ages:
while taken in equal marriage, while the time is ripe,
she’s loved more by the man, less hateful to her parents.
Hymen O Hymenaee, Hymen be near, O Hymenaee!
And don’t you struggle with such a husband, girl.
it’s not right to struggle, you, whose father gives you away,
your father and your mother, who prepare you.
Your virginity’s not wholly yours: part is your parents:
a third your father’s, a third your mother’s,
only a third is yours: don’t fight those two,
who grant their rights to the son-in-law with the dowry.
Hymen O Hymenaee, Hymen be near, O Hymenaee!

Catullus, Translated by A. S. Kline Copyright 2001

Garden of Priapus - 703

Boss lady riding horse bareback

(April 16, 2022) The “record screen” command came on by itself when I started working on this! I take my catholic disgust breaks to work on normal things - but then the fire will demand to be fed!

But I should consider myself lucky - that fire is absent today …

***

The Roman fire goddess that demanded male chastity was clearly Venus - the Sumerian eight pointed evening star - the model as described by the two wedding poems by Catallus above:

Now Vinia comes to her Manlius,
as Venus, adorning Mount Ida,
came to Paris, her Phrygian judge

And

Do you see the unmarried girls, you young men?
Rise to meet them: the evening star shows Thessalian fire.

Catullus 61- 62, Translated by A. S. Kline Copyright 2001

Garden of Priapus - 704

More boss lady riding horse bareback

To Romans female virginity was not sacred in and of itself - It was more the timing of the de-flowering that was important: A well timed marriage would make the virgin sexually alluring to many - there was a Roman expectation of polyandry after marriage.

“ … As the vine we see, grown in the open field,
never lifting its head, never bearing sweet grapes,
its delicate stem bending downwards with the weight,
so that in a moment its tallest shoot will touch its roots:
no countryman, no farm-hand will cherish it:
but if the same plant is fastened tight, wedded to an elm,
many countrymen and farm-hands will cherish it.
So a virgin who stays untouched, and uncultivated, ages:
while taken in equal marriage, while the time is ripe,
she’s loved more by the man, less hateful to her parents. … “

Catullus 62, Translated by A. S. Kline Copyright 2001

Garden of Priapus - 705

More boss lady riding horse bareback

Married Roman women were expected to keep the flame alive - even if it meant consorting with extramarital thieves after dark:

“ … And now
at your rising
the watchman
always wakes,
thieves
hide by night,
who often
likewise return,
Hesperus,
you catch them,
as your name alters,
at dawn,
but the girls
love to slander you
with false complaints.
Why do they complain,
if they secretly
wish it then? … “

Catullus 62, Translated by A. S. Kline Copyright 2001

Garden of Priapus - 706

Boss lady punishing a penis caged thief, balls in hand…

Venus required the permission of the father to begin the virgins de-flowering - “for you the virgin belt’s untied” - That belt holds the female phallus - the Mentula - or the standard 8 inch greek dildo - I am sure of that - Thats the mirror of the male penis cage.

The father unlocked his virgin daughters Mentula - and in royal families many times the first object of that Mentula was the penis caged father himself! - as Myth Myrrha shows …

“ … What greater god
do you love
sought out
by lovers?
What divine one
do men
worship more,
O Hymanaee Hymen,
O Hymen Hymenaee?
You
her trembling father
invokes:
for you
the virgin belt’s
untied:
for you
the bridegroom waits,
fearful
with new desire.
You give
the young girl
fresh from
her mother’s breast,
to the young
novice’s hands,
O Hymanaee Hymen,
O Hymen Hymenaee.
Venus can take
no advantage
of what
good custom allows,
without you,
but she can
if you’re willing.
What god dare
compare with
you in this?
No house bears
offspring
without you,
no parent
can be
brightened
by children:
but they can
if you’re willing. … “

Catullus 62, Translated by A. S. Kline Copyright 2001

Garden of Priapus - 707

Boss lady punishing a penis caged thief …

That’s the virgins belt untied - or the Amazon girdle - whenever that was unlocked or stolen Amazon sex was about to being … For example, when the castrated priests of Cybele took part in Amazon orgies ….

That’s the best that can be done with today’s evidence - until the real thing shows up on an archeological dig. I am sure ancient Egypt is full of strap on belts … Many Egyptian godessess are phallic. In Egypt I am sure the penis cage and the phallic Amazon girdle were universal …

***

" .. In Classical Greek mythology, Hippolyta, or Hippolyte was a daughter of Ares and Otrera, queen of the Amazons, and a sister of Antiope and Melanippe. She wore her father Ares' zoster, the Greek word found in the Iliad and elsewhere meaning "war belt". Some traditional English translations have preferred the more feminine-sounding "girdle". Hippolyta figures prominently in the myths of both Heracles and Theseus. The myths about her are varied enough that they may therefore be about several different women.

The name Hippolyta comes from Greek roots meaning "horse" and "let loose" ... " Wikipedia

Her fathers zoster - in the Amazon system the fathers phallus was inherited by his daughter ...

Garden of Priapus - 708

More Boss lady punishing a penis caged thief …
- the virgins belt untied …

That’s her fathers phallus or phallic energy - All Roman women got one of those from their father -

According to Catallus - Mentula is a Croesus - unlike the normal male phallus, Mentula has god-like energy … Why - because the male ass chakra is the object of the Mentula - that’s the energy of the sun! - "Horse sex!"

Garden of Priapus - 709

Closing scene: Irrumabo - or face fucking - reviled by Martial, but central to the Innana cult - “Who will plow my vulva?” leads to “my honey man has risen” … or the birth of the female phallus/Mentula

In Rome lust was female: As late as the 6th century AD an aged Maximianus describes being sexually fondled by a young greek girl. But his Venus fire fails to light.

The “strokes of passion” in this poem were probably Tribade mentule sex in the rear - Standard for elderly Roman men - His trussed phallus was not generating any passionate “strokes”

“ …I blushed,
I froze.
Since shame
then made me
lose my mind
and panic
cut off
the alluring task,
she started
fondling
my burning
prick
by hand
and
she aroused me
with her fingers too.
Even
the strokes
of passion
did not
help
my numbness;
frost
stayed within
the hearth,
as in the past.
“What bitch
has stolen
you from me?”
she said, “
From whose
grasp do you
come back
tired
to my arms? … “

Juster’s Elegies of Maximianus 5.55-62 (2018)

Garden of Priapus - 710

More Irrumabo from boss lady

An aged 6th century AD poet Maximianus is lectured by a young Greek girl on the glories of the Mentula when he is unable to get aroused.

I think she was talking about the female phallus - the male Roman phallus was chaste - it rarely left its cage - the fibula or "venus furnace"

***

“ … Maximianus’ fifth Elegy, likely composed in the mid-sixth century CE, recounts an embarrassing incident in which the lover-poet loses his erection after being seduced by a Graia puella. Once she realizes that she cannot remedy his impotence, the puella first speaks a lament for his “dead” penis and then a hymn on the generative powers of the penis . … “ [Mentula]

Grace Funsten

***

“ …You often
were inclined
to help me
while aroused
and tease me
for my spirit’s
sultriness.
You were
my dearest
guardian
all through
the night,
and partner
in my
happiness
and sadness,
always
most trustworthy
when
privy
to our secrets,
standing tall
on watch
in private rites.

Your power
stuns,
your patience
stuns,
you love
the conquered;
you love
to win
and being
won
again.
You gather
strength
and spirits
as you lie down
beaten,
and like to
win
once more,
then being won. … “

Juster’s Elegies of Maximianus 5.55-62 (2018)

Garden of Priapus - 711

More Irrumabo - after losing an armwrestling match to a muscle Amazon

Maximianus had began his career as in the same way he ended it - as the lusted after - The Roman man was eromenos or sexually passive to the erestes Roman woman - all such eros flowing from the Venus penis cage.

I've felt that Venus fire - It opened up today's post - although I would not say I am lusted after - but the fire is real!

***

" ... Maximianus’s elegies fundamentally concern failure in relationships between women and men. In his first elegy, Maximianus recounts that, as a young man, all the girls of Rome desired him:

I would proceed through central Rome, its flesh for sale,
examined everywhere by all the girls, and a young girl who could be sought, or had been sought perhaps, when glimpsed would blush at my expression, and, barely smiling, looked for hideouts — wishing, though, that her coquettishness not fully hide her. She wished instead for part of her to be revealed; she cheered up when she was more badly hidden. ...

… Juster’s translation expresses the subtle reflectivity of the Latin poetry. Maximianus, walking among streetwalkers, found himself subject to the female gaze. The streetwalkers blushed in modesty as Maximianus immodestly radiated male sexuality. They sought to pretend to cover themselves while flirting with him. The end is unhappy: Maximianus sought a woman of inhuman perfection, and never found one.

… Maximianus’s elegies cover a wide range of failures in heterosexual relationships. In his second elegy, Maximianus mourns being rejected by his long-term lover Lycoris. Unlike he, she retained her sexual self-confidence despite her grey hair. Maximianus and his girlfriend Aquilina discover in the third elegy that forbidden love is sweeter, and that love without difficulties can quickly transform into passionate hate. In the fourth elegy, Maximianus falls in love with the singing and dancing girl Candida. But social contempt for men’s sexuality, particularly for older men desiring young, beautiful women, destroys any prospects for a relationship. The fifth elegy explores Maximianus’s impotence and presents the Greek girl hero.


The Greek girl of Maximainus’s fifth elegy is an extraordinary character. Beautiful, bright-eyed and apparently highly intelligent, she recognized the injustice of men’s gender-burden of soliciting amorous relationships. She pursued Maximianus as men were required to pursue women in Roman love elegy:

Outside my windows she remained on watch all night —
in soft tones sweetly singing something Greek.
Her tears, groans, sighs and pallor were now coming —
and things that you would think no one could fake

The Greek girl praised the penis with elegant poetry that comes through wonderfully in Juster’s translation ... [mentula poem above]

The narrative voice of Maximianus complacently accepted his impotence simply as an aspect of old age. He cynically referred to the Greek girl as deceptive and shallowly lustful. She understood the situation much more deeply than he. In the last two of her couplets above, Juster has conveyed the polyptoton of the Latin victos … vinci … vinci vincere with the English “win … won … win … won.” His pun “won” / “one” helps to convey the enveloping structure of the couplets and of sexual intercourse, while his pun “then” / “than” provides an alternate portrayal of malesexual psychology. Set in contrast to the intricately patterned surface of her poetry, the Greek girl perceptively recognized that men’s impotence signifies “universal chaos {generale chaos}” resulting from men’s lack of self-confidence. ... " purplenotes.

Garden of Priapus - 712

Muscle amazon working the rear of an OG or old guy.

That was Roman mentule sex. The Roman man remained in that sexually passive position to women, girls and ancient crones - from boyhood into old age.

The only explanation for that is is the super addictive fire of the venus furnace penis cage …

Garden of Priapus - 713

More Irrumabo - OG or old guy serving the Mentula of a muscle Amazon

A basic, if forgotten, Greco-Roman ritual - The state supported temple of Aphrodite was explicit about switched sexual roles

From reading Roman poetry the Venus fire struck both sexes as a feverish - a feverish fire in the limbs - is how its usually described.

With men there was also the pain of the penis cage - masturbation was not possible - so a Mentula’s deep anal stokes were an absolute neccesity

***

In this poem Catullus is in the throes of a venus fire fever that Lesbia his girlfriend does not share - she rebukes him as being an entitled idler!

“ … 51. An Imitation of Sappho: to Lesbia

He seems equal
to the gods,
to me, that man,
if it’s possible
more than
just divine,
who sitting
over against you,
endlessly
sees you
and hears you
laughing
so sweetly,
that with
fierce pain
I’m robbed
of all
of my senses:
because
that moment
I see you, 
Lesbia,
nothing’s
left of me.....
but my
tongues numbed,
and through
my poor limbs
fires are raging,
the echo
of your voice
rings
in both ears,
my eyes
are covered
with
the dark
of night.

‘Your idleness
is loathsome
Catullus:
you delight
in idleness,
and too much
posturing:
idleness
ruined
the kings
and
the cities
of former times.’ … “

Catullus 62, Translated by A. S. Kline Copyright 2001

Garden of Priapus - 714

Muscle amazon mounts the OG horse bareback

That was the relief for the venus fire - But there are other reliefs - creative work is one - The venus fire is the spur for this outrageous page!

Also there are ghostly amazons - I am not under the illusion that dream sex mentulas are the product of my imagination ...

The same is also true for day to day possession - Much human behavior is the result of possession - Someone else is driving the car in too many cases …

***

In this poem Lesbia asks Catullus how many kisses are enough for him

Kisses in the penis caged context are not the same as normal kisses - My impression is they are more female on male sexual penetration - The aggressive kisses were also aggressive fondling sessions - which was risky for the penis locked male

- Female sexual aggression is exclusively Lesbian today, but that was not the case in the Greco-Roman world

“ … 7. How Many Kisses: to Lesbia

Lesbia,
you ask
how many
kisses
of yours
would be
enough
and more
to satisfy
me.
As many
as the grains
of Libyan sand
that lie between
hot Jupiter’s
oracle,
at Ammon,
in resin-producing 
Cyrene,
and old 
Battiades 
sacred tomb:
or as many
as the stars,
when night
is still,
gazing down
on secret
human desires:
as many
of your
kisses kissed
are enough,
and more,
for mad
Catullus,
as can’t
be counted
by spies
nor an evil
tongue
bewitch us. … “

Catullus 62, Translated by A. S. Kline Copyright 2001

Garden of Priapus - 715

Muscle amazon from the top an OG or old guy

That’s the Greek legend of Hera’s bridal garden - specifically the golden apples, the tree and the dragon:

That’s a Legba world tree legend. The golden apples are penis caged male ass - the rears of thieves in the garden of all newly wed Greek and Roman brides …

The brides complained about lax security in the garden, but when there were no thieves, sexually ravenous matrons complained of no apples!

“ … THE HESPERIDES were the goddess-nymphs of evening and the golden light of sunsets. They were the daughters of either Nyx (Night) or the heaven-bearing Titan Atlas. The Hesperides were entrusted with the care of the tree of the golden apples which was had been presented to the goddess Hera by Gaia (the Earth) on her wedding day. They were assisted by a hundred-headed guardian-Drakon (Dragon). Herakles was sent to fetch the apples as one of his twelve labours and, upon slaying the serpent, stole the precious fruit. Athena later returned them to the Hesperides.

The Hesperides were also the keepers of other treasures of the gods. Perseus obtained from them the artifacts he needed to slay the Gorgon Medousa (Medusa).
The three nymphs and their glowing, golden apples were regarded as the source of the golden light of sunset--a phenomena which celebrated the bridal of Zeus and Hera, the king and queen of heaven. … “

theoi

Garden of Priapus - 716

Greek vase of Golden apples of garden of Hera, dragon and various figures including a nude and penis caged hero in the garden.

The only way for the male hero to leave the garden was a payment of apples - or anal sex with a sexually ravenous Roman matron - That was the basic model of the garden of Priapus and maybe even the garden of Eden. In Sumeria nude penis caged men presented themselves and a gift of apples every year at spring time at the Temple of Innana

Garden of Priapus - 717

Boss lady, mentula and her husbands golden apples …

That system was Sumerian, but also African - there are two Africans at the top right of the golden apples vase above

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In this poem Catullus mentions the golden apple from Aphrodite that tricked Atalanta to loosen her virgin belt - Aphrodite was the goddess of the mentula and sexual switching from male to female and vice versa

“ … 2b. Atalanta

It’s as pleasing
to me as,
they say,
that
golden apple
was to
the swift girl,
that loosed
her belt,
too long tied. … “

Catullus 62, Translated by A. S. Kline Copyright 2001

There are also many statutes of a bearded head of Priapus with the body of a Roman matron and a large erection penetrating a bowl of fruit - Clear enough without actual words!

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(April 18, 2022) My guess is an ancient alien invasion of earth - my early dream images in the summer of 1994 were a Bronze Age Maasai culture living in Egypt that was suddenly given the light from above - They switched from bronze spears to advanced technology in a short period of time … Egypt was not a desert in those days - it looked like east Africa today

The “dragons” are forcing humans to widen their consciousness - and that requires a knowledge of good and evil - as they say of the serpent in the garden of eden

Garden of Priapus - 718

Boss lady, and two mentulas one red and one black - working her bound husbands rear - or golden apples

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Even Romans, who enslaved their whole world, had a concept of evil - For Romans evil was mostly the loss of beauty or Venus to the shadows of death - as in the death of the pet sparrow of Cattulus’ girlfriend in this poem …

“ … 3. The Death of Lesbia’s Sparrow

Mourn, O you Loves and Cupids
and such of you as love beauty:
my girl’s sparrow is dead,
sparrow, the girl’s delight,
whom she loved more than her eyes.
For he was sweet as honey, and knew her
as well as the girl her own mother,
he never moved from her lap,
but, hopping about here and there,
chirped to his mistress alone.
Now he goes down the shadowy road
from which they say no one returns.
Now let evil be yours, evil shadows of Orcus,
that devour everything of beauty:
you’ve stolen lovely sparrow from me.
O evil deed! O poor little sparrow!
Now, by your efforts, my girl’s eyes
are swollen and red with weeping. … “

Catullus 62, Translated by A. S. Kline Copyright 2001

Garden of Priapus - 719

More boss lady, working her Mentula in the rear or golden apples of her husband - under the sign of Ganesha!

My guess is the trunk of Ganesha is a Mentula - he is the child of Shiva and Parvathi - probably a phallic female - Those are missing today but exist in ancient Hindu mythology …

“ ...Ganesha is known as the remover of obstacles and the offspring of Shiva, the Hindu god of destruction and his consort the goddess Parvathi. … “ denverartmuseum

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*Being buggered - in Rome was both literally being sodomized but also symbolic - as in this poem where Catullus complains of “buggered” daily by the “whole tree” of his boss Memmius the Roman governor of Bithynia on the black sea in 57 BC. In this case Catullus also condemns his friends for being buggered by the circumcised phallus of a higher up - Not sure that means a non-Roman or the Mentula of a woman. My guess is a female Mentula …

The roman male phallus did come out of its penis cage - usually to sodomize boys - but my impression is for the most part it remained caged. My impression is most roman male sex was being “buggered” - usually by the female Mentula

“ … 28. Patronage: to Veranus and Fabullus

Followers of Piso, needy retinue,
with suitable and ready packs,
Veranius, the best, and you, my Fabullus,
what possessions do you carry? Haven’t you borne
hunger and cold enough with that good-for-nothing?
Do any small gains show in the expense accounts,
considering that I, following my praetor,
repay what was spent, with small gain?
O Memmius, truly, and daily, slowly
buggered me backwards with that whole tree of his.
But, as far as I can see, your case is the same:
now you’re stuffed by no less a circumcised cock.
Seek out the noble ones, my friends!
But, to you, may the gods and goddesses bring
much evil luck, disgraces to Romulus and Remus. … “

Catullus 28, Translated by A. S. Kline Copyright 2001

Garden of Priapus - 720

Boss lady and a friend “buggering” the golden apples of her husband

In Rome as in Greece, men buggered penis caged boys and women buggered penis caged men - Men were eromenos to the mentula of erastes women

In this poem Catallus asks his friend to refrain from sodomizing a young boy that will be staying with him - The Roman and Greek caged phallus came free for young boys …

“ … 15. A Warning: to Aurelius

I commend myself and my love to you,
Aurelius. I ask for modest indulgence,
so, if you’ve ever had a desire in your mind
you’ve pursued chastely and purely,
keep this boy of mine modestly safe,
I don’t speak to the masses – nothing to fear
from those who pass to and fro in the streets
occupied with their business –
truly the fear’s of you and your cock
dangerous to both good and bad boys.
Shake it about as you please, and with as much
force as you please, wherever you choose, outside:
I except him from that, with modesty, I think.
But if tempests of mind, and mad passion
impel you to too much sin, you wretch,
so you fill my boy’s head with deceptions,
then let misery, and evil fate, be yours!
Of him whom, with feet dragged apart, an open door,
radishes and mullets pass through. … “

Catullus 15, Translated by A. S. Kline Copyright 2001

Garden of Priapus - 721

More Boss lady and a friend “buggering” the golden apples of her husband

Venus had a phallus - and the Roman matron was her avatar - Vesta was the phallic fire goddess of the city of Rome, but a phallic Venus was more important, I think - and subject to the Harpocrates silent taboo …

The Roman husband had to endure sodomy from his wife and open infidelity in his own house … The way Emperor Claudius’ wife Messalina openly worked the Roman brothels after dark … Messalina probably started every evening sodomizing the rear of her much older husband in the classic Roman style

The Roman man was also the gatekeeper of his daughters “virgin belt” mentula which in many cases ended up in his own rear! I think that explains the aggressive sexual behavior of Julia the daughter of Augustus and Anat to her father El… In both cases the fathers had to submit to the sexual ravings of their own daughters.

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Chastity and marital fidelity were not things of pride for the Roman matron: In this poem Cattulus tries to shame a “base adulteress” who has stolen his writing tablets by calling her chaste and honest!

“ … 42. The Writing Tablets: to the Hendecasyllables

Come, hendecasyllables, all that there are
and from every side, as many as are.
A base adulteress thinks I’m a joke,
and refuses to give me my tablets
once more, if you’d believe it.
We’ll follow her: ask for them back.
Which one, you may ask? The one you can see
strutting disgracefully, laughing ridiculously,
maddening, with the jaws of a Gaulish bitch.
Surround her: ask for them back:
‘Stinking adulteress, give back my letters,
give back, stinking adulteress, my letters!’
You won’t? O to the mire, the brothel,
or if anything can be more ruinous, then that!
But still don’t think that’s enough.
Call her again in a louder voice:
‘Stinking adulteress, give back my letters,
give back, stinking adulteress, my letters!’
But it’s no use: nothing disturbs her.
We’d better change methods and tactics,
if we want them to be of more use to us:
let’s see if we can’t get a blush
from that bitch’s brazen face.:
‘Honest and chaste one, give back my letters.’ … “

Catullus 42, Translated by A. S. Kline Copyright 2001

Garden of Priapus - 722

The Venus of Capua, Roman, A.D. 117–138; found in Capua, Italy
Marble

Venus was the same as Aphrodite according to the Getty museum - And Aphrodite was the archetype of the phallic female - and her mirror, the penis caged male phallus - Also known as Innana to the Sumerians

“… Worship of Aphrodite continued throughout the Roman period. Known as Venus, she came to symbolize Rome's imperial power. Like her Greek counterpart Aphrodite, Venus was intimately associated with love and beauty, yet other elements were distinctive to the Roman goddess.

Venus's first temples were erected in Rome during the 200s B.C. to solicit her assistance in battles, and individual leaders later allied themselves with the deity. Julius Caesar and his heir, Augustus, forged particularly explicit ties to Venus, claiming descent through her son, the Trojan hero Aeneas. The goddess was repeatedly represented in civic architecture and on coins, and her attractive figure became symbolic of Roman power throughout the empire.

The statue … was discovered at the amphitheater in Capua, in southern Italy. It is the largest example of a sculptural type that derives from a now-lost cult statue of Aphrodite in Corinth. Originally displayed holding a shield, the goddess stood for the desirability of military success and civic peace. Combining sexual allure and martial symbolism, the Venus of Capua evokes the Greek past, yet also bears new resonances in its Roman civic context. … “ J. Paul Getty Museum

Garden of Priapus - 723

Boss lady horse riding her husband in chaps and a large black mentule - Beauty steadying the horse …

That’s Roman female phallus Venus sex - the sex of the “stinking” Roman brothels - Greek tribades working the rears of penis caged Roman men

All subject to the “stay silent” Harpocrates command !

The Venus fire is more important than money or power … and can quickly be confiscated by the goddess ...

“ … Harpocrates ... was the god of silence, secrets and confidentiality in the Hellenistic religion developed in Ptolemaic Alexandria (and also an embodiment of hope, according to Plutarch). Harpocrates was adapted by the Greeks from the Egyptian child god Horus, who represented the newborn sun, rising each day at dawn. Harpocrates's name was a Hellenization of the Egyptian Har-pa-khered or Heru-pa-khered, meaning "Horus the Child". Horus is represented as a naked boy with his finger to his mouth, a realisation of the hieroglyph for "child". Misunderstanding this gesture, the later Greeks and Roman poets made Harpocrates the god of silence and secrecy. … “ Wikipedia

- From Cattulus we learn that that the Harpocrates silence covered female sexual license ... That's what it meant ... And Horus was a phallic female - not male ... Egypt was practicing this sexuality for thousands of years

Garden of Priapus - 724

Boss lady mounting a horse in a bar - That’s the Sumerian es-dam - which, from Catallus. seems to have been a service available to young girls on Rome!

Garden of Priapus - 725

More boss lady mounting a horse in a bar - The religion of Julius Caesar - Venus/Aphrodite was explicit about sex change … It was not a secret ! The Mentula was a sexual superman in Rome - female though

Garden of Priapus - 726

More boss lady mounting horse while grabbing him by the balls in a Cybele sex bar …

Inner images are still that the fire is going out - but a suggested dream solution is bringing the “dark continent” out of the economic shadows - America, particularly the American south and red America are rigidly bonded to the fate of black Africa …

That’s where the “inner sun” lives - at least for red America … America brought a dead Germany and a dead Japan back to life after world war 2 - it can do the same for the black African economies - My guess is the world economy is missing at least 3 engines of growth - west Africa, east and central Africa and Southern Africa …

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There’s one African tribe that does super well in America - the boers of South Africa - maybe they can lead the way - boers like Elon Musk have no problems thriving in the west… To me that’s evidence of an unconscious trick is at play

Africa has forgotten the boers - but every time you spot a white person anywhere in black Africa there is a strong chance that that’s a Boer!

(April 23, 2002) The cure is the curse - the boers. Had a dream of boer maidens bringing a dead west back to life with living African sand. The sand on the Kenyan coast used to be crystal white in the 1970’s. That white sand also had a living smell ...The Kenyan coast was loved by Germans in the 1970s - but those were really Kenyan boers - I’m almost sure of that now! That’s the cure for an ED or erectile dysfunction west …

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The surfing movie “Endless Summer” (1971) comes to mind - rare example of two red American kids doing unknown African surfing - Senegal, Ghana, Nigeria, and apartheid South Africa - all super glorious sun and sand and all super unknown! The eye on Africa that penetrates the west is never glorious sun and sand …

The movie became an icon - even though one of it’s makers turned out to be a Hungarian white supremacist

Garden of Priapus - 727

More boss lady mounting a horse from the rear by the hair in a Cybele sex bar …

The poetry of Ovid confirms that Roman women were expected to commit adultery after marriage - “Venus with a penis” was a living reality and penis caged Roman men were compelled to tolerate it - or remain “silent as Harpocrates”:

“ … Book III Elegy IV: Adultery
Harsh man, it’s no use guarding a tender girl:
your best protection lies in her disposition.
She who’s chaste without dread, is truly chaste:
she who’s not allowed to do it, she does it!
Though you guard the body well: the mind’s adulterous:
you can’t set a guard on what she desires, at all.
Nor can you guard her body, though all doors are barred:
though everyone’s shut out, the adulteress is within.
Who allows the crime, lessens the crime: opportunity
makes the seeds of naughtiness less potent.
Leave off, believe me, denial sparks the sin:
your indulgence is more likely to win her over.
I saw just recently a tight-reined mare,
fighting the bit, bolt away like lightning:
as soon as she felt the reins slacken she halted,
and they lay quiet on her flowing mane!
We always strive for what’s forbidden: want what’s denied:
so the sick man longs for the water he’s refused.
Argus had a hundred eyes, at front and back –
but Love alone often deceived them:
Danae in her room of eternal iron and stone,
was imprisoned, a virgin, yet became a mother:
While, however much she lacked guards, Penelope
remained untouched among the young princes.
What’s guarded we want the more, precautions
themselves lure the thief: few love what another allows.
It’s not her beauty pleases, but her husband’s love:
they believe there’s something there that captivates you.
She isn’t made good, whom a husband guards: adultery’s 
made costly: fear more than form makes the prize greater.
Like it or not, forbidden passion delights us:
she only pleases if she can say: ‘I’m afraid!’.
Nor is it right to lock up a freeborn girl –
that fear fills the bodies of foreign peoples!
No doubt you want her guard to be able to say: ‘I did it.’
her chastity will be to your slave’s glory?
He’s so provincial who’s hurt by his wife’s adultery,
and he’s not observed the ways of Rome enough,
where Romulus and Remus were born illegitimate,
Ilia’s bastard twins begotten by Mars.
Why have beauty, if only chastity pleases you?
There’s no way they can go together.
If you’re wise, indulge the girl: forgo harsh frowns,
and don’t enforce the rights of an inflexible man,
and cultivate the friends your wife will bring you –
she’ll bring a lot. So great gifts come with little labour:
and you’ll always be able to join the youngsters’ revels,
and see lots of gifts, you didn’t give her, at home. … “

Ovid

Garden of Priapus - 728

Closing scene from boss lady mounting a horse from the rear in a Cybele sex bar …

Ovid may have removed his testicles in a Cybele rite - although proof is a still an unverified medieval manuscript - My impression is most elderly Roman men voluntarily became “semivir” - or permanent submissives to phallic Roman women … Late Roman coins all feature the emperor as a skeletal and solar Attis greeting the Augusta of the day ...

My personal reading is super kinky Tribade sex - but below is another viewpoint ....

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“ … With Hannibal threatening to overrun the Roman Empire, the Roman general Scipio Africanus planned a desperate attack on Hannibal in Africa. The Delphic Oracle instructed the Romans to welcome and worship Cybele, the great mother goddess of the earth, also known as Gaia. So they did, and Hannibal was defeated. Worship of the great goddess Cybele, which early in history arose from childish promptings of men’s hearts, thus became fully institutionalized in public life. Roman men began to turn away from sex with women. They increasingly avoided marriage.

Ovid, in contrast, wanted to love all women — blondes, black-haired ones, young women, old women, tall women, short women. He wanted them all. He later recalled:

O how dear to me and how desirable was
the female sex, without which I believed it was impossible
for any man to live.

He understood the importance of men’s self-confidence for seduction, so he convinced himself that the only chaste woman is one who hasn’t yet been propositioned. He loved many women. Women, even if they pretended to resist initially, came to love him.

At a bar one night, after drinking enough to be seeing double, Ovid was brought home by a lovely young woman. She embraced him tightly in her dark bedroom. Like a blind man who cares nothing for the light of day, Ovid perceived by touch that she had become a hideous old hyena-cougar. He had been taken in a bed trick, without affirmative consent, with a blood-alcohol level that now defines rape, if he were she. He was a rape survivor. But no one believed his story. That’s because the great goddess Cybele decreed that only women have eyes that can see double, and only women can be raped.

Ovid objected not to the woman’s age, but to the deception. He knew that old women are more skilled in bed because they have had more men. Old women typically know a thousand different positions for love-making, practiced to perfection. They will fake sexual satisfaction without stimulation to prevent any suspicion that they can’t feel it. Old women are promising fields for amorous pursuits. All that Ovid knew and taught.

As an old man, worn out with his long, busy love life, Ovid met again the lovely young woman, now an old woman. She again showed amorous interest in him, but regarded them as too old for an affair. Ovid seduced her into his bed:

I feel her laughing and my whole body rushes into her mouth. What more can I say? Naked, I am received with much gentleness. My whole body delights in the smell of old love. What she was like, it is a pleasure to recall; and she demonstrates, in her reduced state, how fine she was in her prime. Never was a woman of such an age, especially after so many births, better than she. None was cleaner or better smelling. I am silent about what remains; it is enough to have said that we came together in bed, that in peace I was received, and in peace departed.

Ovid wished for the old woman the fullness of life in a mixture of fortunes. That’s what he had, too. Delight in old love comes from the pleasure of recalling a woman when she was young and in her prime. Memory of passion makes in old age peaceful loving.

As an old man, Ovid turned to a new life of scholarly pursuits. He explained:

I used to praise only the man to whom nature had given potency, so that as many times as he could wish, he would be able to have sex with his girlfriend. But now, I praise half-men. … from now on I no longer wish to live as I was formerly accustomed, nor do I intend to submit my neck any longer to the yoke of all-consuming love.

Ovid called a “half-man {semivir}“ a man who is physically unable to have sex with a woman. So, for example, a man castrated as a result of social hostility to men’s sexuality would be a semivir. But not only a semivir turns away from women. Because of gender inequality, pursuing love is much more burdensome for men than for women. Some men for that reason turn away from pursuing women. Ovid himself as an old man turned from the burden of seducing women to study of mathematics, music, astronomy, cosmology, and theology.

The great goddess Cybele convicted and punished Ovid for dishonoring old women. Cybele convicted him for insinuating that young women are more sexually attractive than old women. She also convicted him for studying books rather than servicing women sexually. Cybele ordered the Roman Emperor to relegate Ovid to the city of Tomis on the far eastern edge of the Roman Empire. That’s well known. The rest of Ovid’s punishment was revealed only in the late fourteenth-century French work of Jehan Le Fèvre:

For the true story is
that he had both his balls cut off.
With pieces of flax and soft eggs
they were bandaged and healed.
Then he lived for many years
and was sent into exile
and transported overseas.

That work observed of Ovid: “a capon never loved a hen {oncque chapon n’ama geline}.” But roosters love hens. Ovid was a great rooster before he was made a capon. The great goddess Cybele had Ovid castrated merely because she envied Ovid’s women and was bitter that she never had him.

Cybele preferred boyish men. She enrolled in her service the handsome Phrygian boy Attis. His job was to protect her temple, service her without raising his masculine-patriarchal head, and remain a boy forever. Soon Attis, however, fell in love with a lovely young nymph who had neither title nor temple, but who raised Attis’s head. They made carnal joy with each other.

The great goddess Cybele, widely regarded as frigid, burned in anger at Attis’s love affair with the lovely nymph. She killed that girl. Cybele’s abuse internalized within Attis became self-hate. He blamed himself, not Cybele, for the girl’s death:

He tore at his body too with a sharp stone,
And dragged his long hair in the filthy dust,
Shouting: “I deserved this! I pay the due penalty
In blood! Ah! Let the parts that harmed me, perish!
Let them perish!” cutting away the burden of his groin,
And suddenly was bereft of marks of manhood.

In the purifying light of the sun, he looked out on the sea waves pulsating against the soft, sandy shore. He came to regret his self-castration. With tearful eyes he bemoaned his lost masculinity:

like a slave fleeing his master, so am I among
snows, and the frozen lairs of wild creatures

Sorrow on sorrow, again and again now complaint in the heart.
What form have I not been, what have I not performed?

I the flower of the athletes, the glory of the wrestling ring:
my doorway frequented, my threshold warm,
my house was garlanded with wreaths of flowers,
at the dawn separation from my bed.
Now am I brought here priest and slave of divine Cybele?
I, to be Maenad: a part of myself: a sterile man?

Now I grieve for what I did, now I repent.

The time was too late, and the great goddess Cybele, too strong. Cybele unleashed her evil beasts upon Attis and forced him back into her temple.

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The text above draws upon various works of Ovid, particularly his Amores, Ars Amatoria (Art of Love), and Remedia Amoris (Cures for Love). It also draws upon the Pseudo-Ovidian Latin work De vetula (The Old Woman), alternately titled De mutatione vitae (The Change of Lives). It was composed between 1222 and 1268. The report of Ovid’s castration apparently originated in Jehan Le Fèvre’s Le Livre de Leesce (The Book of Gladness), written from 1380-1387. Sometime before 1376, Le Fèvre translated De vetula into French as La Vieille. ... "

Douglas Galbi

Garden of Priapus - 729

Boss lady preparing a horse for caged sex:

 From above: " ... “a capon never loved a hen {oncque chapon n’ama geline}.” But roosters love hens.... " - Is true, but not in the way the medieval scholar meant it - Roosters are probably female, hens male - bird sex, like Ostrich sex and many other examples, like dragons, is reversed.

In that vision a capon is the normal female and the rooster is a phallic female. The female phallus or Mentula does not create itself … There’s a Mentula archetype - Aphrodite/Venus/Innana and several ancient Egyptian goddesses …

Garden of Priapus - 730

Boss lady in a large mentule having caged sex with a caged horse


Suburan “tricks” according to a Cynthia - a ghost Tribade in Propertius: The Elegies c. 50 BC Rome

“ … Book IV.7:1-96 Cynthia: From Beyond the Grave

There are Spirits, of a kind: death does not end it all, and the pale ghost escapes the ruined pyre. For Cynthia, lately buried beside the roadway’s murmur, seemed to lean above my couch, when sleep was denied me after love’s interment, and I grieved at the cold kingdom of my bed. The same hair she had, that was borne to the grave, the same eyes: her garment charred against her side: the fire had eaten the beryl ring from her finger, and Lethe’s waters had worn away her lips. She sighed out living breath and speech, but her brittle hands rattled their finger-bones.

‘Faithless man, of whom no girl can hope for better, does sleep already have power over you? Are the tricks of sleepless Subura now forgotten, and my windowsill, worn by nocturnal guile? From which I so often hung on a rope dropped to you, and came to your shoulders, hand over hand. Often we made love at the crossroads, and breast to breast our cloaks made the roadways warm. Alas for the silent pact whose false words the uncaring South-West Wind has swept away!

None cried out at the dying light of my eyes: I’d have won another day if you’d recalled me. No watchman shook his split reeds for me: but, jostled, a broken tile cut my face. Who, at the end, saw you bowed at my graveside: who saw your funeral robe hot with tears? If you disliked going beyond the gate, you could have ordered my bier to travel there more slowly. Ungrateful man, why couldn’t you pray for a wind to fan my pyre? Why weren’t my flames redolent of nard? Was it such an effort, indeed, to scatter cheap hyacinths, or honour my tomb with a shattered jar?

Let Lygdamus be branded: let the iron be white-hot for the slave of the house: I knew him when I drank the pale and doctored wine. And crafty Nomas, let her destroy her secret poisons: the burning potsherd will show her guilty hands. She who was open to the common gaze, those worthless nights, now leaves the track of her golden hem on the ground: and, if a talkative girl speaks of my beauty unjustly, she repays with heavier spinning tasks. Old Petale’s chained to a foul block of wood, for carrying garlands to my tomb: Lalage is whipped, hung by her entwined hair, since she dared to offer a plea in my name.

You’ve let the woman melt down my golden image, so she might have her dowry from my fierce pyre. Still, though you deserve it, I’ll not criticise you, Propertius, my reign has been a long one in your books. I swear by the incantation of the Fates none may revoke, and may three-headed Cerberus bark gently for me, that I’ve been faithful, and if I lie, may the vipers hiss on my mound, and lie entwined about my bones.

There are two places assigned beyond the foul stream, and the whole crowd of the dead row on opposing currents. One carries Clytemnestra’s faithlessness, another the monstrous framework of the lying Cretan cow: see, others swept onwards in a garlanded boat, where sweet airs caress Elysian roses, where tuneful lutes, where Cybele’s cymbals sound, and turbaned choirs to the Lydian lyre.

Andromeda and Hypermestre, blameless wives, tell their story, with accustomed feeling: the first complains her arms are bruised, with the chains of her mother’s pride, that her hands were un-deserving of the icy rock. Hypermestre tells of her sisters daring, her mind incapable of committing such a crime. So with the tears of death we heal life’s passions: I conceal the many crimes of your unfaithfulness.

But now I give this command to you, if perhaps you’re moved, if Chloris’ magic herbs have not quite entranced you: don’t let Parthenie, my nurse, lack in her years of weakness: she was known to you, was never greedy with you. And don’t let my lovely Latris, named for her serving role, hold up the mirror to some fresh mistress.

Then burn whatever verses you made about my name: and cease now to sing my praises.

Drive the ivy from my mound that with grasping clusters, and tangled leaves, binds my fragile bones; where fruitful Anio broods over fields of apple-branches, and ivory is unfading, because of Hercules’ power.

Write, on a column’s midst, this verse, worthy of me but brief, so the traveller, hurrying, from the city, might read:

HERE IN TIBUR’S EARTH LIES CYNTHIA THE GOLDEN:

ANIO FRESH PRAISE IS ADDED TO YOUR SHORES.

And don’t deny the dreams that come through sacred gateways: when sacred dreams come, they carry weight. By night we suffer, wandering, night frees the imprisoned spirits, and his cage abandoned Cerberus himself strays. At dawn the law demands return to the pools of Lethe: we are borne across, and the ferryman counts the load he’s carried.

Now, let others have you: soon I alone will hold you: you’ll be with me, I’ll wear away the bone joined with bone.’

After she’d ended, in complaint, her quarrel with me her shadow swiftly slipped from my embrace. … “

Propertius: The Elegies

Translated by A. S. Kline© Copyright 2002, 2008

Garden of Priapus - 731

More boss lady in a large mentule having caged sex with a caged horse

Like I said before, most sex happens after sleep - the ghostly tribade Cyntha is what Moslems would call a “jinn”

Sex at the crossroads was probably a code for Garden of Priapus Mentula sex.

Puzzling images images like the flaying of Marysas by Apollo -which I saw in a recent art review - are probably a form of rough Suburan mentula sex - That image occurs above on a previous plate - mentula sex in the penis cage was described as similar to shearing a sheep or removing bark from a tree … The services of a Tribade were neccesary for penis caged men who were unable to masturbate …

Garden of Priapus - 732

More boss lady in a large mentule having caged sex with a caged horse

Like Cynthia the ghost says:

“ … And don’t deny the dreams that come through sacred gateways: when sacred dreams come, they carry weight… “

True 2,000 years ago and true today - only difference is the dead do not have anywhere to go today ! The spent their lives rejecting the spirit world and end up continuing to live a ghostly version of the lives they left behind - or worse, actively taking over the bodies of the living …

The solution to that is studying sleep, building up sexual energy and mastering basic commands like “wake up!” - that’s always the best default to get away from nocturnal intruders …

Garden of Priapus - 733

More boss lady in a large mentule having caged sex with a caged horse

(April 23, 2022) Was done for day - but drowsiness came over me - That means the “jinn” want more …

Constantly get that image - female desire is stronger that male - but only once it’s lit - There’s an elusive threshold for female desire to light up and that is not being met today

***

“ … Ausonius, Epigram 79
“Inscribed Beneath the Picture of a Lusty Lady” c. 310AD

Beyond the genial joining of authorized sex
Sinful lust has discovered unnatural modes of love:
What the Lemnian lack posited to the heir of Herakles,
Or what the plays of Afranius in Roman garb presented
Or the total depravity that marked the Nolan people.
Somehow, in a single body,
Crispa practices all three!
She masturbates, fellates, and rides with either hole
— So that she might not die frustrated, leaving anything untried. … “

sententiaeantiquae

In 310 AD Roman matrons were still craving “unnatural modes of love” that can only mean the female phallus or the Mentula! - And there can only be one cause - the general application of the penis cage … Otherwise female lust is an elusive beast!

Garden of Priapus - 734

More boss lady in a large mentule having caged sex with a caged horse

Maximianus 5.58  6th century AD - Elderly Roman poet seduced by young Greek girl

“…she began
to handle
my dirty parts
with her hand
and to excite me too
with her fingers. … “

The Amazon virgins belt unbuckled - over the fathers buckled Amazon penis cage … Hot sex when done right - a strong amazon father is needed I suppose - and many times those became the penis caged sex toys of their alpha daughters - like an African spotted Hyena clan …

Garden of Priapus - 735

Closing scene - boss lady in a large mentule having caged sex with a caged horse

Maximianus pushes Amazon Mentula sex to the 6th century AD - but it survived in some form as late as Viking Stora Hammars stones c. 7OO AD from Sweden at the top of this page … That's probably when a general direct access to the “jinn” came to an end everywhere … With the exception of a few shamans here and there

Why? Not enough fire ! Cuteness does not produce that … unfortunately

Garden of Priapus - 736

Married life: boss lady, large black mentule riding her husband from the rear in black leather ….

That’s like Samba in Brazil - skinny girls turn muscular … Great muscle tone on tattooed boss lady - and great fire!

That fire has secret meanings and powers that we do not yet fully comprehend - its pretty important … and is very easy to lose

Garden of Priapus - 737

More boss lady entering her husband from the rear - the Amazon virgin’s belt unbuckled

“When Heracles and Theseus arrived at the shores of the Amazons, Hippolyta was invited aboard Heracle's ship. Hippolyta was said to be so impressed with Heracles, she gave him the Golden Girdle.”

That does not tell us much - but my guess is a Mentula was attached to that belt - said Mentula that went into Heracle’s penis caged rear - or golden apples !

Garden of Priapus - 738

More boss lady entering her husband from the rear - the Amazon virgin’s belt unbuckled.

From the poetry of Catallus above - the Roman or Trojan wedding required the father to release the virgins belt upon marriage - after which she became sexually emancipated and protected by the " keep silent" command of Harpocrates - the Greek Horus. All under the divine rule of Venus the goddess of the Mentula or female phallus.

The Greeks defeated the Amazons, but also integrated Amazon sex into their practice - the penis cage and the Mentula

“ … Hippolyte
Mythic, known in ancient Greece, beginning circa 1200 B.C.E.
Hippolyte (Hippolyta) was the queen of the Amazons, a mythic race of warrior women. Her father, Ares the war god, gave her his magical girdle, a belt that endowed the wearer with superhuman strength. A battle between the Amazons and the Athenians was launched by the Greek hero Herakles in his quest to steal the girdle, one of the twelve labors assigned by Hera. There are several versions of this myth. In one, Herakles takes the girdle and kills Hippolyte. In another, he captures the girdle while his warrior companion, Theseus, carries off Hippolyte’s sister, Antiope. Yet another version has Theseus abducting Hippolyte. The Amazons then invade Athens to rescue their queen but are defeated, an event celebrated in a genre of ancient Greek art called Amazonomachy. … “ brooklynmuseum

Garden of Priapus - 739

More boss lady entering her husband from the rear - the Amazon virgin’s belt unbuckled.

***

* The Hippolyte myth from c.1200 BC is correlated with the fall of Minoan Crete and the female “bull jumpers” - Minoan Athletes all featured a prominent Mentula under their skirts when they were depicted bull jumping or fighting as Amazons - Minoan Crete which was part African was really an Egyptian colony - many Egyptian royals were part Minoan - like Akhenaten. And the Minoan symbol was the the Labrys - the Amazon double headed axe .

Garden of Priapus - 740

More boss lady entering her husband from the rear - the Amazon virgin’s belt unbuckled.

- In west Africa the Labrys is the symbol of the orisha Shango who is supposedly male but is sometime played as an Amazon during Samba Carnaval in Brazil

Garden of Priapus - 741

More boss lady entering her husband from the rear - the Amazon virgin’s belt unbuckled.

Garden of Priapus - 742

More boss lady entering her husband from the rear - the Amazon virgin’s belt unbuckled.

According to Plato Cretans were slaves of sexual pleasure - The mentule in the male rear was certainly the reason for that - the magical girdle of Ares gave its wearer supernatural strength - That’s what Catallus describes the Mentula as - a sexual Croesus

Garden of Priapus - 743

Closing scene - boss lady grabbing her husbands balls whip in hand

That’s the other side of the girdle of Ares - The Roman marriage was described as haltering a horse - or what marriage is still called “tying the knot” - the Roman penis cage!

- I’m sure that’s from the ancient Egyptian girdle knot or Tyet knot - “girdle tie, also called tyet, in Egyptian religion, protective amulet formed like a knot and made of gold, carnelian, or red glazed ware.” Britannica

Garden of Priapus - 744

(April 26, 2022) Bonus from married life: Dream images of very sudden Georgetown summer noon from the inside of a darkened rock or cave - Like looking though some sort of darkened glass with barking dogs on both sides of the light/dark divide

Mentule sex brings out the sun - even though the guy looking in from the Geogetown summer sun into the darkened rock was black and gay!

I suppose that all or almost all BDSM male actors are gay - Straight men are not going to do this - and neither are straight women - now I think about it …

But I’m not gay - I’m just reporting the phenomenon of mentule sex

Garden of Priapus - 745

Boss lady riding a black horse - Rare inter-racial sex, and like the dream above that’s solar sex!

Why? - like I said before, the American prohibition of miscegenation is the equivalent of the Roman penis cage …

Garden of Priapus - 746

More boss lady riding a black horse -

No thoughts except that’s what happened a long time ago - The Bacchus cult came to Greece from Nysa - penis-caged black men were being ridden by phallic Greek women in ancient Athens

Garden of Priapus - 747

More boss lady riding a black horse -

Off the cross, and onto the carpet!

A fully erect black phallus - That’s solar! Although from Martial the Roman matrons waited for the caged phallus to calm down before indulging their lusts …

It was like lighting a furnace - Roman matrons harvested the caged phallus’ surplus energy - Roman matron sex is described above as like shearing a sheep or removing bark from a tree ...

Garden of Priapus - 748

More boss lady riding a black horse - balls in hand ...

In this poem Catullus recalls occasions when “furious flames scorched me to the core” . Roman men were often troubled by “furious flames” - That’s an odd image - we don’t really see that today - I think it was caused by the penis cage - Relief was the Mentula or female phallus - or an uncaged male phallus … We only see the gay sex today though …

“ … 100. A Choice: to Marcus Caelius

Caelius with Aufilenus, and Quintius with Aufilena,
both madly in love with the brother, the sister,
the flower of Veronese youth. That as they say’s
truly sweet, that fellowship of brothers.
Who shall I favour more? You, Caelius, since
your friendship, alone, saw me through my passion,
when the furious flames scorched me to the core.
Be happy, Caelius, be successful in love. … “

Catullus, Translated by A. S. Kline Copyright 2001

Garden of Priapus - 749

Closing scene: Boss lady riding a black horse - back to the cross

Striking dream image above - the dark cave or rock. That image occurs in other places - like the black rock in earth orbit CG Jung saw in a a death bed vision. He was greeted there by a “black” Indian - Maybe that’s a real place!

The noise is contained in that space …

Garden of Priapus - 750

Roman marriage - haltering the penis caged horse …

The penis cage was the source of Catullus’ “furious flames [that] scorched me to the core” - That’s the cause the famous Roman dog-leash tan … An ancient Egyptian tradition !

Garden of Priapus - 751

Roman marriage - securing the penis cage of thehorse husband …

That’s Martial’s “small and honorable” phallus - what I call the “venus furnace”

Egyptians called that the Tyet knot - a protective spell - And it really was that! The fire that Catullus was writing about is easy to take for granted - and also easy to lose

Garden of Priapus - 752

Roman marriage - riding the penis caged husband horse …

Roman women were not restricted to one horse - The flames were only periodic - Most of the time the Roman male was in equipoise - The loss of that equipoise was the end of the empire - what a young harlot called “general chaos” when she was unable to light the flames of an elderly late Roman poet - Maximianus

“ … Set in contrast to the intricately patterned surface of her poetry, the Greek girl perceptively recognized that men’s impotence signifies “universal chaos {generale chaos}” ... " purplenotes.

Garden of Priapus - 753

Roman marriage - feeding the golden apples of Hera to penis caged husband horses …

Still unpacking that image but I think its important - The present consensus is those were the apples of immortality

I think the golden apples signaled the start of rough female Mentula sex in the Garden of Priapus - Hera forced Tiresias - a Greek prophet - to live for seven years as a woman

- And he reported that the sex he had as a woman was ten times stronger that the sex he had as a man

- Hera blinded him for revealing this ! But he retained his inner eye or third eye and saw clearer that most


That’s the definition of a Djed pillar - in Greek form!

Garden of Priapus - 754

Roman marriage - riding penis caged husband through a barn …

That was relief for the fire that occasionally burned Catullus - His married girlfriend was also riding many other horses both rich and poor who she would pick up in a Roman es-dam or Sumerian Cybele bar …

A side of Roman life that’s missing from the history books

Garden of Priapus - 755

Roman marriage - the General, with a whip, riding penis caged husband

Martial 11.29.8
“I don’t need a finger: handle me like this, Phyllis”

Garden of Priapus - 756

Roman marriage - Horse racing: the General and a friend with whips, riding penis caged husbands …

Petronius 20.2
“She stirred up my groin which was cold already because of a thousand deaths.”

The venus furnace or caged phallus was not for Roman men! According to Martial even reading erotica was only to be done with a phallic matron on hand to perform the duties of a wife

I’ve got a version of this - my 3 -to 6 AM drowsiness sessions that lead to Samba or venus furnace coding are not my will - an outside force controls that! - Like just occurred - I can only get into this work when I’m in it …

Garden of Priapus - 757

More Roman marriage - Horse racing: riding penis caged husbands …

Ovid, Amores 3.7.73-4
“Despite this, my girl was not reluctant
To stroke me gently once she moved her hand down…”

Garden of Priapus - 758

End of race- Roman marriage - Horse racing: riding penis caged husbands

Garden of Priapus - 759

More golden apples; Rewarding the penis caged husband horses

Eve fed one of those to Adam … - After which, the first couple became aware of good and evil - and were also expelled from paradise …

Garden of Priapus - 760

More Roman marriage - Punishment - penis caged husband horses whipped and expelled from the garden after eating the golden apples

- The Greek version of the Golden Apples story is more accurate - than the biblical version - the punishment was from Hera - or a female dragon - Most early deities were really phallic goddeses ….

Garden of Priapus - 761

More Roman marriage - Venus furnace - penis caged horses locked after eating the golden apples - That fire belonged to the goddess through her avatars - the phallic and polyandrous Roman matrons

Hera and Aphrodite and Cybele and many other examples - even the Jews were once ruled by Yahweh’s wife - the strict Asherah …

Garden of Priapus - 762


Roman marriage: Naked and penis locked graybeard/horse submitting to the Mentula’s of two virile young tribades

Suburan Roman brothel tricks - Every spring golden apples were offered to Innana by a naked king to the Sumerian high priestess

- What happened next is blurry - but I am sure it was Tribade sex - More often than not the Mentula of virile young Sumerian girls over penis caged Sumerian greybeards -

This Babylonian tradition was adopted fully by the Aphrodite cult of the Greeks and the Venus cult of the Romans - The Roman graybeard like Ovid as an avatar of Attis almost always submitted to the embrace of Cybele by removing his testicles

Roman men “buggered” boys and Roman men were “buggered” by women - Men were eromenos, women erastes. But there was a Harpocrates religious injunction to “remain silent” about the female phallus

As in this poem where Catullus warns a friend to say away from his male friends

“ … 21. Greedy: To Aurelius.

