Priapus

1 Priapus, god of the shade, was also a rural deity, but his worship was only known along the shores of the Hellespont.

2 He was doubtless Priapus of antiquity transformed into a goblin.

3 Unbridled appetite found incarnation in Priapus, who, moreover, was never a Greek god, but a Lampsacene adopted from the Asian coast by the Romans.

4 Priapus was a god to the ancients—to the people of the Middle Ages he was a saint.

5 Probably Mr. Watkinson, like most good Christians who go to Pompeii, visited an establishment, such as we have thousands of in Christendom, devoted to the practical worship of Venus without neglecting Priapus.

6 Visitors enter through the atrium, a courtyard and reception area featuring a fresco of Narcissus, the young man who fell in love with his own reflection, and a statue of Priapus.

7 But Priapus was not meant as a titillating image, in spite of the fact that his name now means the most famous side-effect of Viagra.

8 This double sex also attributed to Dionysus and Priapus—the union in one being of the two principles of generation and conception—denotes extensive fertilizing and productive powers.

9 This time, he knew he had seen the Priapus cameo before.

10 As there was a cult to Priapus, so there was an equally strong cult to Diana.

11 "In the name of Goethe; Saint Priapus stood godfather to it."

12 It was consequently the custom to lay upon his altar, as was formerly done on that of the god Priapus, small votive offerings, made of wax, and representing the weak or otherwise afflicted parts.

13 The seller may have hoped Priapus' brief appearance online had gone unnoticed - but alas not.

14 In the background is a building with an image of the bearded Bacchus; and near it a terminal figure of Priapus Ithyphallicus, with grapes and other fruits.

15 Antwerp was the Lampsacus of Belgium, Priapus being the tutelary god of that city.

16 And Priapus was with them, having a crown of ivy-leaves made of gold.

17 We shift and bedeck and bedrape us, Thou art noble and nude and antique; Libitina thy mother, Priapus Thy father, a Tuscan and Greek.

18 She conducted her house like a cathedral dedicated to a sad but erect Priapus.

19 That he never dissipated we know; but his husky masculinity, his posing as the Great God Priapus in the garb of a Bowery boy is discounted by the facts.

20 Thus it happened that, even in the latter half of the eighteenth century, Priapus had his votaries almost within the shadow of the Vatican!

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