Aurelius, father of hungers,
you desire to fuck,
not just these, but whoever my friends
were, or are, or will be in future years.
not secretly: now at the same time as you joke
with one, you try clinging to him on every side.
In vain: now my insidious cock
will bugger you first.
And, if you’re filled, I’ll say nothing:
Now I’m grieving for him: you teach
my boy, mine, to hunger and thirst.
So lay off: while you’ve any shame,
or you will end up being buggered. … “

Catullus 21, Translated by A. S. Kline Copyright 2001

Garden of Priapus - 763

More Roman marriage - fondled in the garden

In the Petronius’ Satyricon - an ancient crone priestess of Priapus uses magic to awaken the dead phallus of the hero - after which he is sodomized by women with a leather phallus

Those images do not make sense unless we factor in the penis cage and the female Mentula:

“ …. 131: A touch of magic

Next day I rose, sound in mind and body, went down to that same plane-tree grove, even though I feared the place was inauspicious, and proceeded to wait among the trees for Chrysis to show me the way. I had not been sitting long where I had sat the day before, when Chrysis appeared bringing an old woman with her. After greeting me, she said: ‘Well, the question is, proud lover, whether you’ve begun to regain your courage?’

Then the old woman, one Proselenos, took a twist of varicoloured threads from her clothing, and tied it about my neck. Next, she mixed dust and spit, took it up on her middle finger and, despite my protest, marked my brow. After chanting something, she ordered me to spit three times, and toss stones into my lap three times, after she’d said a spell over them and wrapped them in purple cloth, then laid her hands on me and attempted to test their power over my member. Before one could say a word, it obeyed her command, filling the old woman’s hands with a mighty erection. She, triumphant with joy, cried: ‘See, dear Chrysis, see, what a hare I’ve started, as they say elsewhere!’ ... “

Satyricon, Part VII: Eumolpus’ epic; and encounters with Circe by Petronius Arbiter - Translated by A. S. Kline © Copyright 2018 

Garden of Priapus - 764

More Roman marriage - put down for saddling

The drunken old crone priestess of Priapus whips our hero while a drunken young woman inserts an oiled leather phallus into his rear - but our hero is able to make a quick escape from the garden…

I think that was the Roman standard for sex - step one was rousing the fire by fondling the caged phallus - then step two was female on male mentule sex - which was protected by a Harpocrates"keep silent" religious sanction …

“ … 138-139: Encolpius is anointed, but escapes

Next, Oenothea drew out a leather phallus, dipped it in oil, ground pepper and bruised nettle seeds, and proceeded to insert it gradually into my anus. The old crone, Proselenos sprinkled my thighs with the mixture, most cruelly and, drenching my loins with the juice of nasturtiums mixed with artemisia, took a handful of green nettles and began to gently lash everything below my navel…

Leaping up, I ran for it. Though the poor old things were drunk on wine and wilfulness, they took the same road, and pursued me, as I fled, through several streets crying; ‘Stop, thief!’ yet I escaped, feet bloody from my headlong flight. … “

Satyricon, Part VIII: Priapic moments by Petronius Arbiter - Translated by A. S. Kline © Copyright 2018 

Garden of Priapus - 765

More Roman marriage - whipped in the garden for failing to light the fire

The ancient crones magic did not last - upon returning to his mistress Circe she asks him if he is a full man and he asks her to test him - Passionate kissing in bed follows, but the fire in his penis cage fails to light again.

In a rage Circe orders her slaves to flog him:

“ … Proselenos’s cure succeeded, but only temporarily. Encolpius’s penis failed again in his next attempt at sexual intimacy. His highly privileged lady partner Circe was furious. She ordered Encolpius to be hoisted and flogged. She threw Proselenos out of her house. In despair, Proselenos viciously belittled Encolpius:

What demonic owls have gnawed your nerve-ends? Or did you step on some shit or a corpse at the crossroads after dark? You could not prove yourself even with a boy; what an effeminate, tired weakling you are, puffing like a cab-horse on a hill, toiling and sweating to no purpose!

Proselenos then beat him with a cane. Fortunately the cane broke; otherwise, Encolpius’s head and arms would have broken first. Encolpius wept profusely. … “ purplemotes

***

“ … Circe lay there, her marble neck resting on a golden bank, fanning the still air with a spray of flowering myrtle. And, on seeing me, she reddened a little, obviously recalling yesterday’s affront; when the others had left, she invited me to sit beside her, laid the myrtle sprig across my eyes, and then, as if she’d set a wall between us, said boldly: ‘The question, my paralytic, is whether you’re here today as a whole man?’ ‘Why ask,’ I replied, ‘rather than try me?’ And I threw myself, with no spells uttered, into her arms, enjoying her kisses to satiety. The very charms of her body summoned me and drew me towards love. Now the sound of kisses as our lips met, now our hands wound together explored the modes of love, now our bodies bound in mutual embrace made our spirits as one…

132: Reprisal and reproach

Alas!...Wounded by manifest insult, Circe finally ran to seek revenge, calling for her lackeys and shouting for me to be whipped. Not content with this grave punishment, the woman summoned all her weaving-women and household slaves and commanded them to spit on me. I put my hands to my eyes, uttering no protest since I knew what I merited, and beaten and spat upon was ejected from the threshold. The old witch, Proselenos, was also thrown out, Chrysis was flogged, while the whole household muttered sadly to themselves, asking what had destroyed their mistress’ good mood. … “

Satyricon, Part VII: Eumolpus’ epic; and encounters with Circe by Petronius Arbiter - Translated by A. S. Kline © Copyright 2018 

Garden of Priapus - 766

Muscle Amazon rides boss ladies husband like a horse

More Roman marriage - The Roman male was yoked like a horse to his wife, who was at liberty to ride as many horses as she felt like …

The Mentula was a female penis - not male. In the Elergies of Maximinius a 6th century AD roman poet - Mentula is only used in relation to the Greek girl who was unable to light his fire. The word he used to describe his flaccid male member was membra …

Mentula was a product of the daughters Venus virgin belt that Roman fathers released upon marriage - The Roman fibula or penis cage was the Mentula’s mirror image - For Greeks and Romans the erect phallus that was prominently displayed in public was female, not male - the erect fire of the phallic goddess - Venus

Maximinius elsewhere declined to take the yoke of Roman marriage:

“… although I lived
more sweetly
with my neck
unyoked
and never bore
the welcome
chains of marriage … “

Maximinius, Elergy 1/60

***

In this poem Horace speaks of a girl receiving the blows of his “swelling tail” . Tail here has been read another word for penis - but the more obvious meaning is his rear - especially the imagery of that same girl riding his “horse”

" …Whichever girl
receives the blows
of my swelling 'tail',
or when
I'm on my back
sexily rides
my 'horse'
with her buttocks,
sends me away
neither with
a bad reputation
nor worried that
a richer
or more handsome
guy might
piss in the same place.”

Horace, Satires (Serm. 2.7.50)

Garden of Priapus - 767

Muscle Amazon rides boss ladies husband like a horse

More Roman marriage - hunting for hares

I noticed that imagery above from the crone who used magic to rouse a dead phallus:

“…  Before one could say a word, it obeyed her command, filling the old woman’s hands with a mighty erection. She, triumphant with joy, cried: ‘See, dear Chrysis, see, what a hare I’ve started, as they say elsewhere!’ ... “

Satyricon, Part VII: Eumolpus’ epic; and encounters with Circe by Petronius Arbiter - Translated by A. S. Kline © Copyright 2018 

That hare hunting image can be found in 2nd century AD Roman coins when a tall phallic amazon is paired with a dwarf or very short man with goat legs and a hare hunting stick …

For example: Coin of Septimus Severus with Hermaphroditus as female Dionysus and Faunus on back side

" ... Septimius Severus. 193-211 AD. Hadrianopolis, Thrace; Æ 28. Obv: His laureate and draped bust, r. Rev: To right, Pan, with goat legs, holding lagobolon and facing HERMAPHRODITOS ... on the left ... " akropoliscoins

And statue of Hermaphroditus and Pan with a lagobolon or stick to hunt hares

I suppose the ideal sexual state for the sexually aroused Roman matron was the phimosis blocked erection - the “hare” - Sex that followed was everything possible - except male on female sex which was not possible unless the bronze fibula was removed … Roman matron sex was slow, long and wine soaked - and included the Mentula in the male rear…

Roman “hare” or phimosis blocked erection - on a dog leash tanned and bearded male Roman in a yellow female dress and Phyringian cap - Pompeii. The female dress signals what is to come … The Mentula from the rear …

The hare hunter: Roman coin of a girl with a large erect mentule: 200 AD Roman Septimius Severus Ithyphallic Priapus coin

"MOESIA INFERIOR, Nicopolis ad Istrum. Septimius Severus. AD 193-211. Æ Assarion (18mm, 3.83 g, 2h). AV KAI CE CEVHPOC, laureate head right / NIKOPOLI TWN PROC IC, ithyphallic Priapus standing left, pointing downward with right hand at his characteristic attribute, left hand on hip. AMNG I 1380; SNG München -; Mouchmov 987; Varbanov 1789. EF, dark green patina." cngcoins

The modern playboy bunny image is the opposite - in Roman days the phallus was female - Venus or Aphrodite - and men were hunted for anal sex by phallic Roman matrons …

Garden of Priapus - 768

Muscle Amazon rides boss ladies husband like a horse - with another Amazon getting oral service - Roman Irumabo- from the front

The caged phallus was the lighter of the furnace - after which many hours of female phallus sex was possible - Once the Roman male fire was lit it burned fiercely as can be seen in Martial and Catullus …

Female - not male - Bacchus wine drinking sessions - like the sekhmet beer festival in ancient Egypt were an integral part of Mentula festivities as is shown above:

“ … 138-139: Encolpius is anointed, but escapes


Next, Oenothea drew out a leather phallus, dipped it in oil, ground pepper and bruised nettle seeds, and proceeded to insert it gradually into my anus. The old crone, Proselenos sprinkled my thighs with the mixture, most cruelly and, drenching my loins with the juice of nasturtiums mixed with artemisia, took a handful of green nettles and began to gently lash everything below my navel…


Leaping up, I ran for it. Though the poor old things were drunk on wine and wilfulness, they took the same road, and pursued me, as I fled, through several streets crying; ‘Stop, thief!’ yet I escaped, feet bloody from my headlong flight. … “

Satyricon, Part VIII: Priapic moments by Petronius Arbiter - Translated by A. S. Kline © Copyright 2018 

Garden of Priapus - 769

Boss lady in a large mentule enjoying a “hare” from the rear - balls in hand.

Septimus Severus in the Mentula coins above was an African Roman Emperor -The worship of Bacchus was said to have come to Greece from Egypt and Libya … I suppose Mentula sex was open and not hidden on Roman North Africa. …

Garden of Priapus - 770

More Boss lady in a large mentule enjoying a “hare” from the rear …

Shocking - but that’s how the third eye of Osiris was opened - years as a hare were not an option if you were a Roman nobleman …

From the start of puberty to 25 at the minimum Roman boys were penis caged and considered girls sexually

-And the opposite was true for Roman girls who received the unbuckling of their venus vigin belt and Mentula and sexual emancipation from their fathers at marriage …

Garden of Priapus - 771

Boss lady’s friend in a large mentule has a go …

Even after 25 Roman noblemen remained hares - as the Satyricon, Part VIII: Priapic moments by Petronius Arbiter shows!

The crone clearly had a life long expectation of sexual dominance over Roman men ! And the Roman poets back Petronius up - I guess Mentule sex is simply superior - Catullus calls the Mentula a “Croesus” of sexuality

Garden of Priapus - 772

Priapus with a phimosis blocked erection- House of the Vettii in Pompeii - The “hare” demanded by Roman matrons

In this epigram Martial complains that his domineering lover Lesbia demands constant erections - But those were really phimosis-blocked erections or the “hares” of Roman matrons. In other epigrams Martial says his penis was “small and honorable” - or penis caged.

My guess is Lesbia required phimosis blocked erections from Martial as she was sodomizing him from the rear with the standard Greek leather dildo - the Mentula

Martial 6.23

“… Lesbia,
you always
command
my penis
to be hard
for you:
Believe me,
a dick
is not
the same as
a finger.
You may
work hard
with your
smooth hands
and
enticing words,
but your
domineering
face
is against you. … “

people.well © 1999 Mark Brustman

Garden of Priapus - 773

Boss lady’s husband as a hector horse under the Mentula of a muscle Amazon

In this epigram Martial is ignored by a friend who was sexing a Roman soldiers wife. The punishment if caught - being sodomized like a boy - was not punishment for him - Its certainly what he was getting from the wife of the armed Tribune - High class Roman matrons was all phallic and all sexually emancipated by their father’s unbuckled venus virgin belt ….

Martial 2.60

“ …Boy Hyllus,
you are fucking
the wife
of an armed
tribune
because you
fear nothing more
than the punishment
suited for a boy
[i.e. being butt-fucked].
Poor thing,
as you play,
you will be castrated.
Now you're telling me:
"That's not allowed."
What about it?
Is what you are doing
allowed, Hyllus? … “

people.well © 1999 Mark Brustman

Garden of Priapus - 774

More boss lady’s husband as a hector horse under the Mentula of a muscle Amazon

In this epigram Martial hints that a part of becoming a man was life under the Mentula of a strong wife - Like the castrated Phrygian under a phallic Cybele.

A boy of tender beauty refuses to give up any more than a kiss - Martial imagines the joy of the bride that will make him a man …

I am certain the Mentula of the Amazon wife in the rear of the Roman man was part of the Roman marriage rite ! The Roman male phallus was limited to the role of a phimosis blocked "hare" - The real phallus was the female Mentula …

“Martial 8.46

Your modesty
is equalled
by your
outstanding beauty,
boy Cestus,
more chaste
than pure Hippolytos.
Diana would want you
to swim with her
and would be
your teacher,
Cybele would
prefer to have you
over the Phrygian;
you could take
Ganymede's place
in bed, but, cruel boy,
you give your master
only kisses.
Happy the bride
that will tease
her tender husband,
and be
the first girl
to make you
a man [virum]! … “

people.well © 1999 Mark Brustman

Garden of Priapus - 775

More boss lady’s husband as a hector horse under the Mentula of a muscle Amazon

In this epigram, Martial covers up his lips so as to avoid the forced kisses of Philaenis - a Tribade

The penis caged Roman man was vulnerable to uncontrollable fire and pain from his phimosis blocked phallus caused by the aggressive kiss of the phallic Roman matron. - The only cure for that in many cases was hours of Tribade sex - or the Mentula in the male rear …

Martial 10.22


“ Philaenis,
you ask
why I often
go out
with a bandage
on my chin
or with my
healthy lips
painted with
white paint?
I do not
want to
kiss you. … “

people.well © 1999 Mark Brustman

Garden of Priapus - 776

Closing scene of boss lady’s husband as a hector horse under the Mentula of a muscle Amazon

In this epigram, Martial decribes the sexual looseness of an elderly Nymphomamiac Lydia - But this being Rome, it was more a female Hyena Mentula looseness in the rears of penis caged Roman men!

Martial 11.21

“ … Lydia is
as loose as
the ass of
a bronzed horseman,
as a swift hoop
that rings with
the melodious bronze,
as the wheel
so often
passed through
with the springboard
without being touched,
as an
old shoe
soaked in muddy water,
as the sparse
nets that wait
for errant thrushes,
as the awnings denied
to the wind
at Pompey's Theater,
as a bracelet fallen
from a
tuberculotic passive [cinaedo],
as a mattress
having lost
its Leuconian wool,
as old trousers
of a Britonic pauper,
and as
the ugly throat
fo a Ravennan pelican.
I am said
to have fucked her
in a marine fishpond.
I do not know; I
think I fucked
the fishpond. … “

people.well © 1999 Mark Brustman

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May 4, 2022 [As loose as the] old trousers of a Britonic pauper - I remember reading that line, but then not being able to find it again. It’s an odd image - Britons in Ancient Rome were the equivalent of African slaves in the British Empire!

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“ … This translation of many of Martial's epigrams was prepared by me in the interest of exhibiting to the Internet public a picture of what passed for sexual humor in the Roman empire. A society's sexual humor provides a map to help us find the boundary lines for that society between prudish, respectable, acceptable, tolerable, dishonorable, and deplorable forms of sexual expression. The reader will notice that those lines were drawn very differently in 90 AD than they are today, which is the point I would like to convey by offering these epigrams. Please pay attention to the way males [vir], eunuchs [spado], and castrated men [gallus] are portrayed in terms of their relations with women - it always takes a woman to make a boy into a full-grown male.

The epigrams are basically social commentary of the type that one might expect today from someone like the comedian Chris Rock, and you could also compare Martial's prominence in late first century Roman society with that of Chris Rock in current American society. But Chris Rock would never dare to tell these jokes! The epigrams include criticism of hypocrisy, jokes about the appearance of certain ugly women, and jokes about greedy people and other foolish people, as well as jokes about the skills of other poets, with a few poems praising the Emperor mixed in. But they also contain a liberal dose of what modern editors call "pornographic" material, which is mostly what I am presenting in this selection of the epigrams. They had no qualms about males verbally acknowledging the sexiness of other males, although they seem to have tolerated homosexual acts between adult males much less than what we today abhor as homosexual child molestation (sex with early teenaged "beardless boys"). They also considered giving oral service to another man (or woman) a more shameful and abhorrent act than being anally penetrated by him. Also, notice that Martial's love of boys does not make him a homosexual, since he also talks about having sex with women.

Martial's epigrams were enormously popular in his day and for centuries afterward. Even current Latin textbooks like "Wheelock's Latin" contain lots of epigrams from Martial as exercises for students to translate.

Many translators of Martial into English have in the past refused to translate the sexually explicit epigrams. These translators would either leave those particular epigrams in Latin or else give an Italian translation! But I recently came across an English translation that translated every epigram faithfully. It was prepared by D. R. Shackleton Bailey and published in a Harvard Loeb edition in 1993. I would encourage all those, who can afford the three-volume Loeb edition of Martial, to purchase it.

I have relied heavily on Bailey's translation to help me figure out what Martial was saying. But in the interest of not infringing Harvard's copyright, I have massacred every one of Bailey's elegant translations of the epigrams in order to give a crude, stilted, and strictly literal translation of my own. If my translation of any particular phrases matches that of Bailey, it is only because Bailey's translation was already a pretty faithful, literal translation of the original Latin, which belongs to Martial and thus to the public. The original Latin of all of Martial's epigrams can be found on a website of the Classics Department at George Mason University.

A note on the gender of names in the epigrams: Names ending in "-us" are masculine, while names ending in "-is"  and "-e" are usually feminine (except for Attis, a castrated god). Names ending in "-a" are usually feminine first names (e.g., Lesbia, Bassa, Vetustina, Chrestina, Telesina, Galla, Thalia, Polla, Ligeia, Glaphyra, Fulvia, Caelia, Magulla), but may be surnames of men in some cases (e.g. Cotta, Numa, Cinna, Mamurra, Nasica, Baccara, Vacerra, Lattara, Tucca).] … “  

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Garden of Priapus - 777

Hoisted and flogged in the garden for failure produce a “Hare” - or phimosis blocked erection

“ … Proselenos’s cure succeeded, but only temporarily. Encolpius’s penis failed again in his next attempt at sexual intimacy. His highly privileged lady partner Circe was furious. She ordered Encolpius to be hoisted and flogged. … “

Satyricon, Part VII: Eumolpus’ epic; and encounters with Circe by Petronius Arbiter - Translated by A. S. Kline © Copyright 2018 

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“… Please pay attention to the way males [vir], eunuchs [spado], and castrated men [gallus] are portrayed in terms of their relations with women - it always takes a woman to make a boy into a full-grown male. … “  Mark Brustman (1999)

But why ? That’s a remarkable statement for something we think we know well - but we really don’t know Rome at all. The classic Roman orgy for example was not a male affair - Women ruled that … The erect Roman phallus both in private and in public display was always female, not male … The male phallus was always tightly locked up in the Fibula …

My explanation is the Roman deity - a phallic fire goddesss - Venus in Rome, Aphrodite in Greece. Sekhmet-Min in Egypt, Innana in Sumerian …. etc

That was the world of the Nobles - where in Juvenal a Roman matron did not need a reason to have a slave crucified …

The regular folks were probably what we call normal today sexually - That’s the Christian and Muslim inheritance from Rome

Garden of Priapus - 778

1950’s erotica - Eric Stanton horse husband training

We call ourselves sexually liberated today - but the most important thing - the living fire - is dying or dead today …

The rock dream I reported above is a moon/sun pairing - The Hieros Games is usually a moon/sun marriage - I guess my sun side is gay! But I do not have same sex feelings though

- The phallic female could be read as my “gay” side! That would correspond to the Phallic Aphrodite or Sekhmet-Min or Cybele

Garden of Priapus - 779

 Flogged in the garden - more horse husband training …

Roman marriage- assuming the bridle and penis cage under a Roman matron was probably good for the living fire - a trend you notice in Roman poetry is a failed “hare” or phimosis blocked erection in older unmarried men and gay men …

(May 6, 2022) Mentule vision of the world above - Vision was like the “Hare hunter” Roman coin above - females with very large mentules working them with passion in male rears ! That was a hot vision - but also very fleeting …

But where is that? - some sort of connection to the black rock or cave dream above - Also may be related to the Buddhist “Shangri-la” dream vision from earlier on this website - a moon/earth inversion. Although we do not associate Buddhism with strong sex … Strong sex is usually the domain of the lower not upper worlds …

But to Romans and Greeks and Egyptians and Sumerians the Mentule was associated with the higher worlds of the phallic goddesses …

Garden of Priapus - 780

 Flogged in the garden - more horse husband training …

Post flogging inspecting for a “hare” - Mentule sex is not one way sex - From Catullus and Martial we learn that the male had to be on fire - otherwise mentule sex was just a form of masturbation

- Mentule sex was described as like shearing a sheep or removing bark from a tree - for that a hare was needed …

Maybe that’s why Empress Messalina was so attracted to the Roman brothels - the men who went that were sexually on fire - their caged “hares” were alive …

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In this epigram Martial notes Roman polyandry - Magulla shared her bed with a male whore in addition to her husband … Both were certainly under her Mentule …

Martial 12.91

“Magulla,
since you share
a small bed
as well as
a (male) whore [exoletus]
with your husband,
tell me why you
don't share
a cupbearer.
You sigh;
the reason is,
you fear the bottle [of poison, says Shackleton Bailey]. … “

people.well © 1999 Mark Brustman

Ganymede was the boy cupbearer of Jupiter as well as his anal boy toy

Garden of Priapus - 781

Flogged in the garden - more horse husband training …

Final inspection - hare up front - but main Roman male sex organ was the rump - The bronze fibula meant the front door was “trussed” and not used … The Roman wife rode her husband from behind like a horse …

That’s a sinister image - but there’s no other reading of the penis cage - It required a visit to the blacksmith to remove …

In my dream vision of a higher world - the mentule was organic - In the spirit world hyena wives have a real and very large phallus - not leather! That’s why spirit sex is so hot!

That’s read as gay sex - but there’s a difference - The modern day world of eros has taken on a gay mono culture … Almost stubbornly so … My guess is that’s partially race based - the main male sex projection is low class black male - and that’s not a viable sex partner - so the default becomes gay …

Until that projection changes sex will become more, not less, gay …

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In this epigram, Martial notes the Roman habit of men removing their testicles to prevent a draining of vital energy. Mentule sex was still possible without a hare … Like the castrated priests of Cybele …And Hares were possible without testicles …I’ve read that castrated Roman Syrians were able to have erections in temple sex under phallic women ...

Martial 63. Capons.

“ … So that
he will not
become too thin
from overdraining
his groin,
the chicken [gallus]
lost his testicles.
Now that's
what I call
a chicken [gallus = castrated male]. … “

people.well © 1999 Mark Brustman

Garden of Priapus - 782

Roman Bronze Priapus c.1st century B.C.-1st century A.D.

That’s the classic “hare” that Roman matrons were looking for prior to Mentule sex - The phimosis-blocked but erect Roman phallus

Garden of Priapus - 783

The general in a large black mentule working a penis caged old guy from the rear - all in black leather

(May 7, 2022) Black rock sex - Above us, not below - Had another erotic dream of mentule sex from Amazons from above. She looked like a major samba star - large, strong but maternal all the same …

That black rock is probably a wormhole to a human civilization that left earth a long time ago … Yoruba mythology believes the first “primordials” came to earth from another planet - It’s probably like the moon planet in movie “Avatar” - but with the moon planet with better technology - It’s a water planet, I think

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In this epigram Martial boasts of multiple sex encounters with Chrestina - but that was Roman penis cage sex - “She gives” is Mentule sex ...


Martial 2.31

“ … I have fucked
Chrestina
many times.
You want to know
how well
she gives?
Marianus,
there can be
nothing beyond it. .. “

people.well © 1999 Mark Brustman

Garden of Priapus - 784

More general in a large black mentule working a penis caged old guy from the rear …

Roman men were ambivalent about being eromenos or sexual passives - but that seems to have been the state of the male Roman upper classes. In this epigram Martial ridicules Naevolus an official who looks down on him - but is also a famous sexual passive

…Probably sexually passive to the mentules of women and girls though - gay sex required a free penis and those were rare in the Roman aristocracy

Martial 3.95

“ ..Naevolus,
you never say hello first,
but always say it in reply,
even though even crows
often speak first.
I ask you, tell me,
Naevolus,
why do you wait
for a greeting from me:
for I think you
are not better
or higher
than me,
Naevolus.
I am talked about
by many readers,
and fame has
given me a name
in the villages
without waiting
for my death.
There is something
in this too:
I have been
a Roman tribune
and I sit in the seat
that Oceanus [the manager of Pompey's Theater]
makes you get up from.
I have made
more citizens
through
Caesar's favor
than you have
slaves,
I suspect.
But you get
butt-fucked,
Naevolus;
you shake your ass
prettily.
All right,
fine,
you are better,
Naevolus,
you win:
greetings! … “

people.well © 1999 Mark Brustman

Garden of Priapus - 785

General in a large black mentule riding the penis caged old guy from the rear … Full gallop!

That required a hare though first! … That’s a new concept - but actually very ancient - Roman women had to hunt for those - The fire of the hare only happened from time to time for the penis caged male ….

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For Martial, even more demeaning that being a sexual passive was giving women oral service - as he ridicules a friend for doing in this epigram…

But my guess is oral service on women was required by all Roman matrons - Its the central rite of the Temple of Innana - “who will plow my vulva?”

Martial 4.43

“… I did not call you
a passive [cinaedus],
Coracinus:
I am not
so thoughtless
or bold,
or given to
telling lies.
If I did call you
a passive,
Coracinus,
let the wrath
of Pontia's bottle
be upon me,
the wrath
of Metilus's chalice [i.e. let me be poisoned]:
I swear
by the tumors
of the Syrian goddess,
I swear
by the Berecynthian rage [i.e. may I suffer the castration ceremony of Cybele priests if I am lying].
What did I say then?
Something
small and minor,
which
everyone knows,
which you yourself
do not even deny:
I said,
Coracinus,
that you
are
a pussy-licker [cunnilingus]. … “

people.well © 1999 Mark Brustman

Garden of Priapus - 786

More General in a large black mentule riding the penis caged old guy from the rear …

The unbuckled Venus fire belt - or the girdle of Hippolyta - Venus required the father’s permission for that though … Only the upper class daughters got the mentule in the ancient world … A slave, for example, did not have anything to hand down

That was a silent Roman fear but also a transgressive Amazon pleasure - the male erection being stolen by Amazon female daughters - and it was true in mythology - El lost his erection to Anat and Innana got her erection from Enki - and throughout the Amazon world - older Greeks and Romans and Egyptian always ended under submitting young phallic Amazon daughters ….

In this epigram by Martial a Roman loses his erections and ends up a vulva - licker

Martial 6.26

“ …Our Sotades
is in danger
of losing
his head.
Do you think
Sotades
is on trial?
He isn't.
Sotades
has stopped
being able
to get
an erection:
he licks. … “

people.well © 1999 Mark Brustman

Garden of Priapus - 787

Closing scene: More General in a large black mentule putting away the penis locked older man in the black rock

Penis caging has many strange effects - for example it turbocharged female libido, it created the man on fire and sometimes it lead to madness - as when the priests of Cybele castrated themselves - the “Berecynthian rage” - but it’s main effect was giving access to higher worlds and opening the third eye …

Garden of Priapus - 788

Boss lady driving a penis caged horse from the rear, topless ginger and blond up front.

That’s a recent dream vision of the “upper” world - but the Mentules were larger!

That’s what the Romans called “Greek luxury” ….

That was a “drowsiness” update - Something outside demands to build using me! - The window was open, so I complied…

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The Roman male penis preferred the penis cage to the female vagina - In this epigram a Roman male avoids places like the baths and Temple of Isis in order to avoid being forced to have sex with women.

That’s a strange image! But in an Amazon society is probably true …

Martial 11.47

“ … Why does Lattara
avoid all the baths
popular with
the female crowds?
In order
not to fuck pussy.
Why does he
not take
slow walks
in the shadow of
Pompey's Theater
or seek out
the thresholds of
the Isis temples?
In order
not to fuck pussy.
Why does he
drench his body,
covered in
Lacedaemonian mud,
with Virgin
ice water?
In order
not to
fuck pussy.
Since he
avoids contact
with the
female gender
in such a way,
why does
Lattara
lick pussy?
In order
not to fuck pussy. … “

people.well © 1999 Mark Brustman

Garden of Priapus - 789

More boss lady driving a penis caged horse from the rear, topless ginger and blond up front.

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A wealthy elderly crone asks to marry Martial and he agrees only on the condition he did not have to yoke himself under her in the Amazon horse and rider style.

Juvenal and other Roman poets noted that Roman Amazons continued to sexually ride young Roman male horses into old age …

In Martial’s day marriage under the yoke of a Roman Amazon was required by law … My guess is that was a form of worship of Venus and other phallic goddesses

Martial 11.23

“ … Sila is prepared to
give herself
to me in marriage
on any terms;
but I do not want
to take Sila
in marriage
on any terms.
However,
when she insists,
I say:
"As my fiancée,
you will give me
as a dowry
a million in gold."
"No problem."
"And I will not
fuck you
as your husband,
not even
on our wedding night,
and I will not
share my bed
with you;
and I will
embrace my girlfriend,
and you will not
forbid it,
and when commanded,
you will send me
your slave girl.
Before your eyes
the servant will
give me lustful kisses,
whether she is
mine or yours.
You will
come to dinner,
but you will
lie apart
from me
so that your gown
does not touch mine.
You will
on rare occasion
give me kisses,
and not
like a bride
but like
an elderly mother,
and you will not
give them
to anyone else.
If you can put up
with these things,
if there is nothing
you refuse
to tolerate,
then you will
find someone
to marry you,
Sila. … “

people.well © 1999 Mark Brustman

Garden of Priapus- 790

More boss lady driving a penis caged horse from the rear, topless ginger and blond up front.

Temple of Isis and the Roman public baths were areas of Amazon sex hunting for men - That image from 2000 years ago is still controversial - But Martial lays it all bare - Which means the same or similar Amazon of hunting of men was going on in the Isis heartland - ancient Egypt.

Garden of Priapus- 791

Blonde having a go from the rear of a penis caged horse Bes Hathor style … Boss lady getting ready

That’s how the violent lion goddess Sekhmet was pacified - She transformed into the loving she bull Hathor

Egypt was if anything more aggressively Amazon sex than Rome - There was a more homogenous society - no Christians …

But there were a Hyksos - or Jewish lower class - but even those Jews worshiped the female phallus - fragments of this life still exist in my dream life - the strict Asherah archetype. …
Asherah is a Hyksos 16th Dynasty goddess - Solomonic dynasty

Fragments of the curse of exodus still exist in Africa - the first born curse of Exodus is still working its strange magic - The whole Negro race is still suffering under the yoke of Exodus - - the curse of the “first born” of the human race - and its true!

On the other side is the Jewish spiritual blockage - Encoded into law in the book of Kings and Ezekiel

That’s a crazy statement, but it’s true! Jews and Christians do not have access to higher worlds … Muslims have a form of access thorough the “jinn” - but my impression is that’s mostly evil - the nature “jinn” do not communicate to muslims!

Garden of Priapus - 792

More blonde having a go from the rear of a penis caged horse - “Trussed” - Trojan King Nestor style - … Topless ginger on the side and boss lady getting oral service up front

Garden of Priapus- 793

Ginger having a go over a penis caged horse Bes Hathor style - Boss lady getting oral service up front …

Garden of Priapus- 794

Closing scene: Ginger having a go over a penis caged horse - Bes Hathor style

Garden of Priapus- 795

Penis locked old guy on the couch under the large mentule of boss lady

As stated above Roman baths were for Roman women hunting “hares” or penis caged erections - In this epigram a Roman matron claps at the appearance of a favorite male phallus. But that being Rome, the sex that followed was probably female mentule in the male rear ….


The rough proof is the universal Roman bath statue of a phallic goddess undressing … That image was sending a clear message

Martial 9.33

“…If you hear
applause
in any bath,
Flaccus,
know that
Maro's dick
is there. … “

people.well © 1999 Mark Brustman

Garden of Priapus- 796

Penis caged old guy under a full gallop ridden by boss lady in a large mentule

That’s the Roman marriage - men yoked under the female phallus …

In this epigram by Martial a wealth Roman spends all day window shopping but only buys two small cups - On display are luxury items including soft slave boys both for sale and prostitution

The Roman male both old and young was eromenos and penis locked; - his main sex organ was in the rear …

Martial 9.59

“ … Walking around in the Enclosure [a Roman shopping mall]
for a long time
and often,
there where
golden Rome
rummages
among its wealth,
Mamurra inspected
soft boys,
devouring them
with his eyes,
not those who are
prostituted
in the first booth,
but those
preserved
on the decks
of the secret
slave platforms,
whom neither
the people
nor my crowd see.
Then when he had had
enough of that,
he stripped the tables
and the hidden wheels,
and asked for
the tall oiled ivory
to be exhibited,
and after measuring
four times
a tortoise couch
for six persons,
he sighed that
it was not
big enough
for his table,
he consulted
his nostrils
as to whether
the bronzes smelled
of the air of Corinth,
and criticized statues,
even yours,
Polyclites,
and, complaining
that the crystals
were bothered
by small amounts
of glass,
he marked
and set aside
ten stone vases.
He weighed
old wine cups
and any drinking cups
made noble
by the hand
of Mentor,
and counted
green gems
in painted gold,
and anything large
that rings
from a snowy ear;
he asked for
genuine sardonyxes
at every table
and made
a price for
large jaspers.
When the tired man
finally left
after eleven hours,
he bought
two cups
for a penny
and carried them
away himself. …” … “

people.well © 1999 Mark Brustman

Garden of Priapus- 797

More Penis caged old guy ridden Bes Hathor style by boss lady in a large mentule …

That image above of soft boys rather than soft girls sold for sex points to the strange Roman model - It was an Amazon society - The proudly erect phallus on display all over the Roman Empire was the phallus of a female deity - the male phallus was tightly locked

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*In this epigram Martial tells a slave that he has an easier life than a master - one of the burdens of the Roman master that the slave did not have was was “eating pussy” - Roman men preferred passive anal sex to orally serving Roman matrons …

Martial 9.92

“ … Condylus,
although you groan
that you have been a slave
for such a long time,
you do not know
what evils
belong to a master,
what comforts
to a slave.
A cheap
piece of mat
gives you
sound sleep,
while behold
Gaius lies awake
all night
on his featherbed.
Gaius, trembling,
greets so many
masters from the first
light of day,
while you, Condylus,
do not greet
even your
one master.
"Pay back what you owe, Gaius,"
say Phoebus
and, from far off,
Cinnamus:
no one says that
to you, Condylus.
Do you fear
the torturer?
Gaius is cut
by arthritis
in his hands and feet,
and would rather
suffer
a thousand lashes.
Because you neither
vomit in the morning
nor lick pussy,
Condylus,
wouldn't you rather have
your life than Gaius's,
three times over? … “

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Closing scene: Penis caged old guy under boss lady in a large mentule

That was the central rite of the Temple of Innana - “Who will plow my vulva?” - The Mentule was the “honey man” of a successful plowing … Best results for Innana sex were from a penis caged man …

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More solar boss lady sex - Riding the caged black ass at full “hare” power!

The Roman “hare” or phimosis-blocked erection should not be such a sensation, but apparently it is !

The black phallus is like a reservoir or dam of energy - created by the prohibition of miscegenation …

(May 12, 2022) The black head for that phallus is missing though - just had a recent nightmare of those heads being “downloaded” from a higher world from my mother’s bathroom in Kenya … Nightmarish because I visualize the “super-ego” or censor as a spider-like form …

That’s a hard concept to visualize, but its a common dream form - The censor or super ego is like a spider and her web that carefully monitors and controls a large area around her with strict and rigid discipline

- The dream images were kind of rude - It was a spider over a monkey - A self contradictory image - but also full of dynamic energy! ...Female Spider monkeys also have an Amazon female phallus! Another high eros species ...Like Ostriches and many birds and fish:

“ ,,, Female spider monkeys have a clitoris that is especially developed; it may be referred to as a pseudo-penis because it has an interior passage, or urethra, that makes it almost identical to the penis … “ Ateles E.Geoffroy, (1806) in Döring M

 

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More Solar boss lady sex - Riding the caged black ass at full “hare” power!

The modern black American phallus is like the Roman passive boy in this poem by Martial - All Roman men were penis caged passive boys until 25 …

Martial 9.90

“ … Where pebbles
are agitated
here and there
by the whirling waters
in sparkling streams,
with all worries
banished far away,
may you punch
through the ice
with a black
half-pint,
your forehead
red with
sewn garlands;
let there be
a passive boy [puer cinaedus]
for you alone,
and let
the purest girl
fool around
with you alone:
Flaccus,
I warn
and beg you,
beware of Cyprus,
infamous for
excessive heat,
when the
threshing floor
threshes
the noisy harvests
and the fervent
mane of Leo
becomes fierce.
And you,
goddess of Paphos,
return our young man
unharmed to our vows.
So may the
Kalends of Mars
serve you,
and may many
cut squares of cake
be offered to you
at your white altars,
with incense,
pure wine,
and sacrifices. … “

people.well © 1999 Mark Brustman

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More Solar boss lady sex - Riding the caged black ass at full “hare” power!

Male passive anal sex was not foul for Romans - That’s what the highest Roman deity - the Roman “spider” or Freudian super ego - Venus - provided the Roman male on a regular basis through the female mentule! - and less often through homosexual sex …

In this epigram Martial compares anal sex to a fine dinner:

Martial 11.77

“ … Vacerra
spends hours
in all
the public toilets,
sitting
all day long.
Vacerra
wants to have a
dinner,
not take a shit. … “

people.well © 1999 Mark Brustman

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Closing scene: solar boss lady sex - Riding the caged black ass doggy style at full “hare” power!

My impression is the female Mentule was the main Roman phallus - but the free Jewish circumsized phallus was also a player. In this epigram Martial suspects a circumsized Jewish rival poet of sodomizing his “boy” … Passive sodomy seems to have been a teenage rite of passage for the penis caged Roman male …

Martial 11.94

“ … That you are
excessively jealous
of my little books
and disparage
them everywhere,
I forgive:
circumsized poet,
you have sense.
I also do not care that,
while you cut
my songs to pieces,
you plagiarize them:
in this way, too,
circumsized poet,
you have sense.
What torments me
is that, while
born in Jerusalem itself,
you butt-fuck
my boy,
circumsized poet.
Behold,
you deny it
and swear to me
by the temple
of the Thunderer [Jupiter].
I do not believe it:
swear, circumsized one,
by Anchiale [the tomb of Sardanapalus, a notoriously licentious Eastern ruler]. … “

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Bonus solar boss lady sex - Riding the caged black ass doggy style at full “hare” power!

In this epigram, Martial thanks Phyllis - a married Roman matron - for riding him well all night long - The Roman male was the mare to the stallion of the Roman matron!

Martial: 12.65

“ …After beautiful
Phyllis
provided me
with everything
all night long,
generous
in every way,
and I thought
in the morning
about what
I would give
in payment,
whether a pound
of Cosmus ointment
or Nicerotian perfume,
or a full weight
of Baetican wool,
or ten gold coins
from Caesar's currency:
with her arms
around my neck
and charming me
with a kiss
as long as
the nuptials of doves,
Phyllis begins
to ask
for a bottle of wine. … “

people.well © 1999 Mark Brustman

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“Roman painting. Dionysus, god of wine, aided by a Maenad and young satyr. At his feet, the panther. Fresco. National Archaeological Museum. Naples. Italy.” - Alamy

Female stallions and male mares - The male dog leash tan is on all except Dionysus in this ancient mural from Naples …

Dionysus was a phallic female - or a female with the unbuckled venus belt - the Mentule …

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“Dionysus with long torch sitting on a throne, with Helios, Aphrodite and other gods. Antique fresco from Pompeii.” - Wikipedia

There are no male gods here - No dog-leash tans. Helios the sun on the left is probably another phallic goddess. The sun god in Egypt was always female, not male …

Aphrodite in the purple on the right is the main phallic goddess - In her aroused state she is the phallus of Uranus - her father - That was the Amazon system, the energy of the fathers penis cage was passed onto the daughter - where it was not caged at all …

Winter “hares” or phimosis blocked erections were not welcomed by Martial. - Lighting the penis cage furnace was a multi hour ordeal for the dog-leashed Roman …

Marrtial 7.95

“ … It is winter
and shivering December
stiffens.
However,
you dare to
hold up everyone
you meet,
from here and
from there,
with your
wintry smooch,
and to kiss
all of Rome.
What could you do
that would be
more severe
and cruel,
even if you
had been beaten
and flogged?
In this cold
I would not even want
to be kissed
by my wife
with her
alluring lips,
or by
my daughter
with her
innocent lips,
but you are
sweeter and
more elegant,
from whose
canine nose
a lead-colored
icicle hangs
and whose
beard is stiffened,
like that
which a Cilician barber
harvests
with upturned shears
from a Cinyphian husband.
I would rather fall in
with a hundred pussy-lickers
and I would have
less fear of
a freshly-minted
priest of Cybele [Gallus].
So if you have sense
and shame,
Linus,
I ask you to defer
your winter kisses
until the month
of April. … “

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Dog-leash tanned and penis caged Hercules in a drinking competition with a purple robed female Dionysus.

Worcestor Art Museum from Antioch, Atrium House. Early 2nd A.D.

“ .. Heracles and Dionysus compete in a drinking contest. The god reclines on a couch with a drinking-cup in one hand and thyrsos (pine-cone tipped staff) in the other. Beside him, the darkly tanned Heracles quaffs a cup of wine, his club and lion-skin cape resting by his knees. The god is accompanied by a flute-playing Maenad nymph (far left), his cup-bearer, the satyriscus Comus (center), and the elderly satyr Silenus (far right). … “ theoi

Female phallus sex in the male rear was what followed these contests …

I suppose Dionysus possessed Roman matrons during drinking and dancing sessions - where they became phallic women …

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*Phallic women and boys sodomized Roman men as Martial notes in this epigram … Probably slave boys or Roman boys before the penis cage had gone on - or circumsized Jews …

Roman men were male mares “eromenos” to the female stallions “erastes” of Roman matrons

Martial 3.71

“…The boy's dick
is sore,
Naevolus,
and so is your ass.
I am not
a fortune-teller,
but I know
what you
are doing. … “

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Dionysus, Hadrian-era marble sculpture, detail. Roman civilisation, 2nd century AD. Roma, Museo Nazionale Romano Palazzo Massimo Alle Terme

That was the Roman matron after dark … Or what happened to Roman men in the Suburra - the Roman brothel district … A Greek import - and before that Minoan Crete and Egypt and Babylon …

Even though the Roman male was penis caged - he was of no use sexually to the phallic Roman matron without the living fire - a “hare” - or phimosis blocked erection … As Martial suggests in this epigram

- That’s the icon of the “hare-hunter” after dark - a Bes-like dwarf or fairy with a hare hunting stick that accompanied the female Dionysus on her nightly fire hunting adventures ...

Martial 3.85

“ … Who persuaded you
to cut off the nose
of the adulteror?
This is not the organ
that sinned
against you,
husband.
Fool, what have you done?
Your wife
has not lost anything
this way,
as long as
the dick of
your usurper
is healthy. … “

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(May15, 2022) Felt the drowsiness last night! Opened up archives and found promising old stuff …

More hare hunting from the black rock … In this clip a phallic Amazon is inspecting the hare of a chained slave in the deep woods … She grabbed him by force as he was out hiking alone …

The evidence from Rome above and on page 150 of this site shows that Dionysus was not a male! She was an Amazon from Nysa that hunted for hares with the help of the Central African dwarf deity Bes …

I think the central innovation of Bes is the male penis cage! The Fibula is analogous to planting and tending and harvesting the wine vine - also an ancient African innovation! The land of Bes - the jungles of Congo is still the home of several dwarf tribes … And the jungles of the Central African Republic - which I just discovered - and the jungles of Uganda too - wherever Ape populations still survive is pygmy country

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*The fire secrets were not shared in the Roman world. And are not shared even today - In this epigram Martial condemns an informer for spilling fire secrets

But why? Like I said before the dragon fire is the source of compulsive behavior from those who have to live without it …

Martial 11.66

“ … You are both
an informer
and a slanderer,
you are both
a con-man
and a salesman,
you are both
a cocksucker
and gladiator trainer.
I wonder why
you haven't got
any coin,
Vacerra. … “

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Amazon making the fire - A large purple mentule in the rear of the caged slave - Aphrodite in the painting above is in the Royal purple - she was the absolute ruler of the Roman and Greek phallus - and that was a female organ - not male!

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Wealthy Roman matrons had male harems. Probably needed to ensure a hare or phimosis blocked erection. In this epigram Martial tries to bribe the guardian of Postumilla’s harem to give him access to her male “pearls”

Martal 12.49

“ … Linus,
educator of
the long-haired crowd,
whom rich
Postumilla
calls
master of her things
and to whom
she entrusts
her gems,
gold,
wine,
(male) concubines:
You who have
been tested
for perpetual faith,
may your patroness
prefer no one
over you:
I beg you,
aid my
miserable fury
and watch
negligently sometime
over them
that cause my heart
to burn badly,
those that
day and night
I longingly
wish to see
in my bosom,
the beautiful,
snow-white,
equal twins,
the large,
not boys,
but pearls.

[Note: "Like a pearl" seems to have been a compliment for a beautiful boy. In the Qur'anic vision of Paradise, the believers will be waited on by boys "the like of scattered pearls."] … “

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More Amazon fire making - A large purple mentule in the rear of a penis caged slave by the black rock in the deep woods …

From a Catallus poem above - Venus saw the virgin bride as a vine that needed a strong tree to flourish on an upward path towards the sun - That’s the image of Dionysus - the god of the vine - as a female in Roman sculptures

- The male would then be the djed pillar that was a tree trunk leading the vine onward and upward

Odin and Merlin are also seen as tree trunks - as is Legba - The Axis Mundi of Voodoo. The vine crawling up the tree trunk can also been seen as a snake or serpent or Kundalini making its way up the spine …

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Sex on a tree trunk - more Amazon fire making - A large purple mentule in the rear of a penis caged slave by the black rock in the deep woods …

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Amazon sex Bes Hathor style on a tree trunk - more Amazon fire making - A large purple mentule in the rear of a penis caged slave by the black rock in the deep woods …

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In this epigram Martial shows the Roman preference for the passive male - He urges Apollo to help delay the growth into a grown male of Encolpus the aide of a Roman soldier

The Roman boy was the repository of the all-powerful hare or phimosis blocked erection that was an absolute for Amazon passive anal sex! After 25 the bronze Fibula came off - and male sexual potency began to decline …

Martial 1.31

“ … Encolpus,
the love of
his master
the centurion,
will sacrifice to you,
Apollo,
all this hair
from the top
of his head
down,
when Pudens
is awarded
the hoped-for
and deserved prize
of a promotion
to chief centurion.
Apollo,
cut off
the long hair
as soon
as possible,
while the delicate features
are not sullied
by any down
and while
a milky neck
accompanies
the abundant mane;
and so that
the master
and the boy
may enjoy
your favors
for a long time,
give the haircut
soon,
but take your time
making him
a (grown) male [virum]. … “

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More Amazon sex Bes Hathor style on a tree trunk - A large purple mentule in the rear of a penis caged slave by the black rock in the deep woods …

That’s probably what happened during the rustic all female Bona Sea celebrations - males were invited but only dressed as females - and almost certainly penis caged … Self identified males were advised to stay away during these drunken festivals …

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Closing scene - more Amazon fire making - A large purple mentule in the rear of a penis caged slave by the black rock in the deep woods …

The rock is a symbol from Alchemy - I think its the final union of male and female … The coniunctio - A symbol of the heiros gamos

“ … Jung borrowed the term coniunctio from the medieval alchemists, because he believed they were picturing the same individuation process Jung was outlining in his work. Jung understood that the alchemists literalized and externalized the inner opus, which he took to be a spiritual and psychological reality. We will discuss the coniunctio in action in our everyday lives.

Jung utilized many alchemical terms, but the one I focus on here is the coniunctio.

The mystery of the coniunctio is that it is the joining of two into one, a holy marriage. According to Jung, “The coniunctio is an a priori image that occupies a prominent place in the history of man’s mental development. If we trace this idea back we find it has two sources in alchemy, one Christian, the other pagan. The Christian source is unmistakably the doctrine of Christ and the Church, sponsus and sponsa, where Christ takes the role of Sol and the Church that of Luna. The pagan source is on the one hand the hieros-gamos, on the other the marital union of the mystic with God. “The Psychology of the Transference,” (Jung, CW 16, pa. 355.)

We see then, that the coniunctio is not a physical union but rather a mental, internal state of being, a union of opposites, and in particular, the union of the conscious and unconscious. Jung described “a gradual transformation of the archetype into a psychological process which, in theory, we can call a combination of conscious and unconscious processes. (Carl Jung, CW 9i, para. 295, emphasis added)

Both Jung and the alchemists used images of the hermaphrodite to illustrate the coniunctio.

A passage from the Gospel of Thomas in the Nag Hammadi Library reads:


Jesus said to them, “When you make the two one, and when you make the inside like the outside and the outside like the inside, and the above like the below, and when you make the male and the female one and the same, so that the male not be male nor the female female.”

In a discussing of the coniunctio in relationship to hermaphrodite images, Carl Jung speaks of an obscure quotation from the Gospel of the second Clement. It is quite similar to the passage from the Gospel of Thomas. It reads:

“When the two shall be one, the outside as the inside, and the male with the female neither male nor female.” (cited by Carl Jung, CW 9i, para. 295) … “ Kaye Gersch Ph. D

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Marble Statue of Dionysos 1st Century AD - 2nd Century AD

Female head and body with a penis added

The phallus of Dionysus was given by her father Zeus - Venus required his permission to unbuckle her Amazon Girdle on marriage … She then acquired the energy of Zeus’s penis cage …

Zeus also give birth to Dionysus from his thigh after having Amazon sex with Semele …


“Birth from the thigh of Zeus” is the same as Zeus unbuckling her Amazon girdle - the Amazon phallic energy came from the thigh of Zeus …

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Statue of Young Dionysos, 100 BC–AD 100. Hellenistic or Roman, Eastern Mediterranean.

Female head of a bronze Dionysus

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Marble head of Dionysus, 2nd century AD, Capitoline Museums, Rome

Another female head for Dionysus

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Dionysus with Pan, Roman; 50–150 AD Marble. The Museum of Fine Arts

That’s pan with a stick for hunting hares - but as a dwarf it was probably originally the African Bes in ancient Egypt.

Hares were phimosis-blocked male erections that were needed for Amazon fire sex …

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Ancient Greek god, Dionysus - Moika /Prince Yusupov Palace - St. Petersburg, Russia.

Female head and wearing a dress - Dionysus has never been spotted with a beard in the Ancient Greek world!

The phallus was a Mentule - given by the unbuckled Amazon girdle

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Muscle amazon riding a penis caged male horse

Called this scene a modern day Apollo Citharoesus on plate 230 - but its more probably a modern day female Dionysus!

Or both - So far the ancient artifacts has outed Helios the sun, Apollo and Dionysus as females with a phallus … And the Roman poets like Martial and the Priapea strongly suggest that Roman matrons were also female with a phallus - the mentule …

In this epigram Martial derides a “manly” Roman who was in reality gay -

Due to the penis cage all Roman men spent their formative years as “soft men” under the hard phallus or the erect mentule of the Roman matron- and you get the impression most of them stayed that way …

Venus or Aphrodite penis caged the Roman boy and gave the energy from the caged paternal Roman phallus to the Roman daughter …

Martial 1.96

“ … If it's not a bother
and an annoyance
to you,
poem,
please say a few words
in the ear of
Maternus
so that he alone
hears them.
That lover of
sad cloaks
who dresses
in both Baetican
and ash-colored wool,
who thinks those who
dress in scarlet
are not real men
and who calls
purple clothing
women's wear,
although he praises
native things,
and owns and
always prefers
dark colors,
nonetheless he has
effeminate [literally "chartreuse"]
morals.
He will ask why
I suspect this male
of being soft.
We bathe together:
he never looks up,
but stares
with devouring eyes
at the athletes,
and looks at
their dicks
with drooling lips.
You ask who this is?
The name escapes me. …”

people.well © 1999 Mark Brustman

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Caged and chained - Muscle amazon over a penis caged and chained male horse.

The fresco from Pompeii above suggests that the enthroned female Dionysus was even higher than the female Helios and Aphrodite - Maybe she was - Dionysus was the process by which Roman individuation happened …

The men were penis caged as boys in honor of Venus who required male chastity - This produced the Djed pillar - a tree trunk in which the female energy of the vine of Dionysus could coil her wayup to the sun … Aiding this ascent was the Mentule - the female phallus which in the Roman male rear provided strong solar energy …

It seems clear Amazon civilization coiled its way into Greco-Roman life from the back door! The Greeks got that from their conquest of an Amazon civilization - Minoan Crete …

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More caged and chained - Muscle amazon over a penis caged and chained male horse.

Venus required male chastity - Martial often cautions off stimulating the caged Roman boy phallus while approving of anal sex with Roman boys

But as the Phallic Aphrodite or Innana, Venus also demanded to know on ritual occasions “who will plow my vulva?”

In this epigram, Martial gives us both versions of oral service - twins who service both male and female phalli …

Martial 3.88

“… They are
twin brothers,
but they lick
different groins:
Tell me,
are they
more unlike
than like? … “

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More caged and chained - Muscle amazon over a penis caged and chained male horse.

Venus chastity was for the caged phallus of Roman men. The Lex Juliana required Roman men to get married

Chastity was less of an issue for Roman matrons and their mentules or female phalli. Upon marriage and the first unbuckling of her venus virgin belt or Amazon girdle by her father, the Roman girl was considered to be sexually emancipated

- In this epigram Martial derides Telesilla who is on her tenth marriage in thirty days … Or tenth male horse

Martial 6.7

“ … Faustinus,
the Lex Julia 
was reborn
for the peoples
and chastity
commanded to enter
the home less than,
or certainly
not more than,
thirty days ago,
and already
Telesilla
has married
her tenth man [viro].
A woman
who marries
that much
is not
getting married:
she is committing
legal adultery.
I am less offended
by a more
upfront adulteress. … “

people.well © 1999 Mark Brustman

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The Venus furnace - the penis cage was the center of Amazon power. It caused the famous Roman “dog-leash” tan - and the fine athletic physique of Roman men …

But it had also forced Amazon promiscuity as the fibula meant the living fire was restricted and could not be commanded to come on at will…

Hunting for the fire of a hare or phimosis blocked erection was a Roman icon celebrated in sculptures of Dionysus and Pan with his hare hunting stick

Roman men seem to have had limited interest in erections - The preferred the passive role - as on this epigram by Martial. That was certainly a problem for many Amazons ! Amazon sex seems to have required a hare - or a lighting of the fire …

Martial 3.73

“ …. You sleep with
big-dicked boys,
Phoebus,
and what is erect
on them
is not erect on you.
What do you want me
to think,
Phoebus,
I ask you?
I used to want
to believe
you were
a soft male [mollem virum],
but rumor
has it that
you are not
a cinaedus [a passive].

[Perhaps implying that Phoebus is giving head to these boys, or perhaps that Phoebus is not a vir (male) at all, but a closet eunuch.] … “

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 Dionysus. Marble, 2nd century AD, collections du cardinal de Richelieu, Louvre

2nd century AD Roman Dionysus - a female head but a penis attached - That’s the phallic Roman matron after dark!

There are bearded versions of Dionysus - I have a Krater version on this site - but a close look usually produces a woman with a phallus … You could argue that that’s really Ampelus a female companion of Bacchus - but the ancient identification is usually Dionysus, not Ampelus - And in Pompeii frescos Dionysus does not have the male dog-leash tan …


The tree trunk with the vine coiling around it is the penis caged Roman man - The Fibula over 30 years produced the Egyptian Djed pillar …


There’s a Catallus marriage poem above that is explicit about that - the vine was the female, the tree the male

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Muscle Amazon riding a penis caged OG or old guy - That’s what that phallus on the female Roman matron above was for! And there was a female name for that organ - the mentule!

The Roman male sexual passive also had a specific name - A Cinaedus - he was the male companion of the phallic female matron:

Martial; 2.28

“ … Sextillus,
go ahead and
laugh out loud
at whoever calls you
a cinaedus [a passive]
and flip him
your middle finger.
But you are not
a butt-fucker [pedico],
Sextillus,
or a pussy-fucker [fututor],
nor do you
like the hot mouth
of Vetustina.
I declare that you are
none of these things:
so what are you?
I do not know;
but you know
what two things
are left. … “

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More muscle Amazon riding a penis caged OG or old guy - full gallop!

But that required a hare first - or phimosis blocked erection - Without the living fire, mentule sex was just another form of masturbation …

For the living fire, as Catullus shows above , Roman men offered clay or bronze votive offerings of their caged phalli to phallic Roman matrons and the matrons in turn offered the votives to fire altars of Venus or Aphrodite …

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More muscle Amazon riding a penis caged OG or old guy - Dildo preparation …

The standard eight inch Greek dildo features prominently in the Lysistrata - but that was almost certainly for use in the male rear in preparation for mentule sex … There is a Jewish example with a bread dildo cited above.

In the Lysistrata there is mention of erection lynch patrols - The uncaged erection was an affront to the twin goddesses of Athens - Artemis and Apollo … It reads as a joke, but I do not think it was ! The Fibula was serious business for the ancient Greeks and Romans - The loose male erection was seen as the sign of the barbarian …

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*Being a passive or cinaedus may have been demeaning - but all Roman men started life as penis caged passives - It was also lucrative - passives commanded high fees from both phallic Roman matrons and men:

Martial 6.50

“ … When Telesinus,
the poor man,
cultivated pure friends,
he went around
dirty
in a cold garment:
Now that he has
started to take care
of obscene passives [cinaedos],
he buys silver, tables, and estates
on his own.
Do you want
to become rich,
Bithynicus?
Take note of this.
Pure kisses
will get you nothing,
or very little. … “

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“The youthful god Dionysus holds a thyrsos (pine-cone tipped staff) in one hand and a cup in the other. He is attended by a Maenad carrying a thyrsos and ivy-wreath, and a youthful, horse-tailed Satyros with a torch and handled jug.” Theoi

Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Apulian Red Figure Krater, c 350 B.C.

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350 BC Krater of a nude Female Dionysus with a phallus being handed what looks like a belt - maybe the Amazon girdle or mentule belt by a Maenad to her left . Horse tailed Satyr on her right

Dionysus was female to the classical Greeks! Males were horses to be ridden with the mentule …

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Another session of a muscle Amazon in a large red mentule riding a penis caged OG or old guy - Painted Amazon in leather!

The difference between Amazons today and in Greek days is clothing - American Amazons ride their horses full clothed - usually in leather - Once their venus vigin belts were unlocked Greek and Roman Amazons rode their horses nude ..

The closest living example to the Dionysus cult is Samba - in Brazil the muscle Amazons parade nude in public in the Sambadrome! But its a big secret!

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More muscle Amazon in a large red mentule riding a penis caged OG or old guy - Entering the horse from the rear …

Greek Satyrs all have horse tails - that image just became clear to me - Horses are to ride!

Dionysus was the god of Nysa - so that’s what was going on in Nysa … From Roman sources, that kind of sex meant the women of Nysa were carnal into old age …

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“ … THE SATYROI (Satyrs) were rustic fertility spirits of the countryside and wilds. They consorted with the Nymphai (Nymphs) and were companions of the gods Dionysos, Hermes, Hephaistos, Pan, Rhea-Kybele and Gaia.

Satyroi were depicted as animalistic men with asinine ears, pug noses, reclining hair-lines, the tails of horses and erect members. As companions of Dionysos they were usually shown drinking, dancing, playing flutes and sporting with the Mainades (Maenads).

Some of the more specific types of Satyroi were the Panes (goat-legged satyrs), Seilenoi (Silens) (elderly satyrs), Satyriskoi (Satyrisci) (child satyrs), and Tityroi (flute-playing satyrs).
Actors dressed as Satyroi formed the choruses of the so-called Satyr-plays which were performed at the festivals of the god Dionysos. … “ Theoi

The pug noses are really black African noses - and I’m sure their erections were really “hares” - or phimosis blocked erections - Their horse tails meant they were ridden by Amazons they did not ride …

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More muscle Amazon in a large red mentule riding a penis caged OG or old guy - Entering the horse from behind …

She’s riding her Satyr - Just did a quick scan of Greek satyr erections and they are all “hares” - ie the head of the uncircumcised penis is never visible - Thats a blocked erection - or a hare.

The Satyr horse tail is telling the tale! They were ridden from the rear by Amazon mentules …

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Closing scene: Muscle Amazon in a large red mentule riding a penis caged OG or old guy - Bes Hathor style

Hera and her golden apples - and the Greek prophet  Tiresias  seems to be the foundation of this kind of Amazon sex - and  Tiresias himself was a prophet not of Greece, but Thebes or Karnak in ancient Egypt.

My impression is  Tiresias was the way the Djed pillar was transferred to Greece and Rome - seven years - a basic Egyptian measure of time - seems to have been the minimum time that the Greek and Roman had to spend as a woman - ie in the penis cage - That was usually from the onset of puberty to around 25 years …

The “hare” or phimosis blocked erection of the Greek Satyr - that is ever present in Greek Satyr art - meant that the furnace was lit

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Satyr and Maenad Kylix (drinking cup), Douris, Greek c. 490-480 BC

Satyr has a “hare” or a phimosis blocked erection. He’s also bearded - which means mature … A bearded black African Satyr - That’s the older civilization …

Harvard Art Museums - Level 3, Room 3400, Ancient Mediterranean and Middle Eastern Art

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“A satyr and a maenad embrace. The maenad holds a small cheetah by the tail and a thyrsus (the staff carried by Dionysus and his followers).” frameofnature

The satyr has a large phimosis blocked erection - He is clearly not the dominant partner - The towering female Maenad is! The cheetah skin points to a black African source for the Satyr culture - Nysa!

The female mentule in the male horse’s rear was Dionysus sex …

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Another satyr and maenad embrace.

Satyr has an ancient Afro! And a large phimosis blocked erection.

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Silenus and maenad. Tondo of an Attic red-figure kylix, 460–450 BC. Penthesilea Painter
Department of Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities, Sully, first floor, room 43, Louvre 

Silenus is usually fat - This looks like a thin old bald black African horse with a phimosis blocked erection seducing a young Greek maiden.

But that’s really being seduced by a young Greek maiden - the phimosis fire was always produced by an amorous female stroking a caged phallus - looking for a “hare” and hours of wine soaked sexual pleasure - the horse would be ridden from the rear …

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“ … In Greek mythology, Silenus  was a companion and tutor to the wine god Dionysus. He is typically older than the satyrs of the Dionysian retinue , and sometimes considerably older, in which case he may be referred to as a Papposilenus. The plural sileni refers to the mythological figure as a type that is sometimes thought to be differentiated from a satyr by having the attributes of a horse rather than a goat, though usage of the two words is not consistent enough to permit a sharp distinction.Silenus presides over other daemones and is related to musical creativity, prophetic ecstasy, drunken joy, drunken dances and gestures.

The original Silenus resembled a folkloric man of the forest, with the ears of a horse and sometimes also the tail and legs of a horse. The later sileni were drunken followers of Dionysus, usually bald and fat with thick lips and squat noses, and having the legs of a human. Later still, the plural "sileni" went out of use and the only references were to one individual named Silenus, the teacher and faithful companion of the wine-god Dionysus.

A notorious consumer of wine, he was usually drunk and had to be supported by satyrs or carried by a donkey. Silenus was described as the oldest, wisest and most drunken of the followers of Dionysus, and was said in Orphic hymns to be the young god's tutor. This puts him in a company of phallic or half-animal tutors of the gods, a group that includes Priapus, Hermaphroditus, Cedalion and Chiron, but also includes Pallas, the tutor of Athena.

When intoxicated, Silenus was said to possess special knowledge and the power of prophecy. The Phrygian King Midas was eager to learn from Silenus and caught the old man by lacing a fountain with wine from which Silenus often drank. As Silenus fell asleep, the king's servants seized and took him to their master. An alternative story was that when lost and wandering in Phrygia, Silenus was rescued by peasants and taken to Midas, who treated him kindly. In return for Midas' hospitality Silenus told him some tales and the king, enchanted by Silenus' fictions, entertained him for five days and nights. Dionysus offered Midas a reward for his kindness toward Silenus, and Midas chose the power of turning everything he touched into gold. Another story was that Silenus had been captured by two shepherds, and regaled them with wondrous tales.

In Euripides's satyr play Cyclops, Silenus is stranded with the satyrs in Sicily, where they have been enslaved by the Cyclopes. They are the comic elements of the story, a parody of Homer's Odyssey IX. Silenus refers to the satyrs as his children during the play.


Silenus may have become a Latin term of abuse around 211 BC, when it is used in Plautus' Rudens to describe Labrax, a treacherous pimp or leno, as "...a pot-bellied old Silenus, bald head, beefy, bushy eyebrows, scowling, twister, god-forsaken criminal". In his satire The Caesars, the emperor Julian has Silenus sitting next to the gods to offer up his comments on the various rulers under examination, including Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Augustus, Marcus Aurelius (whom he reveres as a fellow philosopher-king), and Constantine I.

Silenus commonly figures in Roman bas-reliefs of the train of Dionysus, a subject for sarcophagi, embodying the transcendent promises of Dionysian cult. … “ Wikipedia

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Silenus and maenad., Tondo of an Attic red-figure kylix, c. 480 BC. From Vulci. Hieron, signed (potter); Macron (painter), Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Munich

Does not look old enough or fat enough to be Silenus. Looks like a nude greek maenad wrangling with a nude black African with a phimosis blocked erection …

Phimosis blocked phalli did not penetrate! Rather the mentule of the athletic and phallic Amazon would ride the African horse ! Reading Martial, the phimosis erection was usually paid for and created by the thumb or fingers of a phallic Roman matron …

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She’s wearing a panther gown or cloak over her nude body - Dionysus was female, not male!

- That’s a parallel to the Egyptian Sekhmet-Min - a phallic Lion goddess that had to be placated by wine and sex. The phimosis erection was for fire only - The main erection was the standard eight inch greek female dildo up the horses rear…

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Maenad and silenus. Side A from an Attic red-figure Nikosthenic amphora, c. 525–515 BC. Pamphaios (potter, signature), Oltos - Louvre

Again - looks too young and athletic to be a Silenus - That’s a large Greek matron in a Toga wrangling a smaller nude horse in a phimosis blocked erection.

Probably a Greek bath scene where the Greek Amazons picked up male prostitutes - Roman spintra - or anal prostitutes. The horse tail means what it suggests - a horse to ride!

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Attic Red Figure Shape, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Stamnos Painter, Attributed to the Blenheim Painter, c. 460 B.C.

Nude Satyr horses pulling a chariot driven by another nude Satyr

That’s probably gay sex - Men riding male horses!

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Boss lady holds her husband as muscle Amazon works him from the rear.

That’s a modern day Dionysus revel - two Amazon Dionysus panthers working a slender satyr/horse!

(May 22, 2022) Felt surge of good fire flowing up from limbs when I put that up! That’s rare energy today …

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Satyr waking a sleeping maenad.

A satyr with a phimosis blocked erection waking a topless maenad sleeping on a panther skin - Maybe she’s Dionysus ! The panther iconography is related to the lion sekhmet-min iconography of ancient Egypt …

The erection was not for sexual penetration; the penis cage prevented that; - it was for the fire needed for the night’s revels …

Satyr looks black African - That’s a lost civilization - based on these drinking bowls it must have been a near clone of classical Athens - complete with goddess temples … Maybe Nysa …

Terracotta bell-krater (mixing bowl), c. 380–360 B.C., Connected in style with the Painter of the Long Overfalls. Met - Gallery 161

“The representation is interesting because the maenad, asleep in an outdoor setting, recalls the pose of Ariadne when she was found on the island of Naxos by the wine god Dionysos; she had been abandoned there by Theseus. The iconography of an "elevated" mythological subject has been applied to members of Dionysos' retinue.” Met

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Drinking cup (kylix), Greek, Athens, Attica, Greece, 470 B.C., by Douris,

“ … A Dionysiac scene: A satyr seizes a maenad (a female follower of the wine-god Dionysus), who attempts to ward off his advance with her fennel stalk (thyrsus). She wears a fawn-skin (nebris) over her dress (chiton). Two other satyrs dance in the background, one also carries a thyrsus. The erect phalloi of the satyrs have been removed by an earlier restorer. Flower blossoms are in field, emphasizing the fertility aspect of the god Dionysus…..” Boston Museum of Fine Arts,

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Tall Maenad or female Dionysus dancing or wrangling with three short nude bald and bearded black African satyrs. The three horses had phimosis blocked erections but those have been erased.

This is read as attempted rape scene - but my guess its the satyr/horses that are going to be raped by the large mentule of the female Dionysus: that was the Greco-Roman matron fact pattern from Roman poets like Martial …

As in modern day Voodoo ceremonies could not start without the consent of the old and dimunitive Legba who lights the fires with his erection - I am sure that’s the service the three satyrs are providing for the tall female Dionysus!

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Boss lady and a friend working a penis caged horse from the rear with large mentules …

The phimosis blocked erection of the satyrs is the Legba energy that fuels Samba

- In this case the horse has a tightly locked phallus - That’s not always the case, but in BDSM that seems to be a pattern …

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More Boss lady and a friend working a penis caged horse from the rear with large mentules … Asian friend has a go …

Bes erotica was a product of African horse Satyrs - those are the black dwarf satyrs on the Dionysus cup above - They had a magical place in early dynasties of ancient Egypt and may be the pyramid builders themselves!

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Two sileni and maenad. Lucanian red-figure bell-krater - attributed to the Amycus Painter  c. 430 - 400 BC - terracotta - Met

Two nude black African satyrs and a greek Maenad at rest - ie without phimosis blocked erections - Their phalli are caged or as Martial puts it “small and honorable” …

Centaurs are probably satyrs - Literally “horse men” - my insight is men as sexual passives - That was penis cage sexuality

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Satyr herald, Attic Red Figure, by Douris, c. 500 - 470 B.C., British Museum, London

“ … A striding Satyr herald gazes backwards over his shoulder. He wears knee-length boots, a brimmed petasos cap and a chlamys cloak decorated with geometric patterns, and carries a herald's wand (kerykeion) in his outstretched hand. The creature has the bestial ears of an ass, a pug nose and thick beard. Unlike most of his fellows he has a full head of hair. … “ Theoi

That’s another nude black African satyr with a “small and honorable” penis - ie penis in the Fibula …

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Two aroused satyrs waking a Maenad - hydria, c.500 BC Greece, by Kleophrades, Museum of Antiquities in the Seine-Maritime, Rouen, France.

Two black African horse satyrs with phimosis blocked erections waking a sleeping Greek Maenad.

The way this progresses, the maenad usually ends up with a phallus of her own … How that happens is still a secret - but I think that’s what the satyr is doing in this Hydria - unbuckling her Amazon venus girdle or belt and mentule … Venus required a father figure to do that - and in this case the father figure is black African!

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More boss lady and a friend working a penis caged horse from the rear with large mentules …

That’s penis cage sex - nothing more than a “hare” - the penis caged phallus did not penetrate - A blacksmith was needed to remove the bronze Fibula

There are no images of Greek women sexually penetrating satyrs, but there are very many images and bronze and marble statues of nude maenads with male phalli attached …

Those phalli were not just for decoration - The penis caged greek man at the time of Socrates was the horse that was eromenos - the horse/satyr that being ridden by erastes of phallic maenads …

And as Martial shows the lustful the Greco-Roman matron was riding male horses into old age:

Martial III.76

“ … You get it up for old women,
Bassus;
you loathe girls.
You don't enjoy
what's pretty
but what's
at death's door.
I ask you,
is this not
a madness,
is this not
a demented dick?
Whilst you
can do
a Hecabe,
you can't do
an Andromache. … “

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More boss lady and a friend working a penis caged horse from the rear with large mentules … Horse’s balls firmly in boss lady’s hand

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Female Dionysus at full grape ripeness - Her panther left sipping on spilt wine.

"Dionysus with bunches of grapes, in the background Mount Vesuvius" (62-79 AD) - Pompeii fresco, House of the Centenary  - National Archaeological Museum of Naples

“ … Detail of Dionysus (Roman Bacchus) from a fresco depicting the god standing on the flanks of Mount Vesuvius. He is clothed in cloak of giant-grapes, crowned with a wreath of ivy, and holds a thyrsus staff and wine cup in his hands. A leopard cub by his side laps up the spilt wine. … “ Theoi
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Again, the Catallus Roman marriage imagery above is striking - without a male “elm” or the penis caged Djed pillar, the female grapes will not ripen …

62. Wedding Song

“ … As the vine
we see,
grown in the
open field,
never lifting
its head,
never bearing
sweet grapes,
its delicate stem
bending downwards
with the weight,
so that in a moment
its tallest shoot
will touch its roots:
no countryman,
no farm-hand
will cherish it:
but if the same plant
is fastened tight,
wedded to an elm,
many countrymen
and farm-hands
will cherish it.
So a virgin
who stays
untouched,
and uncultivated,
ages:
while taken
in equal marriage,
while the time is ripe,
she’s loved
more by the man,
less hateful
to her parents. … “

Catullus, Translated by A. S. Kline Copyright 2001

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Tall black topless amazon in a large gray mentule about to mount a smaller white penis caged satyr/horse.

Dionysus was probably male, but he incarnated in women - or phallic Greco-Roman matrons.

But the original Dionysus was a god of Nysa - so he incarnated in black African Amazons! Those Nysa images do not yet exist … The closest thing today is the Brazilian samba “Rainha de bateria” …

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More tall black topless amazon in a large gray mentule mounting a smaller white penis caged satyr/horse.

The cross reduces the heat for me! But the black American church does not have that sex prohibition! I’m a Catholic though …

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More tall black topless amazon in a large gray mentule after mounting a smaller white penis caged satyr/horse - oral service …

The highest Roman deity was a phallic fire goddess - so sex was sacred - not lewd … Or the Roman superego made virtue out of passive male sex with phallic Roman matrons … All public depictions of an erect phallus from pre-Christian Rome are Amazon or female not male - the male phallus was tightly locked!

That’s why a rutting or fruiting Dionysus Pompeii fresco is female, not male …

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Nude Female and phallic Dionysus - The thyrsus staff is probably a phallic symbol …

Dionysus. Bronze. 117—138 AD Roman National Museum, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme

“ … The statue represents a nude youthful Dionysus standing on his right leg, with the left gently bending backward and resting on the ball of the foot. The head is slightly turned to the right, causing a light movement in the left shoulder and arm, which holds a thyrsus, the traditional attribute of the god. The long hair is parted in the center, fixed above the forehead by a hairpin decorated with grape-leaves, and spreads out in two wavy ribbons which cascade onto the shoulders. The pose shows a noticeable debt to the influence of Polycletus, while the movement of the head and the sinuous contours of the flanks indicate a familiarity with the works of Praxiteles. The composition relates to a famous model, the so-called Woburn Abbey type, created sometime in the middle of the fourth century BC, of which more than twenty copies and variants are known. This is the first statue type to portray the god nude and as a youth, and met with great success in the Hellenistic and Roman eras. The position of the left arm, however, differs from that seen in the examples in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptothek in Copenhagen and in the statue from the Horti Lamiani in the Musei Capitolini. P. Zanker argues that the Tiber statue’s composition is derived from the so-called “Stephanos Athlete,” a classicist Roman creation of the first century BC, modified by the addition of the long wavy hairstyle. This makes the piece an eclectic creation of the Imperial age, and indicative of the classical taste in that time. The incised pupils and the notable thickness of the upper eyelid suggest a date in either the Hadrianic or Antonine period. … “ ancientrome.

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Front view - Nude Female and phallic Dionysus - The thyrsus staff is probably a phallic symbol

Dionysus. Bronze. 117—138 AD Roman National Museum, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme

" ... A thyrsus … was a wand or staff of giant fennel (covered with ivy vines and leaves, sometimes wound with taeniae and topped with a pine cone, artichoke,  or by a bunch of vine-leaves and grapes or ivy-leaves and berries, carried during Hellenic festivals and religious ceremonies.The thyrsus is typically associated with the Greek god Dionysus, or his Roman counterpart Bacchus, and represents a symbol of prosperity, fertility, and hedonism similarly to Dionysus.

In Greek religion, the staff was carried by the votaries of Dionysus. Euripides wrote that honey dripped from the thyrsos staves that the Bacchic maenads carried.The thyrsus was a sacred instrument at religious rituals and fêtes.

The fabulous history of Bacchus relates that he converted the thyrsi carried by himself and his followers into dangerous weapons, by concealing an iron point in the head of leaves. Hence his thyrsus is called "a spear enveloped in vine-leaves", and its point was thought to incite to madness.

… In the Iliad, Diomedes, one of the leading warriors of the Achaeans, mentions the thyrsus while speaking to Glaucus, one of the Lycian commanders in the Trojan army, about Lycurgus, the king of Scyros:

He it was that
drove the nursing women
who were in charge
of frenzied Bacchus
through the land of Nysa,
and they flung their thyrsi
on the ground as
murderous Lycurgus
beat them with his oxgoad.

The thyrsus is explicitly attributed to Dionysus and his followers in Euripides's play, The Bacchae, a Greek tragedy describing the degradation of Thebes in vindication for the sullied name of Dionysus's mortal mother. The story surrounds the murder of the young king and indoctrination of all of the Theban women into Dionysus's cult, with the thyrsus serving as a badge of sorts for members.

To raise my Bacchic shout,
and clothe all
who respond
In fawnskin habits,
and put my thyrsus
in their hands–
The weapon wreathed
with ivy-shoots...

Euripides also writes, "There's a brute wildness in the fennel-wands—Reverence it well."

Plato describes the hedonistic connotation of the thyrsus, and thereby Dionysus, in his philosophical Phaedo:

I conceive that the founders of the mysteries had a real meaning and were not mere triflers when they intimated in a figure long ago that he who passes unsanctified and uninitiated into the world below will live in a slough, but that he who arrives there after initiation and purification will dwell with the gods. For 'many,' as they say in the mysteries, 'are the thyrsus bearers, but few are the mystics,' – meaning, as I interpret the words, the true philosophers.”

Wikipedia

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Sekhmet - the lion goddess of Egypt with a staff held in a phallic position

That’s probably the thyrsus staff of the female phallic Dionysius who was also a leopard goddess.

Sekhmet was famous in her phallic form as Sekhmet - Min - she has to be appeased with wine and sex. The Egyptian male phallus was locked - Sex was probably the female mentule or staff in the male rear …

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Maenad floating in a silk dress and a thyrsus staff , Roman fresco, Casa del Naviglio, Pompeii, 1st century AD, Naples National Museum.

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Undressing Roman matron with a large erection, an old Silenus horse/satyr in the “Dog-leash tan” and maenad with a thyrsus. Roman fresco. Pompeii, House of M. Epidi Sabini, IX-1-22. 1st century AD. National Archaeological Museum, Naples. Italy.

The Roman matron is labelled Hermaphroditus - but that’s the basic Greco-Roman female sexual tool - the mentule!

My guess is that’s a Roman marriage ritual when the old penis locked father transfers his phallic energy to his daughter - as required by Venus - the ritual unbuckling of her Venus Amazon fire belt …

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Silenus holding thyrsus fresco, Pompeii , Villa of Cicero. 1st century A.D. , Museo Archeologico Nazionale - Naples

That’s a “dog-leashed” horse/satyr - The Djed pillars of the Roman Empire were easy to identify - the deep tan !

This was a Nysa institution - from the Greeks we learn that there was a conflict between Nysa and Thebes, Egypt and Greece

“… In the Iliad, Diomedes, one of the leading warriors of the Achaeans, mentions the thyrsus while speaking to Glaucus, one of the Lycian commanders in the Trojan army, about Lycurgus, the king of Scyros:

He it was that
drove the nursing women
who were in charge
of frenzied Bacchus
through the land of Nysa,
and they flung their thyrsi
on the ground as
murderous Lycurgus
beat them with his oxgoad.

The thyrsus is explicitly attributed to Dionysus and his followers in Euripides's play, The Bacchae, a Greek tragedy describing the degradation of Thebes in vindication for the sullied name of Dionysus's mortal mother. The story surrounds the murder of the young king and indoctrination of all of the Theban women into Dionysus's cult, with the thyrsus serving as a badge of sorts for members. …” Wikipedia

(May 26, 2022) Dream images are of ancient flying vessels over blue skies of ancient Africa! - Something like large flying carpets - or large open air airships floating over the “high veld” . An ancient African civilization has been scrubbed from the history books …

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Satyr bearing a thyrsus on his shoulder, Fresco, Pompeii, Villa of Cicero 1-37 AD

That’s another “dog-leash” tanned satyr/horse - or Roman Djed pillar …

The frenzy of Dionysus from Nysa was resisted by the Greeks and also Thebes, Egypt. But eventually all the women of Greece and Thebes were indoctrinated into the Dionysus cult

All the women were indoctrinated - that was a female cult - and Dionysus was not really the son, but the daughter of Zeus - Daughter with a phallus - the Mentule

“ … The Bacchae is an ancient Greek tragedy, written by the Athenian playwright Euripides during his final years in Macedonia, at the court of Archelaus I of Macedon. It premiered posthumously at the Theatre of Dionysus in 405 BC as part of a tetralogy that also included Iphigeneia at Aulis and Alcmaeon in Corinth, and which Euripides' son or nephew is assumed to have directed. It won first prize in the City Dionysia festival competition.


The tragedy is based on the Greek myth of King Pentheus of Thebes and his mother Agave, and their punishment by the god Dionysus (who is Pentheus's cousin). The god Dionysus appears at the beginning of the play and proclaims that he has arrived in Thebes to avenge the slander, which has been repeated by his aunts, that he is not the son of Zeus. In response, he intends to introduce Dionysian rites into the city, and he intends to demonstrate to the king, Pentheus, and to Thebes that he was indeed born a god. At the end of the play, Pentheus is torn apart by the women of Thebes and his mother Agave bears his head on a pike to her father Cadmus.

The Bacchae is considered to be not only one of Euripides's greatest tragedies, but also one of the greatest ever written, modern or ancient.The Bacchae is distinctive in that the chorus is integrated into the plot and the god is not a distant presence, but a character in the play, indeed, the protagonist. … “ Wikipedia

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“ … Pompeii. 1825 drawing of the painting of Bacchus and Silenus. Small room at the rear of the temple. Bacchus was holding the thyrsus in one hand and an upended cup in the other, with the panther below. Silenus was playing his lyre for the god, with a basket of fruit by his feet. …Naples Museum”pompeiiinpictures

That’s a tall woman with a phallus and a bearded and bald dwarf. - That dwarf culture was from central Africa - Nysa. I suppose the dwarves were the djed pillars of the phallic Nysa women …

The fruit basket is the forbidden apples of the garden of Priapus - or the rears of penis caged Roman boys and men …

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“…Hermaphrodite and Pan depicted in the Roman fresco from the House of Meleager (Casa di Meleagro) in Pompeii (1-79 AD), now on display in the National Archaeological Museum (Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli) in Naples, Campania, Italy. Hermaphrodite is depicted lifting his cloak to reveal his double sex, next to him is a small Pan fleeing in surprise. … “ Alamy

Thats Dionysus and Silenus to me - A woman with a phallus and a Nysa dwarf - or the classic Roman matron and her sexual spirit guide.

Garden of Priapus - 864

Pompeian fresco of a satyr and maenad, 1st century AD, in The National Archaeological Museum, Naples

That’s a Roman matron and her forbidden fruit or satyr/horse- a beardless penis caged boy… The boy is not yet deeply tanned as his Fibula has not been on that long.

The sex that followed was pedico - or female mentule in the boys rear! The Roman poets make that pretty clear …

Garden of Priapus - 865

Mosaic of Nymph and Satyr from Villa of Jason Magnus - Libya, Cyrene.

Thats a more mature Satyr/horse - he has a deep tan from spending a lifetime in the Roman Fibula or “truss” - That’s a Djed pillar

The Nymph/Satyr sex was female mentule driven - or female rider over male horse …

Garden of Priapus - 866

Two Greek bronze satyr statues - Met

The satyr/horses have “hares” or phimosis - blocked erections … According to Martial the trussed Roman male could spend up to eight hours in the flames of the aroused hare …

And those are really flames - I’ve felt them from time to time … I got a massive dose of those flames in the summer of 1994 -- You do not need an erection for those flames - the flames come up from the earth - though the limbs - not the phallus …

Garden of Priapus - 867

Dancing Satyr, Attic Red Figure, c. 500 - 470 B.C. by Douris, British Museum, London

“ … Detail of a dancing Satyr from a painting depicting Satyrs at play.


A Satyr dances the hekateris, a high-kicking rustic dance. The creature is depicted with the ears and tail of a horse or ass, a pug nose, balding pate and thick beard. Hesiod names the father of the Satyrs Hecaterus after the dance…” Theoi

That’s a bald and bearded black African satyr/horse dancing in Ancient Greece - maybe from Nysa. He has a trussed phallus - or “small and honorable” caged penis

Garden of Priapus - 868

Boss lady riding a caged horse from the rear …

That probably how I felt fire from the limbs and not the phallus in 1994 … My dream self erased the memory …

I believe that encounter started in 1981 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and a tall woman ghost who altered or trussed my libidio. I guess my psychic “truss” was removed in 1994 …

I probably consented to it in my sleep … That’s my best reconstruction of that event … Most if not all human sex happens after sleep begins - maybe that’s why men need a restraint - that’s how you lose your libidio!

Garden of Priapus - 869

More Boss lady riding a caged horse from the rear …

Shot partly blocked.

Haven’t had that problem for a while! Maybe that’s a reminder that I have outside help …

Garden of Priapus - 870

More Boss lady riding a caged horse from the rear …

Horse and rider. - The Dionysus ritual is still hidden , but parts of it had a maenad opening basket with a ritual phallus. See for example a sarcophagus in the Baths of Diocletian Museum, Museo Nationale Romano, Rome, Italy:

“… This detail depicts a Pan frolicking near a mystic cista while a satyr holding a lagobolon looks on. In the background, a maenad carries a basket containing a ritual phallus. … “

Horse and rider - Satyrs were the penis caged horses and maenads were given ritual phalli by venus …

I guess those small or dwarf satyrs that are depicted in paintings and statues in Pompeii are the “little people” that often help me in dream states … I have never seen them - but they are ever present during powerful dream states

Garden of Priapus - 871

Closing scene: Boss lady riding a caged horse from the rear … 2 Muscle amazons being serviced orally up front

That’s “the living fire”! Or, I suppose, one way of getting to the “living fire” - the male ass chakra penetrated by the female phallus …

That’s the “earth-sun” space - which is unfortunately also the memory loss space for all human beings … At least for now !

Garden of Priapus - 872

Satyr warrior - Attic Red Figure Amphora, Signed by Smikros - c. 510 - 500 B.C., Antikensammlung Berlin

“ …A Satyr warrior strides forward armed with a spear and crescent shield (pelta). He has the usual features of his kind--pug nose, horse's tail and ears, balding pate and erect member. … “ Theoi

Satyr warrior - Thats a nude, bald and bearded black African with a phimosis blocked erection - I suppose that means the battle of eros!

Phimosis - blocked because an uncircumcised penis has a free glans at the tip during full erection - That’s a contained erection - blocked by the bronze fibula - or a “hare” …

Garden of Priapus - 873

Bell Krater - Satyrs with Maenads - Center Maenad has a Thyrsos and wine jug and may be a female Dionysus - Georgian National Museum, Tbilisi

- All male depictions of Dionysus are probably female’s with false beards - and attached ritual phalli to ride the satyr/horses from the rear …

Those are nude and bearded black African Satyrs with phimosis blocked erections. Nysa was still extant during the early days of Greek civilization . I think Nysa was the main casualty of the Trojan war …

Garden of Priapus - 874

Bell Krater with Satyr and Maenad c. 380 BC, Circle of the Tarporley Painter, terracotta, wheel made; red figure

“ … Scenes related to the wine-god Dionysus are appropriate for "kraters," as these vessels were used to mix wine and water. Here, an old satyr hands a cup to a maenad wearing a short dress and an animal skin-clothing normally associated with the goddess Artemis or an Amazon. … “ Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore

Old bald and bare phimosis blocked black African satyr/horse hands a cup of wine to an Amazon holding a Thyrsos. He is not yet sexually aroused, but the thumb of the drunken Amazon was probably enough to light his furnace - That’s how wealthy crones like Phyllis lit the eight hour erections of Martial …

Garden of Priapus - 875

Attic Red Figure Kylix, Attributed to Onesimos, c. 500 - 480 B.C.. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

“ .. A Satyros sits atop a pointed wine amphora. He has the usual features of his kind--a pug nose, horse's tail and ears, balding head and erect member--and wears a wreath of ivy. … “ Theoi

Bald bearded and bare black African satyr/horse with a phimosis blocked erection dancing in front of an Amphora

Wine was followed by dancing - and probably ended with Amazons riding the older more mature African satyrs/horses from the rear …

Garden of Priapus - 876

Boss lady as leather soldier riding a penis caged slave

- That’s the Amazon sex after wine with her satyr/horse of the previous plates - The satyr phallus was closed…

Greco-Roman vigor was based on locking up the male phallus - I think however, based on the evidence of the poets like Martial that passive female mentule sex was an acceptable compromise though.

For example, in Greco-Roman dreams cited below - removing the male genitals was associated with a bull-like vigor - as were dreams of passive anal sex with vigorous war gods like Ares:

“ … Finally, preconceived ideas about athletic life compelling young boys to chastity account for the interpretation of a dream about emasculation:

A certain athlete imagined that, cutting off his genitals and binding his head at the same time, he received a wreath. He became a champion in the Sacred Games and was not without esteem. And, so long as he remained chaste, he had an illustrious and conspicuous athletic career. But, delighting in sexual pleasures, he retired in ignominy. …

Strict chastity is the price the dreamer has to pay for athletic victories. On the other hand, sexual gratification will eventually be outweighed by defeat from his competitors. Dio Chrysostomos 28, 5–8 accounts of the boxer Melanchomas of Caria, the most magnificent of them all, who devotes himself solely to his matches and thinks of nothing else than competing. For all his splendid athletic achievements, Melanchomas came to a pitiful end having never experienced any of the pleasures of life. He was so ambitious that on his deathbed he asked to his friend Athenodorus the pancratiast how many days were left in the competition …

Clearly, abstinence was the normal rule of life for all who trained with a view to winning laurels. An athlete’s entire energy went into striving. Plato uses the athlete as a model of the benefits of abstinence. The Olympic athlete, Iccus of Taranto, is reputed to have been the first, at the height of his training, to have abstained from sexual intercourse with a woman or a boy. Many taboos in medical precepts and philosophical writings reinforce the idea of athletes remaining chaste to ensure victory. Sexual intercourse implies the loss of manly vigour. If a man embraces the pleasures of Aphrodite, he will lose all endurance. When training to become as strong and robust as a bull, a man can therefore only attain his full potential through the observance of the strictest chastity. With such prerequisites, it becomes easier to follow Artemidorus’ logic when he surmises that athletes, ambitious to win, while conscious of the handicap their sexual urges represents, have dreams in which their genitals are cut off. … “

The Power of the Phallus in Greek Divination
Salvatore Costanza, National and Capodistrian University of Athens

Garden of Priapus - 877

More Boss lady as leather soldier riding a penis caged slave-

In the following Greco-Roman dream passive anal with Ares is seen as a sign good health!

And in another cited dream - A Greek matron receives the severed phallus of her husband …And goes on to raise a son with him - That was probably the Greek standard and not just a dream. The Fibula was the transfer of the phallus to the wife!

And in another Greek dream - a man dreams his genitals have disappeared under a thick growth of hair - he becomes passive anal sex only ….

“ … The following example comes from an erotic dream in which anal sex takes place between a man and the god Ares. It is considered a good omen. Though he does not specifically mentions any penis, Artemidorus takes the god’s sexual organ to represent a knife. On this basic supposition, the dream interpreter uses metonymy to view the god of warfare as a hint to a knife:

A certain man was penetrated by Ares [the god]. A medical condition arose in him having to do with his buttocks and rectum and, because he was unable to get better by any other means, after resorting to surgery he was healed. For <Ares> signified the knife, just as we also customarily refer to a knife as ‘Ares’ by metonymy. And the pleasurable nature of their intercourse revealed that the surgery would not have a deleterious outcome.

Since the intercourse with the god was a source of pleasure (hedone), this vision bodes well for the dreamer. Had the penetrated man not enjoyed it, Artemidorus would not have deduced from the dream the prediction that surgery on his buttocks would heal him. … “

The Power of the Phallus in Greek Divination
Salvatore Costanza, National and Capodistrian University of Athens

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“ … Artemidorus applies the same method to interpretate the link between the penis and the procreation of sons:

A certain woman imagined that she was holding in her hands her husband’s penis which had been removed from the rest of his body and took care of them and put much forethought into their safekeeping. She gave birth to a son by this husband, whom she raised. For her husband’s penis signified the son, since from him the son was born. But because they were removed from the rest of his body, after she raised the child, she separated from her husband. … “

The Power of the Phallus in Greek Divination
Salvatore Costanza, National and Capodistrian University of Athens

Upon divorce - the Roman son - ie the severed phallus of this dream - was returned to the custody of the father. Daughters too - The father’s phallic energy was the foundation of a daughters marriage - and sexual emancipation - venus required it!

I suppose after divorce custody of the father’s severed phallus - the Fibula and the son too - went to his next wife - or his sister of mother or daughter … That was the Roman way …

Garden of Priapus - 879

Closing scene - Boss lady as leather soldier with a slaves balls firmly in her hand …

The Roman phallus was viewed by the Roman dream mind as more of a male liability than a male benefit. For example a dream of an iron phallus is seen not a sign of strength but of the possibility of rust - and a phallus overgrown by hair was the source of life long homosexual pleasure!

“ … Let us consider the phallic dream reports compiled by Artemidorus and their predictive significance to appreciate the thinking of those times, where individual religious experience is investigated in detail. Let us state straightaway that a dream of an iron phallus is not a sign of greatness nor of power, but should be construed as an omen of death because rust—a symbol of decay—would undoubtedly be present on the iron:

A certain man imagined that he had his penis made of iron. He had a son who killed him. For in fact iron is destroyed by the rust that arises from itself

Clearly, a specific association of ideas is to be found here. The rusty iron forewarns the dreamer that he will be killed by his own son, even if the dream reports no reference to rust. That iron corrodes is a common observation to which everyone can relate. This means that a dream interpreter uses much of his own experience to develop a consequent exegetical procedure. For instance, a fully hairy penis is viewed as an omen of effeminacy and a passive homosexual lifestyle:

A certain man imagined that his penis had sprouted hair up to the very tip and suddenly became shaggy with thick, blooming hair. He became a well-known passive homosexual, delighting in every licentious pleasure, [being effeminate and a girly-boy,] and did not use his penis in the normal manner of men. For, in this way, that part of him went unused so that, due to its not rubbing against some other body, it grew hair. …. “

The Power of the Phallus in Greek Divination
Salvatore Costanza, National and Capodistrian University of Athens

 

Garden of Priapus - 880

Bonus scene - boss lady as leather soldier riding a penis caged slave

Custody of the Roman family phallus, the fathers fibula or penis cage - was with the mother - and the phallic fire goddess of the Roman people - Upon marriage, the husbands slaves were shaved bald by his new wife … So the mother was the head of the household …. And as is clear from the Roman poets - the Roman matron was the phallic partner in the Roman marriage requiring in most cases sex outside of her marriage …

Roman slaves were the one place the male phallus was uncaged - Maybe more than uncaged - a recently freed slave reported a dream of three phalli! - That probably meant enhanced loss of libido!

“ … Dreaming of having three penises requires interpretation founded on a freer association of ideas:

A certain man imagined that he had three penises. He happened to be a slave and was freed and, instead of having one name, he acquired three, receiving two more from the one who freed him

Such a dream can prognosticate the end of slavery, given that three penises by analogy correspond to tria nomina according to Roman naming conventions. As a freedman, the dreamer will became a Roman citizen. Once released from slavery, (manumissio), he will receive the nomen and praenomen of his former owner (patronus). This explanation shows that dreams have not the same value for everyone. The above interpretation is valid only for slaves only. It isirrelevant for free citizens, who already have three names. Diviners obviously take into account the identity of their clientele. Divinatory handbooks usually offer prognostics that differ according to whether the person concerned is a freeman or a slave, a soldier or a merchant, a girl of marriageable age or a widow. The slave (doulos) is regulary quoted among the specific kinds of consulters, which also the addressees of quiver-book, for instance in the series of four lives, which regularly appear in P. Flor. III 391.7 … “

The Power of the Phallus in Greek Divination
Salvatore Costanza, National and Capodistrian University of Athens

Garden of Priapus - 881

Maenad and Satyr

Attic Red Figure Kylix, Attributed to Makron, c. 490 - 480 B.C., Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge

“ … A Maenad dances with a Satyr. The Satyr has the ears and tail of a horse, and an erect member. The Maenad wears a leopard-skin cloak and is crowned with a wreath of ivy. … “ Theoi

No pug nose - That's a tall Greek Maenad dancing with a short, nude, bearded Greek satyr/horse with a phimosis blocked erection … But the original model was pug nosed - or black African

That’s a hieros-gamos image - or a marriage of male and female energies … and Dionysus is a phallic female - that’s the leopard - skin cloak!

Garden of Priapus - 882

“ … Attic red-figure plate from Vulci, Etruria, dated c. 520–500 BC, showing an ithyphallic satyr holding an aulos, a kind of ancient Greek woodwind instrument … “ mythus

Dancing nude and bearded pug nosed Etruscan satyr/horse with a phimosis blocked erection - That’s proof of early black African influence in Roman culture! Nysa was a founder of Etruria!

That’s controversial today - Etruscans are said to be Celtic - But early Roman life has black African influence … And major Roman poets like Virgil were depicted as black Africans by the Romans themselves …

Garden of Priapus - 883

Attic Red Figure Kylix, c. 510 - 500 B.C., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

“ … A Satyr drinks wine from a drinking horn (rhyton). He has the usual features of his kind--a pug nose and the ears and tail of a horse. … “Theoi

An athletic Black African Satyr/horse drinking from a Greek wine horn. He is not yet sexually aroused and has an uncircumcised phallus - “small and honorable” as Martial says - or penis caged. …

Summoning the phimosis-blocked erection was probably the main reason for the wine …

Garden of Priapus - 884

Greek drinking cup (kylix) with satyr, by Epiktetos, 510–500 B.C.

“ … A nude, ithyphallic satyr sits on a wine-skin, and holds a drinking horn (rhyton) in his left hand. He wears a wreath of ivy leaves painted in purple.

A Greek inscription in the field reads: "Hipparchos is handsome" (HIPPARXOS KALOS). On the wine-skin, in brown paint is an inscription of the same name: "HIPPARXOS."

The satyr is here engaged in a game called 'askoliasmos', derived from the Greek word for wineskin, 'askos', which invovled jumping on a blown up wineskin that was greased with oil and trying to hold one’s balance. … “ Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

A nude bearded and bald black African Satyr/horse with a phimosis blocked erection and a wine horn jumpIng on a wineskin

He has successfully summoned the fire - Had a dream where I was unable to summon the fire - I was told to have sex with a beautiful blond boy/man and was unable to get aroused - Some sort of test that I failed …

The fire has a mind of its own ! In my case, it summons - the intense drowsiness that came before this post and the one before it at 530 AM - not the other way around!

That 5 AM fire at work is not necessarily phallic - its more whole body - a whole body aliveness ! And it always triggers activity or “busy—ness” - even in the dead of the night … Like a puppet show- when the puppets spring to life …

Garden of Priapus - 885


Four nude athletic bald and bearded black African Satyr/horses dancing. All except one have tightly caged phalli - One has a phimosis blocked erect phallus holding up a wine cup - My guess is those were African centaurs in classical Greece

Revels of bearded satyrs. Attic Greek Red-figured psykter (wine-cooler). Painted by Douris c. 500-470 BC - British Museum

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“The central figure appears to be that of a bearded satyr, dressed as a herald, in chlamys (Thracian ?) with heavy horizontal patterns, petasos at back, and high endromides with flaps, turned over, of skin; he moves to left looking back, with caduceus inverted in his left hand, and holding up his right in surprise. The rest of the figures fall into four groups, proceeding to the right as follows:

(i) Two bearded satyrs, advancing from each side towards one who has fallen backwards to right on fingers and toes, with a cantharos balanced on his phallos; the satyr on the right pours wine from an oinochoe into the cantharos, the other holds forward with both hands a second cantharos.

(ii) Two bearded satyrs dancing on each side of a cantharos on the ground; the one on the left, resting on his left leg, has thrown his right foot back and upward, as if to kick his back with his heel; his body is en face, and this right foot is a bold attempt at foreshortening; with body and arms bent to right, his attitude seems to suggest plunging head first into the cantharos. The other, who is wreathed with ivy, balances himself, with arms extended behind him, on his left leg, and flourishes his right foot over the cantharos.

(iii) A bearded satyr, with legs in air, supports himself on right hand and left forearm, and lowers his mouth into a kylix resting on the ground. The other (ithyphallic) strides towards him from right, holding a kylix by the foot in his left, and extending his right with a gesture of admiration.

(iv) A bearded satyr has fallen backwards to left upon his hands, with his left leg bent under him (foot in foreshortening), and into his open mouth has wine poured from a wine-skin by a bearded satyr on left, and from an oinochoe by another. Above group (ii) is inscribed ΑΡΙΣΤΑΛΟPΑΣ KAΛΟΣ, ... . Below it, ΔΟΡΙΣ ΕΛΡΑΦΣΕΝ,.... All the satyrs, except the herald and the one last described, are bald on the crown; and all except the one wreathed have a fillet fastening the hair in a knot behind; in the case of the reclining figure in (iv) the hair is knotted, but the fillet is omitted. The tumbler in (iii) has the end of his beard recurved in a small tuft.

The design forms a frieze around the shoulder and body of the vase. Purple fillets, wreath, wine, inscriptions, and cord of petasos. Brown inner markings and hair up centre of body; edge of hair in thinned black. Eye, with dotted pupil against inner angle, smaller than usual. Round the flat part of the shoulder, a band of tongue pattern; below the design, a band of alternate key and red cross square. At the junction of the base to the body, a band of alternate palmette and flower (silhouette) laid horizontally.”

British Museum

Garden of Priapus - 886

Revels of bearded satyrs. Attic Greek Red-figured psykter (wine-cooler). Painted by Douris c. 500-470 BC - British Museum


Four nude athletic bald and bearded black African Satyr/horses dancing. All except one have tightly caged phalli - Dancing with wine skins and wine cups. One has an phimosis blocked erection - or “hare” - his fire is lit …

Garden of Priapus - 887

Revels of bearded satyrs. Attic Greek Red-figured psykter (wine-cooler). Painted by Douris c. 500-470 BC - British Museum

Two nude athletic bearded black African Satyr/horses dancing with wine cups and jugs. At center is a cloaked bearded and nude black African Herald. All three have tightly caged phalli - Their fires have not yet lit up …

Garden of Priapus - 888

Revels of bearded satyrs. Attic Greek Red-figured psykter (wine-cooler). Painted by Douris c. 500-470 BC - British Museum

Three nude athletic bearded black African Satyr/horses dancing with wine jugs and wine skins. At center is a nude satyr being fed wine from a wine jug by nude satyrs. All three of the satyrs have tightly caged phalli … Their fires have not yet lit.

My guess is the horses were ridden from the rear by phallic maenads after the dance … Horses are meant for riding !

Garden of Priapus - 889

Revels of bearded satyrs. Attic Greek Red-figured psykter (wine-cooler). Painted by Douris c. 500-470 BC - British Museum

Closing scene: Four nude athletic and bearded black African Satyr/horses dancing. All have tightly caged phalli - Dancing with wine jugs and wine cups. …

Garden of Priapus - 890

Muscle Amazon riding a black satyr/horse with a large black mentule -

“ … Centaur, Greek Kentauros, in Greek mythology, a race of creatures, part horse and part man, dwelling in the mountains of Thessaly and Arcadia. Traditionally they were the offspring of Ixion, king of the neighbouring Lapiths, and were best known for their fight (centauromachy) with the Lapiths, which resulted from their attempt to carry off the bride of Pirithous, son and successor of Ixion. They lost the battle and were driven from Mount Pelion. In later Greek times they were often represented drawing the chariot of the wine god Dionysus or bound and ridden by Eros, the god of love, in allusion to their drunken and amorous habits. Their general character was that of wild, lawless, and inhospitable beings, the slaves of their animal passions. … “ britannica

Garden of Priapus - 891

More muscle Amazon riding a black satyr/horse with a large black mentule -

Garden of Priapus - 892

Satyr and maenad, Red-figure Attic cup, c. 510 BC–500 BC., Louvre,

That’s a tall Greek amazon dancing with a shorter nude and bearded black African satyr/horse with a large phimosis blocked erection. Amazon is fending off the satyr/horse with a snake coiled thyrsus …

The attic Greek satyrs are still a mystery - The original greek images are clearly black African horse/men - but the images gradually changed to white goat-men in the Roman world:

That snake/thyrus is probably a representation of the female phallus - The satyr phallus is locked … There are no images of black horse men sexually penetrating Greek Amazons …

The ancient African practice was probably similar to the the modern day erect phallus of Legba in modern day Voodoo - That’s the opening to the inner sun or the opening to the spirit world … What I call the “earth-sun” space

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“ … In Greek mythology, a satyr … is one one of a troop of ithyphallic male companions of Dionysus with horse-like (equine) features, including a horse-tail, horse-like ears, and sometimes a horse-like phallus. Early artistic representations sometimes include horse-like legs, but in 6th-century BC black-figure pottery human legs are the most common. In Roman Mythology there is a concept similar to satyrs with goat-like features, the faun being half-man, half-goat. Greek-speaking Romans often used the Greek term saturos when referring to the Latin faunus, and eventually syncretized the two. The female "Satyresses" were a late invention of poets — that roamed the woods and mountains.[In myths they are often associated with pipe-playing.

The satyrs' chief was Silenus, a minor deity associated (like Hermes and Priapus) with fertility. These characters can be found in the only complete remaining satyr play, Cyclops, by Euripides, and the fragments of Sophocles' Ichneutae (Tracking Satyrs). The satyr play was a short, lighthearted tailpiece performed after each trilogy of tragedies in Athenian festivals honoring Dionysus. There is not enough evidence to determine whether the satyr play regularly drew on the same myths as those dramatized in the tragedies that preceded. The groundbreaking tragic playwright Aeschylus is said to have been especially loved for his satyr plays, but none of them have survived.

Attic painted vases depict mature satyrs as being strongly built with flat noses, large pointed ears, long curly hair, and full beards, with wreaths of vine or ivy circling their balding heads. Satyrs often carry the thyrsus: the rod of Dionysus tipped with a pine cone.

Satyrs acquired their goat-like aspect through later Roman conflation with Faunus, a carefree Italic nature spirit of similar characteristics and identified with the Greek god Pan. Hence satyrs are most commonly described in Latin literature as having the upper half of a man and the lower half of a goat, with a goat's tail in place of the Greek tradition of horse-tailed satyrs; therefore, satyrs became nearly identical with fauns. Mature satyrs are often depicted in Roman art with goat's horns, while juveniles are often shown with bony nubs on their foreheads.

About Satyrs, Praxiteles gives a new interpretation on the subject of free and carefree life. Instead of an elf with pointed ears and repulsive goat hooves, we face a child of nature, pure, but tame and fearless and brutal instincts necessary to enable it to defend itself against threats, and survives even without the help of modern civilization . Above all though, the Satyr with flute has a small companion for him, shows the deep connection with nature, the soft whistle of the wind, the sound of gurgling water of the crystal spring, the birds singing, or perhaps the singing a melody of a human soul that feeds higher feelings.

As Dionysiac creatures they are lovers of wine and women, and they are ready for every physical pleasure. They roam to the music of pipes (auloi), cymbals, castanets, and bagpipes, and they love to chase maenads or bacchants (with whom they are obsessed, and whom they often pursue), or in later art, dance with the nymphs , and have a special form of dance called sikinnis. Because of their love of wine, they are often represented holding wine cups, and they appear often in the decorations on wine cups.

… In earlier Greek art, Silenos appear as old and ugly, but in later art, especially in works of the Attic school, this savage characteristic is softened into a more youthful and graceful aspect.

This transformation or humanization of the Satyr appears throughout late Greek art. Another example of this shift occurs in the portrayal of Medusa and in that of the Amazon characters who are traditionally depicted as barbaric and uncivilized. A very humanized Satyr is depicted in a work of Praxiteles known as the "Resting Satyr".

Greek spirits [non-classical] known as Calicantsars have a noticeable resemblance to the ancient satyrs; they have goats' ears and the feet of donkeys or goats or horses, are covered with hair, and love women and the dance.

Although they are not mentioned by Homer, in a fragment of Hesiod's works they are called brothers of the mountain nymphs and Kuretes, strongly connected with the cult of Dionysus. In the Dionysus cult, male followers are known as satyrs and female followers as maenads or bacchants.

In Attica there was a species of drama known as the legends of gods and heroes, and the chorus was composed of satyrs and sileni. In the Athenian satyr plays of the 5th century BC, the chorus commented on the action. This "satyric drama" burlesqued the serious events of the mythic past with lewd pantomime and subversive mockery. One complete satyr play from the 5th century survives, the Cyclops of Euripides.

The Satyr and the Traveller, one of Aesop's Fables, features the satyr as the benevolent host for a traveler in the forest in winter. The satyr is bewildered by the man's claim to be able to blow hot and cold with the same breath, first to warm his hands, then to cool his porridge, and turns him out for this inconstancy.

A papyrus bearing a long fragment of a satyr play by Sophocles, given the title 'Tracking Satyrs' (Ichneutae), was found at Oxyrhynchus in Egypt, 1907. …”

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Flute-playing satyr and maenad

Nude bald and beared black African satyr with a large uncircumsised phallus playing the flutes to a Greek Maenad

Terracotta kylix (drinking cup) c. 480 B.C., Signed by Hieron, The Met,  Gallery 157

“ … The exterior provides a particularly full illustration of the symposium (drinking party) and, especially, of its paraphernalia: a wreathed column-krater for mixing wine and water, a large skyphos for the relief of a sick symposiast, a lamp stand that also accommodates a ladle and strainer, and krotala (castanets) and a picnic basket suspended from the back wall. Compared with the figures on the outside, the satyr and maenad (followers of the wine god, Dionysos) appear formal indeed. … “ Met

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Boss lady penetrating a naked and penis caged slave with a large black mentule

- That’s probably the snake coiled thyrsus of Dionysus - The nude and bald older penis caged satyr under the phallic but female Dionysus …

Plato dances around the meaning of the honey -tipped thyrus except to say that many carried it , but not all were able to provide the experience to successfully navigate the lower world …

“ …Plato describes the hedonistic connotation of the thyrsus, and thereby Dionysus, in his philosophical Phaedo:

I conceive that the founders of the mysteries had a real meaning and were not mere triflers when they intimated in a figure long ago that he who passes unsanctified and uninitiated into the world below will live in a slough, but that he who arrives there after initiation and purification will dwell with the gods. For 'many,' as they say in the mysteries, 'are the thyrsus bearers, but few are the mystics,' – meaning, as I interpret the words, the true philosophers.

Wikipedia

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More boss lady penetrating a naked and penis caged slave with a large black mentule

In the Greco- Roman world of the caged phallus - or even the castrated phallus of the Amazon temples of Cybele and Aphrodite and Artemis - the snake coiled thyrsus of Dionysus is probably the famous female phallus found in statues all over the Roman empire

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Kylix painting with four satyrs repelled by Hermes, Hera and Heracles
Attic kylix Attributed to: The Brygos Painter 480BC-480BC British museum

Four nude black African satyrs with raging but phimosis blocked erections attack a winged Hera - Hermes and Hercules protect her …

I saw an illustration of this scene from the New York Public library - But the raging erections were gone!

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(June 4, 2022) Had a vivid nightmare after working on this wine cup - friends viciously attacked by their own dogs; - Dionysos tamed the dogs …

Which I read to mean - the ego attacked by an untended unconscious mind …

Dionysus tamed the “id” - Thats a visual on another ancient wine cup …

Maybe this scene is why Hera required men to live as women for seven years in the penis cage - like the prophet Tiresias!

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Tearing bulls apart and eating them raw was rumored to be a rite of crazed Bacchantes - Sparagmos … I vaguely knew about this before this nightmare - But my interpretation of the dream is the same - The “id” is like a wild animal that needs to be fed - If left to starve it can turn on the day to day ego …

“ … Sparagmos  is an act of rending, tearing apart, or mangling, usually in a Dionysian context.

In Dionysian rite as represented in myth and literature, a living animal, or sometimes even a human being, is sacrificed by being dismembered. Sparagmos was frequently followed by omophagia (the eating of the raw flesh of the one dismembered). It is associated with the Maenads or Bacchantes, followers of Dionysus, and the Dionysian Mysteries.

Examples of sparagmos appear in Euripides's play The Bacchae. In one scene guards sent to control the Maenads witness them pulling a live bull to pieces with their hands. Later, after King Pentheus has banned the worship of Dionysus, the god lures him into a forest, to be torn limb from limb by Maenads, including his own mother Agave. According to some myths, Orpheus, regarded as a prophet of Orphic or Bacchic religion, died when he was dismembered by raging Thracian women. … “Wikipedia

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Kylix painting with four satyrs repelled by Hermes, Hera and Heracles
Attic kylix Attributed to: The Brygos Painter 480BC-480BC British museum

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Attic Drinking cup (kylix) with Dionysos and a satyr. Greek. 490–480 B.C. Painter- Makron. terracotta.

A bearded tall Dionysus dancing with a smaller nude pug nosed or African Satyr with a large but phimosis blocked erection …

Dionysus is a Greek male here - but he’s more often portrayed as a tall Greek woman - or phallic woman - which is the same as a man!

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Attic Drinking cup (kylix) with Dionysos and a satyrs. Greek. 490–480 B.C. - Louvre

Tall bearded Dionysus plays the lyre attended by two small dancing and nude pug nosed or African Satyrs. Satyrs with tightly caged phalli …

Looks to me like that’s a tall woman in a dress playing the lyre with a male head attached - and that’s probably what that was - like in Samba Dionysus can possess a virile dancing Amazon!

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Attic Drinking cup (kylix) with Dionysos with a Thyrsus and a pan playing satyr - by Makron- Greek. 490–480 B.C.

Tall bearded Dionysus with a Thyrsus attended by a nude pug nosed or African Satyr playing a set of pan pipes. Satyr with a tightly caged phallus…

Again that looks to me like that’s a tall woman in a dress - holding a Thyrsus - the Amazon “lance of Nysa” - always carried by a phallic woman!

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Boss lady and muscle amazon working two large mentules on a penis restrained satyr/horse …

The mentule is probably the same thing as the pine and honey tipped Thyrus - the “Lance of Nysa” - That’s also probably the “Lance of Maurice” of the medieval Grail legends - Maurice was a black African Roman soldier of the Theban or Egyptian legion. But Nysa was not Thebes - Thebes and Greece resisted Dionysus - maybe that’s why the pug nosed satyrs were assaulting Hera ..

African pine forests exist in central Africa - Kenya for example has them - as well as African legends of ancient Amazons - The Kikuyu for example and the 9 daughters of Mumbi who founded the tribe!

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More boss lady and muscle amazon working two large mentules on a penis restrained satyr/horse …

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More boss lady and muscle amazon working two large mentules on a penis restrained satyr/horse …

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Amazon bull from the rear of a satyr/horse - boss lady up front

If Dionysus in the plates above was male, he would be nude like the satyr/horses! That was a basic Greco-Roman rule in public sculpture - penis caged male nudity and Roman matrons in gowns.

When Dionysus is nude - the head is always female - even though a phallus is attached …

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Pompeii - Nude Bronze statue of Bacchus. Found 26th September 1957. - Thats a girl with a penis …

Pompeii was on sexual fire! The penis cage was certainly the cause - A built up dam of eros!

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Sparagmos - or ritual dismemberment during secret rites of Dionysus - Three women and one nude and tightly penis caged pug nosed or African satyr holding a Thyrsus. Women are clothed - one has the torn halves of a deer and the other has a living snake wound around her arm.

From this we can see men participated in the secret rites of Dionysus - always fully naked and penis caged though - or as satyr/horses to be ridden … My guess is any sex was female phallus in the male rear only in the Roman matron style …

The rending of deer flesh or bull flesh by maenads meant they were activating the dragon or coiled serpent - and the dragon power or serpent power was mainly phallic - That’s the birth of the female phallus

- The dragon - like Sekhmet - Min - the phallic Egyptian lion goddess tears apart her victim and eats it! My guess is the female phallus in the satyr/horse rear- or female on male orgies - was the eating!

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Red-figure pointed amphora, Attributed to The Achilles Painter, 450 - 445 BC
Paris, Department of Coins, Medals and Antiquities

“ … Depictions of “sparagmos” – the ritual dismemberment of wild animals connected with Dionysos’ myth are relatively rare on Attic vases.

This beautiful and rare scene shows the winter dance for Dionysos when we know that “sparagmos” took place. The central maenad holds the torn halves of a fawn and, turning her back to the observer, dances with legs spread wide apart.

The two maenads who move together, arm around one another, are a group that has long attracted attention and thought to be derived from large scale Polygnotan wall-painting. The three-quarter face of the maenad in peplos is exceptional.

Despite the restorations, the exquisite quality of the drawing is obvious. A good sense of the ecstasy connected with the Worship of Dionysos is brilliantly reflected on this Vase, and the subject matter could not be more appropriate for a wine storage jar. … “

John H. Oakley

From Flickr Egisto Sani

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Wonder Woman sex - muscle amazon in red over a nude penis caged satyr/horse …

Sekhmet-Min sex was famously red - The nile ran red with wine as a blood substitute for the lion goddess

That only works with the consent of the horse though - Venus required the permission of the father for the transfer of his phallic energy to his daughter…

Djed pillars are rare and far between - so only upper class girls got a mentule ….

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More Wonder Woman sex - muscle amazon in red over a nude penis caged satyr/horse …

Wonder woman is always a lesbian though - But in the Roman world I think most phallic Roman matrons had sex with men and boys - That transgressive sex was covered by the “keep silent” command of Harpocrates.

Why keep silent? My guess is the fire is so fragile it can’t be restricted to monogamy … Egyptian women were almost always svelte and athletic - that’s the fire expressed - like the male penis cage tan … Egyptian women became the Sekhmet lion goddess and sated their lust in a state sanctioned and religion sanctioned forum …

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Sparagmos is still practiced in Haitian Vodooo - a bull or goat or chicken is ritually slaughtered and its warm blood smeared over participants of rituals - in order to attract “Lwa” possession …

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More Wonder Woman sex - muscle amazon in red over a nude penis caged satyr/horse …

Man as satyr - but that’s a horse - horses are to ride - and horses as also gelded … That’s an image from the Greek vases - the Satyr is in a penis restraint … What I call the “venus furnace” - that's fire of the Dionysus festivities …

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More Wonder Woman sex - muscle amazon in red over a nude penis caged satyr/horse …

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Closing scene: Wonder Woman sex - muscle amazon in red over a nude penis caged satyr/horse …

Bes Erotica - or African dwarf/amazon sex - That’s how Roman women were sexual into old age! Many with two or more paid “spintra” or anal boyfriends …

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Maenad and nude Satyr. Late Roman floor mosaic c. 220 AD -  Romisch-Germanisches Museum, Cologne

The Satyr/horse has the famous “dog-leash” tan caused by the penis cage. He is armed with a cane to hunt hares - Hares being a euphemism for phimosis- blocked erections - or Fibula-blocked erections …

That’s polyandry - or bird sex where one female mounts many males …


The Roman male in his penis cage was wary of the fire which could last for hours and was unpleasant because of the pressure of the bronze penis cage …

Martial and Catallus would go into fire agonies that they had trouble taking care of without female help … So long as the penis cage was on, free sex was for Roman women only …

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Late Roman Mosaic of Maenad and Satyr - c. 220-230 AD - Romisch-Germanisches Museum, Cologne

Nude and bearded older satyr/horse in the famous “dog-leash” tan and a tightly caged phallus dancing with a nude Maenad in the royal purple…

Royal purple maenad is the phallic aggressor - The Female Dionysus has a free penis as opposed to the penis caged satyr …

That could be a myth Myrrha scene - a daughter sexing her own father …. That was the prerogative of Egyptian royalty …

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Satyr and maenad. Herculaneum, Italy. c. 50 AD. National Archaeological Museum, Naples

Again the satyr has very dark skin - That’s the penis cage tan … Satyr’s were erotic, but nor phallic … They were penis caged horsemen or centaurs. Phallic were the pale Roman matrons.

Dionysus was one of those matrons - She had the power to tame the animal brain …Dreamscape images are volcanic - Like a volcano about to blow up - I guess there is a powerful need for the services of Dionysus! Very many features of modern day life are caused by the failure of modern day medicine to integrate the animal brain …

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Satyr, Dionysus and Maenad - Roman mosaic, Antakya, Hatay Muzesi (Archaeological Museum) Turkey.

Dionysus is the pale nude in the center - A phallic Roman matron … Satyr has a cane to hunt hares or phimosis - blocked erections …

Lighting up that female phallus seems to have required a satyr - the dark horsemen or centaurs were Egyptian Djed pillars - created by handing over control the caged phallus to phallic wives over many years …

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Centaurs and Maenad or Dionysus - House of the Aion, Paphos, Cyprus.

Older dark skinned centaur, younger lighter skinned centaur and topless Maenad or Dionysus.

Horse flesh men with horse phalli - but like horses they were in the penis restraint - The horse phalli were controlled by maenads who rode the horsemen …

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Erotic scene between satyrs and a donkey depicted in the Attic black-figure amphora - c. 560-550 BC Museo archeologico nazionale (National Archaeological Museum) Florence

Satyrs have horse tails - the sexual figure mounting the aroused donkey does not - my guess is that’s a horseman or donkeyman being sexually mounted by the mentule of maenad or a Female Dionysus ! - And all satyr erections are phimosis-blocked…

(June 7, 2022) But - the mounting figure does have a tail! I missed that! - I suppose I saw what I wanted to see …

But my guess is that’s a female on top of the donkey or horse! That’s the inner image anyway - or the message of my “jinn” who are phallic womenfolk!

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Erotic scene between satyrs and a donkey depicted in the Attic black-figure amphora - c. 560-550 BC Museo archeologico nazionale (National Archaeological Museum) Florence

Still not sure what that is - but saw monkeys running off in my inner eye!

Note the woman in the right carrying an Amazon belt/girdle - That’s the venus female phallus

Ancient erotica - not safe out there - most of this stuff is quickly re-buried - Egypt for example has been scrubbed of sex

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Bell Krater. - Young beardless satyr playing the double flute - Christie Painter- Madrid

Tightly penis caged young and nude Satyr playing pan pipes for tall and clothed maenads - The horse being sexed in the vase above is male! My guess is the rutting phalli are all female, not male - That was the Greco-Roman way …

Egypt too - I have one example of Isis with a rutting phallus on this site …The flow of energy from the male Djed pillar required the male caged phallus

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Late Roman/African Mosaic of cavorting Satyrs and Maenads, 2nd century AD, Sousse Archaeological Museum, Tunisia

Nude, tanned and tightly penis caged satyrs cavorting with nude and pale maenads in purple from Roman Africa … Also featured are a hare - or a phimosis blocked erection and peacocks….Peacocks are sexually rutting female birds not males!

All those nude and darkly tanned satyrs were certainly anal horses under the mentule or female phallus of the royal purple clad maenads …

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Roman Sarcophagus. Satyr and Maenad or female Dionysus dancing - 150 AD.

Naked and penis caged satyr/horse holding a thyrsus dances with a naked maenad holding a cane for hunting hared - or phimosis blocked erections under massive lions and smaller panthers ….

The lion and panther images are female not male energy - Sekhmet - Min in Egypt - The Dionysus frenzy gave Roman women access to that carnivore energy - The Roman female “id”

Women became the lion goddess that had to be fed … The feeding was probably wine and the energy from the rears of the tanned nude and penis caged male Djed pillars …

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Drunken Centaur attends the Dionysian procession. Roman marble sarcophagus - 200 AD , Farnese Collection, National Archaeological Museum, Naples

Phallic female Dionysus riding a Centaur drawn chariot - The centaurs or horse/satyrs or Djed pillars were ridden by the female phallus of Roman, Greek and Egyptian women !

I’m certain that’s the meaning - The woman with a phallus in the chariot tells the tale! That’s Sekhmet-Min or a thousands of years Egyptian tradition of the penis bound male and the phallic female !

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Drunken Centaurs playing cithara and tibicen (double flute) attend the Dionysian procession. Roman marble sarcophagus - 200 AD , Farnese Collection, National Archaeological Museum, Naples

Another Phallic female Dionysus riding an older centaur - There is also a younger centaur playing the pan pipes. And a snake rising from a ritual box beneath the Centaur - that’s the Mentule or female phallus …

After the sacrifice of a bull or a deer by the frenzied women of the Dionysus cult came the eating - My guess the eating was female phallus in the rear of the nude and penis caged satyr/horses …

The female “id” is male - In Egypt it was a lion or panther god - and lions tear apart their prey and eat it!

Wine and sex were offered by the Egyptians to distract Sekhmet and in her drunken state she tured into the loving bull Hathor …

Penis caged Egyptian men and the caged men of Minoan Crete sexually submitted to the bull phallus of their Amazon wives and daughters … and mothers too - The Greco-Roman female libido did not diminish with age …

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Young girl in a lion mask with the bared breast of an Amazon holding a Thyrsus and a falcon

That’s the Amazon lion power of the female Dionysus - ; or a juvenile version of a standing Sekhmet lion goddess and her scepter

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Anubis as Defender of Osiris / Dionysus (?)
A.D. 2nd–3rd century, probably
Roman Period

The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 137

“Elements from Egyptian and Greek mythology are combined in this delicate figure. The view taken here is that Anubis is represented, wearing military costume and breastplate that signify his role as a fighter against the enemies of Osiris. He holds a staff topped by a cone-shaped object - the thyrsus carried by followers of Dionysus with whom the Greeks equated Osiris. In his other hand he carries a falcon.

On the other hand, the snout and ears appear short for Anubis and more like those of a cat, and the short dress can be worn by Artemis who is associated with Bastet. The identity of the figure is, therefore, not certain.” Met

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Maenad attacking satyr - Attic Red-Figure Vase -  Athens - painter: Phintias - c. 510 BC Karlsruhe, Badisches Landesmuseum

Black African satyr/horse or centaur with a large erection being attacked by a naked maenad

That seems to be a normal erection - but it was probably a phimosis blocked erection - that’s the general pattern for those ancient African satyrs.

Maenad is probably in a Dionysus frenzy - ie drunk and tapping into the lion power - The lion power or Sekhmet power in Egypt was the whole point of the Dionysus rituals. Many carvings of a young Dionysus has him - or more probably her - riding on the back of a lion …

Martial refers the shaved vaginas of Roman women and girls as “lions” - The Dionysus ritual required a phimosis blocked erection - or a hare - That was the fire - Any sex was more probably female on male anal though … The unbuckled venus girdle or belt …

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Dionysus riding a lion - 2nd century AD, Museum of El Jem, Tunisia

Nude infant Dionysus with a phallus riding a lion accompanied by usual procession including a darkly tanned and nude Silenus and less darkly tanned clothed satyrs, including one holding a cane for hunting hares - or phimosis blocked erections

Dionysus riding a lion was the maenad activating the lion power - which was the object of the Dionysus rituals - Part of that lion power was acquiring the female phallus!

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Nude bald black African satyr with a phimosis blocked erection chasing a tall clothed maenad or female Dionysus repelling him with a Thyrsus and a live snake …
Red-figure pottery. National Archaeological Museum of Athens.

Dionysus was a phallic female who had the power to control the “id” - That’s my reading of this image.

But that control also required the “hare” or the fire of the phimosis blocked erection … During drunken dancing maenads acquired the phallic power of the hare …

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Sculpture of Dionysus, Borghese Gallery, Rome

That’s a nude phallic woman with a thyrsus wearing a leopard or lion skin. That’s the successful result of the Dionysus ritual - the female phallus - which was certainly used in the rears of phimosis blocked or penis caged Roman satryr/horses …

All Roman female lust or female phallic energy flowed from the fibula - or restrained Roman penis - Greek and Egyptian and Syrian and Sumerian and Nysan too!

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Bar scene: Boss lady and 2 friends riding a penis restrained horse/satyr

Sumeria had the es-dam for Innana - A bar owned by the original Cybele where Innana and her avatars could easily pick up men for sex.

Catullus mentions a similar institution in Rome where young girls or “lions” could pick up men for sex - A Roman Cybele cult probably meant a Roman es-dam

But the main feature of the Cybele cult was the cut or restrained male phallus - any sex in those bars was mentule or female phallus - That’s the lion sex of Dionysus - much higher heat than normal male/female sex … The satyr/horse is the djed pillar or the tree trunk around which the ivy is growing on the plate above ….

This is a group energy - The Dionysus cult was at a group level only - Female eros is based on the bee-hive model - as opposed to male eros which is more individual …

An example is the Brazilian Samba/Carnaval - a group energy but also completely secret

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More bar scene: Boss lady and 2 friends riding a penis restrained horse/satyr

That’s ancient Egyptian sex - Sekhmet-Min - the lion energy of Dionysus was originally Egyptian- or originally from the hills of Nysa

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Silenus - the presiding Satyr/Horse - and tightly penis caged!

To me that’s an ancient Legba - the older the satyr, the more potent the fire!

“ … In Greek mythology, Silenus … was a companion and tutor to the wine god Dionysus. He is typically older than the satyrs of the Dionysian retinue, and sometimes considerably older, in which case he may be referred to as a Papposilenus. The plural sileni refers to the mythological figure as a type that is sometimes thought to be differentiated from a satyr by having the attributes of a horse rather than a goat, though usage of the two words is not consistent enough to permit a sharp distinction. Silenus presides over other daemones and is related to musical creativity, prophetic ecstasy, drunken joy, drunken dances and gestures”

Wikipedia 

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Detail of Francois Vase, Hephaestus, on a mule, followed by Silenus, c. 6th century BC. Artists: Ergotimos, Kleitias.

Silenus as a horse/satyr with a large erection carrying a wine skin behind a mule with a large erection carrying the lame footed fire-god or volcano god Hephaestus

That’s the volcano energy that’s been threatening me in my sleep - that female lion god energy can burn you or it can elevate you ! It just depends on your attitude …

I survived a harsh encounter with that energy on the summer of 1994 !

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“ …In ancient Greek religion and mythology, Hephaestus was the god of fire. A blacksmith, he was also the god of metalworking, and the fires of volcanoes were said to be his workshops. Hephaestus was one of the 12 chief gods who lived on Mount Olympus. Unlike the other Olympian gods, however, he was lame and ugly. He was married to the beautiful Aphrodite, the goddess of love, though she was notoriously unfaithful to him with Ares, the god of war. In art Hephaestus was often shown as a middle-aged bearded man wearing a conical craftsman’s cap and carrying a hammer and tongs, the tools of his trade. The Romans identified their god Vulcan with Hephaestus.


Hephaestus was the child of Hera and Zeus. Many myths relate that his parents flung him out of heaven (which was located on Mount Olympus) and that he later returned. In one story, he was born lame, and Hera cast him out in disgust or shame. In another, Zeus threw him down after a family quarrel, and it was the fall that injured his legs or feet. According to some versions, he landed on the island of Lemnos and there learned the art of metalworking.


At his divine forge, Hephaestus crafted magnificent palaces and chariots for the gods and numerous useful and powerful artifacts, including thunderbolts for Zeus, arrows for Apollo and Artemis, armor for Achilles and Heracles, and a cursed necklace to punish Harmonia (the child of Aphrodite and Ares). He also formed Pandora, the first woman, out of clay. To take revenge on Hera for having cast him out, Hephaestus built a golden throne for her as a trap. When Hera sat on the throne, she was bound fast by unbreakable chains, which only Hephaestus knew how to undo. In some stories, Zeus offered Aphrodite in marriage as a prize to anyone who would free Hera. Dionysus persuaded Hephaestus to return to Mount Olympus, release Hera, and claim Aphrodite as his bride. … “

Kids.britannica

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We have to approach Hephaestus as kids! …. That sounds like an ancient Legba to me - an opening to the “earth-sun” space - or the memory loss space - as it stands today ,,,

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*Attic Black Figure Krater. National Archaeological Museum of Florence - Signed by Kleitias - c 570 - 560 B.C.

“ …. Hephaestus returns to Olympus riding on the back of a donkey. He is led by the god Dionysus (not shown) and accompanied by Silens. Near the entrance stands Aphrodite (not shown) who has been promised to the god for a bride in return for the release of Hera from the cursed throne. … “Theoi

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More bar scene: Boss lady and 2 friends riding a penis restrained horse/satyr

The bar pole could be read as the elm tree around which the Dionysus vines reach up towards the sun … That tree trunk and vines attached always accompany nude statues of the Female Dionysus. … That's the Djed pillar or the penis caged satyr/horse ...

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Roman statue of Dionysus, after a Hellenistic model - ex-collection. Cardinal Richelieu, Louvre - Second-century AD

That’s a nude Roman matron with a phallus attached - and its not tightly caged! Roman women sodomized Roman men and boys in the Greek fashion !

She’s leaning on an elm covered in vines - That elm was the penis caged Roman man and boy - Boys especially ...

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More bar scene: Boss lady and 2 friends riding a penis restrained horse/satyr

Sex in the memory loss space - The female phallus is the cause of the famous Roman “dog-leash” tan.

That’s a Hebrew tattoo on the satyr/horse - and also a Hebrew taboo. There was a Jewish female phallus Dionysus cult - Asherah! My theory is that Ezekiel/Asherah taboo is why vast parts of the western world - Christian and Jewish, lack access to the spirit world …

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Closing scene: Boss lady and 2 friends riding a penis restrained horse/satyr

That’s Odin’s eight footed horse Sleipnir - created by Loki being impregnated as a mare! That Nordic image probably flows from the satyr/horses ridden by phallic Roman matrons …

That’s strong sexual energy - or the living fire - and this post was preceded by the intense drowsiness - which I interpret as the “jinn” demanding it…

(June 11, 2022) Just today saw a reading of this living fire as hellfire - in the “Vampire diaries” - That’s an obvious reading - when you add the image of the fire being from a lower world… But the main reading does not register at all - in a Hollywood still living with the ban on miscegenation: - or projection the “id” onto black men - this earth fire will retain its antique definition as hell fire …

The fire I’m talking about is creative though - it binds together rather than burning down - Its the energy of the first spring flower …

My main insight - especially from white women - but most black women too - is envy - that’s how that image flip comes about !

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Three nude pug nosed or black African satyr/horses with large but phimosis blocked erections escort the lame volcano-god Hephaestus wielding a Labrys the Amazon double headed axe and riding a donkey with a large erection into Olympus …

My interpretation is that’s an ancient Legba - the voodoo god who opens the gates of the sun - The fire of the erections is required for this opening.

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Attic Red Figure Krater - Attributed to the Kleophrades Painter - c. 500 B.C. - Harvard Art Museums

“ … Detail of Hephaestus from a painting depicting the god's return to Olympus. He rides a donkey with a smith's hammer resting on his shoulder and is accompanied by the Satyrs of the god Dionysus who leads him back to heaven. … “ Theoi

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“ … This krater (mixing bowl for wine and water) features a lively depiction of the return of the god of the forge Hephaistos to Olympos, the home of the gods. Hephaistos had previously been exiled from the land of the gods since he had insulted is mother, queen of the gods, Hera. The parade, featuring Dionysos, Hephaistos, and satyrs follows the wine god and circles around the entire vase with no clear beginning or end. On one side, the god Dionysos, who takes a central place on this side of the vase. The god walks forward wearing a leopard skin beneath a cloak draped over both his shoulders. He holds in one hand a grape vine whose branches extend over him and behind him. In his other hand, he holds a kantharos (two-handled wine cup) with body and foot rendered in black. He is flanked by two satyrs wearing leopard skins tied at the neck. The one in front of the god plays the pipes, tailing another satyr who is nude and carries a wineskin. The other strums a lyre with a plectrum and tilts his head back in song. Behind him, a satyr carries a large krater (mixing bowl for wine and water), his arm unable to wrap around the entire vessel. He turns his head towards the viewer, clearly unable to see past the bulky pot he carries. This krater adds a playful visual element as it is the same kind of bowl that this decoration is painted on, tickling the viewer with an instance of self-reference. Another satyr carries an axe resting on his shoulder, a humorous imitation of the god Hephaistos parading just a few steps behind him. Another satyr carries a large amphora (storage vessel, sometimes for wine) on his shoulder as he looks back at the god sitting upon the donkey. Just like the participants who wear wreaths on their heads, the amphora is decorated with painted on ivy leaves. Finally, we reach Hephaistos who sits atop a tall donkey with his axe slung over his shoulder and wearing a wreath and a simple cloak. His head and axe rise above the border of the image, emphasizing his height compared to the rest. Like the satyrs, the donkey has an exaggeratedly long erection, contributing to the crude humor of the rowdy scene. Behind him, a satyr follows, strumming a kithara (large lyre). He is followed by a satyr playing the pipes (aulos), carrying the bellows for the fire of Hephaistos' forge on his shoulder. Behind him and above the handle, a pair of satyrs engage in a playful conversation. One faces frontally, emphasizing his exaggerated erection as he gestures to his companion on the left, who holds a drinking horn and lifts a leg into the air. .. “ Harvard Art Museums

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Attic Red Figure Krater - Attributed to the Kleophrades Painter - c. 500 B.C. - Harvard Art Museums

A clothed Dionysus and three nude pug nosed or black African satyr/horses with large but phimosis blocked erections escorting the volcano god Hephaestus into Olympus to set the Queen of Heaven, Hera free …

Dionysus is clothed because that’s a female goddess - If that was a male god he would be nude - But the male Hephaestus is clothed - so that’s not an absolute rule. From other evidence I think Dionysus is female ….

Hephaestus is associated with an erect donkey phallus - or very high sexual or solar energy - Like the lame papa Legba in Haitian Vodoo!

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Attic Red Figure Krater - Attributed to the Kleophrades Painter - c. 500 B.C. - Harvard Art Museums

Dionysus and four nude pug nosed or black African satyr/horses with large but phimosis blocked erections escorting the volcano god Hephaestus into Olympus to set the Queen of Heaven, Hera free …

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Attic Red Figure Krater - Attributed to the Kleophrades Painter - c. 500 B.C. - Harvard Art Museums

Three nude pug nosed or black African satyr/horses with large but phimosis blocked erections escorting the volcano god Hephaestus into Olympus to set the Queen of Heaven, Hera free …

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Attic Red Figure Krater - Attributed to the Kleophrades Painter - c. 500 B.C. - Harvard Art Museums

Dionysus and four nude pug nosed or black African satyr/horses with large but phimosis blocked erections escorting the volcano god Hephaestus into Olympus to set the Queen of Heaven, Hera free …

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The return of Hephaistos to Olympus, Attic Red Figure - Attributed to the Kleophon Painter - c. 430 - 420 B.C. - Toledo Museum of Art - returning to Italian Ministry of Heritage and Cultural Activities

“…Hephaestus returns to Olympus riding a donkey and carrying hammer and tongs. He is led by Dionysus, who bears a thyrsos (pine-cone tipped staff) and drinking cup, and a Satyriscus (child Satyr) playing a flute. Hera sits trapped on a throne--a cursed gift from Hephaestus who wished to punish her for casting him from heaven at birth. She wears a crown and veil and is attended by a goddess, perhaps Hebe, holding a (peacock?) feather fan.

"Hephaistos refused to listen to any other of the gods save Dionysos - in him he reposed the fullest trust - and after making him drunk Dionysos brought him to heaven." - Pausanias, Guide to Greece 1.20.3 … “

Theoi

The raging erections are gone! - I suppose those were just for the rise to Olympus - That’s the Nordic Rainbow Bridge too - probably!

Hera’s prison/throne of gold has a grain of truth to it - I’ve seen it with my own eyes!

The Greek throne was Hera, not Zeus - that’s an overlooked point - the patterns of classical Athens are Amazon - especially the caged phallus and raging eros …

The usual argument is Athens was a mix of matriarchal and patriarchal - but as far as eros was concerned - the Amazon system of the female phallus and the caged male phallus remained intact from the older African civilizations of Egypt and Nysa

(June 14, 2022) My guess - more than a guess - that’s my volcano nightmare - is the west and her throne of gold is dependent on the “ugly” child of Hera - Hephaestus/Legba/black Africa - to set itself free !

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Boss lady driving her point home from the rear…

My guess is that was the resolution of the return of Hephaestus  to Olympus - The birth ofthe temple of Aphrodite female phallus sex!

- As a reward for setting Hera free from her throne of gold, Zeus married his daughter Aphrodite off to Hephaestus  - Which in the Amazon system meant the sexual emancipation of Aphrodite and the birth of her female phallus or Mentule! Counter-intuitive but that was the Greco-Roman way …

- In that reading the return of the Volcano god to Olympus meant the birth of the temple of Aphrodite - or volcanic Aphrodite female phallus sex … At midnight the worshippers of the Roman Aphrodite switched sexual roles …

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(June 17, 2022) On my Samba page - 134 - Unknown4136 - there is coincidence - the sudden appearance of the sky god Obatala as an Amazon in the parades - Traditionally Samba is a mermaid parade - Obatala and Ogun banished the mermaids to the bottom of the sea - and their eros with them I guess !

- Looks like Dionysus has brokered a truce and Eros has returned to the Nigerian Olympus! The African Olympus today is fully de-sexed - … and Africa has forgotten the mermaids! We worship at Hera’s throne of gold - and all that implies …

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More boss lady driving her point home from the rear…At midnight the worshippers of the Roman Aphrodite switched sexual roles …

(June 17, 2022) Saw a movie review of an elderly mother and retired teacher paying a young mullato from Ireland to meet her in a hotel in search of her first orgasm! If Hollywood is a barometer of American moods maybe the current extreme anti-eros backlash is finally melting way! The volcano god Hephaestus has returned to Olympus!

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"...Aphrodite  is an ancient Greek goddess associated with love, lust, beauty, pleasure, passion and procreation. She was syncretized with the Roman goddess Venus. Aphrodite's major symbols include myrtles, roses, doves, sparrows, and swans. The cult of Aphrodite was largely derived from that of the Phoenician goddess Astarte, a cognate of the East Semitic goddess Ishtar, whose cult was based on the Sumerian cult of Inanna. Aphrodite's main cult centers were Cythera, Cyprus, Corinth, and Athens. Her main festival was the Aphrodisia, which was celebrated annually in midsummer. In Laconia, Aphrodite was worshipped as a warrior goddess. She was also the patron goddess of prostitutes, an association which led early scholars to propose the concept of "sacred prostitution" in Greco-Roman culture, an idea which is now generally seen as erroneous.


In Hesiod's Theogony, Aphrodite is born off the coast of Cythera from the foam produced by Uranus's genitals, which his son Cronus had severed and thrown into the sea.

In Homer's Iliad, however, she is the daughter of Zeus and Dione. Plato, in his Symposium 180e, asserts that these two origins actually belong to separate entities: Aphrodite Ourania (a transcendent, "Heavenly" Aphrodite) and Aphrodite Pandemos (Aphrodite common to "all the people"). Aphrodite had many other epithets, each emphasizing a different aspect of the same goddess, or used by a different local cult. Thus she was also known as Cytherea (Lady of Cythera) and Cypris (Lady of Cyprus), because both locations claimed to be the place of her birth.

In Greek mythology, Aphrodite was married to Hephaestus, the god of fire, blacksmiths and metalworking. Aphrodite was frequently unfaithful to him and had many lovers; in the Odyssey, she is caught in the act of adultery with Ares, the god of war. In the First Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite, she seduces the mortal shepherd Anchises. Aphrodite was also the surrogate mother and lover of the mortal shepherd Adonis, who was killed by a wild boar. Along with Athena and Hera, Aphrodite was one of the three goddesses whose feud resulted in the beginning of the Trojan War and she plays a major role throughout the Iliad. … “ Wikipedia

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More boss lady driving her point home from the rear and the rear of her satyr/horse …

- That could be any of Cardinal Richelieu’s Roman statutes of Dionysus in the Lourve - all female with a phallus attached - Some Roman statues of Aphrodite are even more explicit - with full female erections …

Without Hephaestus that volcanic sexual energy is not possible …

In west Africa Hephaestus is Ogun or Gu - the same god that banished the mermaids …

My volcano nightmares probably mean he has awoken …

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A roaring boss lady driving her point home in the rear of her satyr/horse …

That’s the roar of the Dionysus lion! … The roar of the samba revels!

Dionysus lion sex -or Roman matron female phallus sex was compared by Roman poets to stripping a tree of it’s bark - or sheep-shearing - The penis locked Roman man - or dog-leash tan Roman satyr/horse had a continuing need for relief from the rear!

And I’m sure it always degenerated to myth Myrrha sex - young female lions riding the aging Silenus Roman male …

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Cut Grass

Cut grass lies frail:
Brief is the breath
Mown stalks exhale.
Long, long the death
It dies in the white hours
Of young-leafed June
With chestnut flowers,
With hedges snowlike strewn,
White lilac bowed,
Lost lanes of Queen Anne's lace,
And that high-builded cloud
Moving at summer's pace.

Philip Larkin (June 1971)

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Temple of Hephaestus - Centaurs, Athens, Greece - c. 500 BC

Those might be the satyr/horses that escorted the lame volcano god into Olympus …

Their sexual energy ignited the sexual fires of the Temple of Aphrodite when Zeus married her off to Hephaestus after Hephaestus freed the queen of Heaven - Hera - from her prison/throne of gold …

“ .. The Temple of Hephaestus … , is a well-preserved Greek temple dedicated to Hephaestus; it remains standing largely intact today. It is a Doric peripteral temple, and is located at the north-west side of the Agora of Athens, on top of the Agoraios Kolonos hill.  …” Wikipedia

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Nude Female Dionysus with a phallus and a wine cup riding a centaur chariot pulled by an old Centaur -

That’s myth Myrrha sex - the young Dionysus female lion sexing the older Silenus from the rear with a mentule!

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*Detail of a Dionysiac sarcophagus from Rome depicting a thiasos, c. 160-180 AD

“ … In Greek mythology[and religion, the thiasus, was the ecstatic retinue of Dionysus, often pictured as inebriated revelers. Many of the myths of Dionysus are connected with his arrival in the form of a procession. The grandest such version was his triumphant return from "India", which influenced symbolic conceptions of the Roman triumph and was narrated in rapturous detail in Nonnus' Dionysiaca. In this procession, Dionysus rides a chariot, often drawn by big cats such as tigers, leopards, or lions, or alternatively elephants or centaurs.

The thiasos of the sea god Poseidon is depicted as a triumphal wedding procession with Amphitrite, attended by figures such as sea nymphs and hippocamps.

In historical Greek society, thiasoi … were religious organizations whose existence was protected by law.

… The most significant members of the thiasus were the human female devotees, the maenads, who gradually replaced immortal nymphs. In Greek vase-paintings or bas-reliefs, lone female figures can be recognized as belonging to the thiasus by their brandishing the thyrsos, the distinctive staff or rod of the devotee.

Other regulars of the retinue were various nature spirits, including the sileni (or human dancers costumed as such), phalluses much in evidence, satyrs, and Pan. The ithyphallic sileni are often shown dancing on vase paintings.[The tutor of Dionysus is represented by a single aged Silenus. The retinue is sometimes shown being brought before a seated recipient: the tragic human welcomer of the gift of wine, Ikarios or Semachos, and his daughter, Erigone. In the triumphal form of procession, Ariadne sometimes rides with Dionysus as his consort. Heracles followed the thiasus for a short while following his loss of a drinking contest to Dionysus.

On the 6th-century BC François Vase, Dionysus is accompanied in procession by the three Horae….” Wikipedia

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Marriage of Ariadne and Dionysus

Mosaic of marriage of Dionysus and Ariadne- c.200 AD, Museum of Shahba, Hauran, Syria

But no dog-leash tans! Those are two women getting married ….

Dionysus was a Tribade or phallic Greek woman …

Her older bald and bearded and dog-leash tanned satyr/horse is sitting submissively at her feet - like he submitted sexually to her mentule!

Roman marriage was described as men “taking the halter” - like a horse … No children! In upper class Rome - The roman marriage forced adulthood on women - they could not fall back on “safer” models that encourage women to remain within the no-sex zone of childhood …

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More boss lady riding a penis caged satyr/horse in a large black mentule …

Looks like Dionysus - married to Ariadne was a lesbian1 But a phallic lesbian or Tribade who also liked sodomizing men … or satyr/horses !

Ovid describes the festival of Bacchus - where the nymphs were able to generate lustful fire in even old horses like Silenus:

“Naiades were there . . . Some generate tender fires inside the Satyri … They inflame you, too, Silenus; your lust can't be quenched, lechery will not allow you to be old”

How that was done is not described but from Martial that was probably female fondling of penis caged genitals followed by the insertion of the female mentule in the satyr rears: - that’s the volcanic fire of Hephaestus

Ovid, Fasti 1. 391 ff (trans.Boyle) (Roman poetry c.1st B.C. to 1st A.D.) :

"You were holding, Greece, the feast of grape-crowned Bacchus [Dionysos], celebrated by custom each third winter. The gods who serve Lyaeus [Dionysos] also attended and whoever is not hostile to play, namely Panes and young Satyri and goddesses who haunt streams and lonely wilds. Old Silenus came, too, on a sway-backed donkey, and the red-groined terror of timid birds [Priapos]. They discovered a grove suitable for party pleasures and sprawled on grass-lined couches. Liber [Dionysos] supplied wine . . . Naiades were there . . . Some generate tender fires inside the Satyri, others in you, whose brow is bound with pine [Pan]. They inflame you, too, Silenus; your lust can't be quenched, lechery will not allow you to be old . . . Priapos attempts to rape Lotis in her sleep. Then look, the donkey, Silenus' mount, brays loudly, and emits untimely blasts from its throat. The terrified Nympha leaps up, fends Priapus off, and awakens the whole grove with her flight." Theoi

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More boss lady riding a penis caged satyr/horse in a large black mentule …

The elderly Silenus was the custodian of the cult of Dionysus - the young girl he raised from birth - That’s an Amazon father/daugter pairing - the phallic daughter ruling over the penis restrained father - Her phallic energy was actually derived from that very cage - the “Venus furnace”

The female phallus was probably the same as the serpents twined around thyrsoi as described here - they were for use as girdles - Girdles being an Amazon code for the virgin belt unbuckled by the father of the Amazon:

“ … and thee are serpents, some of which are twined about the thyrsoi and others, in a drunken sleep, are at the disposal of the Bakkhantes (Bacchantes) for use as girdles. … “

Philostratus the Elder, Imagines 2. 17 (trans. Fairbanks) (Greek rhetorician c.l3rd A.D.) :
"[From a description of an ancient Greek painting :] Canopied with ivy and bryony and grape-vines, this next island claims to be dedicated to Dionysos, but adds that Dionysos in now absent, doubtless reveling somewhere on the mainland, having entrusted to Seilenos (Silenus) the sacred objects of the place; these objects are yonder cymbals lying upside down, and golden mixing-bowls overturned, and flutes still warm, and drums lying silent; the west wind seems to lift the fawn-skins from the ground; and thee are serpents, some of which are twined about the thyrsoi and others, in a drunken sleep, are at the disposal of the Bakkhantes (Bacchantes) for use as girdles. Of the clusters of grapes some are ripe to bursting, some are turning dark, some are still green, and some appear to be budding, since Dionysos has cunningly fixed the seasons of the vines so that he may gather a continuous harvest . . . You are bold enough, my boy, not to fear even the Seilenos that guards the island, though he is both drunken and is trying to seize a Bakkhante. She, however, does not deign to look at him, since she loves Dionysos." Theoi

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More boss lady riding a penis caged satyr/horse in a large black mentule …

Dionysus was a Daimon who was worshipped in formal prayer - My feeling is this page has a lot of help from that Daimon - the flow of ideas is not mine at all … although it makes sense in retrospect!

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Orphic Hymn 54 to Silenus
(trans. Taylor) (Greek hymns c.3rd B.C. to 2nd A.D.) :

"To
Silenos (Silenus),
Satyros (Satyr),
Bakkhai (Bacchae),
Fumigation from Manna.
Great nurse of Bakkhos (Bacchus),
to my prayer incline,
Silenos,
honoured by
the powers divine;
and by mankind
the triennial feast
[of Dionysos]
illustrious Daimon,
reverenced as the best:
holy,
august,
the source of
lawful rites,
phrenetic power,
whom vigilance
delights;
surrounded by
the nurses
[of Dionysos]
young
and fair,
Naiades
and Bakkhai
who ivy bear,
with all thy
Satyroi
on our
incense
shine,
Daimones
wild-formed,
and bless
the rites
divine."

Orphic Hymn 54 to Silenus

Theoi

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Boss lady and the unbuckled venus girdle being orally serviced by a satyr/horse - As can be seem above the amazon girdle or belt was associated with the snake that wound around the Thyrsus of Dionysus.

“ … and thee are serpents, some of which are twined about the thyrsoi and others, in a drunken sleep, are at the disposal of the Bakkhantes (Bacchantes) for use as girdles. … “ Philostratus the Elder, Imagines 2. 17 (trans. Fairbanks) (Greek rhetorician c.l3rd A.D.) 

There is a Marcus Aurelius coin with this image - a girl with a very large erect phallus. Satyrs serviced that female phallus while in the bronze fibula or penis cage … Its counter-intuitive but that’s how it was done!

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The male phallus was not in action during the rites of Dionysus - The satyr/horses were support only - as this poem suggests - The old man says he will dance like Silenus since his fennel-stick - or Thyrsus - or phallus - was useless - or bound …

The Anacreontea, Fragment 47 (trans. Campbell, Vol. Greek Lyric II) (c.5th B.C.) :

"I am
an old man,
but I drink
more than
the youngsters;
and if I have
to dance, I
shall imitate
Seilenos (Silenus)
and dance
in the middle
of the ring,
with my
wine-flask
as my support
since my
fennel-stick
is useless."

The Anacreontea, Fragment 47

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The grapes of Dionysus were the Maenads which were in a constant state of ripening all year round:

“ … Of the clusters of grapes some are ripe to bursting, some are turning dark, some are still green, and some appear to be budding, since Dionysos has cunningly fixed the seasons of the vines so that he may gather a continuous harvest . . .”
Philostratus the Elder, Imagines 2. 17 (trans. Fairbanks) (Greek rhetorician c.l3rd A.D.)

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Attic Black Figure Amphora - Attributed to the Amasis Painter - c. 530 - 520 B.C. - Martin von Wagner Museum, Würzburg

Older nude bearded and pug nosed or black African satyr/horses with large but phimosis blocked erections making wine from grapes. - Amasis was an Egyptian or Nysan name

The grapes were maenads in various states of sexual ripeness - from sexually green children to sexually ripe virile and phallic Amazons - That was the whole point of the Dionysus revels - taming and harnessing the female “id” … Nysan men clearly men desired phallic Amazon sex ! The tribade Amazon Dionysus provided that service …

In the Lysistrata Greek women were fanatic about those once in every three years Dionysus festivals - Those large erections were part of it - but that’s misleading, the greek male phallus was locked - Those are what Roman women called phimosis blocked “hares” - which meant the Dionysus or Venus furnace was on …

“ … CALONICE
My dear Lysistrata,
why have you asked the women to meet here?
What’s going on? Is it something big?
LYSISTRATA
It’s huge.
CALONICE
And hard as well?
LYSISTRATA
Yes, by god, really hard.
CALONICE
Then why aren’t we all here?
LYSISTRATA
I don’t mean that!
If that were it, they’d all be charging here so fast.
No. It’s something I’ve been playing with—
wrestling with for many sleepless nights.
CALONICE
If you’ve been working it like that, by now
it must have shrivelled up. … “

Aristophanes "Lysistrata" Translated by Ian Johnston (2008)

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 “ … A group of Silens (or Lenae) produce wine--one picks grapes from a vine, another casts them into a vat, a third treads the trough, a fourth plays a double-flute, and the fifth pours the juice into a pithos jar for fermentation. The Silens are depicted as plump, old men with pug noses, assine ears and tails, and large, erect members. … “ Theoi

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Attic Red Figure Krater - Attributed to Myson - c. 490 - 480 B.C. - Martin von Wagner Museum, Würzburg

A bearded and clothed Dionysus with a wine cup dances with two nude, bearded and pug nose or black African satyr/horses with large but phimosis blocked erections

If Dionysus was male he would be naked. Dionysus was a phallic female Amazon …

This nude male dancing with fibula locked erections or hares was probably the centerpiece of the Dionysus revels … The blocked erections meant that the gentle Silenus “fire” that Ovid was talking about above was “on” … Martial makes it clear that the maenads demanded that fire !

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“ … Dionysus with drinking cup (krater) and horn (rhyton) is accompanied by a pair of dancing Satyrs….” Theoi

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Silver coin Thrace, Greece - 463-455 BC of a nude bearded pug nosed or black African Silenus or satyr/horse with a large erection carrying away a maenad.

That’s a blocked erection or “hare” - the head of the phallus or glans is sealed up by the bronze fibula - Nude black men with large but blocked erections were the fire of early Greek Dionysus revels.

Rear of this silver coin has a swastika - Swastika is also on the foreheads of some female busts of Dionysus

Fire from the hills of Nysa - which was reputed to be above the headwaters of the Nile - Good chance that’s the highlands of modern Ethiopia - and maybe even further south …

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Silver coin Thrace, Greece - 463-455 BC - Martin von Wagner Museum, Universität Würzburg, Würzburg

“Nude Silenus advancing right, with long hair and beard, carrying off in his arms a nymph with long hair, wearing garment, raising her right hand in protest.” cn coin 21264, in: Corpus Nummorum

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Black Africans lit the Greek flame - that’s the meaning of the Hephaestus or volcano god myth. Dionysus, a deity from Nysa, convinced the volcano god to release his mother, the queen of heaven, Hera from her throne of gold/prison.

The volcano or fire icon in Greece was black African … The centaurs of the Temple of Hephaestus in Athens were almost certainly the African satyr/horses of Dionysus …

(June 21, 2022) Recent thought form about the Africans of the Temple of Hephaestus

“ … This story
shall the good man
teach his son;
And Crispin Crispian
shall ne'er go by,
From this day
to the
ending of the world,
But we in it
shall be
remember'd;
We few,
we happy few,
we band
of brothers;
For he to-day
that sheds his blood
with me
Shall be
my brother
be he
ne'er so vile,
This day
shall gentle
his condition:
And gentlemen
in England
now a-bed
Shall think
themselves
accursed
they were
not here,
And hold
their manhoods
cheap
whiles any
speaks
That fought
with us
upon Saint Crispin's day. … “

Henry V, Act IV Scene 3 by William Shakespeare

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Satyr and Maenad withThyrsoi, Attic red-figure kantharos , c.460 BC , Cabinet des médailles, Paris - by the Penthesilea Painter

Two Sileni - or nude bearded pug nosed or black Africans in tight penis cages escort a Maenad on a Dionysan revel

The black men of Nysa were in the locked phallus - which like in Rome and Greece meant raging female libido and even the female phallus in the male rear !

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Boss lady about to mount a caged black satyr/horse in restraints

In Africa that was the icon of the sphinx - The sphinx is female and phallic - Sekhmet-Min.

That energy is still available to me in the dream state - although it has disappeared from a world today that worships at Hera’s throne of gold …

That’s also the energy of the Brazilian samba/carnaval

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Boss lady about to mount a caged black satyr/horse in restraints - The horse has the all important “hare”

- Roman matrons demanded that … It wasn’t simply good enough to submit to the female mentule - the heat had to be on!

- That’s why there was a tradition of “hare hunting” in Greece and Rome - the male heat was stubborn - Because of the penis cage, when it came on it was on for hours on end … The Dionysan revels were fueled by that fire …

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Silver Coin or Stater with Satyr and Maenad - Greek (Macedonian) - 530–480 BC - The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

An ancient black African “hare” or fibula blocked erection in an Dionysus revel in ancient Greece …

My guess is that’s a father/daughter ritual transfer of phallic power - There is a similar Pompeii fresco above…

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Silver Coin or Stater with stater with ithyphallic satyr and Maenad - Greek, Thrace, Thasos - c. 470-463 BC

Nude muscular satyr horse with a large but phimosis blocked erection dancing with a maenad in his arms …

Swastika banner on back side of coin - Speculation is that’s a symbol from Babylon - However, the satyr/horse is probably black African like many other examples. The swastika may have African roots

“ … Thasos, located on the island of the same name, concealed important metal mines which aroused the covetousness of its neighbours. During the Persian Wars (490-480 BC.), it was occupied by the Persians which could explain the use of the Babylonian standard. In 463 BC, conquered by Cimon, it fell under the control of Athens and followed its destiny. The city only regained its independence in 411 BC. … “ CGB Numismatique Paris

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Silver Coin or Stater with ithyphallic satyr and Maenad - Greek, Thrace, Thasos - c. 525-463 BC

Nude muscular satyr horse with a large but phimosis blocked erection dancing with a maenad in his arms … Swastika on back of coin

“ … GREEK COINS
Islands off Thrace, Thasos
Stater circa 525-463, AR 9.38 g. Naked ithyphallic satyr supporting nymph under thighs with r. arm, the l. hand under her back. Rev. Quadripartite incuse square. Svoronos pl. 10, 8. Asyut 117. Dewing 1313.
Superb light iridescent tone, almost invisible porosities, otherwise extremely fine
Ex NFA XVIII, 1987, 89, and Leu 72, 1998, 149 sales. … “ Numismatica Ars Classica

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Silver Coin or Stater with stater with ithyphallic satyr and Maenad - Greek, - c. 525-480 BC

Another father/daughter ritual transfer of phallic power -
similar to Pompeii fresco above

Phimosis blocked erection on standing nude bearded and muscular satyr/horse … Daughter looks black African …

Cited in “Ancient Man and His First Civilization, Black Mediterranean History, via Coin and Pottery”

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Head of Dionysus/ Hellenistic Greek, 2nd-1st century B.C.

Bronze Greek Female Dionysus bust with three swastika’s on her head band.

That’s a swastika on the coins - not a “ Quadripartite incuse square” as stated in coin collections.

My guess is that was the symbol of ancient Nysa

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Maenads presenting a hare to Dionysus -

The hare being code for the phallic energy of an erect phallus under the control of the Maenad … Catullus tells is that Roman matrons presented votive offerings of Roman phalli to Venus in hope of the succesful fires of eros

Dionysus is black skinned - taken to mean African by  “Ancient Man and His First Civilization, Black Mediterranean History, via Coin and Pottery”

The dark skin also meant dog leash tan - found on men with caged phalli only

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Boss lady riding a caged satyr/horse .

That was Dionysus sex after capturing the “hare” or phimosis - blocked erection: Thats the lion or panther fire energy and the serpent energy of the Thrysus …

 

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Silver Coin or Stater with stater with ithyphallic satyr and Maenad - Greek, Thrace, Thasos - c. 435-410 BC. Swastika on back side

All Greek satyrs were nude and penis restrained horses. And like horses they were haltered and ridden from behind by phallic Greek matrons. Greek men were eromenos or sexually passive to their erastes or sexually dominant Greek women riders

I’m sure regular sex occurred - but the man who has spent a lifetime in the sexual truss is going to prefer the services of the phallic woman - That was whole body sex, as opposed to genital only regular sex

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“ … Pleasing Classical Style
THRACIAN ISLANDS. Thasos. Ca. 435-410 BC. AR stater (23mm, 7.47 gm).  Nude satyr right, in kneeling-running position, holding draped, protesting nymph; both rendered in Classical style / Quadripartite incuse square. SNG Copenhagen 1017. Cf. Dewing 1324. Well-centered and nicely toned. Good Very Fine.

From the R.G. Collection. …”Heritage Auctions 

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Ancient Greek silver coin - stater from Thasos, Thrace - c.550 - 463 BC

“Obverse: naked ithyphallic satyr supporting nymph under thighs with right arm with the left hand under her back.
Reverse: quadripartite incuse square.” gemmenummarie

Another Silver Coin or Stater with a bearded muscular black African nude satyr/horse with a phimosis blocked erection running away with a maenad in his arms.

Swastika on the other side of coin. - That was probably a Greek or Cretan icon - an icon from the female bull-jumpers - Classical Greece inherited its Amazon features from the Minoans.

Penis is erect - but that’s not today’s erect - its a restrained or locked erection - or the Amazon “hare” …or Amazon fire ...

The black guys were probably Libyans or from even further south.

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Bronze statuette of an ithyphallic satyr dancing, Dodona, Greece 6th c. BC, National Archeological Museum, Athens. 

Looks like a free erection on the satyr/horse - but usually the glans does not emerge from the foreskin in these scenes - meaning the bronze restraint was still on …

I think that’s related to Hera’s curse of Priapus - he was always erect but also impotent - The fibula blocked full sexual coitus …

That was the general condition of the penis caged Roman and Greek man - all sex came from the rear in the form of Aphrodite’s phallus … That’s the only way naked Greek and Roman men could be allowed to participate in the drunken revels of Dionysus - rape of the maenads was rendered impossible by the bronze locked penis …

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Rare Egyptian penis restraint - penis sheath attached to a belt - My guess is his wife put that restrain on him - That’s the famous “Amazon girdle” … c. 2500-2350 B.C.E.

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“ …Statuette of a Male Deity
EGYPTIAN, CLASSICAL, ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN ART
On View: Old Kingdom to 18th Dynasty, Egyptian Galleries, 3rd Floor
This figure’s large wig and unusual clothing, which consists of a penis sheath attached to a belt, indicate that he is a deity, but his exact identity is uncertain. Made for either a temple or a king’s tomb, this statue was the product of a royal workshop, where very hard stone such as gneiss was finely and carefully modeled. This depiction of the god’s strong, youthful body reflects the ideal of the male form in Old Kingdom sculpture.
MEDIUM Gneiss
Place Made: Egypt
DATES ca. 2500-2350 B.C.E.
DYNASTY Dynasty 5
PERIOD Old Kingdom… “ Brooklyn Museum of Art

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The Italian Wiki says this is a woman! With an attached phallus …

My impression is the female phallus was an icon of ancient Egypt

“ …. The statuette of a divinity of a nomo (58.192) is an ancient Egyptian statue in gneiss , fragmentary, dating back to the 3rd dynasty of Egypt and depicting an Egyptian male deity , personification of one of the nomes into which the territory of ancient Egypt was divided . Finely carved from a particularly hard stone such as gneiss, it is an indication of the high artistic quality achieved during the reign of the important pharaoh Djoser (ca. 2680-2660 BC), founder of the 3rd dynasty of Egypt  .
It was found in Saqqara , in the Djoser funerary complex , where it must have been inside one of the small niches of the chapels in the courtyard dedicated to the Heb-Sed jubilee of the pharaoh. There is news, from the site, of two other statuettes of the same type and the same size. No inscription reveals the identity of the depicted subject, but iconographic considerations lead us to suppose that it is a district deity  .
The figure, missing from the knees down and leaning against a large dorsal pillar, holds a knife and has his head surmounted by a helmet-shaped wig; she wears an unusual fake penis attached to her pubis . The god's body is athletic and youthful and reflects the canon of male beauty of the Old Kingdom  … “ Wikipedia

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Attic of Amphora - Painter of Berlin 1686 - c 540 BC - Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Four nude satyrs with erect phalli and black skin in a military-like parade with two clothed Amazons or Maenads in short skirts - one black one white - Lead satyr has horse legs and a hare hanging off his erect member

Those are black Africans celebrating a Dionysus revel. The erect phalli were probably penis caged “hares” that presented the fire to the goddess - Dionysus

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Attic black-figure amphora showing Theseus and the Minotaur on both sides, 6th century BC. Artist: Painter of Berlin 1686.

Probably not Theseus - Greek heros were always painted nude ! My guess is that’s a Dionysus bull sacrifice scene - a woman cuts off the head of a bull and takes the bull phallic power - Hathor …

Six black skinned young male nudes - not erect - helping a clothed figure cut off the head and a kneeling black skinned nude male with the head of a bull …

That may be a maenad cutting off the head of the king of Thebes in a drunken revel - Usually a bull was sacrificed - but the first sacrifice was the king of Thebes who rejected the divinity of Dionysus

Both Thebes or upper Egypt and Nysa were black skinned

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Satyr running with wineskin - Red figure neck Amphora c. 480 BC - Attributed to the Berlin painter - Staatliche Antikensammlungen

Looks like a nude black African satyr/horse with a blocked erection - the penis glans has not exited the foreskin … That was goddess worship “fire” - but also the fires that animated the Roman and Greek matrons … Coitus was female dildo in the male rear as in the Priapea or the Satyricon

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Unintended eros to the sacrifice of the Theban king above - That was my subjective impression … Human sacrifice is a source of eros unfortunately …

That’s a disturbing thought ... In America human sacrifice is ancient - the Aztecs left a human sacrifice “demiurge" - I think that demiurge is still active … Slavery was one form - but you can argue that abortion is another form … I can’t see any other reason for the passion for abortion in an anti-sex world - it’s hard enough just to have a natural baby….

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Egyptian terracotta figure of an ithyphallic Harpocrates - Roman Egypt c. 1st century AD

“…. The young god depicted nude, with a large phallus, seated on a draped throne, wearing the nemes headdress surmounted by a hemhem-crown, with his left arm held by his side, his right arm raised up in blessing, a frieze of uraei above, a circular vent hole at the back … “ christies

My belief is that’s a large Roman female phallus - or dildo - Harpocrates is female not male - She has the female sidelock of youth and there are other indicators that she is female

- For example Roman poets wrote that the sexual affairs of Roman matrons were protected by the silence of Harpocrates. And generally speaking the Egyptian male phallus was like the male Greek and Roman phallus - small and tightly caged not large and proudly hanging …

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Boss lady diving from the rear of a penis caged slave …

That’s Dionysus sex - or Tribade sex - but also Harpocrates sex and Aphrodite sex and Apollo sex and Helios sex- The greco roman goddesses had large phalli! And the greco roman gods were all tightly penis caged …

Effortlessly superior sex - but always forced down into the shadowlands …

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An erect Shiva - India, Uttar Pradesh, 3rd century AD, Sandstone - Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Similar to the Harpocrates above with a large phallus - My first thought is that was an erect Hindu goddess …

Lakulisha is the exact term for this form:

Lakulisha … was a prominent Shaivite revivalist, reformist and preceptor of the doctrine of the Pashupatas, one of the oldest sects of Shaivism. ...

… The penile erection representation illustrates the centrality of the energetic principle of Urdhva Retas … practice of Brahmacarya or celibacy and the upward flow of energy in spiritual pursuits, contrary to fertility or release of vital energies. Controlling of the vital fluid, the seminal fluid, is thought to entail control of all passions and the achievement of desirelessness through the practice of Asceticism and Yogic Sadhana, leads to supreme mystical cognition or samadhi. Lakulisha stands on top of a Apasmara (demon) dwarf, who symbolizes spiritual ignorance, greed, sensual desires or Kama and nonsensical speech on the spiritual path, hence must be subdued in spiritual pursuits.


The Urdhva linga … , pointing upward, conveys not only the retention of the seed once "stirred" but its upward condition, "through the spinal cord to the brain", retaining its integrity as 'creative substance', while being transformed and absorbed mentally as Bodhicitta, the "thought of Awakening". The symbol of the ascent and transmutation of vital energy (sexual energy) into mental power, a channeling of the procreative into creative faculty, is artistically seen as tantric realization in Mukhalinga or "face-linga", the two overlapping components forming a visual unity, states Kramrisch.


According to Stella Kramrisch, the pictorial rendering of the ascent of the vital energy should not be mistaken for fertility or sexuality. Lakulisa, who is an ascetic manifestation of Shiva, is seen in later peninsular Indian scriptures, whose ithyphallic aspects connotes asceticism and conserved procreative potentialities … , rather than mere eroticism. The ithyphallic representation of the erect shape connotes the very opposite in this context, as it stands for "seminal retention", and represents Lakulisha as "he stands for the complete control of the senses, and for the supreme carnal renunciation". In the path of Brahmacarya, Asceticism or, Sannyasa, the Yogi does not deny sexual urges, rather transforms the sexual energies and directs it away from procreation and pleasure towards intuited wisdom, towards freedom and bliss. … “ Wikipedia

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*(June 27, 2022) I have to disagree about pleasure or Kama - no Kama no erection ! Kama is one of the four pillars of Hinduism - there is nothing wrong with it so long as it does not conflict with the other three - material prosperity, Dharma or moral life, and transcendence -

No Kama, no pleasure , no energy- no transcendance

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British Museum version of the erect Shiva or phallic goddess …

Like the Roman Egyptian Harpocrates - my eye sees an erect goddess …

“ … Standing figure of a Saiva deity, probably Candesa, carved in brown sandstone. He is shown with two arms, holding a club and rosary; on either side male personifications Siva's trident, below under foot a recumbent figure of Apasmara; abraded and flaked at the bottom; broken at the top. .. “ c.700AD , India

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Erect Shiva or phallic goddess - Shree Ananteswara Deula, c..800AD , India

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Erect Shiva or phallic goddess - Shree Ananteswara Deula, c..800AD , India

Ancient India was practicing penis caging - I read the Bhudda’s phallus was not perceptible

“ … As sutta students are well aware of and somewhat embarrassed about, the suttas depict the Buddha as possessing 32 special marks, regarded as signs of a Great Man. Most of these are visible to a careful observer, but two are hidden: the nature of his penis, and the size of his tongue.


When the Buddha realizes that someone wants to check out his equipment, he uses his psychic powers to reveal his genitals to that person. As respectful as we would like to be when discussing the Buddha, it is a little hard to take this seriously.
Now, almost all translators have rendered the description of the great man’s penis as being “enclosed in a sheath” or something similar. This is based on the commentary, which says:


Kosohiteti vatthikosena paticchanne


“In a sheath” means hidden by a sheath-sack
Here, the word vatthi usually means “bladder”, so here it clearly means a bag of skin. Whether this is like a super-foreskin or an extended scrotum, I will leave to your imagination. … “

discourse April 2017 - sujato, The politics of the Buddha’s genitals

- One side of that is what they had in Rome - Raging female libido - and the female phallus …

Early Bhuddist sculptures are all very sensuous - with large and erect breasts for even holy figures like the mother of Bhuddha …

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Lakulisha at Sangameshvara Temple at Mahakuta, Karnataka c. 7th century AD

“ … Lakulisha has been deified as an incarnation of Shiva, and is represented in front of the linga in the 6th to 8th centuries and also in the medieval period in temples of Kayavarohana and Timberva in Gujarat. These icons are some more examples of iconic, image-lingas. D.R. Bhandarkar in op cit mentions that the image in the sanctum of the Lakulishvara temple in Karvan is "the conjoint figure of Brahmeshvara and Lakulisha, confirming the statement of the Mahatmya that Lakulisha merged himself with Brahmeshvara". Brahmeshvara refers to the Shiva-linga. Lakulisha was identified with Mahesha (Shiva) in the Karvan Mahatmya and in iconographical programmes of several temples of Orissa and Rajasthan. So the images of Lakulisha conjoint with the linga, like other image-lingas, combine both the sakala (with form, manifest) and nishkala (formless, unmanifest) aspects of Shiva.

Lakulisha images have also been found in Saurastra, Gujarat, and also in some parts of the eastern India. Some of the images depict Lakulisha as a naked yogi and he carries prayer beads, a club, a cup of human skull. Lakulisha is shown as accompanied by animals. Almost all of Lakulisha’s images appear as urdhav-linga (with an erect penis) but neither symbolizing fertility nor sexuality, but the refined energetic principles (Urdhva Retas) during S?ya?a or Asceticism.

Image of Lakulisha have been found depicted on the walls of the large hall at Elephanta Caves, suggesting that the caves may have been associated with Pashupata Shaivism. Icons of Lakulisha have also been found on the Laxmaneswar group of Temples at Bhubaneswar, namely, the Satrughneswar, Bharateswar and Laxmaneswara temples.

Lakulisha carvings are also found on Kudavelly Sangameswara and Balabrahmeswara Swamy temples at Alampur, Gadwal Jogulamba district, Telangana. … “ Wikipedia

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The authority is that’s an erect male phallus - but the subjective image of an erect goddess persists … The tenth physical mark of the Buddha was “a well-retracted male organ” - which probably meant a penis restraint - As in Rome the opposite of that was the erect female phallus

I was surprised that the 29th mark of the Buddha was “Eyes deep blue” - That’s unexpected for Asia …

“ … The Buddha is traditionally regarded as having the Thirty-two Characteristics of a Great Man (Skt. mahapurusa laksana). These thirty-two characteristics are also regarded as being present in cakravartin kings as well

The Digha Nikaya, in the "Discourse of the Marks" … (DN 30) enumerates and explains the 32 characteristics.These are also enumerated in the Brahmayu Sutta of the Majjhima Nikaya (MN 91).

It is generally held, including by Bhikkhu Analayo, that the 32 marks are a later addition. Texts such as the Dona sutta (AN4:36) mention seeing one of the marks in the footprint, but comparative studies do not include the wheel mark itself.

The suttas often state these are recognisable by Brahmins trained in such prognostication of a mahapurisa (a great man) who would be either a Buddha or a wheel turning monarch. There is no reference to non-Brahmins seeing them, in fact in several places in the Suttas, such as in the Samaññaphala Sutta (DN2), the protagonists could not recognise the Buddha when surrounded by other monks, showing a normality in physical appearance (which would certainly not be the case if the 32 marks were present).


Possessing these marks is therefore seen in these suttas as an expert qualification from Brahmins of the Buddha's authenticity and status, and therefore a converting tool to the Brahmin orthodoxy. Unfortunately, there does not appear to be any clear connection to Vedic or Vedanta texts that would show this to be the case. More investigation is required to give evidence of the 32 marks as recorded as being sourced from Brahmanical or Vedic tradition.


Since early statues and icons of the Buddha do not seem to have these features, it has been proposed by Bhikkhu Analayo that some may have in fact formed from the stonemason or sculptor, particularly the webbed fingers which would protect the delicate fingers of the statues from damage. The fleshy protuberance of the head likewise originally being just a stylistic representation of a top-knot of hair, a common feature of Indian holy men.

It is presently speculative whether the statues were later built with the 32 marks in mind, so that should a qualified Brahmin seeing a statue displaying such characteristics, the Brahmin would want to know to whom the statue represents and be interested in Buddhism. It is likewise speculative later Buddhists produced such iconography to reflect the trend from the Lakkhana Sutta as being a genuine necessity, or that they in fact took symbolic representation of the marks as a means of recollection (Buddhanussati). There are no texts or commentaries to suggest these proposals, however future comparative studies may provide esoteric evidence. …. “ Wikipedia

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Sadashiva  7th Century AD Pakistan - similar to Lakulisha and same time period

“ … For the Shaivites,  the worshipers of Lord Shiva, He is the Supreme God. He manifests the Hindu Trinity of the creator, the maintainer and the destroyer. These are the aspect of any god. For, this is the process of life and death, the life story of the universe. 

Interestingly, He holds a trident (a trishul) symbol of three stages of our mind: the conscious,  the sub - conscious,  and the unconscious.  He holds a rosary; the symbol of meditation.  He holds a water pot; symbol of life. He rests a hand on his vehicle, Nandi,  the bull;  symbol of unruly Nature both within and without us. He also displays an erect phallus;  symbol of the productive power of Nature. Without production and reproduction,  the universe would be extinct. This is a highly philosophical sculpture. 

Indian art is littered in Afghanistan and Pakistan as it was once part of Indian empire. We may have redrawn the map, but the cultural currents continue to flow on both the sides of the border. Lord Shiva teaches us to break the barriers of our mind and to behold the divine vision. But the first step is to see the unity in humanity itself. … “ arttreasuresindia

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There is facial hair on this statue so it’s male. But I still think many phallic statues from this time period are similar or the same to the phallic goddesses of the greco-Roman world

The west African Legba is also male - but I have examples on this website where Legba is a female

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Many Hindu gods are much darker skinned than their mates - the answer to that is the penis cage or what Buddha had - a “well-retracted male organ” - Or the penis cage and the “dog-leash tan”- In those situations the erect phallus of Legba becomes female not male

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Wooden statuette of an Egyptian Ithyphallic Deity with four bull heads, Late period, approx. 724-332 BC, Kunsthistorisches Museum , Vienna

A sexually aroused bull deity - Fairly sure that’s an Egyptian priestess not priest ! The phallus was female in ancient Egypt - the homeland of the life-long male penis cage - That’s probably an amorous Hathor - The missing phallus is probably the Roman “mentule” for use in the rear of penis caged Roman men …

The head is Hathor but the pose is classic Min - So it’s a Min-Hathor! A phallic Hathor or the female phallus …

- Eros in ancient Egypt has been scrubbed ! Sexuality was considered demeaning and lower class to the early explorers of the Nile

Probably a black African priestess - the 26th dynasty of ancient Egypt was black African

“ … This [26th] dynasty traced its origins to the Twenty-fourth Dynasty. Psamtik I was probably a descendant of Bakenranef.
Following the Assyrian conquest of Egypt by the Neo-Assyrian Empire during the reigns of Taharqa and Tantamani, and the subsequent collapse of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt, Psamtik I was recognized as sole king over all of Egypt. Psamtik formed alliances with King Gyges of Lydia, who sent him mercenaries from Caria and ancient Greece which Psamtik used to unify all of Egypt under his rule.

With the sack of Nineveh in 612 BC and the fall of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, both Psamtik and his successors attempted to reassert Egyptian power in the Near East, but were driven back by the Neo-Babylonian Empire under Nebuchadnezzar II. With the help of Greek mercenaries, Pharaoh Apries was able to hold back Babylonian attempts to conquer Egypt.


The Persians would eventually invade Egypt in 525 BCE, when their king, Cambyses II, captured and later executed Psamtik III, in the Achaemenid conquest of Egypt, eventually founding the Achaemenid Twenty-seventh Dynasty of Egypt. … “ Wikipedia

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Roman Egyptian Limestone Ithyphallic Harpocrates

“… Egypt, Romano-Egyptian Period, ca. 30 BCE to 2nd century CE. A finely preserved figure of Harpocrates (literally "Horus the child") seated nude atop an integral rectangular plinth. Harpocrates sits with bent legs and holds his enormous phallus with both hands while draping it across both shoulders. His face stares outwards with wide, almond-shaped eyes and displays full lips, petite ears, and a broad nose. Harpocrates was the god of silence, secrets, and confidentiality, and the ithyphallic symbols were perceived in the Roman period as a good luck charm, specifically for bringing about good fortune. … “ Artemis gallery, invaluable

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Harpocrates is female, not male - That was the phallic power of the Roman matron! Roman men considered the loose and large phallus as the sign of the barbarian - or the “keep it silent” Harpocrates Roman matron!

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The general driving her point home from the rear of an old penis caged slave … or a youthful Hathor-Min over the bald and penis caged older priest - That’s classic Egyptian sex.

But after the 26th dynasty - also 27th dynasty or Babylonian sex - Innana was fully compatible with the Hathor-Min female phallus cult …

One of the first temples the 27th dynasty Persian pharaohs built was to Mut the phallic wife of Amun who is depicted in a phallic pose similar to Hathor - Min … Brutal Persian military power was clearly not incompatibe with the female phallus …

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More of the general driving her point from the rear of an old penis caged slave -

That’s what the Greeks and Romans inherited from their conquest of Egypt - More Persian Innana sex than Egyptian sex - That’s why all Roman sex leads to Innana not ancient African goddesses …

The Brahmins of ancient India came out of this Persian culture of female phallus sex - The Buddha himself was an Aryan royal prince and had one son before leaving the palace life - Buddha had  “a well-retracted male organ” like all Brahmin men - which implies the female phallus!

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"Ancient Egyptian goddess Mut, mother of the gods and queen of the goddesses, illustration from the book 'Pantheon Egyptien' by Leon Jean Joseph Dubois, 1824. " - alamy

Mut is always Ithyphallic - which is a contradiction for a goddess! But that was the supreme goddess that the Persian conquerors of ancient Egypt worshipped … And Greece and Rome after them …

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*“ … Mut, also known as Maut and Mout, was a mother goddess worshipped in ancient Egypt. Her name means mother in the ancient Egyptian language. Mut had many different aspects and attributes that changed and evolved a lot over the thousands of years of ancient Egyptian culture.

Mut was considered a primal deity, associated with the primordial waters of Nu from which everything in the world was born. Mut was sometimes said to have given birth to the world through parthenogenesis, but more often she was said to have a husband, the solar creator god Amun-Ra. Although Mut was believed by her followers to be the mother of everything in the world, she was particularly associated as the mother of the lunar child god Khonsu. At the Temple of Karnak in Egypt's capital city of Thebes, the family of Amun-Ra, Mut and Khonsu were worshipped together as the Theban Triad.

In art, Mut was usually depicted as a woman wearing the double crown of the kings of Egypt, representing her power over the whole of the land.
During the high point of Mut's cult, the rulers of Egypt would support her worship in their own way to emphasize their own authority and right to rule through an association with Mut. Mut was involved in many ancient Egyptian festivals such as the Opet Festival and the Beautiful Festival of the Valley. Her greatest temple was located at Karnak in Thebes. … “ Wikipedia

 

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Boss lady driving her point home to an older penis caged slave ! The Amazon way …

Bird sex - For the ancient Egyptians the supreme deity was a phallic bird - a vulture - They did not believe there were any male vultures … They were right in a way - I have video of a phallic black and white Ostrich both sexing her brown mate and also laying an egg !

“ … Mut was either depicted as a woman, sometimes with wings, or a vulture, usually wearing the crowns of royalty – she was often shown wearing the double crown of Egypt or the vulture headdress of the New Kingdom queens. Occasionally, she was depicted as a male, in part because she was “Mut, Who Giveth Birth, But Was Herself Not Born of Any”, and in part due to the superstitious belief that there were in fact no male griffon vultures (the male is almost identical in appearance to the female). In later times, Mut was depicted as a woman with the head of a lioness, a cow, or a cobra, as she took on the attributes of the other Egyptian goddesses. …” ancientegyptonline

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Mut was the phallus to the penis caged Amun! And Amun’s “son” was Dionysus - a phallic goddess … That was the way of ancient Africa, and ancient Persia and ancient India too - the Buddha himself was certainly penis caged …! That exotic energy does not emerge out of nothing - It has to be made …

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Had a waking dream during nap on way home on the subway at 730 am after working on last post - a female passenger dropped a note which I picked up and it read simply “keep working” !

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More Boss lady driving her point home to an older penis caged slave ! 

Martial Epigram XI.20

Roman sex - Martial was given the choice of either sexing Fulvia a hetaera or Tribade or fighting her !

I am certain Fulvia sodomized Martial or “buggered” him with a mentule - The caged Roman penis was to be left alone - Martial hints at that when he mentions “buggering” a man and also adding that his penis is precious to him …

Spiteful reader,
who read
Latin words
with a frown,
read these
six verses
of Augustus Caesar:
"Because Antony
fucks Glaphyra,
Fulvia fixed
this punishment
for me,
that I should
fuck her too.
That I should
fuck Fulvia?
What if Manius
begged me
to bugger him?
Would I do it?
Not if I had
any sense. '
Either fuck me
or we fight,'
she says.
What about
my prick
being dearer
to me
than life itself?
Let the
charge sound!"
You do
of course
free my
risqué books
from blame,
Augustus,
who know
how to speak
with Roman
straightforwardness. … “

translation by Nigel Kay

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“ … Glaphyra  was a hetaera, a form of courtesan, who lived in the 1st century BC. Glaphyra was famed and celebrated in antiquity for her beauty, charm and seductiveness. Her marriage to Archelaus the elder of Cappadocia gave her political power. Her later affair with Mark Antony occasioned a vulgar poem from Octavian Caesar. … “ Wikipedia

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Symposium of Hetaeras - Attic red-figure Psykter, , by Euphronios, c. 515–510 BC. BC - St. Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.

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My guess is a Hetaera was the physical avatar of a phallic goddess like Dionysus - Hetaera had the status of men as can be seen vases of nude women participating in nude intellectual wine fests or symposia … In Egypt the highest diety Mut was a phallic woman as was Cybele in Rome and Hera in Greece … The Hetaera was the phallic female deities living form

That’s why I am not sure of the few images of normal Hetaera sex with men - Greek men were locked - their phalli we not for sex but for maintaining the living fire - Maybe images of normal sex were meant to be read as the opposite - phallic Hetaera penetrating penis locked men …

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“ … Traditionally, historians of ancient Greece have distinguished between hetairai and pornai, another class of prostitute in ancient Greece. In contrast to pornai, who provided sex for numerous clients in brothels or on the street, hetairai were thought to have had only a few men as clients at any one time, to have had long-term relationships with them, and to have provided companionship and intellectual stimulation as well as sex. For instance, Charles Seltman wrote in 1953 that "hetaeras were certainly in a very different class, often highly educated women".

More recently, however, historians have questioned the extent to which there was really a distinction between hetairai and pornai. The second edition of the Oxford Classical Dictionary, for instance, held that hetaira was a euphemism for any kind of prostitute.[This position is supported by Konstantinos Kapparis, who holds that Apollodorus' famous tripartite division of the types of women in the speech Against Neaera ("We have courtesans for pleasure, concubines for the daily tending of the body, and wives in order to beget legitimate children and have a trustworthy guardian of what is at home.") classes all prostitutes together, under the term hetairai.

A third position, advanced by Rebecca Futo Kennedy, suggests that hetairai "were not prostitutes or even courtesans". Instead, she argues, hetairai were "elite women ... who participated in sympotic and luxury culture",[just as hetairoi – the masculine form of the word – was used to refer to groups of elite men at symposia.

Even when the term hetaira was used to refer to a specific class of prostitute, though, scholars disagree on what precisely the line of demarcation was. Kurke emphasises that hetairai veiled the fact that they were selling sex through the language of gift-exchange, while pornai explicitly commodified sex. Leslie Kurke claims that both hetairai and pornai could be slaves or free, and might or might not work for a pimp. Kapparis says that hetairai were high-class prostitutes, and cites Dover as pointing to the long-term nature of hetairai's relationships with individual men.[Miner disagrees with Kurke, claiming that hetairai were always free, not slaves.

Along with sexual services, women described as hetairai rather than pornai seem to have often been educated, and have provided companionship. According to Kurke, the concept of hetairism was a product of the symposium, where hetairai were permitted as sexually available companions of the male party-goers. In Athenaeus' Deipnosophistai, hetairai are described as providing "flattering and skillful conversation": something which is, elsewhere in classical literature, seen as a significant part of the hetaira's role. Particularly, "witty" and "refined" (αστε?α) were seen as attributes which distinguished hetairai from common pornai. Hetairai are likely to have been musically educated, too.

Free hetairai could become very wealthy, and control their own finances. However, their careers could be short, and if they did not earn enough to support themselves, they might have been forced to resort to working in brothels, or working as pimps, in order to ensure a continued income as they got older. …” Wikipedia

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Symposium of Hetaeras - Attic red-figure Psykter, , by Euphronios, c. 515–510 BC. BC - St. Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.

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Symposium of Hetaeras - Attic red-figure Psykter, , by Euphronios, c. 515–510 BC. BC - St. Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.

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Roman-Egyptian terracotta Baubo c.2nd century AD

“The squatting figure depicted nude save for an elaborate garland in her hair, her legs akimbo with knees bent, her right hand touching her genitals, her left hand an oversized olisbos (dildo)" Ars Amatoria: The art of love in Antiquity

“ … Baubo … is an old woman in Greek mythology which appears particularly in the myths of the early Orphic religion. Known as the goddess of mirth, she is depicted as bawdy and sexually liberated, and is said to have jested with Demeter when that god was mourning the loss of her daughter, Persephone.

In The Greek Myths (1955), Robert Graves writes that when the disguised Demeter was the guest of King Celeus in Eleusis, the king's lame maid Iambe:


... tried to console Demeter with comically lascivious verses, and a dry nurse, old Baubo, persuaded her to drink barley-water by a jest: she groaned as if in great travail and, unexpectedly, produced from beneath her skirt Demeter's own son Iacchus, who leapt into his mother's arms and kissed her.
Graves writes:

Iambe and Baubo personify the obscene songs, in iambic metre, which were sung to relieve emotional tension at the Eleusinian Mysteries; but Iambe, Demeter, and Baubo form the familiar triad of maiden, nymph, and crone. Old nurses in Greek myth nearly always stand for the goddess as crone.

The following excerpt is taken from Clement of Alexandria's Exhortation to the Greeks, from a 1919 English translation:

Baubo, having received Demeter as a guest, offers her a draught of wine and meal. She declines to take it, being unwilling to drink on account of her mourning. Baubo is deeply hurt, thinking she has been slighted, and thereupon uncovers her secret parts and exhibits them to the goddess. Demeter is pleased at the sight, and now at least receives the draught, — delighted by the spectacle! These are the secret mysteries of the Athenians! These are also the subjects of Orpheus’ poems. I will quote you the very lines of Orpheus, in order that you may have the originator of the mysteries as witness of their shamelessness: “This said, she drew aside her robes, and showed a sight of shame; child Iacchus was there, and laughing, plunged his hand below her breasts. Then smiled the goddess, in her heart she smiled, and drank the draught from out the glancing cup.”… “ Wikipedia

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That’s a scene from the temple of Innana - “who will plow my vulva?” The large dildo is locked … The Roman Egyptian “hare” or sexual fire …

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(July 2, 2022) - Dreamt of an opening on an African mountain forest lake - A higher power offered congregants the opportunity to bathe with the deity - a silvery form in the cold water - An Afro-alpine scene … I chose to take the dip … It was something like merging with the cell nuclei “midiclorians” in “Star Wars” …

“ … Midi-chlorians were microscopic, intelligent life forms that originated from the foundation of life in the center of the galaxy, and ultimately resided within the cells of all living organisms, thereby forming a symbiotic relationship with their hosts. The Force spoke through the midi-chlorians, allowing certain beings to use the Force if they were sensitive enough to its powers. …”starwars.fandom

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A monumental Etruscan terracotta votive phallus
C. 5th century BC

“… Naturalistically moulded to represent the male genitalia, the phallus with well-defined foreskin, is pierced at the tip and is partially hollow on the reverse. The phallus probably originated from Etruria. This type of object can usually be identified as a votive offering, typical of this area, the votives would have been presented in a temple in the hope of healing for that part of the body. However, the size of the piece prohibits the identification as a votive; it is more likely to have been a protective, prophylactic emblem, almost even a lucky talisman … “ Ars Amatoria: The art of love in Antiquity

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That’s a fully erect “hare” - the “venus furnace” that was demanded by amorous Roman matrons - Erect but still locked - any coitus was from the female dildo in the male rear …

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Nude hetaera with two large dildos

The assumption is those are for self pleasure - but from reading the Satyricon there were more likely for use in the rears of penis caged men - especially after the hetaera had successfully produced a “hare” or caged erection.

Below is a scene from 3rd century BC Greek Egypt when 2 women discuss the purchase of what appears to be strap on dildo. The purchaser is not shy to seduce the small bald cobbler who made the dildos and came to her home to show them. She seduced him with her naked body, kisses, alcohol and pet names - but only managed to purchase one!

I assume that was safe in Greek Egypt - which was certainly in the universal penis cage ….

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“ … Herodas Mime 6.17-19, 58-79. Herodas wrote during the 3rd century BCE in Alexandria.

The following scene involves two women Metro and Coritto discussing the procurement of dildos from a cobbler.

METRO
I beg you, don’t lie, dear Coritto: Who was the Man who stitched for you this bright red dildo?

CORITTO
I don’t know if [Cerdon] is from Chios or Erythrae; bald, small – you’d call him a right ‘Mr. Tradesman’. You’ll think you’re seeing the handiwork of Athena herself not Cerdon’s.
I – for he arrived bringing two, Metro – at the sight of them – well my eyes bulged; men can’t make their rods as rigid as this – we are alone and can be frank – and not only that, these are as soft as sleep; and the little leather straps are as soft as wool,not like leather straps at all. A kinder cobbler to a woman you’ll not find – even by putting-out.

METRO
Why then did you not take the other one as well?

CORITTO
What didn’t I do, Metro? What sort of means of persuasion did I not apply him? Kissing him, stroking his bald head, pouring out a sweet drink for him, calling him by a pet name, giving him all by my body to enjoy.

METRO
If he asked even that you ought to have given him it. … “

Herodas Mime 6.17-19, 58-79 “Sexuality in Greek and Roman Society and Literature: a Sourcebook” Marguerite Johnson, Terry Ryan (2005 ) … “

- anerdyethos

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Boss lady and a “hare” … Muscle amazon up front …

*The ultra obscene Baubo - plate 992 - triggered a super-powerful experience for me - that immersion in a cold but shimmering and luminous Afro-Alpine lake !

My guess is a similar immersion in a body of water was part of the the Eleusinian Mysteries - Persephone, goddess of spring, was picking flowers in Nysa when she was grabbed and taken to the underworld where she was forced to marry Hades.

That caused her mother Demeter, the goddess of agriculture, to kill the harvest - causing famine! Africa, a super wealthy continent, is in a permanent famine - It’s true! The ultra obsence Baubo has lifted a veil for me …

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I touched on the Nysa link on page 134 when I was studying mushrooms and Wesson’s early work on the link of mushrooms to the Eleusinian Mysteries. But Wesson failed to pick up the Nysa thread - he was explicit about having no interest in Africa ….

Dionysus was from an African space - an African mountain space - I think a good candidate is the Mount Kenya region … Unfortunately there are heavy barriers to research here - The British aristocracy forcibly removed the Africans from the mountain! And even now in independence the natives have maintained and even intensified this feeling of oppression and exclusion !

Maybe it’s like the golden throne/prison of Hera - a goddess is trapped on the African “highveld” …

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Muscle amazon has ago from the rear -

I did not imagine Athena as a sexual being - but the excerpt from 3rd century BC Alexandria, Egypt above compares a hand crafted strap on dildo made by a cobbler to the work of Athena herself! That’s new to me - Athens was - sexually at least - an penis caged Amazon city …

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Baubo is also new to me - I have seen her obscene image over may years of study - but politely moved on ... But it appears that she has generated a large amount of high end commentary …

My guess is Baubo loosens the large, erect but also caged dildo - or "hare" - that she holds by her side - That’s the energy of the “inner sun”- the “pillar of fire” of the exodus from egypt even! And that pillar of fire is also the central icon of the Victorian African Queen of Sheba myth - “She” …

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See…: “ … Baubo and the Question of the Obscene
Frederika Tevebring

In 1898, a group of German archaeologists working in the Demeter sanctuary at Priene unearthed a set of Hellenistic figurines with a peculiar and distinctive iconography. The head of each of these female figurines is placed directly onto her legs and, lacking a torso, the chin and vagina merge into one another. Each has long hair that drapes around her back, resembling a lifted veil, or skirt. “Surely we are dealing with a creation from the context of the grotesque-obscene aspects of the Demeter cult,” (Wiegand and Schraeder, 163. My translation) the excavators write in the 1904 report. The archaeologists identified this “grotesque-obscene” aspect with Baubo, and the statuettes are known as Baubo figurines.

Commenting on myths associated with the Orphic mysteries, church fathers such as Clement of Alexandria and Arnobius, tells us that Baubo received the mourning Demeter at Eleusis and coaxed the goddess out of her refusal to eat or drink by lifting her skirt and showing her ‘secret parts.’ Both the myth and the figurines have elicited responses in literary and philosophical works. Baubo appears as a witch riding to Walpurgis Night on a sow in Goethe’s Faust I. Just a few years prior to the Priene excavation, Nietzsche refers to Baubo in the opening of Die fröhliche Wissenschaft. After the publication of the excavation’s findings, Freud mentions Baubo in his 1916 “A Mythological Parallel to a Visual Obsession.” Finally, in her prolific reception in the twentieth century, Baubo has recurrently been situated as a point of departure for exploring the place—or more often the obsence­—of sexuality and the female genitals in Nietzsche studies, psychoanalysis, and the creative arts (Korfman, Gsell, Devereux, Lubell et al). Meanwhile, approaches to Baubo within ancient studies have tended to retain her characterization as grotesque-obscene, and ask if this figure is truly a product of Greek culture, or rather an import from an earlier, more eastern, or solely feminine sphere (Olender, Mylonas, Rotstein).

In responding to these complex and disparate strains of Baubo’s reception, I do not aim to solve problems of provenance or meaning. Instead, I argue that the itinerary of the Baubo statuettes from Priene to Berlin was both facilitated by and took part in a changing discourse on the role of ancient Greece for the modern nation state. I further explore how the reception of the myth of Baubo’s exposure of her genitals played a role within larger discussions of the place of the sexual and obscene in Greek art. My project responds to Page Dubois’ contribution in Sexuality in Ancient Art, in which she asks to what desire the scholar responds when attempting to piece together the fragmented bodies of ancient art, and further, if it is possible to integrate the fragmentation and dissemination of ancient art in its study, rather than seeing it as a hurdle to be overcome.

As I demonstrate, the Baubo statuettes were discovered during a period when disciplinary identities were still being formed, which would come to bear significantly upon the reception of the figurines, and upon approaches to the grotesque and obscene in ancient Greece more broadly. In the late nineteenth century, archaeology was gaining independence as an academic discipline vis-à-vis philology. The Priene dig among them, new excavations outside what was considered the ancient Greek heartland were introducing new methods of systematic archaeology. These developments were preceded by increased interest within philology to present itself as a scientific-methodological field. However, this directly conflicted with the field’s original self-justification: that ancient Greece should be studied as an aesthetic and spiritual role model for the modern state. This tension within the discipline was, I argue, never resolved, and influenced still-operative formations of the grotesque and obscene in ancient Greece. I will explore how approaching the “chaotic topography” of Baubo’s body (Olender) and her travel from Priene to the Berlin museums was imbricated within discussions of the borders and limits of ancient Greece.  … “ Frederika Tevebring

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More muscle amazon has ago from the rear - boss lady up front -

This does not exist though - eros is exclusively gay today - I can’t warm up to gay sex though …

But Dionysus was a Lesbian as I think I’ve shown above - That’s a shock to the system for the lands of the Queen of Sheba or “She” - even though before the prophet Mohammed goddess worship was all the rage in Arabia ! And often I suspect Muslims secretly or unknowingly bow down to a hidden goddess - not god …

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The resolution of the Persephone myth required the intervention of Zeus her father. Zeus however was also the lover of Persephone and had a son with her - That sounds shocking to us but was normal for ancient Egypt and Sumerians - “myth Myrrha” was once universal and contrary to modern expectations was female sexual aggression, not male!

- Zeus, in the penis cage, passed on his phallic power to Persephone in the traditional Amazon style - My guess is Persephone was the queen of the phallus in Hades - not her husband …

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“ … PERSEPHONE was the goddess queen of the underworld, wife of the god Haides (Hades). She was also the goddess of spring growth, who was worshipped alongside her mother Demeter in the Eleusinian Mysteries. This agricultural-based cult promised its initiates passage to a blessed afterlife.


Persephone was titled Kore (Core) (the Maiden) as the goddess of spring's bounty. Once upon a time when she was playing in a flowery meadow with her Nymph companions, Kore was seized by Haides and carried off to the underworld as his bride. Her mother Demeter despaired at her dissappearance and searched for her the throughout the world accompanied by the goddess Hekate (Hecate) bearing torches. When she learned that Zeus had conspired in her daughter's abduction she was furious, and refused to let the earth fruit until Persephone was returned. Zeus consented, but because the girl had tasted of the food of Haides--a handful of pomegranate seeds--she was forced to forever spend a part of the year with her husband in the underworld. Her annual return to the earth in spring was marked by the flowering of the meadows and the sudden growth of the new grain. Her return to the underworld in winter, conversely, saw the dying down of plants and the halting of growth.


In other myths, Persephone appears exclusively as the queen of the underworld, receiving the likes of Herakles and Orpheus at her court.


Persephone was usually depicted as a young goddess holding sheafs of grain and a flaming torch. Sometimes she was shown in the company of her mother Demeter, and the hero Triptolemos, the teacher of agriculture. At other times she appears enthroned beside Haides. … “ Theoi

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Boss lady from the rear …

Both Zeus and his brother Hades were being sodomized by Persephone in the Amazon style …It’s a transgressive thought that needs to come to the surface - That’s just how Amazon sex works …In Rome there were many examples of this that I can think of at the level of Ceasar! And Egypt too at the level of Pharaoh

My inner images are that Persephone preferred her life as ruler of the lower world to her role as daughter of Demeter on earth and conspired to spend half of the year there!

So in many ways the rumors that the devil in hell is female have some grounding in fact! - I already experienced this with Frigga the phallic wife of Odin … And the hyper sexual world of the “jinn” which I have first hand knowledge of leaves no doubts as to the sexual aggression of the phallic goddesses…

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Closing scene: boss lady from the rear …

That seems to be the limit of my penetration of the Eleusinian Mysteries - My dip into the cold Afro-Alpine lake could be read as the African Demeter “opening up” - after her obscene encounter with Baubo …

The images are light shooting up from the lake - and rising like the tall pines into the night sky …

And it’s true eros is closed up in Africa today - especially when you compare to the eros of Africa in the Queen of Sheba days …

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The harsh truth that needs to be spoken is the birth of Islam is the cause of the African Demeter famine - better not to dance around that issue - The prophet Mohammed was explicit in removing all traces of goddess worship ! That’s a living curse on the African people …

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Boss lady in the saddle over a penis locked horse …

Mut sex - Ancient Egypt was a man free zone! The phallus was female … Maybe that’s why I got such a strong response to Baubo … Mut was the phallus to Amun. And Amun is Zeus …

Its hard to process for my day to day mind - but the image always comes back

The energy of the locked phallus of Amun/Zeus then went to Dionysus and Persephone - and images from ancient Crete equate Persephone with Isis. Minoan Crete was an Amazon/Egyptian island …

“Man free” - is not exactly true - that’s a childish taunt - Better a “beta” boy with his fire than a “alpha” without his fire!

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Persephone as Isis and Pluto as Serapis and with three-headed dog Cerberus. - Carole Raddato

Sanctuary of the Egyptian Gods at Gortyn on the island of Crete. Mid-2nd century AD. Heraklion Archaeological Museum.

That’s a Roman matron as Persephone / Isis and her “beta” husband. Certainly a penis caged Roman man!

The ruler of the underworld was a phallic Roman matron!

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“… Pluto-Serapis has the modus on his head, a utensil used for the measurement of grain. Persephone-Isis with covered head bears her symbols at the forehead (the crescent moon, the solar disk and the snake (uraeus). She is depicted holding in her right hand the sistrum, an Egyptian musical instrument. The inclusion of Cerberus, guard of the underworld, in the group defines the two deities, despite their Egyptian symbols, as Pluto and Persephone, gods of the underworld. … “ Carole Raddato

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More boss lady in the saddle with a large mentule over a penis locked horse …

Centaur sex - That’s what Empress Messalina was riding - ie her husband Claudius and legions of Roman centaurs in the Suburra brothel district ….

Messalina’s promiscuity was not out of the ordinary for the Roman matron. Juvenal makes that clear. That’s how Romans maintained the Venus fire - the locked phallus under the ravenous mentule …

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Baubo sex: Boss lady and a buxom friend with a large mentule being serviced by a centaur …

The Greek Demeter corresponds to the African Mut the wife of Amun. Mut was a water deity - so that’s probably why I had the strong imagery of a silvery light in an Afro-Alpine lake. She lost her daughter Persephone to a hole in the ground in Nysa - My guess is that’s the Great Rift Valley - a sudden gash in the high plains of central Kenya …

Persephone is Isis and it’s true Isis has been missing from Africa - her home - since the fall of Rome!

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More Baubo sex: Boss lady and a buxom friend with a large mentule being serviced by a centaur …

Baubo was a crone though! That sexually ravenous grandma is absent today - but as Martial shows in his poetry was very much alive in Ancient Rome … Rome had the penis cage to thank for that … The venus fire!

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More Baubo sex: Boss lady and a buxom friend with a large mentule being serviced by a centaur …

Baubo has cast a powerful spell - She's a door opener - sort of like Legba in Voodoo - And its the same thing - the phallic energy of Legba is attached to females - The Yoruba female Orisha’s are all phallic …

Baubo’s central question is the same as Innana’s - “Who will plow my vulva?” The vulva is like a garden that needs to be plowed before the emergence of the mentule !

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More Baubo sex: Boss lady and a buxom friend with a large mentule being serviced by a centaur …

Baubo was a phallic crone - Like Silenus the penis cage system probably meant that the older centaurs and nymphs had more stored up sexual energy … With centaurs that’s the image we get from Roman paintings and sculptures …

With Dionysus female eros was compared to the grape harvest - there was a continuum from green unripe grapes to ripe and bursting mature grapes …

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More Baubo sex: Boss lady and a buxom friend with a large mentule being serviced by a centaur …Boss lady has a go from behind …

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Two goddesses and a god - that’s the pattern - Demeter is reunited with her daughter Persephone and together they send Triptolemus to recharge the harvest …

The sex part may be hard for us today - but the Baubo story tells us that sex was central to the Demeter myth - and it was not regular sex but female phallus sex with a caged phallus being somehow essential !

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“ … TRIPTOLEMOS (Triptolemus) was a demi-god of the Eleusinian mysteries who presided over the sowing of grain-seed and the milling of wheat.


He was one of the Eleusinian princes who hospitably received the goddess Demeter when she was mourning the loss of her daughter. After Persephone was returned from the underworld Demeter, in her munificence, instructed Triptolemos in the ways of agriculture and provided him with a winged, serpent-drawn chariot to spread her gift across the earth. He travelled through many lands but when he reached the cold realm of the Skythians, King Lynkos (Lyncus) slew one of his dragon-serpents and drove the hero away. Demeter transformed the king into a lynx and denied the Skythians the gift of agriculture.

In ancient Greek vase painting Triptolemos is usually depicted seated on his winged chariot in the company of the goddesses Demeter, Persephone and Hekate. He also appears amongst larger gatherings of the Eleusinian gods.
Triptolemos' name is derived from the Greek words triptos and lemma meaning "He who Pounds the Husks." …." theoi

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More Baubo sex: Boss lady and a buxom friend with a large mentule being serviced by a centaur …Boss lady has a go from behind …

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Recharging the harvest was the surface reward of the Demeter myth - but I think the real reward was that large penis caged dildo or “hare” that Baubo is proudly grasping … That’s the exotic energy that creates the Buddha and his followers - The exotic energy of the Djed pillar - That’s the real harvest!

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*A twin of Triptolemos was Plutus the god of wealth - who was the son that Demeter gave birth to after having illicit sex with Iasion in “ in a thrice-ploughed field” …. The gifts of Plutus were another boon of the the Eleusinian mysteries

“ … At the marriage of Cadmus and Harmonia, Iasion was lured by Demeter away from the other revelers. They had intercourse as Demeter lay on her back in a freshly plowed furrow. When they rejoined the celebration, Zeus guessed what had happened because of the mud on Demeter's backside, and out of envy killed Iasion with a thunderbolt. Servius, in his commentary upon Virgil's Aeneid, states that Iasion was killed by his brother Dardanus, whereas Hyginus attributes his death to horses. Ovid, in contrast, says that Iasion lived to an old age as the husband of Demeter. Some versions of this myth conclude with Iasion and the agricultural hero Triptolemus then becoming the Gemini constellation. … “ Wikipedia

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That’s the pattern of the phallic greek goddesses - and the Greco-Roman matron! Iasion was probably “plowed” anally by Demeter in the usual Greek fashion! - Mut the African Demeter is the phallus in her marriage to Amun who was certainly penis caged - Female phallus sex was not incidental to  the Eleusinian mysteries … it was probably the central rite!

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Closing scene - Baubo sex:Boss lady and a buxom friend with a large mentule being serviced by a centaur …Boss lady has a go from behind …

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The Eleusinian mysteries were probably modeled on thousands of years of Egyptian and African rituals - I think I may have had a Mut encounter in the cold Afro-Alpine lake - she’s been fast asleep since the fall of Rome!

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Demeter and Persephone and a nude boy - maybe Triptolemos - c 27 BC

That’s a Roman era Demeter - two clothed Amazons and one penis caged nude boy between them - That was Roman sex at the time of Augustus … The Dionysus female phallus is implied to me by the thyrsus imagery … All roman men were “lesbian boys” from 17 until 25 years old - Anal sex toys of ravenous Roman matrons

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“ … Ten marble fragments of the Great Eleusinian Relief
ca. 27 B.C.–A.D. 14
Roman
 On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 153
National Museum, Athens. The ten fragments have been set into a cast of the original relief.

Demeter, the goddess of agricultural abundance, stands at the left, clad in a peplos and himation (cloak) and holding a scepter. At the right is Persephone, her daughter and the wife of Hades, the god of the underworld. She is dressed in a chiton and himation. Each goddess extends her right hand toward a nude youth, but it is no longer possible to determine what they held. The boy is thought to be Triptolemos, who was sent by Demeter to teach men how to cultivate grain. On contemporary Athenian vases, he is usually shown as a bearded adult seated in a winged chariot about to set out on his civilizing mission. The original marble relief was found at the sanctuary of Demeter at Eleusis, the site of the Eleusinian mysteries, a secret cult that was famous throughout antiquity.

The original Greek work and a number of Roman copies survive. Here the ten Roman fragments are embedded in a cast of the Greek relief. Compared to the original, the execution of the hair and drapery in the copy is sharper and accords with the style current in Augustan art. … “ Met

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A female phallus in center of this Roman sarcophagus - probably a scene from the flaying of Marysas far right by the female phallus of Apollo

I read female phallus sex in the myth of the flaying of the satyr Marysas by the female phallus of Apollo - There was a continuous need for that service from locked Roman men - Mentule sex was compared to removing the bark from a tree by Roman poets like Catullus

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The non-sexual article attached to this image

“ …The Eleusinian Mysteries
 Dr M D Magee (2012)

Mother and daughter, the spirits of barley corn and love, and the queen of the dead, were honored with great and popular celebrations twice a year, at the time of sowing and the time of reaping.

The Eleusinian Mysteries of Greece were the oldest and most revered of all the celebrations of the ancient Mediterranean.

Annually, in honour of Demeter and Persephone, the city of Eleusis, 15 miles (25 km) west of Athens, hosted the Greater Mysteries every September from Mycenaean times until about 400 AD. Preliminary rites, the Lesser Mysteries, were held at Agrae in the Spring. That they were held in September suggests they evolved from a harvest ceremony. But the original reasons were not known to the later initiates who saw the rites as pertaining to the soul not to barleycorn. In many Greek states, the month beginning mid-September was called Demetrion after Demeter, though it was called Boedromion in Athens.

Zeus, the sky father (Dyaus Pitar, Jupiter), the high god of the Greeks, was mated with Hera (Juno), but in Greek mythology another mother goddess, Demeter, is at the same level as Hera and was much more popular. The cult of Demeter is probably no native Greek but derived from Thessaly or Thrace, countries to the north. Homer refers to pre-Dorian temples to Demeter in the Thessalian towns of Thermopylae, Pyrasos and Pherai, and etymology connects certain words in the rites of Demeter to pre-Hellenic dialects from the north. But a goddess “Dameter,” appears in Linear B tablets from Pylos of about 1200 BC. If Dameter is Demeter, the cult might already have been widespread in the Aegean so early, and there are clear similarities with grain goddesses elsewhere in the eastern Mediterranean. “Meter” is the Greek for “mother” and “De” is possibly a variation of the Indo-European word for a deity. In Crete, the only deity was the mother earth goddess, and Greek writers said they got their “mysteries” from Crete.

The Greeks had to admit Demeter to the Olympic family. Demeter had a daughter, Persephone, who also had to be admitted. They, of course, made her the daughter of Zeus by Demeter, and the wife of Pluto, the ruler of the world of the dead. But her “descent into hell” is the main point of interest for us.

Egyptian Influence?
The unearthing of Egyptian figurines and small artifacts at some Mycenaean sites and some statements by classical authors such as Herodotus suggest a link between the cult of Demeter in Greece and Egypt. Plutarch in Isis and Osiris, describing the myth of Isis, relates features astonishingly like those of the cult of Demeter recounted in the Hymn to Demeter. Both have infant princes whom the goddess is about to make immortal.

Who did the travelling, Isis or Demeter? No Egyptian artifacts have been found from the time when it seems the Eleusinian mysteries started, but Greek colonists were in Lower Egypt before 700 BC. Isis was, of course, a very ancient Egyptian Goddess, but she might have taken features of the similar fertility goddess brought by the Greeks into seventh century Egypt.

The Eleusinian mysteries attracted many initiates in Athens from about the seventh century BC, and the epics of Homer prove that, even that early, Greeks believed that the Eleusinian rites granted the initiates happiness after death. The citizens of Athens adopted the Mysteries of Eleusis as a feature of the state cult, then, at the time of Pericles, other Greek cities were admitted and later everyone who could speak Greek and had shed no blood or had subsequently been purified.

Other mystery religions followed a similar pattern, each with its own exotic god or goddess offering votaries personal favours, guaranteeing to watch over them after death and even offering them a form of divinity—immortality. Yearly festivals in honour of a goddess of grain and the annual renewal of life were also held at Samothrace, Cyprus, Crete and many other places. Each of the eastern religions had a god who suffered, died and finally triumphed. In each the initiate was invited to partake of the body of the god and thereby gain spiritual immortality. Christianity was one of these Eastern Mysteries—the last one and the only survivor. Only by the ultimate destruction of paganism in the sixth century AD did the Christians kill these beliefs.

On the west coast of Asia Minor, Greek city states celebrated the cult of the Phrygian goddess Cybele from the seventh century BC. Known among the Greeks primarily as the Great Mother, or simply as Meter, this originally foreign goddess of nature and fertility was early associated with Rhea or Demeter herself. Some say Demeter and Cybele were merely variations of the Great Mother worshipped under diverse names all over Greece. In Pylos, an ancient tablet mentions annual rites in honour of a pair of goddesses draped in a veil, who were led in a formal procession with great pomp and solemnity down to the sea for washing and purification.

The ”Thesmophoria,” celebrating the goddess as ”law-bearer,” were celebrated by women only throughout all Greece in late October, and were most like the Eleusinian Mysteries. They involved a pig sacrifice, the usual sacrifice to gods and goddesses of the earth—the Greeks associating pigs with fertility. Mingling their flesh with the seeds of grain was believed to improve harvests. The ceremonies comprised fasting and purification, a ritualized descent into the underworld and bringing life out of death. The Eleusinian Mysteries involved the mystai washing and sacrificing piglets sacred to Demeter. The Eleusinian Mysteries and the Thesmophoria probably had the same origins.

Demeter and Other Gods
A general principle in religious studies is that associations among deities parallel similar associations in the practice of their cults. In patriarchal times, a divine son had to be introduced. The divine son in Greece was Dionysos, known to the later Greeks and Romans as Bacchus, which means the “rowdy one,” the god of wine. An old vegetation or fertility god in the barbarous country north of Greece, he was adopted by the Greeks as the son of Zeus and the virgin mortal Semele. Hera, wife of Zeus, was angry, and the mother had to give birth in secret, in a cave, on a journey, and even then the child had to be sent far away to escape the vengeance of Hera. There is good evidence that the goddesses of Eleusis and Dionysos were linked from at least the fourth century BC onward. These two deities were honoured in Athens and elsewhere as partner deities but less certain is whether this partnership status had any deeper significance. As long ago as the fifth century BC, Pindar in Isthmian Odes wrote of Dionysos as the god of the flowing locks who is enthroned beside Demeter.
The Orphics, who were widely influential and had their own Mystery celebrations, identified Dionysos-Zagreus as the son of Persephone and Zeus. The Romans recognized a trinity of Ceres, Liber, and Libera, where Ceres was Demeter, Liber was Dionysos, and Libera was Persephone. And as late as the sixth century AD, Stephanos Byzantios said that the rituals in honour of Persephone were performed ”in imitation of Dionysian happenings”. Iconographical evidence, including pictures on ancient Greek vases from Attica and Apulia, testify to a the presence of Dionysos at Eleusis.

Dionysos and Iacchos might have been masculine counterparts of Demeter and Persephone and all were aspects of a single deity! Demeter, Dionysos, and Persephone were the holy trinity of Eleusis. Few people now deny that Dionysos had a central role in the Mysteries of Eleusis. This shows that the Mysteries were never really separate religions but closely related ones, using the same or similar themes but having different emphases in the temples of different gods and goddesses. It certainly puts the Dionysian and Orphic Mysteries in a much more dominant position than had been thought.
 
The Mythology of the Eleusinian Mysteries
Ancient humanity conceived a legend of death and resurrection which Christians believe to be the unique property of their own Church. The myth associated with the Eleusinian Mysteries, by the seventh century BC, was that Pluto (Hades), the god of the underworld, fell in love with Persephone (Kore or Cora, the maid). The Hymn to Demeter, almost 500 verses long and once thought to have been by Homer, narrates the symbolic story. Zeus advised to carry off the divine maid by force, as Demeter would never consent to her going below. So one day, as Persephone was gathering flowers in the meadows, Pluto took her off and bore her down with him to the underworld. In short, she had died. Demeter, disconsolate over her daughter's loss, fruitlessly searched the whole earth, in tears, for her daughter—as Isis sought Osiris, as Ishtar sought Tammuz, as the women sought Christ. Hecate and Helios eventually helped her see that Hades had taken her and that Zeus had approved of the deed. So, she nagged Zeus until he had to tell Pluto to give her up. Pluto agreed, but the desperate lover first induced Persephone to eat a pomegranate, and this, in Greek legend, made her a permanent citizen of the underworld. Zeus compromised, decreeing she must pass part of the year underground and part above ground with Demeter.

The poem explains that Demeter came to Eleusis to establish her cult as the bringer of immortality to human beings. When the goddess realized the role of the other Olympians in her misfortune, she incarnated in human form and set forth as an old woman from Crete. Eventually she reached Eleusis and set herself down by an old well (the Maiden Well of the Mysteries), her heart overflowing with grief. The four beautiful daughters of Celeus, a local chieftain, befriended her and introduced her to their mother, Metaneira, who was impressed by the old woman's dignified bearing made her the nurse to her infant son.

Under Demeter's care the child thrived because each night Demeter anointed his limbs with ambrosia and put him into the fire. The object was to make the mortal child immortal but Metaneira saw Demeter one night and screamed in fright when Demeter put the boy into the flames. Demeter manifested herself as a goddess and promised to show humans the secret of immortality if they built a temple in her honour, whereupon she disappeared. In the legend of Isis, the Egyptian goddess has a similar experience.

After the Eleusinians had built their temple to Demeter, she stayed there and pined for her daughter, refusing to rejoin the other gods on Mount Olympus. Moreover, she refused to make the seeds sprout in the dark earth, and all the world began to suffer famine. Even the gods suffered from the lack of gifts and sacrifices. Father Zeus sent Iris and other gods to intercede with her, yet Demeter would not relent.
 

Finally, the king of the gods despatched Hermes down to Hades, bidding the lord of the underworld to give Persephone up and return her to her mother. Hades reluctantly agreed, but first he contrived to make Persephone taste a small morsel of food—consisting of a single pomegranate seed—just enough to ensure, by a kind of divine symmetry, that she would always have to spend one third of every year with him, during the winter. And so Persephone was able to leave the underworld and return to the light, where she was reunited at last with her mother.

The public ceremonies at Eleusis have been widely reported but the secret initiations still remain uncertain. A Mystery is a rite, secret from all save the initiated. Breaking the vow of secrecy was a capital crime, so initiates kept silent about what took place in the Telesterion, the main initiation hall of the Temple of Demeter. If anything was written down, it was subsequently destroyed by the triumphant Christians. Consequently modern researchers know amazingly little about them.
 
The Proceedings—Intitiates and Participants
What knowledge we have comes largely from the ruins of the sanctuary at Eleusis, interpreting statues, bas reliefs and pottery pictures of the initiations and festivals, and we cannot always be sure we are right. Documentary sources are the reports of contemporary writers such as Aeschylos, Sophocles, Herodotus, Aristophanes, Plutarch, and Pausanias—all of whom were initiates—and accounts by Christian critics like Clement of Alexandria, Hippolytus, Tertullian and Astorias.

The proceedings had to be secret to ensure ritual purity. If they were disturbed they would have been invalidated by the contamination of those who were not ritually pure. The god would be angered and disaster and ill-fortune would be the outcome. Note however that, though the proceedings were secret, they were held openly—that is at known times and places and the rules of membership were known to all. Under Rome, clandestine meetings were illegal.
Mystery religions had a hierarchy of levels of initiation just as the Freemasons do. At Eleusis there were two grades of membership. The first grade of membership was that of the “mystes” (initiate), and many initiates were content to remain thus. Among the secrets were the contents of the sacred “kistai” (boxes) and the initiation of the mystai. The mystai had preliminary instructions and guidance from an experienced sponsor, or “mystagogos”, often their friends who guide them through the initiation.

The festival is conducted by the Archon Basileus and four assistants. Two of these, the Hierophantes and Dadoukhos (Torch Bearer) wear a long-sleeved tunic ornamented at the hem and shoulders (ependutes), a headband and Thracian knee-boots. Torch bearers carry one or two long torches.
Initiation into the Mysteries normally involved at least four steps:

* purification
* acceptance of mystic knowledge via teachings or exhortations
* revelation of holy things where the initiate has to perform certain acts—the central feature of the rites—often some form of sacred drama
* sacrificing, crowning or garlanding and concluding festivities.
Earthly life was considered a trial in which human souls were subjected to various tests. The object of initiation into the mysteries was to assist the soul in passing its tests so that it could proceed to a higher level of existence and, ultimately, to immortality. The more pious initiates went on to the higher grade after not less than a year at the lower level of fellowship. A mystes who returned to Eleusis for induction into the higher level was known as an epoptes.
An official herald loudly called the initiates to silence to allow the Mysteries to begin. The mystai were introduced by a High Priest or Hierophant, a revealer of holy things, who, together with a priestess, presided over the most solemn parts of the ceremonies. Only the hierophant could enter the inner sanctum, the Anaktoron, where the holy objects, the Hiera, were kept. The priestess probably played the part of Demeter in a sacred drama of the goddess's anguish and desperate search for Persephone. The High Priestess also joined the High Priest in performing a sacred wedding.

Two female assistants of the Hierophant also played in the proceedings. Lesser Priestesses called ”bees” were some sort of celibate assistants who perhaps carried the holy things in the stately procession from Eleusis to Athens and back. The deputy to the Hierophant was the torchbearer who removed impurity from those who had shed human blood. He also managed the stage and lighting effects in the Telesterion which had such a magical effect during the ceremonies. Another priest looked after the animal sacrifices to the goddesses.
 
The Calendar of Events
Crowds of worshippers from all over Greece and, later, from throughout the Roman empire, gathered to make the holy pilgrimage between the two cities and and join in the secret ceremonies, the high point of Greek religion. As Christianity began to spread, the Mysteries were condemned by the early Church fathers. Yet the rites continued, exercising considerable influence on early Christian teachings and practices.

The schedule of events in the Mysteries at Eleusis was quite elaborate, taking place place over nine days near the autumnal equinox in September. The calendar however was not fixed because it began at a new moon. For each day, there was a prescribed series of ritual actions that initiates were expected to follow in the proper order.

13 September—the day before the festival, two youths on horseback travel to Eleusis to accompany the Sacred Objects which, on the first day of the festival, will be brought by wagon to Athens to be received at the shrine (Eleusinion). The holy things probably included ancient figures of the goddesses Demeter and Persephone.

14 September—the first day proper of the festival. The sacred objects, contained in round kistai bound with purple ribbons, were taken in parade from Eleusis to Athens where they were ceremonially received and placed in the Eleusinium. A curator of the two goddesses reports their arrival to Athena's priestess who pays her respects, but their names are too sacred to be spoken. In five days they would return.

16 September—For three days, the novitiates prepared themselves in the Athenian agora. The mystai, who must have already been initiated in the Lesser Mysteries in February, gather in the agora. Names seem to have been taken to ensure that they had been initiated into the Lesser Mysteries. They had to be Greek (or later Roman), above a minimum but young age, ritually pure and ”pure of hand”, that is of bloodshed and later pure of soul. The Herald told them that if they were unready for, or unworthy of, the initiation they should withdraw. He said they must have ”a soul conscious of no evil” and that they ”must have lived well and justly.” Those afflicted by blood-guilt or other impurity are warned away. The mystes spends the remainder of the day in spiritual exercises recommended by his or her mystagogos.

The next day is for purification. The mystai purified themselves individually by walking down to the beach with a sucking pig, sacred to Demeter. On the order ”Seaward Initiates!” they entered the water with their piglet to wash themselves clean in the sea, and thus purify themselves and the offering by salt water. In the evening, the pig was sacrificed to the goddess, and the mystes was sprinkled with its blood. The pork would be cooked for a feast. The ceremony at this point is similar to that of the Thesmophoria. Sacrifices in honour of the city of Athens and other public institutions were also held.
On the final preparatory day, the mystai secluded themselves indoors to prepare mentally for the main ceremonies. For others, a festival was held to commemorate the god Asclepius, and His daughter Hygieia (Health) participating in the Eleusinian initiation.

19 September—the fifth day of the festival. Beginning from the shrine of Dionysos (Iakkhos) and led by the priest of the shrine, the mounted youths, the mystai, their mystagogoi, epoptai, and the hierophants solemnly escorted the Hiera back to Eleusis in a splendid procession. The marchers are accompanied by musicians, and called out on the way. The mystai wore garlands of myrtle and carried bunches of myrtle stems tied with wool. They also carried their belongings in a bundle tied to a pole.

The procession moved along the sacred way with the mystai and acolytes carrying an effigy of the boy god Iacchos (Dionysos), depicted as a torch-bearing youth. Evidently there was a close connexion between the Eleusinian mysteries and those of Dionysos. At one place the right hand and left leg of each of each mystes is tied with a piece of yellow wool. Elsewhere they are ritually abused. Each of many shrines along the route had to be attended, so the procession did not end until after sunset, the final part of the procession being by torchlight, Demeter traditionally seeking Kore (the maid, Persephone, her abducted daughter) by torchlight. Demeter is offered an earthenware dish with many small cups containing small offerings of the fruits of the earth (such as grain, peas, beans). Then followed revels of the mystai with their god. The preparations were to commence the next day.

For the next few days the mystai then rested, purifed themselves and fasted. As each evening approached, they broke the day's fast by drinking a special brew known as the kykeon, a communion drink. The goddess in the mystery play drinks at one stage from a cup. The votaries did the same. The drink originally would have been beer because the Hymn of Demeter says Demeter did not drink wine, possibly admixed with cornmeal and fresh pennyroyal mint leaves, the same brew that Demeter drank, as recounted in the Hymn. Obviously, the grain in the drink was a symbol of Persephone, the eternal goddess who dies, goes under the ground, and then comes back to life again. The corn or barley from which it was made represented the body of the goddess and the mystai would therefore have united with her.

It plainly had a sacramental character, involving a communion with, or assimilation of, the spirit of the deity and, like the Christian Eucharist, was an act of religious remembrance, mimicking an act of the Goddess. The similarity in symbolic significance to the Christian Eucharist is unarguable and might be greater if we knew more about the role of Dionysos in all this. If some sort of communion with Dionysos also occurred involving a libation of a cup of wine then we would have from an early date in history the bread and wine communion. In the nearby Samothracian mysteries the priest broke bread and poured a cup of wine for the initiates—just as the Christians do—but the meaning of the body and blood of the god is less obscured than in the Christian communion through its clearer link with the vegetative god of the vine and the vegetative goddess of the corn.

22 September—The initiation, which lasted through the night, took place in a closed building called the Telesterion (Initiation Place). In its center is the Anaktoron, the ”Holy of Holies” to which no-one but the Hierophantes is admitted. The proceedings involved Things Said, Things Done and Things Revealed.

The mystai watched the sacred drama of Demeter and Kore in which Kore dies and is resurrected. The Hierophant, the Hierophantis (High priestess) and the Torch Bearer playing the central roles of the gods. The daughter Kore (Persephone) is abducted, the Great Mother, Demeter, searches and sorrows while all of life suffers torment, and then the daughter is at last returned. The setting was simple, there being no evidence of elaborate stages or scenery but a magical effect was secured through costume and lighting. Illuminated in a sudden blaze of torchlight, Persephone emerged from the underworld and returned to life, the dramatic intensity heightened by music and chanted invocations. The mystai share Demeter's joy at the restoration of Persephone. The spectacle must have been awe inspiring.

When the mystai entered the Telesterion, they were given a pass word to confirm their readiness to participate in the rites. Clement of Alexandria says they said:

I fasted. I drank the kykeon. I took from the reliquary. Having done my task, I placed in the basket and from the basket into the reliquary.
They raise their heads to the sky calling ”rain,” hue, then address the earth calling ”conceive,” kue—again demonstrating the agrarian origins of the ritual. The words Hue, Kue were inscribed for all to see on a wall beside the dipylon gate of Athens. Finally the Hierophant gives a closing address. It was called the ”Logos”—the ”Word”!

Then they were shown cult objects. The Hierophant withdrew alone into the Anaktoron and emerged with the Hiera, the Holy Things or relics of Demeter and Persephone, probably ancient statues of the goddesses, doubtless understood to have been consecrated by Demeter herself. The higher initiates watched a sacred marriage ritual, an Hieros Gamos, between the Hierophant and the Hierophantess in which it is announced that the divine Brimo has brought forth a sacred child, Brimos. It is this that the Christians tried to pass off as sexual. Hippolytus of Rome, in the third century, writes:

At night in Eleusis, the Hierophant, appearing in the midst of many fires, proclaims the great and secret mystery, saying, ”The Holy Brimo has borne a sacred child, Brimos.”

Brimo was a name of Demeter, meaning mighty or furious, supposedly in anger at Zeus's collusion in the kidnapping of her daughter. The saying given by Hippolytus therefore says in Greek that the Feminine Mighty One has borne the Masculine Mighty One. The child will have been Iacchos, the infant Dionysos, whose statue was carried on the pilgrimage from Athens to Eleusis and who, according to Orphic tradition, was the offspring of Persephone and Zeus.
Finally, they were shown an ear of corn reaped in silence symbolising resurrection of the soul after death, a relic of the earlier stage when the Great Mother was a corn goddess. The whole performance must have been accompanied by an orchestra and indeed the music would have provided the timing that enabled the torches to be illuminated and doused in synchronisation. Now, even the mystes' clothes are sacred and are preserved as personal holy objects. This was a day the mystai would never forget.
What is not mentioned by any modern observer is the significance of the fires mentioned, for example, by Hippolytus. The myth has the goddess bathing the child in fire and it seems inconceivable that this was not a central part of the procedure. In the myth, it made the child immortal, the apparent purpose of the ceremony, and so must have been part of the initiation. In one instance a Brahmin priest called Zarmaros, acting as an ambassador from king Poros of India to the emperor Augustus in 31 BC, took the initiation at Eleusis and it is said he walked immediately into the fires causing astonishment. Evidently he expected to have to walk in the flames, a practice he might have been well acquainted with, but perhaps when they were a bit less vigorous for the mystai.
One can speculate with some assurance that some form of fire ordeal was a part of the Eleusis proceedings. People who take the courage to do this find immense power and self-confidence through the experience. Plato had already described the underworld as a fiery lake of flames and boiling mud and the Persian idea of the fate of the wicked was to be consumed in flames while the righteous were saved. Furthermore Aristotle says that the initiates did not have to learn anything from the ceremonies but they had to suffer something. Apuleius, admittedly speaking of the Mystery tradition of Isis, says he had to travel through all the elements (the four Platonic elements, earth, air, fire and water) to be initiated. Servius says they disinfect you with burning sulphur. The mystai will have been prepared by the mystagogues, not only spiritually, but to be ready to boldly follow the Hierophant over hot stones. They would then know that they had been purified and were safe from the hot place and only had to remain upright to join the goddess in immortality.
 
Salvific Power
On the slow walk back to Athens was the time for reflection and meditation. The mystai had entered into a contract with the goddess: they promised her lives of exemplary morality while she promised them immortality after the death of their earthly bodies. As the festival wound down, the participants dedicated services in honour of the dead. Ritual libations were poured on the ground, the consecrated liquid flowing in the eastward and westward directions. The tired initiates then returned to Athens individually, no return procession being part of the ceremony.

These mysteries were apparently entirely seemly, but some Christians have contended that they were indecent. Why? Because Christian writers said they were. Christianity has always been prudish about sex, though sex and birth is understandably a source of religious wonder. The prudishness of Christianity comes from the Essenes' distrust of women and their preference for ritual chastity in preparation for become sexless inhabitants of the kingdom of God.


With typical Christian patronisation, T R Glover has written: Greek polytheism had always been weak in moral content, morals to Christians as ever being something sexually dirty rather than the important issues of the morality of condoning mass murder or the morality of destroying the environment and cultures of millions of people, who might as well die because in the world of big-religion bullies they can see nothing to live for.

It would hardly seem surprising to normal people if ceremonies representing rebirth had some sexual content, but if the ceremonies of Eleusis did, nobody now has any inclination what it was, unless it was ritualised sex representing the conception of the sacred child. Maybe it was phallic symbolism. Maybe it was so symbolic that it was stylised entirely and the Christian accusations are typical of Christians. At any rate, the present tabloid obsession with sex, the result of centuries of Christian repression of sex and sexuality, is more vulgar than the symbolic sex of a solemn and sacred ritual, but few Christians today object.

Myth follows rites. The clues to the origin of the Eleusinian mysteries are clear but cannot yield any detail. The original rites will have been pre-Hellenistic, but were taken over by the Hellenes seeking the approval of local gods to legitimize their occupation of the country. The beginning of the mysteries was the annual rite beginning the barleycorn harvest without which the people would starve, and so was of some significance to them. The first ear gathered was the centre of the rite, and later this, or an image of it, signified the “ear of corn gathered in silence,” to show the solemn importance of the occasion. Hippolytus tells us of this in his tract refuting all heresies. Once the first ear had been solemnly gathered and displayed to the harvesters, we can guess that the silence will have been broken with a great cheer of approval, and then the gatherers would have set about their work.

The myth was an explanation of the rite. The solemn gathering, with its expectant silence and the cheer and joy that followed to celebrate the corn harvest, over the years, was elaborated. Corn goddesses were added, an earth god and a myth of seasonality devised. Then the myth became self-ritualised in the holy dramas and the “hierogamos” of the earth god and the corn goddess. At a later date, when the ceremony was performed for the urban sophisticates of Athens, the significance was gradually transformed from agricultural magic to salvific magic—the rebirth being the soul not merely the corn crop. The promise of Eleusis was that death could be faced without fear because the grain of corn seemed to die in the soil but sprang up again. The drama did not simply revivify the vegetable world but promised further life to all.

The greatest intellects of the ancient world testified to the salvific power of the Mysteries. A fragment of Pindar (522-443 BC) from Stromata III, reads:

Blessed are they who, having beheld them, will go down below the earth, for he knows how to find life indeed, who knows the divine principle of all things.

And Sophocles (495-406 BC) wrote:
Thrice blessed among mortals who, having seen the right, will go to Hades. To them alone down there, it is given to live, but for the rest there is only misery.

And Cicero (106-43 BC) in De Legiones wrote:
Athens, which has produced many extraordinary and divine things, has brought us nothing more beneficial to human life than those mysteries, by which from a rustic and brutal form of life we have been humanized and introduced to the true principles of life, initiated into them, as we say, and we have recieved a way not only of living but also of dying with a better hope.

The life and death of a cereal standing for the harvest that sustains humanity, rescuing them from death by starvation, thus becomes a symbol of salvation of the soul at death, and to victory in eternal life. Yet even then, 2500 years ago, Plato confessed in Phaedo it was nothing more than a “happy dream in which one indulges.” The happy dream is still indulged in by the Christians who get strength in numbers but not sense. The original reward of separation from the physical body of the personality and its continued life in some balmy place was for courageous people or righteous ones only. The Christians extend it to the absurdity of “belief” and nothing more—or so they persuade themselves.


The script of the rituals perhaps kept the same throughout the millennia for conservatism is characteristic of religions. But the stage management and interpretations given to the ritual performances by the hierophants and mystagogues will have changed. This natural development and the syncretism that came from increasing cultural linking across the eastern Mediterranean fused with the philosophical speculations triggered by the Persians in the fourth century BC, forced the evolution of the Mysteries. The immense degree of cultural mixing stimulated by Alexander and effected in the Hellenistic era caught up the new sect of Christianity in it.

When the Christian church found that Pagans were so fond of their old gods that they could not be made to let go of them, they made them into Christian saints so that the people could continue to venerate them in Christian churches. The Eleusinian mysteries, in a homeopathic way, are still celebrated in Greece where ”St Demetra” is none other than the corn goddess, Demeter, whose daughter was abducted, by gloomy Dis (Hades), to great sorrow signifying winter death. Multitudes of Christian saints are mythical in every detail. …. “ M D Magee (2012)

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The general driving her point home in the toilet …

The excerpt above on The Eleusinian Mysteries almost desexualizes the cult of Demeter - but not fully - Demeters rites are described as the same as those of Dionysus - and the rites of Dionysus always involved women parading around with large dildos …

According to myth in her search for her daughter Demeter came down to Crete as a crone and tried to turn a boy immortal by immersing him in fire and ambrosia …

“ … The poem [The Hymn to Demeter] explains that Demeter came to Eleusis to establish her cult as the bringer of immortality to human beings. When the goddess realized the role of the other Olympians in her misfortune, she incarnated in human form and set forth as an old woman from Crete. Eventually she reached Eleusis and set herself down by an old well (the Maiden Well of the Mysteries), her heart overflowing with grief. The four beautiful daughters of Celeus, a local chieftain, befriended her and introduced her to their mother, Metaneira, who was impressed by the old woman's dignified bearing made her the nurse to her infant son.

Under Demeter's care the child thrived because each night Demeter anointed his limbs with ambrosia and put him into the fire. The object was to make the mortal child immortal but Metaneira saw Demeter one night and screamed in fright when Demeter put the boy into the flames. Demeter manifested herself as a goddess and promised to show humans the secret of immortality if they built a temple in her honour, whereupon she disappeared. In the legend of Isis, the Egyptian goddess has a similar experience. …” The Eleusinian Mysteries
 M D Magee (2012)

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A similar complaint was leveled against the followers of Asherah the wife of Yahweh in ancient Israel - the fire sacrifice of young boys … It was probably the fire of the mentule in the male ass chakra … and not an actual burning of babies and boys!

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More of the general driving her point home in the toilet …

A similar scene of fire and sex with the goddess was perceived to occur during the the Eleusinian Mysteries when:

“ ….The higher initiates watched a sacred marriage ritual, an Hieros Gamos, between the Hierophant and the Hierophantess in which it is announced that the divine Brimo has brought forth a sacred child, Brimos. It is this that the Christians tried to pass off as sexual. Hippolytus of Rome, in the third century, writes:

At night in Eleusis, the Hierophant, appearing in the midst of many fires, proclaims the great and secret mystery, saying, ”The Holy Brimo has borne a sacred child, Brimos.”

Brimo was a name of Demeter, meaning mighty or furious, supposedly in anger at Zeus's collusion in the kidnapping of her daughter. …”  M D Magee (2012)

My guess is the sacred child Brimos was the male Hierophant under the large mentule of the Hierophantess - representing Demeter over the ambrosia covered boy in the fire …

All Greek women carried a basic eight inch dildo - and that was probably not purely for self pleasure - The Greek man was locked up front - his main sex organ was from the rear …

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The fire imagery is horrific on a literal level - “Hell and brimstone” - but has an erotic side that is hard to see - That’s my 530 AM samba coding work - I feel a heavy drowsiness - like I felt an hour before this post - and see that as a signal from the “jinn” to “get to work” on the fire stuff … And it’s true! I really does feels like fire in the limbs ! A fire coming up from the earth …

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More of the general driving her point home in the toilet …

That’s also a scene from Minoan Crete - the land of the Amazon bull jumpers …

In a famous scene of the “Hieros gamos” Demeter lay with a Cretan youth Iasion in “a thrice plowed field” resulting in the birth of Plutus - the god of wealth.

“ … Iasion, also called Iasios, in Greek mythology, according to Homer and Hesiod, Cretan youth loved by Demeter, the corn goddess, who lay with him in a fallow field that had been thrice plowed. Their son was Plutus, the wealth within the soil. According to Apollodorus, Iasion attempted to ravish the goddess and was struck by lightning hurled by Zeus. In Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Book IX, Iasion lives and Demeter is unsettled by his aging. Iasion perhaps originated as an ancient agricultural deity associated with a fertility rite.  … “ Britannica

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Demeter is the same as the Egyptian Mut who is a phallic goddess - Iasion did not ravish her - Demeter ravished him! My inner vision is that was a rite of passage for all penis caged boys in Minoan Crete … The Minoan men tended the fields when their Amazons went to war - Ravishing female phallus sex was the main occupation of the Minoan man - like his Egyptian counterpart …

That’s an odd image - but beware the Minoan and Egyptian men! Those were the Djed pillars of the Greco-Roman world … The Roman poet Virgil was a black Minoan …

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Closing scene: The general driving her point home in the toilet …

The Greek fire! Phallic Amazons over locked Satyrs … that was a self secretive society though … Just too transgressive - even in our modern world … hence the toilet - that’s the only safe space for this for the mentule …

The initial dream image from when I started working on this kind of sex still stands though; - this kind of female over male sex has a protective function - it prevents involuntary possession … by activating the “anima” or female side for a man and the “animus” or male side for a woman - In Rome just the image of the fascinum or mentule or female phallus was enough the banish the “evil eye” - In modern vampire lore mentule sex is like “vervain” - It prevents compulsion

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More boss lady driving her point from the rear

Demeter was an immortality cult - that was her aim - to raise mortals up from death - like she raised her daughter up from Hades … The Greco-Romans were explicit about that- the Eleusinian Mysteries were about a secure afterlife - But how? I think the image of Demeter using Ambrosia and fire on a young boy may be a clue - The nymph Thetis used a similar procedure on Achilles …

The fire and Ambrosia are united in the image of the mentule or female phallus penetrating the male rear - or male fire chakra … My guess is to rise above the dreary lower world of Hades mortals need to increase their eros - and mentule sex is a way to do that …

“What is Ambrosia?
In Greek mythology, ambrosia was considered the food or drink of the Olympian gods, and it was thought to bring long life and immortality to anyone who consumed it. It was often linked to nectar, the other element that the gods consumed; usually, it was thought that ambrosia was the food and nectar was the drink of the gods. In general, ambrosia was only consumed by deities; when Heracles achieved immortality, Athena offered him ambrosia; while when Tantalus tried to steal some to give to other mortals, he was punished for committing hubris. Whoever consumed ambrosia no longer had blood in their veins, but another substance called ichor.

Achilles’ immortality
One of the myths about Achilles’ immortality has it that his mother Thetis anointed him with ambrosia when he was born and then passed him through flames, so that the mortal elements of his body would be consumed. However, Peleus, his father, found out and stopped her; this caused Thetis’ rage and she left without managing to immortalise Achilles’ heel. As a result, that was the only vulnerable spot in his body. … “ greekmythology

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“ … [not] Blood
follow'd,
but immortal
ichor
pure,
Such as
the blest inhabitants
of heav'n
May bleed,
nectareous;
for the Gods
eat not
Man's food,
nor slake
as he
with
sable wine
Their thirst,
thence
bloodless
and from
death
exempt. … “

Homer, Iliad V. 339–342

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More boss lady driving her point from the rear

Ambrosia was fed from a goddess to gods and mortals - and when a male mortal served it he was a sexual passive like Ganymede - that’s another hint of the mentule or female phallus … The fire was the male ass or sun chakra …

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“ …In the ancient Greek myths, ambrosia , the food or drink of the Greek gods, is often depicted as conferring longevity or immortality upon whoever consumed it. It was brought to the gods in Olympus by doves and served either by Hebe or by Ganymede at the heavenly feast.

Ancient art sometimes depicted ambrosia as distributed by the nymph named Ambrosia - a nurse of Dionysus.

Ambrosia is very closely related to the gods' other form of sustenance, nectar. The two terms may not have originally been distinguished; though in Homer's poems nectar is usually the drink and ambrosia the food of the gods; it was with ambrosia that Hera "cleansed all defilement from her lovely flesh", and with ambrosia Athena prepared Penelope in her sleep, so that when she appeared for the final time before her suitors, the effects of years had been stripped away, and they were inflamed with passion at the sight of her. On the other hand, in Alcman, nectar is the food, and in Sappho and Anaxandrides, ambrosia is the drink. A character in Aristophanes' Knights says, "I dreamed the goddess poured ambrosia over your head—out of a ladle." Both descriptions could be correct, as ambrosia could be a liquid considered a food (such as honey).

The consumption of ambrosia was typically reserved for divine beings. Upon his assumption into immortality on Olympus, Heracles is given ambrosia by Athena, while the hero Tydeus is denied the same thing when the goddess discovers him eating human brains. In one version of the myth of Tantalus, part of Tantalus' crime is that after tasting ambrosia himself, he attempts to steal some to give to other mortals.Those who consume ambrosia typically have ichor, not blood, in their veins.

Both nectar and ambrosia are fragrant, and may be used as perfume: in the Odyssey Menelaus and his men are disguised as seals in untanned seal skins, "...and the deadly smell of the seal skins vexed us sore; but the goddess saved us; she brought ambrosia and put it under our nostrils." Homer speaks of ambrosial raiment, ambrosial locks of hair, even the gods' ambrosial sandals.
Among later writers, ambrosia has been so often used with generic meanings of "delightful liquid" that such late writers as Athenaeus, Paulus and Dioscurides employ it as a technical terms in contexts of cookery, medicine, and botany. Pliny used the term in connection with different plants, as did early herbalists.

Additionally, some modern ethnomycologists, such as Danny Staples, identify ambrosia with the hallucinogenic mushroom Amanita muscaria: "...it was the food of the gods, their ambrosia, and nectar was the pressed sap of its juices", Staples asserts.

W. H. Roscher thinks that both nectar and ambrosia were kinds of honey, in which case their power of conferring immortality would be due to the supposed healing and cleansing powers of honey, and because fermented honey (mead) preceded wine as an entheogen in the Aegean world; on some Minoan seals, goddesses were represented with bee faces (compare Merope and Melissa). …. “ Wikipedia

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More boss lady driving her point from the rear

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Demeter and the ambrosia covered boy in the fire: Homer, Hymn 2 to Demeter 47 – 76

“ … And the child grew like some immortal being, not fed with food nor nourished at the breast: for by day rich-crowned Demeter would anoint him with ambrosia as if he were the offspring of a god and breathe sweetly upon him as she held him in her bosom.

But at night she would hide him like a brand in the heart of the fire, unknown to his dear parents. And it wrought great wonder in these that he grew beyond his age; for he was like the gods face to face. And she would have made him deathless and unageing, had not well-girded Metaneira in her heedlessness kept watch by night from her sweet-smelling chamber and spied.

But she wailed and smote her two hips, because she feared for her son and was greatly distraught in her heart; so she lamented and uttered winged words: “Demophoön, my son, the strange woman buries you deep in fire and works grief and bitter sorrow for me.”

Thus she spoke, mourning. And the bright goddess, lovely-crowned Demeter, heard her, and was wroth with her. So with her divine hands she snatched from the fire the dear son whom Metaneira had born unhoped-for in the palace, and cast him from her to the ground; for she was terribly angry in her heart Forthwith she said to well-girded Metaneira:

“Witless are you mortals and dull to foresee your lot, whether of good or evil, that comes upon you. For now in your heedlessness you have wrought folly past healing; for —be witness the oath of the gods, the relentless water of Styx — I would have made your dear son deathless and unaging all his days and would have bestowed on him everlasting honor, but now he can in no way escape death and the fates. Yet shall unfailing honor always rest upon him, because he lay upon my knees and slept in my arms But, as the years move round and when he is in his prime, the sons of the Eleusinians shall ever wage war and dread strife with one another continually. Lo! I am that Demeter who has share of honor and is the greatest help and cause of joy to the undying gods and mortal men. But now, let all the people build me a great temple and an altar below it and beneath the city and its sheer wall upon a rising hillock above Callichorus. And I myself will teach my rites, that hereafter you may reverently perform them and so win the favour of my heart.”

When she had so said, the goddess changed her stature and her looks, thrusting old age away from her: beauty spread round about her and a lovely fragrance was wafted from her sweet-smelling robes, and from the divine body of the goddess a light shone afar, while golden tresses spread down over her shoulders, so that the strong house was filled with brightness as with lightning. And so she went out from the palace.

And straightway Metaneira's knees were loosed and she remained speechless for a long while while and did not remember to take up her late-born son from the ground. But his sisters heard his pitiful wailing and sprang down from their well-spread beds: one of them took up the child in her arms and laid him in her bosom, while another revived the fire, and a third rushed with soft feet to bring their mother from her fragrant chamber.

And they gathered about the struggling child and washed him, embracing him lovingly; but he was not comforted, because nurses and handmaids much less skilful were holding him now. All night long they sought to appease the glorious goddess, quaking with fear. But, as soon as dawn began to show, they told powerful Celeus all things without fail, as the lovely-crowned goddess Demeter charged them.

So Celeus called the countless people to an assembly and bade them make a goodly temple for rich-haired Demeter and an altar upon the rising hillock. And they obeyed him right speedily and harkened to his voice, doing as he commanded. As for the child, he grew like an immortal being. Now when they had finished building and had drawn back from their toil, they went every man to his house. But golden-haired Demeter sat there apart from all the blessed gods and stayed, wasting with yearning for her deep-bosomed daughter. …. “ Homer, Hymn 2 to Demeter 47 – 76

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Egyptian Baubo - or Greek Omphale figure

The Met has recently reclassified this Baubo figure as Omphale - In Greek myth Omphale and Hercules switch sex roles! That’s confirmation of my female phallus thesis! The Amazon mentule in the male rear was the fire that the gods used to turn humans into demigods …

I have a similar exposed vagina image of the Jewish Asherah on this website - Asherah also gave me powerful dreams of ancient Africa - I saw an armada of ancient starships blasting off on the Kenyan “high veld”! That was an awesome experience!

That’s also the Sumerian Innana’s question - “who will plow my vulva?”

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“ … Omphale figure
100 BC–300 AD
Ptolemaic or Roman Period

 On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 134
Long termed Baubo figures, figures of a woman with legs raised to expose her genitals have recently been identified as Ompahle. Omphale was a figure of Greek mythology whose liaison with Herakles gave her power over the womb and the travails of childbirth and, by extension, over rebirth after death. … “ Met

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“Heracles drunk and Omphale. Ancient Roman fresco from House of the Prince of Montenegro, Pompeii “ Wikipedia

Note the famous “dog-leash” tan on Hercules - That was a sign the Djed pillar in the Roman world. - Also a sign of what was called Greek “luxury” - or Greek Egyptian Amazon sex - 30 years in the penis “truss” and rough Amazon sex did that to Roman men!

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“ … In Greek mythology, Omphale … was queen of the kingdom of Lydia in Asia Minor. Diodorus Siculus provides the first appearance of the Omphale theme in literature, though Aeschylus was aware of the episode. The Greeks did not recognize her as a goddess: the undisputed etymological connection with omphalos, the world-navel, has never been made clear. In her best-known myth, she is the mistress of the hero Heracles during a year of required servitude, a scenario that, according to some, offered writers and artists opportunities to explore sexual roles and erotic themes. …

In one of many Greek variations on the theme of penalty for "inadvertent" murder, for his murder of Iphitus, the great hero Heracles, whom the Romans identified as Hercules, was, by the command of the Delphic Oracle Xenoclea, remanded as a slave to Omphale for the period of a year,the compensation to be paid to Eurytus, who refused it. (According to Diodorus, Iphitus' sons accepted it.)

The theme, inherently a comic inversion of sexual roles, is not fully illustrated in any surviving text from Classical Greece. Plutarch, in his vita of Pericles, 24, mentions lost comedies of Kratinos and Eupolis, which alluded to the contemporary capacity of Aspasia in the household of Pericles, and to Sophocles in The Trachiniae  it was shameful for Heracles to serve an Oriental woman in this fashion, but there are many late Hellenistic and Roman references in texts and art to Heracles being forced to do women's work and even wear women's clothing and hold a basket of wool while Omphale and her maidens did their spinning. Omphale even wore the skin of the Nemean Lion and carried Heracles' olive-wood club. No full early account survives to supplement the later vase-paintings. … “ Wikipedia

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Hercules and Omphale, Roman mosaic from Llíria (Spain), 3rd century AD - Wikipedia

The dog-leashed tanned Hercules in a dress under the nude Omphale wielding his club over him! Amazon Mentule sex is the clear sexual allusion … That was Roman matron sex! The trussed Roman centaur under the phallic Amazon horse woman …

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Votive Baubo offerings - sanctuary of Demeter in Priene. - Altes Museum, Berlin.

 “ … Demeter was a goddess of harvest and fertility. One of the special features of the clay votives are the peculiar female statuettes, whereby the head is place immediately above the legs or genitals. Known as Baubo figurines, they are likely depictions of fertility daemons which had a particular connection with the cult of Demeter. They are purely a local phenomenon, hardly ever found outside of Priene.” … “ Evelyn Aschenbrenner

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It was more than Demeter though - Innana, Asherah and Omphale and Astarte and maybe Isis were ancient goddesses with similar rites - My guess is oral sex on the vulva was followed by mentule sex in the male rear …

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Terracota Baubo figurine, c. 2nd century AD - Rodin Museum, Meudon

That’s a older Roman matron demanding oral service … Martial and Juvenal make it clear that the libidos of Roman matrons did not diminish with age …

Oral service on female vulva's at a mass level was probably a central rite of the rites of Demeter - the Eleusinian mysteries - followed by action of the large dildo’s carried by the female members of the cult …

The sexual fires of the rites of Demeter were not incidental to the religion - they were dead center!

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Terracotta Isis/Astarte riding a pig - c. 6th century BC

Astarte was a Phoenecian Isis figure - Baubo riding a pig - Riding the pig is certainly a euphemism of riding the male rear with a large mentule …

We can guess that a similar thing occurred in ancient Egypt …

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The Phoenecian’s were accused of child sacrifice - burning little boys as tribute to Saturn - Maybe they were using the Demeter method - Ambrosia then fire … My best guess is women sexually breaking in young boys anally shortly after the insertion of the penis truss … It generally takes 30 years for the inner eye of the Djed pillar to form is my guess - The earlier it started the sooner the process was completed ….

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Baubo seated on pig
c. 100 BC BC Antikensammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

“… . In Goethe's Faust Part One "Baubo with the pig" appears as follows: "The old Baubo comes alone, she rides on a mother pig." And further: “So honor to whom honor is due! Ms. Baubo forward! And led! A strong pig and mother on it, then the whole bunch of witches follows."  Baubo is the leader of the witches on Walpurgis Night. The connection between the Baubo figure and the goddess Demeter was already evident in the Baubo figurines from Priene .... Goddess Demeter (which stands for fertility, among other things) was shown riding a pig, which is also a symbol of fertility. Some researchers suspect that Baubo was Demeter's wet nurse. …Compared to the Baubos from Priene, this is a much more plastic and bold mode of representation, a direct exposure of shame, even if it is not a totally realistic depiction. In the mystery cult of Eleusis, Baubo was called "dea impudica", referred to as a shameless goddess. Mithu M. Sanyal states that in ritual celebrations honoring the goddess Demeter (as in other cults) the gesture of revealing one's sex was a common gesture. She further states that pastries in the form of a vulva were served in honor of Demeter. Such exposure of the vulva is denoted by the neologism "Ana-suromai". The word was coined by the Greek Herodotus, who observed this in Egyptian women…. “ vaginamuseum

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(July 15, 2022) Strong release of sexual energy by previous Baubos - but why is not yet clear to me … Baubo brought Demeter back to life - and Demeter controls the “earth-sun” fire or libido - I suppose!

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Greek Egyptian Terracotta figure of a woman riding on a pig. - 1st century BC Fayum,Egypt

“ … A devotee of Demeter, a fat naked woman riding on a pig, the pig to right, the woman to front. Her hair divides from a central topknot and she bears a tall kiste on her head, over which a veil is draped, falling down on each side as far as the pig, and, indeed, a fold on her left side extends almost to her foot. Behind the veil she supports the kiste with her right hand; her left hand, also hidden by the veil, holds a stele to her left side. The stele has a pedimental top and lines of writing are denoted by horizontal ridges. At the back, the pig is modelled in the round, but the veil, except for its lower border, is plain; there is a circular vent.

Hollow; two-piece mould. Micaceous brown Nile silt with an orangebrown slip or surface colouration; minute traces of a white dressing. … “ British Museum

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Greek Egyptian Terracotta Baubo - c. 664 BC

“ … Egyptian terracotta Baubo Late Period-Ptolemaic Period, circa 664-30 B.C…. Baubo wearing a large wreath, her hair falling in ringlets at the back and onto her shoulders, depicted with rounded stomach, legs bent and spread, her right hand held at her genitals, her left reaching behind towards her buttocks, an attachment loop behind … “ bonhams

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Missing are the large, erect “hare” or penis caged dildo and the pig - From the Herodotus cite on plate 1025 Baubo was pre-Greek - or native Egyptian - The open vulva was part of day to day Egyptian life - as was the large dildo! As was the caged penis - The whole picture is the subject of this page - the female phallus in the male rear and the “earth-sun” or fire …

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There were 2 native Egyptian ceremonies where women exposed their vulvas - The Bubastis festival - witnessed by Herodotus and the Apis bull festival witnessed by Diodorus Siculus - But I am sure in a penis caged Egypt - the vulva was on open display all the time - Egyptian sculptures of women are very revealing in all ages up to the Greeks

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Boss lady as a bull over a penis caged old guy

Baubo riding a pig - that was what Baubo let loose ! The cult of Demeter was a female phallus cult - It had to be ! Greek men, like Egyptian men were in the “truss” ! Modern writing makes it seem that female sexual aggression was just a barbarian or oriental custom - but a close reading shows that the Greek male was also in the penis restraint … I am confident that female phallus sex was the fire of the eleusinian mysteries …

In ancient Egypt the phallic power of theApis bull was celebrated by the female rite of ana-suromai - or public vaginal display …

My reading is that was the power of the female phallus not male ! Hathor-Min probably … That was female genital display and public masturbation - The penis locked Egyptian male was unable to self pleasure in this way …

The same thing was probably being celebrated by Baubo and her dildo during the eleusinian mysteries … The greek male was, like the Egyptian locked and unable to masturbate …

“ …Herodotus wasn’t the only Greek man abroad to marvel at the striking display of ana-suromai. Diodorus Siculus of Sicily was another awestruck witness. The celebrated historian , who wrote a history of the world in forty books, travelled to Egypt in 60 BCE, some four hundred years after Herodutus reported on the skirt raising celebrations of the Bubastis festival, Diodorus’ report came from Memphis, Egypt oldest capital city, which was named after the virgin moon goddess Men-Nefer. In Memphis, the site of sacred female genital display was the Serapeum temple, home to a live bull which was tended and worshipped as a sacred animal known as Apis. For the Egyptians, the Apis, the great horned creature, was the incarnation of the supreme god Ptah, a deity of creative power. As a mark of Ptah’s importance, when one bull died, it was replaced with another live animal. And it was this changeover of sacred bulls that provided the catalyst for ritual acts of ana-suromai. According to Diodorus: “For the first forty days after the installation of the new Apis, women are permitted into the temple to see the bull face to face. They come and stand before him, tucking up their gowns.”

The focus of this particular vaginal rite is suggested to have been to strengthen the virility of the Apis bull …” Raising the Skirt: The Unsung Power of the Vagina By Catherine Blackledge (2021)

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More boss lady as a bull over a penis caged old guy …

Cant’ find the bridge between the fire I perceive here and what exists in the day to day world though … That fire is either there or it isn’t there - and in the real world its almost 100% not there …

That’s Demeter’s specialty I suppose - that was the focus of her religious rites - the fire that elevated mortals into higher beings … Sometime in the deep past there must have been a system to do this - That system was probably at the core of the mysteries of Eleusis …

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Closing scene: More boss lady as a bull over a penis caged old guy …

Sodomy as boss lady's t-shirt says - that was probably the fire bellows of Demeter -

In a world of the tightly locked male phallus - the fire of the tribade’s mentule in the male ass chakra was probably the only way to replicate the Demeter image of the ambrosia covered boy in the fire-place … The poetry of Martial and the Priapea is pretty solid proof of this thesis …

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Baubo - c. 400 BC - Priene, Anatolia.

By which I take it to mean Baubo was the female eros - What I call the “earth-sun” space …

Women can get married and have kids without ever activating Baubo - It’s true! - That’s the difference between Roman matrons and almost all matrons today … Baubo is alseep!

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Demeter - Didrachme  from Paros island, Greece

“ … Demeter was frequently associated with images of the harvest, including flowers, fruit, and grain. She was also sometimes pictured with her daughter Persephone. Demeter is not generally portrayed with any of her consorts; the exception is Iasion, the youth of Crete who lay with her in a thrice-ploughed field, and was killed afterwards by a jealous Zeus with a thunderbolt.

Demeter is assigned the zodiac constellation Virgo the Virgin by Marcus Manilius in his 1st century Roman work Astronomicon. In art, constellation Virgo holds Spica, a sheaf of wheat in her hand and sits beside constellation Leo the Lion.

In Arcadia, she was known as "Black Demeter". She was said to have taken the form of a mare to escape the pursuit of her younger brother, Poseidon, and having been raped by him despite her disguise, dressed all in black and retreated into a cave to mourn and to purify herself. She was consequently depicted with the head of a horse in this region.

A sculpture of the Black Demeter was made by Onatas….” Wikipedia

“Black” Demeter could also mean African … My best guess is the phallic Egyptian goddess Mut

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I have doubts about Poseidon raping Demeter - water goddesses usually have a phallus - Like Anat she probably forced her penis caged brother to have anal sex with her - Up to 1/4 Egyptian marriages were brother/sister - Penis caged Egyptian brothers were the sex objects of their phallic sisters and even daughters and aunts! Roman too - Or all Trojans …

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"Cerere, Pompeii 62-79 A.D. - The Roman Demeter - Naples, National Archaeological Museum

Representation on a red background of Cerere wearing a long garment and a light-coloured mantle, her head encircled with a bright nimbus, her hair gathered up by a crown of pearls; in her right hand, she keeps a long golden torch, in her left hand she brings a wicker basket within spikes; the chiaroscuro technique in the wrinkles of her dress underlines her body sinuosity; from da Casa dei Dioscuri, Corinthian Atrium. …” Getty

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“ … In ancient Roman religion, Ceres was a goddess of agriculture, grain crops, fertility and motherly relationships. She was originally the central deity in Rome's so-called plebeian or Aventine Triad, then was paired with her daughter Proserpina in what Romans described as "the Greek rites of Ceres". Her seven-day April festival of Cerealia included the popular Ludi Ceriales (Ceres' games). She was also honoured in the May lustratio of the fields at the Ambarvalia festival, at harvest-time, and during Roman marriages and funeral rites. She is usually depicted as a mature woman.

Ceres is the only one of Rome's many agricultural deities to be listed among the Dii Consentes, Rome's equivalent to the Twelve Olympians of Greek mythology. The Romans saw her as the counterpart of the Greek goddess Demeter, whose mythology was reinterpreted for Ceres in Roman art and literature. … “ Wikipedia

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“ Scene of initiation into the Eleusinian mysteries - cult of Demeter and Persephone based at Eleusis in ancient Greece - engraving from "Usi e Costumi di Tutti i Popoli dell'Universo. … “ Getty

That’s probably an amazon venus fire belt held by seated matron -

“ … Hippolyte (Hippolyta) was the queen of the Amazons, a mythic race of warrior women. Her father, Ares the war god, gave her his magical girdle, a belt that endowed the wearer with superhuman strength. … “ brooklynmuseum

Thats the penis cage placed on the Amazon husband - and also the female phallus strap on belt… Strap on sex was probably the fire of the the Eleusinian mysteries

As always in Roman art - the male is nude and penis caged …

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“Initiation of Heracles to the lesser mysteries, with Demeter (sitting) and Persephone (standing) in the centre, painting on a greek vase, illustration from Histoire des grecs, volume 1, Formation du peuple grec, 1887, by Victor Duruy (1811-1894).” - Getty

A nude and penis caged Hercules to the left is probably going to have passive sex with the nude phallic Amazon on the right - Once Amazons put on the magical girdle of Hippolyta - they became men!

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An amazon sun sex orgy by the pool with the general

Following my train of thought on “Initiation of Heracles to the lesser mysteries” above - the myth of Hercules and Omphale - a Queen of Asia Minor - is explicit about the switch in sex roles ... Hercules was eventually made immortal - and somehow Ambrosia was involved …

Ambrosia and fire were probably at the center of the Eleusinian mysteries ….

The christians hinted at a sex rite at the hidden core of the mysteries - so that’s not just lewd speculation ! And given the sacred Minoan sex knot or penis cage - that was probably mentule sex in the male rear and not regular sex …

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More amazon sun sex orgy by the pool with the general

Ambrosia has left the western narrative - which is kind of incredible given that it provided what the entire christian world was living for - ie eternal life after death!

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(July 21, 2022) Ambrosia: The image coming forth is vampire blood! Yes - in “the vampire diaries” the blood of vampires has miraculous healing properties …

That’s the thought - that’s also probably sort of true! The gods of the Greek world have become the vampires of the Christian world !

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Christians ritually eat and drink the body and blood of christ in the Eucharist - my guess is that’s a parallel image to the Greek Ambrosia …

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Also see: “Ambrosia and nectar: the food and drink of the Gods” (2015)

“ … Ambrosia. in Hellenic mythology it's the food of the Gods, but it is also so much more. Today I would like to spend a little time getting some source material together on it. It's been on my mind due to some off-handed comment about fruit (I love fruit and, to a friend, I remarked that it's 'ambrosia from the Gods' to me) and so that means it's now on your mind as well!

Ambrosia ... literally translates as 'immortality'. Ambrosia is very closely related to the Gods' other form of sustenance, nectar (..., 'death overcoming', where ambrosia is usually the food and nectar the drink of the Theoi.

The two terms may not have originally been distinguished. In Homeros, this holds true, but in Alcman, nectar is the food, and in Sappho and Anaxandrides, ambrosia is the drink. Among later writers, ambrosia has been so often used with generic meanings of 'delightful liquid' that such late writers as Athenaeus, Paulus and Dioscurides employ it as a technical terms in contexts of cookery, medicine, and botany. Both are said to smell divine (pun intended), and both are brought to Olympos by doves.

In general, both ambrosia and nectar were the standard food of those with Ichor in their veins. In Hellenic mythology, ichor ...is the ethereal fluid that is the blood of the Gods and other immortals. It is sometimes said to retain the qualities of the immortal's food and drink, ambrosia or nectar. It was considered to be golden in color, as well as lethally toxic to mortals. Because They have ichor in Their veins, not blood, They are immortal, or--perhaps better said--only immortal beings have ichor coursing through their veins; mortal beings have blood.

From the Iliad:

"The point tore through the ambrosial robe which the Graces had woven for her [Aphrodite], and pierced the skin between her wrist and the palm of her hand, so that the immortal blood, or ichor, that flows in the veins of the blessed gods, came pouring from the wound; for the gods do not eat bread nor drink wine, hence they have no blood such as ours, and are immortal." [BK. V]

When brought into contact with mortals, both ambrosia and nectar act as near-miracle substances. Ascribed to them when consumed or even rubbed onto the skin are:


* Provide apotheosis; make mortals immortal, and thus provide immortality to mortals (in the case of Herakles, for example, and Demophon at the hands of Demeter)
* Act as a magical anti-aging cream--mostly for women (as with Penelope)
* Act as an anguent, a soothing preparation spread on wounds, burns, rashes, abrasions or other topical injuries in order to heal them
* Act as a balming agent to preserve the corpses of fallen mortals.


Both ambrosia and nectar appear in many ancient writings and they play an important role--both positively as negatively--in mythology. Ambrosia gets stolen and mortals punished, Gods get interrupted while applying it and thus mortals can't become immortal, etc. As with anything to do with the Theoi in mythology, messing with ambrosia and nectar is often more trouble than the consequences are worth. Unless, of course, it turns you into a God. Then it's worth the very steep price that always has to be paid for it through the completion of various, gueling, quests. … “ baringtheaegis.blogspot

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More amazon sun sex orgy by the pool with the general …

I think the image here - and in the central fire mysteries of Eleusis - is the coitus of Demeter and the youth Iasion - That’s the “Heiros Gamos” and originated in Minoan Crete - and was certainly Amazon sex featuring the girdle of Hippolyta and the sacred knot or penis cage …

Ambrosia and fire - the Amazon sex was the fire - and maybe the Ambrosia too …

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Ambrosia is also probably the same as the forbidden fruit of the garden of eden …

And in ancient Egypt there are many images of the goddess Nut feeding drink and food from a tree of paradise to mortals … Probably the ambrosia and nectar of the Greeks [see The Ished Tree of life  Garden of Priapus- 565]

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Closing scene: amazon sun sex orgy by the pool with the general …

That seems edgy today - But for Rome not really - all Roman youths were penis locked until 25 - and ritual sex with Amazon mentules was expected above the age of consent or 17. And according to the Roman poets like Martial, Roman men seen to have preferred Eromenos or penis locked sex to the regular thing …

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Boss lady as bull over a locked horse …

The Ambrosia and Nectar of the Greeks was originally the food of the Egyptian Ished Tree of life - but that was food for royals only - I think the Greeks widened the field - but only so far - 30 years in the penis cage was the price to be paid for fruits of the tree of life

The Apis bull was a symbol of the king but also a symbol of Ptah - who in all depictions is wielding the symbol of the penis cage - Also Ptah’s wife was Sekhmet - a female lion goddess - who was also phallic when Sekhmet-Min !

The Egyptian king was not the phallus, like Ptah he was locked; - his phallic queens were the bulls:

According to Diodorus: “For the first forty days after the installation of the new Apis, women are permitted into the temple to see the bull face to face. They come and stand before him, tucking up their gowns.”

The focus of this particular vaginal rite is suggested to have been to strengthen the virility of the Apis bull …”

Raising the Skirt: The Unsung Power of the Vagina By Catherine Blackledge (2021)

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More boss lady as bull over a locked horse …

Sill incredulous to me - but that was the only path to the Djed pillar …

(July 22, 2022) Had a dream that I served friends a very expensive meal ! The bill was super high, but I had the funds - somehow!

I suppose I’m on the right path - The Greek Ambrosia and nectar have a link to the female phallus …

There might also be a link to the Holy Grail - which provided something like Ambrosia …

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“ … The Apis bull was regarded as the “Ba” (one of the parts of the soul) of Ptah. However, in later times, the Apis was associated with him only while it was living and associated with Osiris after death. Herodotus wrote that the Apis bull was conceived from a bolt of lightning, he was black with a white diamond on his forehead, the image of a vulture on his back, double hairs on his tail, and a scarab mark under his tongue.

In Memphis he was thought to be married to Bast or Sekhmet. However, he was also described as the husband of Wadjet and numerous smaller local deities. He was the father of Nefertum and Maahes (by either Bast or Sekhmet). He also adopted Imhotep (the deified architect of Djoser’s Step Pyramid as his son.

Ptah was linked to Ta-tenen (meaning “risen land) or Tanen (meaning “submerged land”), an earth god connected with the primeval mound from which creation sprang. In this form he was sometimes associated with Nepthys in representing Lower Egypt. He merged with Sokar (a god of the necropolis) as Ptah-Sokar, the personification of the sun during the night. Ptah-Sokar was associated with Osiris as Ptah-Sokar-Osiris. He was also linked to Min, the fertility god.

He was depicted as a mummified man with unbound arms holding a staff incorporating the ankh (representing life), the was (representing power) and the djed (representing stability). Ptah usually stands on a plinth which was also one of the hieroglyphic symbols used to write the name of Ma’at (who represented order or justice) and was the same shape as a tool used by stonemasons and architects to form a straight edge. … “ ancientegyptonline

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More boss lady as bull over a locked horse …

Older Egyptian kings had to sexually submit to the bulls of their daughters to stay king after the queen died … And I am sure that was not a symbolic marriage but actual sex … Myth Myrrha was the highest octane sex in the lands of the Queen of Sheba - Why? Because the older the King, the more stored up energy from the penis cage …

That’s the wizened Silenus - the aged guardian of Dionysus … Silenus may have been old, but he was the essential lightning or dynamo of the revels of the female Dionysus …

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Silenus as an aged King of Nysa:

“ … SILE′NUS or SEILE′NUS (Seilênos). It is remarked in the article Satyrus, that the older Satyrs were generally termed Sileni (comp. Schol. ad Nicand. Alex. 31), but one of these Sileni is commonly the Silenus, who always acts a prominent part in the retinue of Dionysus, from whom he is inseparable, and whom he is said to have brought up and instructed. (Diod. iv. 14; Orph. Hymn. 53. 1.) Like the other Satyrs he is called a son of Hermes (Serv. ad Virg. Eclog. vi. 13), but others call him a son of Pan by a nymph, or of Gaea (Nonn. Dionys. xiv. 97, xxix. 262; Aelian, V. H. iii. 18; comp. Porphyr. Vit. Pythag. 16 ; Clemens, Cohort. ad Gent. p. 24.) Being the constant companion of Dionysus, he is, like the god, said to have been born at Nysa (Catull. 64, 253), and Diodorus (iii. 72) even represents him as king of Nysa ; he moreover took part in the contest with the Gigantes, and slew Enceladus, putting the others to flight by the braying of his ass. (Eurip. Cycl.) He is described as a jovial old man, with a bald head, a puck nose, fat and round like his wine bag, which he always carried with him, and generally as intoxicated. As therefore he cannot trust to his own legs, he is generally riding on an ass (Ov. Fast. i. 399, iii. 749), or he is supported by other Satyrs and Satyrisci. (Virg. Eclog. vi. 13 ; Lucian, Deor. Cone. 4.) In every other respect he is described as resembling his brethren in the fondness for sleep, wine and music. He is mentioned along with Marsyas and Olympus as the inventor of the flute which he is often seen playing (Strab. x. p. 470), and a special kind of dance was called after him Silenus, while he himself is designated as the dancer. (Anacr. 38. 11; Paus. iii. 25. § 2; Lucian, Icarom. 27.) But it is a peculiar feature in his character that he was conceived also as an inspired prophet, who knew all the past and the most distant future (Aelian, V. H. iii. 18; Virg. Eclog. vi, 31, &c.), and as a sage who despised all the gifts of fortune (Cic. Tuscul. i. 48); so that he becomes the representative of that wisdom which conceals itself behind a rough and uncouth external appearance, whence he is likened to Socrates. (Plat. Sympos. 32 ; Xenoph. Sympos. 5 § 7.) When he was drunk and asleep, he was in the power of mortals who might compel him to prophesy and sing by surrounding him with chains of flowers. (Aelian, V. H. iii. 18; Philostr. Imag. i. 22, Vit. Apoll. vi. 27; Ov. Met. xi. 91.) Silenus had a temple at Elis, where Methe (Drunkenness) stood by his side handing him a cup of wine.
Source: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. … “ Theoi

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More boss lady as bull over a locked horse …

That’s probably the “sacrament” that Martial was describing when describing his wife sexing him in a cold and formal way - Female phallus sex as sacrament was probably the Trojan “hieros gamos” … The holy sacrament of the Eleusinian mysteries 

I do not think that sacrament was normal sex. From Martial and other sources Roman sex was more focused on the fire of the male “hare” or penis locked erection, and the “fig of Chios” or male rear - all under the large female mentule … The fire of the “hare” was all important though …

(July 23, 2022) Dream images after last post is humans entering dragon space - or “alien” space - Highly sexual but not in the human way - More like aggressive female dominant bird sex ...

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In this epigram an aged father gives his daughter in marriage to an auctioneer over many other powerful suitors - I guess Martial is acknowledging what the Trojan marriage meant - ie the penis caged fathers sexual emancipation of his newly phallic daughter - The Trojan man blessed his daughter with an Amazon girdle of Hippolyta at marriage - Married to a slave dealer, the old man’s daughter would have less work to do to sate her lusts …

Martial VIII. TO SEVERUS.

“ … Two auctioneers,
four tribunes,
seven lawyers,
ten poets,
were recently
asking the hand
of a certain
young lady
from her
aged father.
Without hesitation,
he gave her
to the
auctioneer Eulogus.
Tell me,
Severus, did he
act foolishly? …”

Pott & Wright's : Martial, : the twelve books of Epigrams

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Closing scene: boss lady as bull over a locked horse …

Last nights dream of dragon space had a sci-fi component to it - like a scene from Arthur C Clarke’s “Childhoods End” when the black American "last man on earth” makes a trip to the dragon planet

- But the dragon world in that novel was de-sexed. The images from last night were fiery - and highly erotic - Female phallus erotic! My guess is the last time humans were at that dragon level en masse was the last days of Rome …

A lot of the blockages on this website certainly come from that upper world - There are factions of dragon power ruling over the earth …

Garden of Priapus - 1045

Hector horse sex: Boss lady riding horse like the Amazon Andromache rode her husband Hector … Old school star getting oral service up front …

Hector horse sex is new - the old school star up front did not do this back in the day. But Hector horse sex is also very old - its Trojan fire sex ! Or dragon sex - like what I saw last night in the dreamspace …

The “jinn” sent me the heavy drowsiness - so here’s a new plate … That’s the trip to the “dragon planet”! - Or maybe more simply - an encounter with the dragon layers of the collective unconscious psyche - The dragon is the same everywhere …

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More Hector horse sex: Boss lady riding horse like the Amazon Andromache rode her husband Hector … Old school star getting oral service up front …

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Dragon fire is good for the health - In this Epigram Martial notes that Cotta - who wore the royal purple, has gone 62 summers in perfect health… But Martial also notes that Priam and Nestor who were Trojan princes and famously sexual under the female phallus lived into advanced age butdid not share the same good health …

But all three had the strange Roman male vigor - the famous Roman dog leash tan - Thats a scandal that nobody knows about !

LXX. TO MARCIANUS.
“ … Sixty summers, Marcianus, and, I think, two more have been completed by Cotta, and he does not remember ever to have felt the weariness of a bed of sickness even for a single day. With resolute, nay uncourteous feature, he bids the doctors Alcon, Dasius, and Symmachus keep at a distance. If our years were accurately counted, and if the amount subtracted from them by cruel fevers, or oppressive languor, or painful maladies, were separated from the happier portion of our lives, we should be found in reality but infants, though we seem to be old men. He who thinks that the lives of Priam and of Nestor were long is much deceived and mistaken. Life consists not in living, but in enjoying health. … “

Pott & Wright's : Martial, : the twelve books of Epigrams

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More Hector horse sex: Boss lady riding horse like the Amazon Andromache rode her husband Hector … Old school star getting oral service up front … More Hector horse sex: Boss lady riding horse like the Amazon Andromache rode her husband Hector … Old school star getting oral service up front …

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More Hector horse sex: Boss lady riding horse like the Amazon Andromache rode her husband Hector … Old school star getting oral service up front …

Up front is the crone “Baubo” - that’s a powerful Greco-Roman form - All who took part in the rites of Demeter - the Eleusinian mysteries - had to pay homage to Baubo … Baubo was also found in Egypt and Sumerian - But for many reasons Baubo has remained hidden for a long time …

Garden of Priapus - 1049

More Hector horse sex: Boss lady riding horse like the Amazon Andromache rode her husband Hector … Old school star getting oral service up front …

The crone Baubo released the fires of Demeter - Demeter was the Nymph who lost her maiden Persephone - and ended the harvest causing famine - The services of Baubo were therefore not a small thing !

Greek and Roman men serviced the vagina orally - despite the insults of Martial …

I think Hector horse sex under the mentule of a Nymph must have been a requirement of the fire rites of the the Eleusinian mysteries - Fire and Ambrosia were the food that created the Greek Demi-gods …

- That infusion of fire and ambrosia was the energy that would carry the soul through hades after death and into higher worlds…

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 Old school star getting oral service up front …

Baubo! Or the Sumerian question of Innana - “Who will plow my vulva?” - or multiple vagina cults in Egypt - Apis and Bubastis being a few …

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 Old school star getting oral service - topless boss lady above directing the action from up above …

My reading of Martial’s derision of men who gave women oral sex is that was a test to weed out the wrong men from getting the fire sacraments of Demeter …No Baubo - no Demeter fire or Demeter Ambrosia - Martial’s open and omnivorous sexuality suggests that to me!

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Maiden Persephone, Nymph Demeter, Crone Baubo - That progression also suggests a hidden goddess to me - The article below shows sometimes Baubo was called other names like Isis …

My personal transformative dream experience in the afro-alpine lake given by Baubo strongly suggests that Baubo was like Demeter in Eleusis - a goddess in disguise …

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Another insight I have built up is - no male “hare” or male sexual fire - no female eros - Female desire is tightly shackled to the male phallus - Western women have not yet realized this harsh truth! Black American women too - the old race distinctions have began to disappear …

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“ … Even to modern eyes, the terracotta statuettes are bizarre. Found in 1896 in the remains of a 5th-century BCE temple at the ancient Greek city of Priene, each figurine is different, but all feature a woman’s face, bedecked with an elaborate hairdo, situated directly atop a pair of chubby, childlike legs. In place of a chin, there is the well-defined cleft of a hairless vulva. But for one of the German archeologists working on the dig, the figures looked familiar. He quickly concluded that they were images of Baubo, a mythological character—some say goddess—whose main claim to fame was flashing her genitals to cheer up the agricultural goddess Demeter. “Surely we are dealing with a creation from the context of the grotesque-obscene aspects of the Demeter cult,” he declared.

Today, we turn to resources like The Vagina Bible or Pussypedia to answer questions about “down there” that we are otherwise too shy to ask. Meanwhile, powerful men brag that when it comes to subjugating women, all you need to do is “Grab ‘em by the pussy.” Obviously, we need a vagina goddess now more than ever. So why isn’t Baubo more well known? 

One reason may be that scholars differ widely in their interpretations of Baubo-related texts and artifacts. Did her name mean “belly,” “cave,” or “vulva”? Was she a goddess of fertility, sexuality, or mirth? Or was she even a goddess at all? And when it comes to those weird statuettes from Priene, there’s no agreement about who they are or what they represent, even though they were found in the remains of a temple dedicated to Demeter, the ancient goddess of grain and agriculture, with whom Baubo is so closely associated. 

Adding to the confusion, there are many versions of Baubo’s story, which basically goes like this. According to Greek mythology, one day, Demeter’s daughter, Persephone (also known as Kore), was out picking flowers when she was raped and abducted by Hades, god of the underworld. The furious Demeter gave chase, forgetting her responsibilities in the world above ground. As a result, grain didn’t grow—the land laid fallow—and many died of starvation due to famine. Disguised as an old woman dressed in black, Demeter came to the city of Eleusis, where she rested by a well, mourning the loss of her daughter. There, she was found by Baubo, a nurse or servant in the Eleusinian ruler’s household. Baubo offered the goddess a cup of wine but Demeter refused it. Baubo offered sympathy but was rebuffed again. Then Baubo did a thing that even today would get you noticed—she lifted up her skirt and showed off her private parts. The gesture made Demeter laugh, and then the goddess ate and drank. In some retellings, Baubo is accompanied by another servant, Iambe, who tells dirty jokes in an effort to make Demeter laugh, but it’s almost always Baubo’s flashing that gets the job done. (Sometimes, Baubo and Iambe are the same person. Sometimes she goes by the name of Hecate or Isis. As I said, it’s confusing.) 

Like an actor whose tiny role on stage or screen makes such a deep connection with the audience that she is catapulted to fame, Baubo’s cameo in the story of Demeter and Persephone is small but transformative. In an agrarian culture like ancient Greece, a ruined harvest could lead to starvation, disease, and death. By making Demeter laugh, and giving her renewed strength to find Persephone, Baubo essentially helped end a famine in the human world, saving countless lives. Art historian Winifred Milius Lubell, whose The Metamorphosis of Baubo: Myths of Women’s Sexual Energy is the definitive work on the subject, traced the iconography of the vulva across vistas of time, geography, and culture. She thinks Baubo was another aspect of “extremely ancient…agricultural rituals of fecundity,” in which chosen women “squatted over the newly plowed fields” and allowed their menstrual blood to drip into the earth to increase its fertility. You might say that Baubo spoke truth to power, the servant’s pussy flash reminding the grain goddess of her responsibility over the harvest and thus as a life-giving force to humanity. Without Baubo’s timely reminder of the vulva’s regenerative power, human civilization would have ended.  

Demeter is eventually reunited with her daughter after Zeus intervenes with Hades to set Persephone free. But before Hades does so, he tricks Persephone into eating some pomegranate seeds. Eating food in the underworld means she has to return below ground for at least part of the year. Demeter’s grief during Persephone’s annual travels below the earth thus became an allegory for the changing seasons and cycle of human life, from spring/birth to winter/death, and back again. 

Baubo’s singular act was powerful enough that it was reenacted by initiates and pilgrims at a pair of important religious festivals that honored the journey of Demeter and Persephone during the autumn planting season. Thousands of men and women participated in the Eleusinian Mysteries, an annual event that lasted for eight days in late September, the last three of which were open to initiates only. These rituals were held in strictest secrecy, so much so that scholars still argue about what actually went on. However, they mostly agree that initiates “imitated what Demeter had done while searching for her daughter,” and that included Baubo’s skirt lifting gesture. 

Only married women were allowed to attend the fall festival known as Thesmorphoria, which took place in October. At night, they slept in tents. During the day, attendees portrayed events from the story of Demeter and Persephone in rituals thought to increase both human and agricultural fertility. They ate pomegranates and perhaps let the red juice drip into the earth, just as the proto Baubo offered up her menstrual blood. As part of one rite, they “manipulated bread-dough models of male and female genitals.” No written explanation exists as to why they did this, but scholars think it may have been to awaken desire and stimulate fecundity. Piglets, alive or dead, were thrown into ritual caverns or pits, and their decomposed remains were later retrieved and spread on altars, mixed with seed corn for the coming year. This mimicked the moment when the Earth opened as Hades nabbed Persephone, and some hogs were pulled beneath the ground along with the girl. According to a 2013 article by Sarah Iles Johnston in the journal History of Religions, on the second day of Thesmorphoria, women broke a day of fasting with “ritual obscenity,” recalling the jokes Baubo/Iambe told to Demeter. And at least one historian—Ewa Osek, writing in the 2018 essay collection The Many Faces of Mimesis—believes they also reenacted Baubo’s pussy flashing. As A.C. Smythe of the site Goddess Gift summarizes it, this was a festival “where women were taught the profound lessons of living joyfully, dying without fear, and being an integral part of the great cycles of nature.”

The story of Demeter and Persephone resonated deeply with the women of ancient Greece, because it reflected traditions in their strongly patriarchal society. Women were kept sequestered inside their father or husband’s house. Marriages could be arranged by fathers without input from their wives or daughters, who might not even be aware that such life-altering discussions were taking place. Thus, in classicist Mary E. Naples’ words, a girl of 16 or so, “was often torn from her natal home and forced to marry an unknown man who was—on average—twice or three times her senior.” Depending on distance and circumstance, a young woman might see her parents and siblings only rarely after marriage, if at all. Persephone’s abduction and Demeter’s sorrow must have felt very familiar. 

On the other hand, according to Naples, Demeter’s success in having her daughter returned to her for at least part of the year was a rare instance in which a goddess defied the rapacious Zeus without punishment—a power play that would have been impossible without Baubo’s skirt toss to bring the goddess out of her grief. The annual gathering at Thesmophoria likewise provided an uncommon taste of power for mortal women, a time when they could throw off the shackles of patriarchy as they gathered in a wholly female society, sleeping outside and performing secret rituals.

Despite Baubo’s role in the Eleusinian Mysteries and Thesmophoria, few, if any, images of her exist from ancient Greece (the statuettes from Priene may have been a rare exception). This is due at least in part to the ephemeral nature of the art created for women’s rituals. Lubell noted that men created images in marble, precious metals, and clay fired in a kiln—media made to last for centuries. Meanwhile women of the time used what was at hand in a household—bread dough, for example, which quickly disintegrated.

While Baubo was clearly revered in ancient Greece, her origins may reach back even further. Many Baubo-like entities have names that begin with a similar root syllable, a “bau” or “ba” sound. Over a thousand years before the ancient Greeks, the goddess Bau ruled over “the dark waters of the deep or the void” in religion practiced at Sumer in what is now modern-day Iraq. Bau was also worshipped in ancient Phoenicia, where one of her guises was Baev, the “guardian of the source,” an entrance to a cave or hole. 

Baubo may also be related to a little-known Egyptian goddess named Bebt. The ancient historian Herodotus (c. 484 – c. 425 BC), described rites for the Egyptian cat goddess Bast at her main temple at Bubastis. During these ceremonies, men and women rode a barge down the river, yelling “mocking jokes and jests” at women on the riverbanks. Women on the barge performed dances, “then, standing up, they hitch up their skirts.” (According to Herodotus, more wine was drunk during this festival than at any other time of the year.)

The image of a vulva-flashing goddess was so popular in Egypt that artwork of her in one or another of her guises, but always unashamedly displaying her bits, appears to have been mass produced. In the late 19th century, antiquities hunters in the markets of Cairo or Alexandria in Egypt could buy bronze or terracotta figurines of this sort that had been dug up in farmers’ fields, writes Lubell. These showed women in flowing gowns and headdresses, lifting their skirts above their naked pudenda. Is it possible these figures were actually of the much older Egyptian goddess Isis? Again, scholars disagree. 

So, what happened to this “fun-loving, bawdy, jesting, sexually liberated—yet very wise—goddess,” as Smythe describers her, with such far-reaching and ancient roots? One clue comes to us via the writings of Clement of Alexandria, a Christian writer who penned an essay called the “Exhortation to the Greeks” (aka “Exhortation Against the Pagans” and “Exhortation Against the Heathens”) around 200 AD. The purpose of this essay was to mock and demonize the Greek’s pagan belief systems, in order to convert people to Christianity. In his rants he describes a number of Greek rituals in detail, and, as a result, his writing has also been relied on as a source of information about ancient pagan cults and Greek mythology. While his telling of the story of Baubo is invaluable, Clement is clearly disgusted by it, and he believes his readers should be, too. “Baubo, having received Demeter as a guest, offers her a draught of wine and meal. She declines to take it, being unwilling to drink on account of her mourning. Baubo is deeply hurt, thinking she has been slighted, and thereupon uncovers her secret parts and exhibits them to the goddess,” he explains. And how is Baubo received by the goddess? “Demeter is pleased at the sight, and now at least receives the draught—delighted by the spectacle! These are the secret mysteries of the Athenians!” Clement writes with great disdain. Later, he asks how anyone can respect the Athenians, when they, “and the rest of Greece—I blush even to speak of it—possess that shameful tale about Demeter?” You can almost hear Clement’s pearl-clutching from across the centuries. 

Could the rise of patriarchal religions, such as Christianity, be at the root of Baubo’s downfall?  Were men appalled, and maybe even threatened, by Baubo’s raunchiness? It’s quite possible. And the main weapon they could use to kill her off was to bury her under layers of shame. Michael Psellus, for example, was an 11th-century Christian historian who described what he thought took place during the Eleusinian Mysteries, including Baubo’s big moment. “She pulled up her gown revealing her thighs and pudenda,” he wrote. “Thus they gave her a name which covered her with shame. In this disgraceful manner the initiation ceremonies [at Eleusis] came to an end.” 

It was around this same time that Baubo-like figures, called Sheela na gigs, began appearing all over Europe. They showed up as architectural carvings, posed over doors and entryways. They were meant to be ugly—as ugly as the gargoyles and other so-called grotesques that hung alongside them on churches, castles, and other places—and indeed they were. A round-headed creature holding her vulva wide open, with her hands clutching her labia, the Sheela na gig’s true meaning is a mystery. But one of the most popular theories is that put forth by researchers Anthony Weir and James Jerman. They argue, in their 1986 book Images of Lust: Sexual Carvings on Medieval Churches, that the Sheela na gigs’ location on churches, and their grotesque features, by medieval standards, suggest that they represent female lust as hideous and sinfully corrupting. 
 
“With the rise of the patriarchy, the vulva went from being a place of reverence to a puritanical, unmentionable, and ‘dirty’ part of a woman,” writes Jean Shinoda Bolen in her book, Goddesses In Older Women: Archetypes in Women Over Fifty. “It went from a symbol of the goddess to one of the most demeaning and hostile words (‘cunt’) a women can be called.” This negative view of female genitalia and sexuality, and by extension, Baubo, pretty much held steady in Christianity and European cultures for the next 800 years or so. Even Jane Ellen Harrison, a pioneering classics scholar and suffragist, relegated almost all discussion of Baubo to a footnote in her 1908 masterwork, Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion. Baubo’s gesture, she wrote, was a “stumbling block” and “not in harmony with modern conventions.”

Nevertheless, Baubo does make some appearances in a few modern works. In Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s early 19th-century play Faust, she shows up as an occult figure. “Old Baubo comes alone,” a chorus of witches chants, “she rides upon a farrow [a sow]. Then honor to whom honor is due. Mother Baubo to the front, and lead the way!” In his 1882 work, The Gay Science, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche muses that, “Perhaps truth is a woman who has reasons for not letting us see her reasons? Perhaps her name is—to speak Greek—Baubo?” And Sigmund Freud, who was likely familiar with the findings at Priene, referred to Baubo in his 1916 article, “A Mythological Parallel to a Visual Obsession.” 

For those men, Baubo was a historical myth, not a figure worthy of contemporary worship. And to some women, that is to our detriment. “Baubo has been degraded into over-sexualized images of women and girls,” writes Dr. Kaalii Cargill, a scholar of women’s traditions in ancient Greece, on the site LivingNow. “The obscenities that were once shouted in sacred play are now directed at women as aggression, hostility, and violence. We have lost Baubo and so many of the myths and rituals that can connect us to ourselves, each other, and the world.”
But not everyone has relinquished their connection to Baubo. And some believe that her story has relevance for women today. Referring to her as the “Greek Goddess of Humor,” A.C. Smythe of Goddess Gift explains that Baubo should be “celebrated as a positive force of female sexuality and the healing power of laughter. [She] teaches us a lesson in how to turn enmity into friendship. Perhaps her bawdy behavior was a reminder that we should remember that all things will pass and change. To not take things too seriously, for nothing lasts forever.” 

Similarly, Jen Miller, on her blog Quill of the Goddess, describes Baubo as “The queen of deep belly laughs, dirty jokes, and unbridled sexuality. I would compare her to Mae West or Amy Schumer. She is a goddess who speaks directly from her genitals, and your approval is neither sought nor required.” Maria Wulf, on her blog Full Moon Fiber Art, even makes Baubo relatable by explaining that she “is the part of us that’s ‘too loud’ and cackles at dirty jokes. The one who is having ‘too much fun.’”

The public display of the female body—at least as dictated by women—still has the power to shock in the 21st century. A society that can lose a good portion of its collective mind at the sight of a mother breast-feeding her baby at a restaurant is probably not ready for Baubo. Yet, as Lubbell points out, Baubo’s power stemmed not from “gleaming armor or beauty bestowed on her” by male gods, but from her own body. She was irreverent and sacred, a symbol of women’s “nurturing and transformative energies” combined with their “resourcefulness and laughter.” In an era when women’s rights and bodily autonomy are under siege on what seems like a daily basis, maybe we ought to reclaim Baubo as a life-affirming reminder of female power.  … “
This Vagina Goddess Is The Best Ancient Symbol You've Never Heard Of
By Lynn Peril - from Bust

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 More Hector horse sex: Boss lady riding horse like the Amazon Andromache rode her husband Hector 

There was an overtly sexual component to the rites of Demeter:

“ … Only married women were allowed to attend the fall festival known as Thesmorphoria, which took place in October. At night, they slept in tents. During the day, attendees portrayed events from the story of Demeter and Persephone in rituals thought to increase both human and agricultural fertility. They ate pomegranates and perhaps let the red juice drip into the earth, just as the proto Baubo offered up her menstrual blood. As part of one rite, they “manipulated bread-dough models of male and female genitals.” No written explanation exists as to why they did this, but scholars think it may have been to awaken desire and stimulate fecundity. … “Lynn Peril

“bread-dough models of male and female genitals” means sex-food! Keeping in mind the tight Greek and Roman penis cage - this suggests that coitus was a form of female driven food consumption- the famous eight inch Greek dildo that was part of all women’s lives …

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More Hector horse sex: Boss lady riding horse like the Amazon Andromache rode her husband Hector 

The Demeter Thesmorphoria October/Harvest festival was for married women only - or really only for women who had been blessed by their fathers in the Amazon fashion with his phallic power in the form of the the girdle of Hippolyta

Probably like the Roman Bona Dea men were invited but only as women - ie as the sex objects on female orgies ….

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Topless old school star or “Baubo” and a friend watch boss lady drive her point home - That echoes the scene when Baubo and the maiden Iambe used sexual jokes to bring Demeter back to life … At the end of the Demeter festival cycle the married women bound themselves to the underworld by ritually consuming pomegranates - which Hades fed to Demeter to cause her to winter with him - The underworld is the chthonic - or the realm of the snake or dragon - or hyper sexuality:

“ … Only married women were allowed to attend the fall festival known as Thesmorphoria, which took place in October. At night, they slept in tents. During the day, attendees portrayed events from the story of Demeter and Persephone in rituals thought to increase both human and agricultural fertility. They ate pomegranates and perhaps let the red juice drip into the earth … “ Lynn Peril

The married women were making a promise to hades - my guess is that was sexual - The above ground part was probably chaste, but Hades must have been pure erotica!

And Amazon married is a little different than regular marriage - The Amazon girdle of Hippolyta was a sexual emancipation of young girls not a binding to one man … Hence the Greco-Roman orgy tradition ! But orgy with a twist - as Juvenal shows - events like Bona Dea were female not male sexual rampages …

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More topless old school star or “Baubo” and a friend watch boss lady drive her point home. That reminds me of the scene in the Satyricon above when young man is cured of his impotence by a crone who ritually fondles him in front of a young girl - She delights in producing a “hare” and later drunkenly sodomizing the young man with a dildo ! The Greco-Roman crone was sexually aggressive and the young Greco-Roman man was apenis locked horse to be ridden !

Baubo related sculptures from Egypt and Lebanon all have her riding a pig nude … The pigs must have been male congregants of the Demeter festival - Those were ritually slaughtered and fed to snakes !

But according to the article below men were not allowed to attend the October festival - and no pomegranates!

- Not sure how you can have an orgy without men though! My guess is was like the Bona Sea - men were invited but not as men! Penis caged for sure …: And my guess is pomegranates were eaten - that was a key part of the myth…

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Like I said above - modern women do not understand the rigid role of the “hare” or male erection in female sexuality ! That’s been lost to the prohibition of miscegenation that is super efficient at keeping the eros of Hades at bay !

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“ … Thesmophoria: The History

Greeks Celebrated Thesmophoria in locations from North Africa to Asia Minor to Southern Italy to Greece and Sicily making it one of THE most widespread dedicated to Demeter. Archeologists believe it may be one of the oldest festivals as well, with traces appearing from eleventh century BCE. Men were absolutely not allowed to attend, witness or even hear about the festival, ON PENALTY OF DEATH. So, y’know, if you identify as male, you’re taking your chances if you read further.

The most well-documented purpose of Thesmophoria was to restore the health and fertility of the Earth before next year’s crops. At a previous rite in Spring, Priestesses drop offerings into snake-filled rooms under a temple dedicated to Demeter called the Thesmophorion. Specifically, the offerings were the bodies of new-born piglets, grains, pine shoots and bread dough shaped like phalluses. At some point during the Thesmophoria, Priestesses would descend to those snake-filled rooms, clapping rhythmically to scare away the snakes, and retrieve the decomposing offerings. They would leave them at the front of the temple for farmers to take and use as a sacred compost to mix with the seeds they would soon plant before the next rainy season arrived. This sacred organic compost was a reflection of the type of “natural law” that Demeter Thesmophoros represented.

… Thesmophoria: The Rites

So, what exactly happened during Thesmophoria? Well, as best as we can tell, on day one women from all over the area would head out to the local hill dedicated to Demeter. They hauled out food, drink, incense, lamps, tents, and blankets. Leaving their beds filled with agus castus, the chaste tree, they conveyed a loud “nah” to their partners at home.

They took the first day to set up a “city of women,” away from town and prying eyes, building structures out of plant material. On day two, women would fast and purify themselves. On day three, they held the “bitching ritual.” These festivities were dedicated specifically to a Goddess named Kalligeneia, the nymph nursemaid to Persephone, who may or may not be another iteration of Demeter. The women would eat and drink their fill. They avoided pomegranate, but enjoyed wheat-based loaves of bread in the shapes of phalluses and vaginas – this might even be the precursor the long French loaf! Burping, farting, cussing up a storm, wrestling with each other, and even arguing were welcome behaviors. “Get it out,” seems to be the spirit here. After harsh feelings had been shared, femmes always made time to make up and come to peace. … “ October 20, 2018 by Meagan Angus

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More topless old school star or “Baubo” and a friend watch boss lady drive her point home

The October festival of Demeter were dedicated to a nursemaid of Demeter - called Kalligeneia - That has to be Baubo by another name - They feasted on sexual organs made of bread to honor her and in my mind also feasted with large strap on dildos on the rears of penis locked male congregants - the “pigs” of Baubo sculptures - Sex was not an abstract idea to Greek amazons - From Baubo it was the cure for Demeter’s woes ….

“ …On day three, they held the “bitching ritual.” These festivities were dedicated specifically to a Goddess named Kalligeneia, the nymph nursemaid to Persephone, who may or may not be another iteration of Demeter. The women would eat and drink their fill. They avoided pomegranate, but enjoyed wheat-based loaves of bread in the shapes of phalluses and vaginas …” Meagan Angus

 

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Closing scene: topless old school star or “Baubo” and a friend watch boss lady drive her point home …

“The third day of the Thesmophoria was kalligeneia, or "beautiful birth". On this day, women called upon the goddess Kalligeneia, praying for their own fertility. “ Wikipedia

That was probably a prayer to Baubo - a hidden goddess …

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According to Herodotus, the rites of Demeter were an Egyptian mystery imported into Greece but he decides not to give any more information - But Egypt was the home of the female phallus !

- My guess the Greek and Egyptian images of a nude Baubo riding a pig was a sexual signal - the married Greek women ended the rites of Demeter with an October female phallus orgy - the Thesmophoria. Some accounts have women digging our buried pigs and sending them out to to fertilize the fields for the next harvest

“… Because Demeter and Persephone’s happiness was apparently connected to the nourishment of the human race, the ancient Greeks were eager to keep them content. The goddesses were worshiped in cults throughout many centuries and cultures which predated Greece, and were especially important to the festival of Thesmophoria and the Eleusinian Mysteries. Herodotus alluded to their secretive aspects and possible foreign origins in the Histories.

“ On this lake they enact by night the story of the god’s sufferings, a rite which the Egyptians call the Mysteries. I could say more about this, for I know the truth, but let me preserve a discreet silence. Let me preserve a discreet silence, too , concerning that rite of Demeter which the Greeks call Thesmophoria, except as much of it as I am not forbidden to mention. The daughters of Danaus were those who brought this rite out of Egypt and taught it to the Pelasgian women … “

Herodotus 2, 171, 1-3 … “

“Kalligeneia: Fertility and Feminine Focus on an Athenian Bell Krater” Suzanne Allison, Hollins University (2012)

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Boss lady and Beauty riding a rare black horse …

Pomegranates  - The October Thesmophoria  rite of Demeter was also a Pomegranate eating festival

- Or in other words Greek women like Persephone pledged to spend the winter months with Hades in the ”hot place” full of pigs and snakes! That hot place was probably Egypt and Africa/Nysa - and the sex in Hades was probably Egyptian - Mut was the phallus to Amun - and so on - The Egyptian man was penis locked … Persephone was also called Isis in Crete !

Baubo and her large dildo and nude open legs is not subtle about erotica as a medication …

Herodotus also mentions.a lake and Egypt and the rites of Demeter - I may have experienced that lake experience in my afro-alpine dream when I first posted on Baubo …

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More Boss lady and Beauty riding a rare black horse …

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“ … The pomegranate (Punica granatum) is deeply embedded in human history.

For thousands of years, it has been a vital provider of food and medicine across different cultures and civilizations.

Mistaken origins
The genus name given to pomegranates (Punica) came from the Roman name for Carthage, an ancient city in Northern Africa
The Romans mistakenly assumed pomegranates derived from Africa. 
In fact, pomegranates have a native range from North East Turkey to Afghanistan
The pomegranate fruit was also given a classical Latin name, Malum granatum, meaning "grainy apple".

Botanically a berry
True berries are fleshy fruits that come from a single flower with one ovary and typically have several seeds.
Pomegranate fruit fall into this group.
The dry outer covering (husk) of pomegranate fruit is made up of two layers:
1. An outer, hard layer called a epicarp
2. An inner, soft layer called a mesocarp
The inner mesocarp forms distinct, non-symmetrical chambers containing seeds with a fleshy covering (aril).

Disease fighter
The fruit, flowers, bark, roots and leaves of pomegranates contain chemicals, such as polyphenols, that can be used to treat a number of diseases and conditions.
Ancient cultures understood the health benefits of pomegranates and used it in remedies for digestive disorders, skin disorders, and intestinal parasites, to name a few.
Modern day research has revealed that pomegranates might contribute towards preventing serious conditions such as heart disease, diabetes, and cancer.

Symbol of death and fertility
In Greek mythology, the pomegranate was known as the ‘fruit of the dead’ as it was said to have arisen from the blood of Adonis.
It also prominently featured in the myth of Hades and Persephone.
Hades, God of the underworld, used pomegranate seeds to trick Persephone into returning to the underworld for a few months of every year.
Alongside death, the pomegranate symbolised fertility in Ancient Greece and Rome.
It had a strong association to Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love, as well as Hera, the Greek goddess of marriage and childbirth.
In Ancient Rome, newlywed women wore crowns woven from pomegranate leaves, and the juice of pomegranates was used to cure infertility.

Grown in paradise
In the Quran, pomegranates grow in the Garden of Paradise and are referred to on multiple occasions as God’s good creations.
The pomegranate is also said to be found in the Garden of Eden according to Ancient Iranian Christianity and was believed to be the real forbidden fruit rather than the apple.
During the non-Christian Iranian tradition, Yalda Night, people come together on winter solstice and eat pomegranate fruit to celebrate the victory of light over darkness.
Look out for the pomegranate, a plant heavily laced in symbolic history and celebrated to this day for its many nutritious and medicinal properties, in Kew's Temperate House. Its gorgeous fruits will be on display right through summer and into spring.
You can also keep an eye out for other pomegranate varieties in the Duke's Garden at Kew. … “

5 things you didn't know about pomegranates, BY GRACE BREWER

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More Boss lady and Beauty riding a rare black horse …

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The “jinn” sent me a leg cramp in my sleep when I suggested that by eating the pomegranate seed Persephone secretly conspired to spend part of the year in Hades/Nysa - But I am still not converted to the rape and abduction myth of Persephone - like most things sexual only the men get blamed after the ravishing !

Moreover, In Egypt and Nysa the phallus was female ! Egyptian men were locked … That turbocharges female lust ! Persephone probably succumbed to Myth myrrha sexing her father Zeus and her uncle Hades from the rear like all Satyr horses and centaurs were sexed from the rear by phallic female bulls …

Maybe I misread the leg cramp - the “jinn” are hyper sexual ! Maybe they are saying of course we prefer the heat of Hades! They sent me the drowsiness of the past 3 plates - I always fear I have nothing more to say - but once I start working the ideas flow …

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Pomegranates were definitely eaten as part of the October rites of Demeter

“ .. The Thesmophoria was an annual women's festival widely celebrated in ancient Greece. In most areas it took place in autumn, at the season of plowing and sowing, and it was held in honor of the grain goddess Demeter and her daughter Persephone. Fertility of crops and of women was evidently the essential theme.
The Athenian form of the ritual is the best known. Here the festival occupied three days. On the first day the women went up to the sacred grove of Demeter Thesmophoros, set up an encampment there, out of sight of all males, and made some preliminary sacrifices. On the second day they fasted, sitting humbly on the ground, as Demeter was said to have fasted in grief over the abduction of her daughter. This abstinence was probably understood as a kind of purification in preparation for the main ceremonies. The third day featured pomegranates to eat, obscene jesting, and perhaps flagellation—all things associated with fertility. Piglets were slaughtered, and parts of them, it seems, were cooked and eaten; substantial portions, however, were thrown into megara, deep holes in the earth, together with wheat cakes shaped like snakes or like male genitals, and an otherwise unknown goddess, Kalligeneia, whose name means "fair birth," was invoked. At some stage—perhaps the night before—certain women who had for three days observed purity restrictions climbed down into the hole, and while others clapped, brought out the decayed remains of the previous year's offerings. These were ceremoniously carried out of the camp and set forth on altars. (The Thesmophoria itself took its name from this "bringing of the deposits.") If a farmer took a little portion of the remains and mixed it in with his seed corn, he was supposed to get a good crop. This element of primitive agrarian magic suggests that the Thesmophoria's origins lay in a remote past. … “ encyclopedia

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More Boss lady and Beauty riding a rare black horse …

That’s the icon of Baubo nude riding a pig … In America the energy of the pig is hidden behind the prohibition of miscegenation

- That idea is slippery and constantly changing - for example the focus today is not really black/white sex but white/asian for example … And maybe that’s right, but I don’t think so … The fire is hidden in the body of the dark skinned black male - like the rare example above - nothing else - That’s just the American example - and is subject to change - other examples like Brazil or even “creole” New Orleans have different places to hide the fire. Being black in and of itself does not mean you have the fire…

Baubo nude riding a pig was the Thesmophoria. Famine was averted at a surface level - but at another level was the Demeter Ambrosia and Demeter fire - which were just as important as the harvest … That’s how mortals rose to the level of the gods ie: lighting up the chakras from the lowest or earth chakras to the highest chakras…

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Closing scene: Boss lady and Beauty riding a rare black horse …

The penis cage made it easy to find the fire in the Ancient Greek world - all locked men below 25 were fire bearing satyr/horses - The satyr rear was Martial’s “fig of Chios” - enjoyed by both men and phallic women - but mostly by phaliic women - And even locked men over 25 - those were the centaur/horses …

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Boss lady and Beauty as Valkyries enjoying the “fig of Chios” of a bound slave …

From Ovid we learn that was what gladiators were for … High class Roman women had to be restrained to the back seats in the Colosseum - that’s how much lust they had for the penis locked fighting “Venus boys”

Where did that Amazon energy go at the end of Rome? I was surprised to learn that the pomegranate is held sacred in Islam - to me that confirms my suspicion that early Islam had a phallic Amazon core in its early days:


“ … the pomegranate symbolised fertility in Ancient Greece and Rome. It had a strong association to Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love, as well as Hera, the Greek goddess of marriage and childbirth.In Ancient Rome, newlywed women wore crowns woven from pomegranate leaves, and the juice of pomegranates was used to cure infertility.

… In the Quran, pomegranates grow in the Garden of Paradise and are referred to on multiple occasions as God’s good creations. The pomegranate is also said to be found in the Garden of Eden according to Ancient Iranian Christianity and was believed to be the real forbidden fruit rather than the apple. … “ Grace Brewer

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More Boss lady and Beauty as Valkyries enjoying the “fig of Chios” of a bound slave …

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More Boss lady and Beauty as Valkyries enjoying the “fig of Chios” of a bound slave…

Demeter and Thetis used Ambrosia and Fire to turn mortal children into immortals - That’s a radical image and in the case of Thetis and Achilles is usually retold as just Thetis dipping baby Achilles in a stream - The real images from Ancient Greece are fire and ambrosia though - how exactly did that work?

My guess is Amazon on male anal sex was probably how ... The still mysterious and unexplained male Roman “dog leash” tan was probably a result of that fire …

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More Boss lady and Beauty as Valkyries enjoying the “fig of Chios” of a bound slave…

Beauty has a go … That’s the obscene Baubo riding her pig! Baubo is probably the cause of the recent dream images of a mass penetration of the dragon space

I did not know the vagina was such a radical experience - I used to watch a lot of high quality regular porn from 1994 and 1998 - and I never received the impression that there was anything radical about it!

What was radical was black men having sex with white women - and is still radical …

The lesson that I think I’ve learned from the Romans is the sex object is actually the male - not female ! The fire starts at the phallus … Or the Roman penis caged “hare” …

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Closing scene: Boss lady and Beauty as Valkyries enjoying the “fig of Chios” of a bound slave…

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“Taking the sacrament” - in Martial’s Rome ! Boss lady, beauty and muscle Amazon preparing a pig for sacrifice …

But female phallus sex really was a holy sacrament in many Roman religions - for example the Temple of Aphrodite where at midnight the congregants switched gender roles …

Recent dream images are being closed off by that energy - like moving behind heavy fortress walls … And I’m sure that’s just how it has to be and always has been …

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“Taking the sacrament” - in Martial’s Rome ! Boss lady, beauty and muscle Amazon sacrificing a pig…

The images from the Demeter rite of Thesmophoria are pigs sacrificed to snakes in an underground pit … That was a chthonic rite for the gods of the lower worlds

Jung says there were two kinds of light - the light from above which he associated with christ - but also the light from below - that was trapped in a spiders web that had to be broken by an alchemist - That’s what I call the “earth sun” space …

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“Taking the sacrament” - in Martial’s Rome ! Boss lady, beauty and muscle Amazon sacrificing a pig … Boss lady has a go from behind …

One of goals of the Demeter rites of Thesmophoria was to retrieve Persephone from Hades - High sexual energy was probably needed for that !

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“Taking the sacrament” - in Martial’s Rome ! Boss lady, beauty and muscle Amazon sacrificing a pig … Boss lady has a go from behind …

Pomegranates, pigs and snakes in pits in the earth …

My guess is the married women were the snakes - Married meant they had been gifted their Amazon girdle of Hippolyta - or the phallic energy of their fathers. Pigs were penis caged male congregants of Demeter - The pits in the earth were Hades where Persephone was the queen …

Persephone was Isis in Minoan Crete the island of the Amazon bull jumpers - Isis used similar magic to bring Osiris back to life -as Horus - But Horus was really Harpocrates - a phallic Roman matron …Herodotus confirms that the rites of Demeter came from Egypt - It was certainly a female bull orgy …

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“Taking the sacrament” - in Martial’s Rome ! Boss lady, beauty and muscle Amazon sacrificing a pig … Beauty has a go from behind …

Hades or Pluto is a mysterious figure - the Greco-Romans avoided mentioning him fearing his attention. He was known for blocking all who entered Hades from exiting. He was also extremely  rich because he inherited all the wealth of those who entered his realm after death.

My guess is the Egyptians discovered they could escape Hades after death if they had enough energy as they left their earthly bodies at death - That’s energy from the Djed pillar and the caged phallus - and the female phallus ...

Above Hades were the Elysian Fields or simply Elysium

But being a Demi-god did not automatically grant access to higher worlds - Achilles. for example, found himself trapped in Hades where he was reputed to have said he would prefer to be a servant of a landless peasant on earth to being the king of Hades …

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My experience here from the dream world is the Greco-Romans were generally right about Hades - only my impression is Hades is no longer below us! Hades rules the planet - that’s the money power - or just the power power! …

Garden of Priapus - 1073

Closing scene: “Taking the sacrament” - in Martial’s Rome ! Boss lady, beauty and muscle Amazon sacrificing a pig … Beauty has a go from behind …

Garden of Priapus - 1074

More “Taking the sacrament” - in Martial’s Rome ! Boss lady and beauty sacrificing a caged older pig -

Very high heat that seems to me! That’s also Myth Myrrha - the daughters ravishing the penis caged fathers

- Although in Rome and Greece Baubo sex was just as scorching sex as Myth Myrrha sex - the mentule did not lose its power with age - From reading Martial the lust seems to have even grown stronger with age for Roman matrons!

Garden of Priapus - 1075

More “Taking the sacrament” - in Martial’s Rome ! Boss lady and beauty sacrificing a caged older pig -

Garden of Priapus - 1076

Boss lady force feeding a pig the “Baubo” of an old school star ..

Baubo was Kalligeneia the hidden goddess of the October rites of Demeter. The goddess of the pit of pigs and snakes and pomengranates

That was also the icon of the Sumerian religion - Innana under the apple tree - or Pomegranate tree - openly praised her vulva and asked who would plow it …

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Hades or Pluto forced Persephone - or Isis - or Egypt - into marriage. From historical currents my guess is Hades - the god of Nysa - is also close to or even the same as the God of Islam … Early muslims were probably still worshipping Baubo - as their reverence for the pomegranate shows

Garden of Priapus - 1077

More Boss lady force feeding a pig the “Baubo” of an old school star ..

Garden of Priapus - 1078

Centaur abducting a Nymph - “Aug” is August or Augustus Caesar - That was probably the skin tone of Augustus! The famous dog-leash tan …

From “Following Hadrian” (Facebook)

(Aug 1, 2022)" Happy first day of August! Originally called Sextilis (the 6th month), August was renamed in honour of Augustus in 8 BC." Following Hadrian (Facebook)

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There are similar versions of this scene with “pug”nosed or black African centaurs from 5th century BC Thrace, Greece - Probably Centaurs from Nysa - All those coins have swastika on the other side - That was probably the icon of Nysa

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Dream images after posting the vagina shots above is a communication link being established between my “jinn” and the outside world - This particular “Jinn” was white - maybe Roman or Greek - I suppose I am associated with Nysa at the unconscious level - Persephone was abducted into a black African space …

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That’s the resolution of the rites of Demeter - Persephone rose up from the depths of Hades …

Garden of Priapus - 1079

Black African Centaur abducting a Greek Nymph

Thrace, Greece c. 500-480 BC. Stater (Silver, 9.88 g). Centaur galloping to right, carrying off nymph whose right hand is raised in protest / Quadripartite incuse square. - Ancient coin club of Los Angeles

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That’s probably the icon of the abduction of Persephone into Nysa …

Swastika on the other side of coin!

Garden of Priapus - 1080

Boss lady preparing to mount a pig with a large red dildo - old school star and friend in attendance …

Centaur sex - or what happened in the fire pits of the rites of Demeter - Bread dildos, pigs, Baubo, and pomegranates ! Centaurs were penis caged human horses, as were satyrs - those were ridden by Roman and Greek matrons or phallic wives with the girdle of Hippolyta …

Martial and the Priapea describe it but there are no images of Roman matrons sodomizing penis caged Roman men - Or maybe not yet …

Garden of Priapus - 1081

Boss lady mounting a pig with a large red dildo

Those musclebound Nysa centaurs in other coins above all had large erections - but those were “hares” - or locked erections - Nysa must have been an Amazon state … nude penis locked muscle men ridden by phallic Amazons …

Garden of Priapus - 1082

Closing scene: Boss lady mounting a pig with a large red dildo - old school star looking on …

Or what the Romans called “Greek luxury”

Hades for all his fearfulness must also have been locked - The phallic fire of Persephone or Isis was what he was craving

Garden of Priapus - 1083

Boss lady and Beauty as drill sergeants over a young recruit - or boss lady’s husband …

That’s Minoan Crete sex - the Amazon bull jumpers - Akhenaten’s mother was an Amazon from Minoan Crete …

That’s was also Persephone sex in Hades/Nysa … There’s very little information here - but my personal experience is strong female phallus sex - That’s the image/experience … The phallic lioness Sekhmet-Min over the caged pharoah Ptah …

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“ …. Since Hades was a fearsome deity who rarely left his kingdom, there are very few myths about him in Ancient Greek sources. …

By far the most important myth is Hades’ abduction of Persephone, Demeter’s daughter. That was one of the few times Hades traveled above ground. The reason, naturally, was love: he fell for Persephone. However, Persephone didn’t want to give in easily, so Hades devised an ingenious ploy. As Persephone was gathering flowers with her maidens at the Nysian plain, he caused an indescribably beautiful flower to suddenly bloom before her. When Persephone reached out to pluck it, the ground under her opened and Hades appeared before her, all dreadful and majestic in his four-horse golden chariot and took her with him to the Underworld.

Demeter, the goddess of fertility, was so distressed at the absence of her daughter, that she started fasting and wandering aimlessly. Finally, after nine days, Hecate told her what happened. After the All-Seeing Helios confirmed the event, Demeter left Olympus as an act of protest against the injustice done to her.

With her gone, the earth was as barren and infertile as a desert. One year passed, and the gods started worrying that the famine would wipe out humanity. So Zeus sent all the gods, one by one, to beg Demeter to come back, promising her all kinds of gifts and functions. She wanted none; the only thing she wanted was to see her daughter once again.

So, Zeus had no choice but to send Hermes to Hades with the request that he return Persephone to Demeter. He complied, but only after making Persephone eat one pomegranate seed before leaving. This ensured that she would remain bound to his kingdom eternally.

Now, both sides had no choice but to accept Zeus’ compromise: Persephone would spend two-thirds of the year with her mother, but one-third of it with Hades. And this is the part of the year which corresponds with the winter months: they say that Demeter retreats from Olympus to her temple at Eleusis to grieve the absence of Persephone.  Every spring Persephone would be reunited with her mother Demeter marking the season of rebirth.

It’s possible that Hades and Persephone didn’t have any children. However, some say that Zagreus may have been their son. Macaria is also claimed to have been Hades’ daughter – but no mother is mentioned. … “ greekmythology

Garden of Priapus - 1084

More Boss lady and Beauty as drill sergeants over a young recruit - or boss lady’s husband …

Jung reported a vision of an enthroned erect phallus underground - Only he says he saw it as a very young child - My guess is that was not a male phallus - more of a certainty - The underworld is all that existed before Greece - ie Sumeria, Egypt, Nysa and ancient Africa - and they were all all ruled by phallic Amazons !

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In Greek mythology, Hades, the god of the Greek underworld, was the first-born son of the Titans Cronus and Rhea. He had three older sisters, Hestia, Demeter, and Hera, as well as a younger brother, Poseidon, all of whom had been swallowed whole by their father as soon as they were born. Zeus was the youngest child and through the machinations of their mother, Rhea, he was the only one that had escaped this fate. Upon reaching adulthood, Zeus managed to force his fatheSumeria, r to disgorge his siblings. After their release, the six younger gods, along with allies they managed to gather, challenged the elder gods for power in the Titanomachy, a divine war. The war lasted for ten years and ended with the victory of the younger gods.

Following their victory, according to a single famous passage in the Iliad (Book XV, ln.187–93), Hades and his two brothers, Poseidon and Zeus, drew lots for realms to rule. Zeus received the sky, Poseidon received the seas, and Hades received the underworld, the unseen realm to which the souls of the dead go upon leaving the world as well as any and all things beneath the earth.

Hades obtained his wife and queen, Persephone, through abduction at the behest of Zeus. This myth is the most important one Hades takes part in; it also connected the Eleusinian Mysteries with the Olympian pantheon, particularly as represented in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, which is the oldest story of the abduction, most likely dating back to the beginning of the 6th century BC. Helios told the grieving Demeter that Hades was not an unworthy groom or son-in-law[given his status among the gods, as her own brother and king on his own right:

But, Goddess,
give up your strong grief;
let go of your infinite anger.
Hades isn't an unsuitable
son-in-law among the gods:
Lord of the Many Dead,
your own brother
from the same seed.
As for honor,
he won the third share back
when the division was made
and now lives among those
whom he was allotted to rule."

— Homeric Hymn to Demeter 82–86

Garden of Priapus - 1085

More Boss lady and Beauty as drill sergeants over a young recruit - or boss lady’s husband …

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As I said before - I do not think Hades is below us anymore - the modern world like Hades does not acknowledge higher worlds! And we are ruled by gold - of which Hades has the monopoly …

Hades probably entered the surface world through early Islam - but has now transcended all that …
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“ …. Despite modern connotations of death as evil, Hades was actually more altruistically inclined in mythology. Hades was portrayed as passive and never portrayed negatively; his role was often maintaining relative balance. That said, he was also depicted as cold and stern, and he held all of his subjects equally accountable to his laws. Any other individual aspects of his personality are not given, as Greeks refrained from giving him much thought to avoid attracting his attention.

Hades ruled the dead, assisted by others over whom he had complete authority. The House of Hades was described as full of "guests," though he rarely left the underworld. He cared little about what happened in the world above, as his primary attention was ensuring none of his subjects ever left his domain.

He strictly forbade his subjects to leave his domain and would become quite enraged when anyone tried to leave, or if someone tried to steal the souls from his realm. His wrath was equally terrible for anyone who tried to cheat death or otherwise crossed him, as Sisyphus and Pirithous found out to their sorrow. While usually indifferent to his subjects, Hades was very focused on the punishment of these two people; particularly Pirithous, as he entered the underworld in an attempt to steal Persephone for himself, and consequently was forced onto the "Chair of Forgetfulness".
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Another myth is about the Greek god Asclepius who was originally a demigod, son of Apollo and Coronis, a Thessalian princess. During his lifetime, he became a famous and talented physician, who eventually was able to bring the dead back to life. Feeling cheated, Plouton persuaded Zeus to kill him with a thunderbolt. After his death, he was brought to Olympus where he became a god.

Hades was only depicted outside of the underworld once in myth, and even that is believed to have been an instance where he had just left the gates of the underworld, which was when Heracles shot him with an arrow as Hades was attempting to defend the city of Pylos.

After he was shot, however, he traveled to Olympus to heal. Besides Heracles, the only other living people who ventured to the underworld were also heroes: Odysseus, Aeneas (accompanied by the Sibyl), Orpheus, to whom Hades showed uncharacteristic mercy at Persephone's urging, who was moved by Orpheus' music, Theseus with Pirithous, and, in a late romance, Psyche. None of them were pleased with what they witnessed in the realm of the dead. In particular, the Greek war hero Achilles, whom Odysseus conjured with a blood libation, said:

O shining Odysseus,
never try to
console me
for dying.
I would rather
follow the plow
as thrall to
another man,
one with
no land
allotted to him
and not much
to live on,
than be a king
over all
the perished dead.

— Achilles' soul to Odysseus. Homer, Odyssey 11.488-491 (Lattimore translation) … “ Wikipedia

Garden of Priapus - 1086

More Boss lady and Beauty as drill sergeants over a young recruit - or boss lady’s husband …

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“… Hades, as the god of the dead, was a fearsome figure to those still living; in no hurry to meet him, they were reluctant to swear oaths in his name, and averted their faces when sacrificing to him. Since to many, simply to say the word "Hades" was frightening, euphemisms were pressed into use. Since precious minerals come from under the earth (i.e., the "underworld" ruled by Hades), he was considered to have control of these as well, and as such the Greeks referred to him as Πλο?των (Greek Plouton; Latin PLVTO, Pluto, "the rich one"). This title is derived from the word Πλο?τος (Greek Ploutos, literally "wealth, riches").

 Sophocles explained the notion of referring to Hades as Plouton with these words: "the gloomy Hades enriches himself with our sighs and our tears." In addition, he was called Clymenus ("notorious"), Polydegmon ("who receives many"), and perhaps Eubuleus ("good counsel" or "well-intentioned"), all of them euphemisms for a name that was unsafe to pronounce, which evolved into epithets.

He spent most of the time in his dark realm. Formidable in battle, he proved his ferocity in the famous Titanomachy, the battle of the Olympians versus the Titans, which established the rule of Zeus.
Feared and loathed, Hades embodied the inexorable finality of death: "Why do we loathe Hades more than any god, if not because he is so adamantine and unyielding?"

The rhetorical question is Agamemnon's. Hades was not, however, an evil god, for although he was stern, cruel, and unpitying, he was still just. Hades ruled the underworld and was therefore most often associated with death and feared by men, but he was not Death itself — it is Thanatos, son of Nyx and Erebus, who is the actual personification of death, although Euripides' play "Alkestis" states fairly clearly that Thanatos and Hades were one and the same deity, and gives an interesting description of Hades as being dark-cloaked and winged; moreover, Hades was also referred to as Hesperos Theos ("god of death & darkness").

When the Greeks propitiated Hades, they banged their hands on the ground to be sure he would hear them. Black animals, such as sheep, were sacrificed to him. While some suggest the very vehemence of the rejection of human sacrifice expressed in myth might imply an unspoken memory of some distant past, there is no direct evidence of such a turn. The blood from all chthonic sacrifices including those to propitiate Hades dripped into a pit or cleft in the ground. The person who offered the sacrifice had to avert his face.

One ancient source says that he possessed the Cap of invisibility. His chariot, drawn by four black horses, made for a fearsome and impressive sight. These beasts were variously named as, according to Claudian: Orphnaeus, Aethon, Nycteus and Alastor while other authors listed also: Nonius, Ametheus, Abastor, Abetor and Metheus. His other ordinary attributes were the narcissus and cypress plants, the Key of Hades and Cerberus, the three-headed dog. In certain portraits, snakes also appeared to be attributed to Hades as he was occasionally portrayed to be either holding them or accompanied by them. This is believed to hold significance as in certain classical sources Hades ravished Kore in the guise of a snake, who went on to give birth to Zagreus-Dionysus. While bearing the name 'Zeus', Zeus Olympios, the great king of the gods, noticeably differs from the Zeus Meilichios, a decidedly chthonian character, often portrayed as a snake, and as seen beforehand, they cannot be different manifestations of the same god, in fact whenever 'another Zeus' is mentioned, this always refers to Hades. Zeus Meilichios and Zeus Eubouleus are often referred to as being alternate names for Hades. … “ Wikipedia

Garden of Priapus - 1087

Amazon horsemanship! - More Boss lady and Beauty as drill sergeants over a young recruit - or boss lady’s husband …

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What happened to Hades and his kingdom has parallels to the Mayan Xibalbans - the dead ended up ruling the living … Hades is no longer contained to a lower world.

Anyone doing dream work over many years will encounter the dead … And many times that encounter is of the dead riding the living like a rider rules a horse …

My guess is the gates of the lower world were flung open more than a thousand years ago somewhere in an African and Arabian space - The African part has been forgotten though …

Garden of Priapus - 1088

More Amazon horsemanship! - Boss lady and Beauty as drill sergeants over a young recruit - or boss lady’s husband …

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Amazon Mentule sex may be an antidote to being wrongfully ridden by the dead! I think that was a form of Greek medicine inherited from older cultures like the Egyptians and the Sumerians … Baubo brings Demeter back to life!

Another antidote is swimming - For whatever reason water loosens the bond of rider to horse … Preferably deep water swimming though - the kind that forces the the swimmer out of his head and into his body …

Garden of Priapus - 1089

Closing scene - Boss lady and Beauty as drill sergeants over a young recruit - or boss lady’s husband … Beauty has a go …

Garden of Priapus - 1090

More Amazon horsemanship!  - Boss lady over a locked muscle man …

Previous insight that Hades is no longer below us suggests that earth is under Hades - And many times that image comes across in twilight mental states - that the dead live a luxury life when compared to humans … That’s the opposite of the dreary Hades of the Greeks …

- And the Islamic paradise is a version of the Roman suburran brothel life! … The promised 70 virgins in the pomegranate garden … But for true Roman sexuality - those have to be 70 Amazon mentules - over a penis caged male rear! That’s a big surprise I’m sure !

And Demeter has to return - without the Greco-Roman goddesses there cannot be a true Islamic paradise …

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The Nordic Asgard was probably destroyed by the opening of the gates of Hades - The fire lords of the south threw Odin and Frigga out of paradise …

Garden of Priapus - 1091

More Amazon horsemanship!  - Boss lady over a locked muscle man

Amazons are part of the Islamic paradise - I am sure of that - The Pomegranate garden of the Roman or Trojan reality is the islamic ideal…

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“ … In Islam, Jannah lit. "paradise, garden", is the final abode of the righteous. According to one count, the word appears 147 times in the Quran. Belief in the afterlife is one of the six articles of faith in Sunni and Twelver Shi'ism, a place where "believers" (Mumin) will enjoy pleasure, while the unbelievers (Kafir) will suffer in Jahannam. Both Jannah and Jahannam are believed to have several levels, in both cases, the higher the level, the more desirable -- in Jannah the higher the prestige and pleasure, in Jahannam the less the suffering. The afterlife experiences are described as physical, psychic and spiritual. Jannah is described with physical pleasures such as gardens, houris, wine that has no aftereffects, and "divine pleasure". Their reward of pleasure will vary according to the righteousness of the person. The characteristics of Jannah often have direct parallels with those of Jahannam. The pleasure and delights of Jannah described in the Quran, are matched by the excruciating pain and horror of Jahannam.

Jannah is also referred to as the abode of Adam and Eve, before they have been expelled. Most Muslims hold that Jannah (as well as Jahannam) coexist with the temporal world, rather than being created after Judgement Day. Although humans may not pass the boundaries to the otherworld, the otherworld may interact with the temporal world of humans. … “ Wikipedia

Garden of Priapus - 1092

More Amazon horsemanship!  - Boss lady over a locked muscle man

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“ … Inside Jannah, the Quran says the saved "will have whatever they wish for, forever"; (Q.25:16). Other verses give more specific descriptions of the delights of paradise:

'And whoever is in awe of standing before their Lord will have two Gardens
... “Both will be” with lush branches.
... In each “Garden” will be two flowing springs.
... In each will be two types of every fruit.
... Those “believers” will recline on furnishings lined with rich brocade. And the fruit of both Gardens will hang within reach.
... In both “Gardens” will be maidens of modest gaze, who no human or jinn has ever touched before.
... Those “maidens” will be “as elegant” as rubies and coral.
... Is there any reward for goodness except goodness?
... And below these two “Gardens” will be two others.
... Both will be dark green.
... In each will be two gushing springs.
... In both will be fruit, palm trees, and pomegranates.
... In all Gardens will be noble, pleasant mates
…”They will be” maidens [houris] with gorgeous eyes, reserved in pavilions.
.... No human or jinn has ever touched these “maidens” before.
... All “believers” will be reclining on green cushions and splendid carpets.
Then which of your Lord's favours will you both deny? (Q.55:46-76, Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran) … “ Wikipedia

Garden of Priapus - 1093

The Cuban as a golden haired Amazon horsewoman!

The image that came to me when I saw this was the Crone Demeter after revealing herself to the Queen of Eleusis and her daughters … Not sure what Demeters fire and Ambrosia were but my mind sees the Mentule in action … Demeter is the Greek Mut - a phallic goddess over her penis caged consort Amun/Zeus

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*(Aug 7, 2022) The Christian “jihad” over Eleusis and the Greco-Romans caused a frightful reaction - Lord Pluto opened the gates of the underworld! We are still living in Hades’ world …

Garden of Priapus - 1094

The Cuban as a fiery and topless golden haired Amazon horsewoman ...

Garden of Priapus - 1095


The Cuban as a fiery and topless golden haired Amazon horsewoman ...

Airborne! Probably the Demeter rites of married Greek women in October - The Amazon girdle of Hippolyte in action over a pig … The secret ingredient was the penis cage … Those rites were imported from Egypt according to Herodotus -

My subjective perception is strong energy erotic from the Cuban
Eros is tricky - you can’t control it! But some people have better luck with the fire

Garden of Priapus - 1096

More Cuban as a fiery and topless golden haired Amazon horsewoman ...

Why pigs for the October rites of Demeter? They are filthy but delicious - that’s code for sex - specifically female phallus sex over penis locked “pigs” …

Garden of Priapus - 1097

More Cuban as a fiery and topless golden haired Amazon horsewoman ...

Airborne passion - or flying pigs

- Like Dionysus the Cuban prefers girls … Lesbians need male pigs to light that fire though … So a phallus has to be out there - somewhere ... somehow … In the Greco-Roman world that phallus fire was not an issue - All Romans and Greeks were locked …

Garden of Priapus - 1098

More Cuban as a fiery and topless golden haired Amazon horsewoman ...

Hector Horse sex - Or the towering young Amazon Andromache over the wizened and trussed Trojan prince Hector - Myth Myrrha or the standard for Trojan erotics!

Garden of Priapus - 1099

More Cuban as a fiery and topless golden haired Amazon horsewoman ...

Male on female oral service! - Or Baubo sex - Or Innana sex …Pomegranates and male on female oral service were certainly at the center of the October rites of Demeter …

Basic fertility maintenance for married Greek women … That’s why I am certain selected penis locked men were invited to the women only Demeter rites of October Closing scene: Cuban as a fiery and topless golden haired Amazon horsewoman over a caged pig …

Garden of Priapus - 1100

Closing scene: Cuban as a fiery and topless golden haired Amazon horsewoman over a caged pig …

(Aug 9, 2022) That was “too much”! - As I was going to sleep I got the strong feeling of having had too much too eat …

- A goddess took advantage ! Using that image … Maybe Dionysus herself ! She specializes in calming the male “id” ! Or, the god of frenzy calms the frenzy!

But in this day of eros famine, getting too much fire “food” is not something to be complaining about though …

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That’s Mami Wata energy - Samba energy - Yemonja is a Cuban mermaid energy

Garden of Priapus - 1101

Bonus scene: Cuban as a fiery and topless golden haired Amazon horsewoman over a caged pig …

Baubo oral service …

That energy still exists - You can see it at the Brazilian Carnaval

Garden of Priapus - 1102


More Cuban over her caged rabbit - The Roman “hare”

- The phallic Amazon hunting for hares or penis caged erections was a Roman icon - subject of Roman statues and coins …

In Nysa too - as shown by Thrace coins above - There was a Nysa colony in Ancient Thrace …

“ …Thrace  or Thrake is a geographical and historical region in Southeast Europe, now split among Bulgaria, Greece, and Turkey, which is bounded by the Balkan Mountains to the north, the Aegean Sea to the south, and the Black Sea to the east. It comprises southeastern Bulgaria (Northern Thrace), northeastern Greece (Western Thrace), and the European part of Turkey (East Thrace). The region's boundaries are based on that of the Roman Province of Thrace; the lands inhabited by the ancient Thracians extended in the north to modern-day Northern Bulgaria and Romania and to the west into the region of Macedonia. … “ Wikipedia

Garden of Priapus - 1103

More Cuban topless over her caged rabbit - The Roman “hare” - Penis electrically locked and electrically shocked too for maximum control …

That electric penis restraint would have been a Roman matron basic to cage her husband, father, lovers, sons, brothers etc … The penis cage was the fountain of Roman eros

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The Nysa Thrace coins above with naked penis caged black erections are considered Mesopotamian - and maybe they were - the hotbed of Amazon sex was Asia Minor and Sumeria - But those are clearly black male nudes on the Thrace coins - so there’s an unsolved puzzle there …

Garden of Priapus - 1104

More Cuban and her caged end electrically locked rabbit

The Nysa penis caged Thrace coins are from the 5th century BC - the period of Persian rule of Asia Minor - Persian sex during this period was ruled by Persian queens under the locked Innana female phallus model:

“ … Of the firsts to take control of Thracia, in part or whole, were the Achaemenian Persians late into the 6th century BC. The region was incorporated into the empire as the Satrapy of Skudra following the Scythian campaign of Darius the Great. Thracian soldiers were known to be used in the Persian armies and Thracian soldiers are depicted on the rock carvings of the Persepolis and Naqsh-e Rostam as well. Persians' presence in Thracia lasted for more than a century, but by the end of the 4th century BC, Alexander of Macedon had overthrown the Persians, dividing the acquired vast realm between his generals. Notably, Thracian troops are known to have accompanied Alexander when he crossed the Hellespont which abuts Thrace, during the invasion of the Persian Empire itself.
The Thracians did not describe themselves by name; terms such as Thrace and Thracians are simply the names given them by the Greeks. … “ Wikipedia

Garden of Priapus - 1105

More Cuban and her caged end electrically locked rabbit

Cybele was probably the religion of the black penis caged Thrace coins above - As with Innana, the fire of Cybele required a locked phallus - Cybele herself was said to have run an Amazon brothel in ancient Sumeria:

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“ … The Thracians conceived the chief divinity of the Samothracian and Lemnian mysteries as Rhea-Hecate, while some of them who had settled in Asia Minor, became there acquainted with still stranger beings, and one especially who was worshipped with wild and enthusiastic solemnities, was found to resemble Rhea. In like manner the Greeks who afterwards settled in Asia identified the Asiatic goddess with Rhea, with whose worship they had long been familiar (Strab. x. p. 471; Hom. Hymn. 13, 31).

In Phrygia, where Rhea became identified with Cybele, she is said to have purified Dionysus, and to have taught him the mysteries (Apollod. iii. 5. § 1), and thus a Dionysiac element became amalgamated with the worship of Rhea.

Demeter, moreover, the daughter of Rhea, is sometimes mentioned with all the attributes belonging to Rhea. (Eurip. Helen. 1304.) The confusion then became so great that the worship of the Cretan Rhea was confounded with that of the Phrygian mother of the gods, and that the orgies of Dionysus became interwoven with those of Cybele.

Strangers from Asia, who must be looked upon as jugglers, introduced a variety of novel rites, which were fondly received, especially by the populace (Strab. 1. c.; Athen. xii. p. 553 ; Demosth. de Coron. p. 313). Both the name and the connection of Rhea with Demeter suggest that she was in early times revered as goddess of the earth . . .

Under the name of Cybele, we find her worship on Mount Sipylus (Paus. v. 13. § 4), Mount Coddinus (iii. 22. § 4), in Phrygia, which had received its colonists from Thrace, and where she was regarded as the mother of Sabazius. There her worship was quite universal, for there is scarcely a town in Phrygia on the coins of which she does not appear. … “ Theoi

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More Cuban and her caged end electrically locked rabbit

Horse and rider - The Greek and Thracian Rhea became the Asian Cybele - Demeter was the daughter of Rhea - and her rites were probably similar to those of Cybele …

With Cybele the male priests castrated themselves but still organized and participated in Amazon orgies - That can only happen with the female phallus or Mentule

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- The October rites of Demeter for married Greek women were probably Cybele orgies - or the female phallus or snake over the caged Greek man or pig

“ … In Phrygia, where Rhea became identified with Cybele, she is said to have purified Dionysus, and to have taught him the mysteries (Apollod. iii. 5. § 1), and thus a Dionysiac element became amalgamated with the worship of Rhea.

Demeter, moreover, the daughter of Rhea, is sometimes mentioned with all the attributes belonging to Rhea. (Eurip. Helen. 1304.) The confusion then became so great that the worship of the Cretan Rhea was confounded with that of the Phrygian mother of the gods, and that the orgies of Dionysus became interwoven with those of Cybele.… “ theoi

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Baubo and her open legged vagina and erect but caged phallus could be Rhea or Cybele - the mother of Demeter … Castration was probably not part of the rites of Demeter - the caged erection or “Hare” was important to Baubo … As was the girdle of Hippolyta or strap-on Amazon phallus

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As in the poetry of Cattulus a votive of the caged male phallus was made and given to the wife or female lover who then offered it to female only Venus fire temples in hopes of her fire blessings

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More Cuban and her caged end electrically locked rabbit

Oral service - The October rites of Demeter were for married Greek women only - That was a code for the female phallus or Mentule - or the Amazon girdle of Hippolyta which was presented from the father of the bride to the bride as part of the Greco-Roman wedding rite - That was a symbol of the caged phallic energy of the father … Baubo is represented with a caged erect phallus at her side - that was her girdle of Hippolyta …

“…In Classical Greek mythology, Hippolyta, or Hippolyte was a daughter of Ares and Otrera, queen of the Amazons, and a sister of Antiope and Melanippe. She wore her father Ares' zoster, the Greek word found in the Iliad and elsewhere meaning "war belt." Some traditional English translations have preferred the more feminine-sounding "girdle." Hippolyta figures prominently in the myths of both Heracles and Theseus. The myths about her are varied enough that they may therefore be about several different women.

The name Hippolyta comes from Greek roots meaning "horse" and "let loose." … “ Wikipedia

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More Cuban and her caged end electrically locked rabbit - Riding her caged pig - Baubo style …

Herodotus saw the rites of Demeter as coming from Egypt not Cybele - But that just means the rites of Cybele were also being practiced in Egypt - The dragon fire was preserved into old age for Greco-Roman women by the fires of Demeter - and the Ambrosia of Demeter - which was probably the “fire food” of the female phallus

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Closing scene: The Cuban putting her electrically locked rabbit back in his cage …

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The heiros gamos was traditionally a sexual union and marriage between the mortal Iasion and goddess Demeter - But Iasion was not the phallus - Demeter was! The proof is the castrated Roman god Attis married to the phallic Cybele was many times equated with Iasion married to Demeter - That was all of Greco-Roman sex in the penis cage!

“ ,,, The Meter Theon was identified with the goddess Demeter on the island of Samothrake. The story of the Samothrakian Demeter and Iasion were, however, derived from that of Anatolian Kybele and her consort Attis.

Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 5. 48. 2 (trans. Oldfather) (Greek historian C1st B.C.) :

"This wedding of Kadmos (Cadmus) and Harmonia was the first, we are told, for which the gods provided the marriage-feast . . . and Elektra (Electra) [presented as a wedding gift] the sacred rites of the Megale Meter Theon (Great Mother of the Gods), as she is called, together with cymbals and kettledrums and the instruments of the ritual . . .

Iasion married Kybele (Cybele) and begat Korybas (Corybas). And after Iasion had been removed into the circle of the gods, Dardanos and Kybele and Korybas conveyed to Asia the sacred rites of the Meter Theon (Mother of the Gods) and removed with them to Phrygia.

Thereupon Kybele, joining herself to the first Olympos [mountain god], begat Alke (Alce) and called the goddess Kybele after herself; and Korybas gave the name of Korybantes (Corybantes) to all who, in celebrating the rites of his mother, acted like men possessed."

Melanipiddes, Fragment 764 (from Philodemus, On Piety) (trans. Campbell, Vol. Greek Lyric V) :

"Melanippides says that Demeter and the Meter Theon (Mother of the Gods) are one and the same." … “ Theoi

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Oral service - the Cuban over a tan muscleman

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The Cuban has a few scenes with gay men - Lesbian over gay is probably better heat than regular sex - fewer issues!

That was Greco-Roman sex - the earth phallus of a goddess - Cybele or Demeter over the rear of a mortal like Iasion of Crete for example - the classic “hieros gamos” or mystical marriage of the classical world …

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The Cuban over a tan muscle-man…

The heiros gamos image of a “thrice plowed” field is almost certainly the rear of a penis caged Cretan youth under the mentule of an Cretan Amazon - or the phallic Cretan Amazon “bull jumpers” over the penis caged Cretan youths …

All Cretan fighters are girls if you look closely enough - bull jumpers and boxers and sword in hand soldiers … The Cretan military was Amazons commanding mostly foreign male fighters - Cretan men were for other things - agriculture, fishing and sex! Plato reports that Cretans were slaves of their sexual passions and made up the myth of the homosexual union of Zeus and Ganymede …

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“ … In Greek mythology, the classic instance is the wedding of Zeus and Hera celebrated at the Heraion of Samos, along with its architectural and cultural predecessors. Some scholars would restrict the term to reenactments, but most accept its extension to real or simulated union in the promotion of fertility: such an ancient union of Demeter with Iasion, enacted in a thrice-ploughed furrow, a primitive aspect of a sexually-active Demeter reported by Hesiod, occurred in Crete, origin of much early Greek myth. … “ Wikipedia

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The Cuban over a tan muscle-man…

That’s Demeter over Iasion - the rumored sexual rite at the heart of the Eleusinian Mysteries … Cybele over Attis for the last days of Rome

" ... Iasion … also called Iasius, was, according to some, a son of Zeus and Electra, the daughter of Atlas, and a brother of Dardanus (Apollod. 3.12.1; Serv. ad Aen. 1.384; Hes. Th. 970; Ov. Amor. 3.10, 25); but others called him a son of Corythus and Electra, of Zeus and the nymph Hemera, or of Ilithyius, or of Minos and the nymph Pyronia. (Schol. ad Theocrit. 3.30; Serv. ad Aen. 3.167; Eustath. ad Hom p. 1528; Hyg. Fab. 270.) At the wedding of his sister Harmonia, Demeter fell in love with him, and in a thrice-ploughed field … she became by him the mother of Pluton or Plutus in Crete, in consequence of which Zeus killed him with a flash of lightning. (Hom. Od. 5.125, &c.; Hes. Th. 969, &c.; Apollod. l.c.; Diod. 5.49, 77; Tzetz. ad Lycoph. 29; Conon, Narrat. 21.) According to Servius (Serv. ad Aen. 3.167), Iasion was slain by Dardanus, and according to Hyginus (Hyg. Fab. 250) he was killed by his own horses, whereas others represent him as living to an advanced age as the husband of Demeter. (Ov. Met. 9.421, &c.) In some traditions Eetion is mentioned as the only brother of Dardanus (Schol. ad Apollon. Rhod. 1.916; Tzetz. ad Lycoph. 219), whence some critics have inferred that Iasion and Eetion are only two names for the same person. A further tradition states that Iasion and Dardanus, being driven from their home by a flood, went from Italy, Crete, or Arcadia, to Samothrace, whither he carried the Palladium, and where Zeus himself instructed him in the mysteries of Demeter. (Serv. ad Aen. 3.15, 167, 7.207; Dionys. A. R. 1.61; Diod. 5.48; Strab. vii. p.331; Conon, l.c.; Steph. Byz. s. v. Δ?ρδανος.) According to Eustathius (Eustath. ad Hom. p. 1528), Iasion, being inspired by Demeter and Cora, travelled about in Sicily and many other countries, and every where taught the people the mysteries of Demeter. (Müller, Orchom. pp. 140, 260, 452; Voelcker, Mythol. des Japet. Geschlechtes, p. 94.) … “

William Smith. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. London.

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More Cuban over a tan muscle-man…

That was Memnon sex - His daughter the phallic Akhenaten was half Minoan … Ptah under Sekhmet-Min ..

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Had a short dream image of rich and stern lady that I know comment that I had “gotten old” - She first met me as a young guy …

- I associated that dreamlet with my work with Demeter: - specifically Iasion getting old in his marriage to the immortal Demeter! The “jinn” to me are like that stern rich lady!

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More Cuban over a tan muscle-man…Oral service

Martial has many poems of Roman matrons complaining about sex with “Nancy”boys ! That’s niche sex for sure ….

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In this Rome women hunted boys for sex - Boys still locked in the bronze penis cage were desirable “lesbian-boys” - In this poem Martial tells a “hare” that he has nothing to fear from a “lion”

“Hare” was the penis caged phallus - and “lion” was many times used by martial to refer to the shaved vulva of the Roman matron - The fierce Sekhmet-Min female phallus of Ancient Egypt - Upon marriage the Greco-Roman wife inherited her fathers phallic powers ..

51. The Hare and the Lions -
by Martial

“Why flee
the lion
in vainglorious
flight?
The sturdiest foe
alone
provokes
his might,
And will
he turn
from
lordly bulls
to thee;
Or stoop
to crush
a neck
he scarce
can see?
Ah,
puny hare,
that hope
must thou
forgo,
Thou shalt not
fall to
such
a noble foe. …”

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More Cuban over a tan muscle-man

Cuban over 3 muscle men! The Roman matron way …

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In the epigram Martial plays with the images of the caged phallus or “hare” of a young Ganymede carried by Jove to the mighty jaws of lions where a young hare sports safely …

The Cretans claimed that Jove had a sexual taste for young “Ganymedes” or locked boys - but the lions Martial is taking about are phallic Roman matrons who sated their lusts in the rears of young Roman men confined to the bronze penis cage

The lion of the Roman matron is the shaved vulva and dildo of Baubo and Demeter - But that required the “earth-sun” fire which was generated by the universal locked Greco-Roman phallus …

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THE HARE AND THE LIONS

“ … SAFELY
the Eagle bore
young Ganymede
In careful
talons
through
the
empty air;
So now
the lions
hear their
Quarry
plead,
Safe
in their
mighty jaws
doth sport
the hare!
A God
of power
supreme
each marvel
wrought
Is Jove's
or Caesar's
greater
in thy
thought? …”

Martial BOOK ONE VI, Pott & Wright's : Martial, : the twelve books of Epigrams

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“ …. In Greek mythology, Ganymede … is a divine hero whose homeland was Troy. Homer describes Ganymede as the most beautiful of mortals and tells how he was abducted by the gods to serve as Zeus's cup-bearer in Olympus.

[Ganymedes] was the loveliest born of the race of mortals, and therefore
the gods caught him away to themselves, to be Zeus' wine-pourer,
for the sake of his beauty, so he might be among the immortals.
— Homer, Iliad, Book XX, lines 233–235.

The myth was a model for the Greek social custom of paiderastía, the romantic relationship between an adult male and an adolescent male. The Latin form of the name was Catamitus (and also "Ganymedes"), from which the English word catamite is derived. According to Plato's Laws, the Cretans were regularly accused of inventing the myth because they wanted to justify their "unnatural pleasures". … “ Wikipedia
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In Rome the phallus in catamite relations was more often female though - The Roman male was locked - even in old age and Roman matrons were famous for raging libido and the mentule or female phallus that was very common in paintings and statues of disrobing Roman women …

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Cuban over 3 tan muscle-men - The Roman matron way …

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In this epigram a hare is pictured leaping out the jaws of lions safely - The lions are owned by a rich Roman and are described as “mild”

My guess is that was a rite of passage for all Roman youths 14 to 25 - or penis caged “Ganymedes” - time under the mentule of a phallic Roman matron - R oman wives and Roman female slaves too …

“ … THE HARE AND THE LIONS

THE other day
we witnessed,
Sire,
a very
funny thing,
When lions
wantoned
merrily
and
sported
in the ring,
The while
a hare
leaped
gaily forth
from out
their open
jaws
And gambolled
with the fearsome
beasts
amid our
loud
applause.
We wondered
how
the captured prey
escaped
the lions
wild
Till we
were told
that they
were yours
-and so
of course
were
mild. … “

Martial BOOK ONE, XIV, Pott & Wright's : Martial, : the twelve books of Epigrams

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Cuban over 3 tan muscle-men - The Roman matron way …

Martial had a taste for locked boys or “hares” but could not afford them - In this epigram he asks a wealthy friend for two courses of free hares …Martial say this will be vengeance for the usual course of Lions and Hares - or Amazons over locked boys …

“ … THE OLD THEME

'HARES and
Lions again,'
so I hear you
complain;
If they
seem
but
monotonous fare
And
for
vengeance
you pine,
you can ask
me
to dine
And give me
two courses
of hare. … “

Martial BOOK ONE, XLIV , Pott & Wright's : Martial, : the twelve books of Epigrams

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Ganymede was a central Trojan icon - the locked Roman and Trojan sex object of both men and women - but mostly women - my guess is all Roman and Trojan women were considered men when in the phallic Amazon girdle of Hippolyta that Roman women received from their fathers at marriage - the mentule or female phallus …

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“ … Ganymede was abducted by Zeus from Mount Ida near Troy in Phrygia.  Ganymede had been tending sheep which is a rustic or humble pursuit, a characteristic of a hero's boyhood before his privileged status is revealed. An eagle transports the youth to Mount Olympus, with the bird sometimes described as being under the command of Zeus and sometimes as being the god transformed.

On Olympus, Zeus grants Ganymede eternal youth and immortality as the official cup bearer to the gods, in place of Hebe, relieved of cup-bearing duties upon her marriage to Herakles. Alternatively, the Iliad presents Hebe (and at one instance, Hephaestus) as the cup bearer of the gods with Ganymede acting as Zeus's personal cup bearer. Edmund Veckenstedt associated Ganymede with the creation of mead, which had a traditional origin in Phrygia. In various literature such as the Aeneid, Hera, Zeus's wife, regards Ganymede as a rival for her husband's affection. In various stories, Zeus later put Ganymede in the sky as the constellation Aquarius (the "water-carrier" or "cup-carrier"), which is adjacent to Aquila (the Eagle). The largest moon of the planet Jupiter (named after Zeus's Roman counterpart) was named Ganymede by the German astronomer Simon Marius.

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 cup bearer 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, it 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 denying that Ganymede was the catamite of Zeus, instead asserting that the god loved him for his psych?, "mind" or "soul," giving the etymology of his name as ganu- "taking pleasure" and m?d- "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, 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

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Closing scene: Cuban over 3 tan muscle-men - The Roman matron way …

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In contrast to Amazons in the mentule who were men or Lions - Roman boys in the penis cage - or “hares” were safe and secure girls in the lions jaws … as Martial shows in this epigram - or “lesbian boys” in other formulations …

“ … THE HARE AND THE LIONS;

THE bull
was not
spared
by that
wide-open
maw;
But
the hare
gambols
lightly
and
frisks
in his jaw,
Running now
all the swifter,
escaped
from the foe,
And something
of leonine
courage
doth show.
She was
never
more safe
in the
loneliest fen,
Never
more sure
of life
in the
depths of
her den.
If you wish,
wanton hare,
from the
greyhound to liy,
Then the jaws
of the lion
will refuge
supply. … “

Martial BOOK ONE, XLVIII, Pott & Wright's : Martial, : the twelve books of Epigrams

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Married life: Boss lady over her husband

Roman dream interpretation above backs up the theory that the locked Greco-Roman phallus was in his wife’s custody. The Roman marriage was a Lion and Hare affair with sex being the realm of the lion not the hare … The open legged Baubo, her shaved vulva or “lion” and her dildo over the pig was Greco-Roman sex …

In this epigram Martial jokes on what a puny snack the hare is for the lion in contrast to the young bulls that are his main food source …

My guess is Martial was describing the polyandrous nature of the ravenous Roman matron - and Greek Matron and Egyptian matron and Sumerian matron … A change came over ancient women at marriage - they inherited their fathers phallic energy
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“ … ON THE LION AND HARE:

Hare,
although you enter
the wide jaws
of the fierce lion,
still he imagines
his mouth
to be empty.
Where is the back
on which he
shall rush?
where the shoulders
on which he
shall flail?
where shall he
fix those
deep bites
which he inflicts
on young bulls?
why do you
in vain weary
the lord and monarch
of the groves?
'Tis only
on the wild prey
of his choice
that he feeds. … “

Martial, Epigrams. Book 1, LX Bohn's Classical Library (1897)

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More married life: Boss lady over her husband

In this epigram Martial calms a Dacian boy not to fear Ceasar’s lions - His hare is not enough for their large appetites …

That passage above from the Satyricon where an aged crone fondles a boy in front of a girl and them sodomizes him with a Dildo was certainly the Roman standard - The young male phallus did not leave its cage; old phallus too! -

The crone called him a tired “cab-horse” when he was unable to perform for the mistress of the house … The penis caged Roman male was the horse or centaur or satyr to be ridden by the Roman phallic female

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“ … TO A HARE:

Why,
silly hare,
are you fleeing
from the
fierce jaws
of the lion 
now grown
tame?
They have not
learned
to crush
such tiny
animals.
Those talons,
which you fear,
are reserved
for mighty necks,
nor does a thirst
so great delight
in so small
a draught
of blood.
The hare is
the prey
of hounds;
it does not
fill large mouths:
the Dacian boy
should not
fear Caesar. … “

Martial, Epigrams. Book 1, XXII, Bohn's Classical Library (1897)

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More married life: Boss lady in full gallop!

In this passage from Petronius - which was covered earlier in a Burton version - Myth Myrrha is described - a young girl sodomizes a rich old Roman man. -

That’s proof that the “hare” or penis caged erection was not just for young boys - older Roman men also had sex in the penis cage under phallic women and girls!

“ … 140: Philomela and Eumolpus

There was a married woman, of the highest respectability, named Philomela, who, by years of attentiveness, had been in the habit of extorting legacies, but now, being old and past her prime, frequently pressed her son and daughter on childless old men hoping to continue the practice of her art through her children.

She therefore visited Eumolpus, to commend both them, herself, and all her hopes, to his wisdom and kindness, he being, of a certainty, the only person in the whole world who could instruct the young people in sound principles each day. In short she would leave her children in his household, to listen to his discourse, the only inheritance she could leave them. Nor did she stray from her word; leaving her most beautiful daughter and the brother, already a young man, behind, she departed, under the pretence of going to the temple to pay formal thanks.

Eumolpus, who was so intemperate that even I might seem to him a child, did not hesitate to introduce the girl to the rites of sodomy. But, since he always told everyone he was gouty and had weak loins, if he could not maintain the pretence intact he ran the risk of almost ruining the plot. So to establish belief in his deceit, he persuaded the girl to settle down on top of this ‘excellent thing he recommended’, and ordering Corax to climb into the bed in which he was himself lying and place his hands on the floor, to set his master in motion with his loins. Corax obeyed the order in slow motion, rewarding the girl’s efforts with an equivalent action. When the business seemed close to being accomplished, Eumolpus, in a loud tone, exhorted Corax to intensify the action. Thus situated between the paid-servant and the girl, the older man pleasured himself while oscillating up and down. This Eumolpus did time and again, to huge laughter, including his own. … “

Satyricon by Petronius Arbiter - Part VIII: Priapic moments - Translated by A. S. Kline © 2018 

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More married life: Boss lady roars!

The “rites of sodomy” described above by Petronius are not the modern rites of sodomy - The Roman male phallus was locked and the active sodomite was a female in her dildo , not male… Baubo and her open legs and large erect but caged dildo was the model …

Martial has several epigrams where women proposition him - it usually ends up in the baths where as in this epigram, the Roman male enters the baths a Mercury but leaves a Venus …

“ … A MARBLE HERMAPHRODITE.

He entered
the water
a male;
he left it
both male
and female.
In one
feature
only
does he
resemble
his father;5 
in every other
his mother.6

4 The fountain of Salmacis. See Ovid's Metam. B. iv. 
5 Mercury.
6 Venus … “

Martial, Epigrams. Book 4, CLXXIV, Bohn's Classical Library (1897)

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More married life: Boss lady rides her man in chains …

In this epigram Martial tries to go to the baths with a woman who promises the rites of sodomy to him

“ … TO GALLA

WHENE'ER
I praise
your legs
and arms,
Your eyes
and rosy cheeks
admire,
You whisper low
-' My hidden charms
A deeper wonder
will inspire.'
And yet
whenever
I suggest
A bath together,
you say no.
Perhaps
you fear
that
when
undressed
Without
my clothes
I shall not do. … “

BOOK THREE, LI, Pott & Wright's : Martial, : the twelve books of Epigrams

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Closing scene:  Boss lady climaxes… his balls firmly in her hand!

That’s the idea behind the penis cage - Queen Semiramis of Sumeria is credited with the locked husband …

“He entered
the water
a male;
he left it
both male
and female.”

Martial, Epigrams. Book 4, CLXXIV

Queen Candace her daughter brought the cage to the Ethiopians - The lands of the Queen of Sheba

If the Romans. Greeks, Etruscans and Egyptians also embraced the cage, there must have been a benefit to it!

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In this epigram, an admirer of the work of Martial is put off by his poverty in dress - The penis cage is the same thing - It looks pathetic, but has hidden depths …

“ … TO RUFUS.

A man, the other day, Rufus, after having diligently contemplated me just as a buyer of slaves or a trainer of gladiators might do, and after having examined me with eye and hand, said, "Are you, are you really, that Martial, whose lively sallies and jests are known to every one who has not a downright Dutchman's ear?" I smiled faintly, and with a careless nod admitted that I was the person he supposed. "Why then," said he, "have you so bad a cloak?" I answered, "Because I am a bad poet." That this, Rufus, may not happen again to your poet, send me a good cloak. ….”

Martial, Epigrams. Book 4, LXXXII. , Bohn's Classical Library (1897)

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More Baubo

- Terracotta Baubo figure, Roman Imperial period - Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

That was the other side of the locked Roman phallus … That energy is absent today though - that space being reserved for male only gay sex !

But in the world of sleep and dreams the female version still exists ! And sometimes you see it at Carnaval … And in my 530 AM “fire” - Which only feels real when I’m in it though!

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The Baubo figures on this page have a magic energy - they have released much needed energy - almost like finding a spring of fresh water in a bone dry desert …

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More Baubo votive offering - from Roman Egypt

“… Unglazed moulded terracotta fertility figure with traces of engobe, representing squatting female in act of parturition(?), perforated for suspension, Graeco-Roman, from Egypt(?), 500BC ….”

Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection, Science Museum Group Collection

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Roman Egypt was a Baubo hotbed - Figurines of exposed vulva’s are supposed to be very abundant in digs all over Egypt - But for complex reasons the Roman Egyptian vulva has not been able to break out into wider cultural awareness …

Baubo was older than Roman Egypt though - Where the penis cage thrives - raging female libido is the mirror form - and the penis cage in Egypt goes back to the pyramid age …

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More Baubo - from Roman Egypt

“ … Egypt, probably Alexandria, Romano-Egyptian period, ca. 1st century BCE to 1st century CE. A mold made figure of a woman, shown in a seated position, nude aside from a headdress, with her legs spread out wide in front her, exposing her genitals. While it may seem surprising to modern viewers, it was very common for Romano-Egyptians to encounter sexual scenes in everyday life; after all, sexual activity was seen as a gift from the goddess Venus rather than something sinful or guilt causing. … “ Artemis Gallery

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To me the message is clear - oral service or the question of Sumeria’s Innana - “Who will plow my vulva?”

Always connected to Baubo was a large dildo - which was certainly not for self service ! The locked Roman Egyptian was sodomized by phallic Egyptian matrons - or married Egyptian women who had inherited their fathers phallic fire at marriage in the ancient Amazon way …

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More Boss lady in action from the rear

The “rite of sodomy” from the Satyricon -That’s Venus worship ! Like Baubo - Venus is one of many missing or hidden deities from Greco-Roman times .…

From Ovid we learn that Venus required male chastity - but makes no mention of female chastity!

Martial respected the Venus chastity - his phallus was off-limits - But that did not stop him from sexual adventure …

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More Boss lady in action from the rear

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Baubo, exposed vulva, dildo, sacrificed pig -

A virgin pig is sacrificed to a water nymph in this epigram by Martial - like in the rites of Demeter - My guess is the rear of a penis locked Roman male under a female phallus was the same thing as that sacrificed virgin pig ….

“ … TO THE NYMPH OF A FOUNTAIN.

You household nymph
of my friend Stella,
who glides,
with pure stream,
beneath
the gemmed halls
of your lord,
whether the consort
of Numa
has sent you
from the caves
of the triple goddess,
or whether
you come
as the ninth
of the
band of Muses,
Marcus
releases himself
from
his vows to you
by sacrificing
this virgin pig,
because,
when ill,
he drank furtively
of your waters.
Do you,
reconciled to me
at length
by this expiation,
grant me
the peaceful delights
of your fountain;
and let my draughts
be always
attended
with health. … “

Martial, Epigrams. Book 6, XLVII. Bohn's Classical Library (1897)

“ … Numa Pompilius … legendary king of Rome, successor to Romulus. His consort, the nymph Egeria, was said to have aided him in his rule. The origin of Roman ceremonial law and religious rites was ascribed to him. Among other achievements, he was supposedly responsible for the pontifices, flamens (sacred priests), vestal virgins, worship of Terminus (the god of landmarks), the building of the temple of Janus, and the reorganization of the calendar into days for business and holidays. … “

The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Copyright © 2012, Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.

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More Boss lady in action from the rear
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Baubo, exposed vulva, dildo, sacrificed pig -

There was a secret spring at the heart of the Roman mind - and a secret Nymph -  Egeria who taught Numa a legendary founder of Rome religious mysteries like the vestal virgins - and their mirror the penis locked Roman priests.

Female water spirits in west Africa like Mami wata are famous for having a phallus …

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“ …. Egeria as a nymph or minor goddess of the Roman religious system is of unclear origin; she is consistently, though not in a very clear way, associated with another figure of the Diana type; their cult is known  to have been celebrated at sacred groves, such as the site of Nemi at Aricia, and another one close to Rome; both goddesses are also associated with water bearing wondrous, religious or medical properties (the source in that grove at Rome was dedicated to the exclusive use of the Vestals); their cult was associated with other, male figures of even more obscure meaning, such as one named Virbius, or a Manius Egerius, presumably a youthful male, that anyway in later years was identified with figures like Atys or Hippolyte, because of the Diana reference (see Frazer).

Described sometime as a "mountain nymph" (Plutarch), she is usually regarded as a water nymph and somehow her cult also involved some link with childbirth, like the Greek goddess Ilithyia.

But most of all, Egeria gave wisdom and prophecy in return for libations of water or milk at her sacred groves. This quality has been made especially popular through the tale of her relationship with Numa Pompilius (the second legendary king of Rome, who succeeded its founder Romulus).

… According to mythology she counseled and guided the King Numa Pompilius (Latin numen designates "the expressed will of a deity") in the establishment of the original framework of laws and rituals of Rome. Numa is reputed to have written down the teachings of Egeria in "sacred books" that he had buried with him. When a chance accident brought them back to light some 500 years later, the Senate deemed them inappropriate for disclosure to the people, and ordered their destruction. What made them inappropriate was some matter of religious nature with "political" bearing that apparently has not been handed down by Valerius Antias, the source that Plutarch was using. Dionysius of Halicarnassus hints that they were actually kept as a very close secret by the Pontifices.

She is also gifted with oracular capabilities (she interpreted for Numa the abstruse omens of gods, for instance the episode of the omen from Faunus). In another episode she helps Numa in a battle of wits with Jupiter himself, whereby Numa sought to gain a protective ritual against lightning strikes and thunder.


Numa also invoked communicating with other deities, such as Muses; hence naturally enough, the somewhat "pale" figure of Egeria was later categorized by the Romans as one of the Camenae, deities who came to be equated with the Greek Muses as Rome fell under the cultural influence of Greece; so Dionysius of Halicarnassus listed Egeria among the Muses.

The precise level of her relationship to Numa has been described diversely. She is typically given the respectful label coniuncta ("consort"); Plutarch is very evasive as of the actual mode of intimacy between Numa and Egeria, and hints that Numa himself entertained a level of ambiguity. By Juvenal's day that tradition was treated more critically. Juvenal called her Numa's amica (or "girlfriend") in a sceptical phrase.

Numa Pompilius died in 673 BC of old age. According to Ovid's Metamorphoses, with Numa's death Egeria melted into tears of sorrow, thus becoming a spring (...donec pietate dolentis / mota soror Phoebi gelidum de corpore fontem / fecit... ), traditionally identified with the one nearby Porta Capena in Rome.

… A spring and a grove once sacred to Egeria stand close to a gate of Rome, the Porta Capena. Its waters were dedicated to the exclusive use of the Vestals. The ninfeo, a favored picnic spot for nineteenth-century Romans, can still be visited in the archaeological Park of the Caffarella, between the Appian Way and the even more ancient Via Latina, nearby the Baths of Caracalla (a later construction).

In the second century, when Herodes Atticus recast an inherited villa nearby as a great landscaped estate, the natural grotto was formalized as an arched interior with an apsidal end where a statue of Egeria once stood in a niche; the surfaces were enriched with revetments of green and whit