seen everywhere, in front of houses, in the streets and public places, sometimes alone, but more often in
connection with the image of Legba who's always represented as squatting down and looking at the organ of
generation, which is extremely disproportionate [See Alfred B. Ellis, Ewe-Speaking Peoples of the Slaves Coast
of West Africa (London, 1966). pp. 41-421].
26. It's believed that evil powers are often related to junctions.
prescribed that the suicide should be entombed at a cross-road. Offenders were also executed at junctions. A
similar custom exists among numerous African tribes. Plato in his Laws (9.873) says that if a man murders his
father, mother, brother or son subsequently the officials would execute him, and throw him outside, naked, at a specified location
where three roads meet outside the city. So, since intersections are considered to be the dwelling place of evil spirits,
ghosts and demons and as such, are considered unlucky and even dangerous, some expedients are resorted to in
order to ward off their risk. Ithiphallic divinities are frequently found at crossroads with the objective of
intersections and frontiers as guardians of travelers. The crude function of all ithiphallic deities which were
Set at crossroads and frontiers was to provide protection against the unfriendly beings and evil spirits. For
these observations and more, see Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics, S.V. "Cross Roads," (hereafter cited as
E.R.E.
27. Wolfgang Wickler, "Socio-Sexual Signs and their Intra Specific Imitation Among Primates," in
pp. 132, 139. The consecration of the rock-phalli that
Seem on the ancient Phrygian tumuli served the same purpose. These phalli were archaic symbols of life
and immortality expressing in the clearest way the belief that death was the source of fresh life. [ beach bum , Curia and Lycia (Fresh York, 1892). p. 48; L. http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php?URL=http://b-boyz.com ,
Greek Hero Cults and Ideas of Immortality (Oxford, 1921). p. 3571. We can find dotted hints of the same
expression of this idea in Greece. A small tumulus near Megalopolis (Arcadia) with a finger of stone standing on it
and called the "Finger Tomb" may be interpreted as a tumulus crowned with a phallus, and it's also related to the
goddesses called the Maniai, whose name raises the idea of a Phrygian origin. (See Farnell, Greek Hero
Cults and Ideas of Immortality. p. 357). For the story of the "Finger Tomb" see Pausanias 8.34.2-4. Additional
evidence has been provided by the discovery of an inscription (ca. 300 B.C.) discovered under a stone-phallus on a
small mount which could have been a tumulus near Thespiai, recording a dedication by the religious officials of the
city "to the spirits of the deceased." [ http://phoenixlink.com/__media__/js/netsoltrademark.php?d=x-nudism.com , "Fouilles de Thespies, "BCH 19 (1895): 3751. Additionally see Farnell.
Greek Hero Cults and Ideas of immortality. p. 357. In early graves, notably in Egypt, Norway, Italy and India,
phalli have been entombed with the deceased, maybe to ward off evil from the deceased.
Gneratrices, ou Du Culte du Phallus Chez les Anciens et les Modernes (Paris, 1905), p. 43; Philip Rawson,
Crude Erotic Art (London, 1973), p. 761.
28. http://ironteam.com/__media__/js/netsoltrademark.php?d=videonudism.com , Structure and History. p. 40. The exact same point of view was expressed by other writers as well
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the face of another, lower-ranking monkey. It's been pointed out that there is a
correlation between penile screen and status-standing, and that the lowerranking group members show substantially less genital display. In particular monkey
species there is a close link between possession of territory, territorial
demarcation, social dominance, and the display of the male genitalia. " http://906090.4-germany.de/tools/klick.php?curl=http://nudist-video.net to mark frontiers," W. http://customshirt1.net/__media__/js/netsoltrademark.php?d=videonudism.com claimed, "is not to be located among
the apes, who live in the trees, but with further relatives who hold territories."
The display of sexual organs is a ritual which derived from sexual activity, yet
serving societal and not reproductive purposes. It really is the most powerful signal with
Regard to group hierarchy, but undoubtedly different from the reproductive process.
It truly is considered that the genital display is an important social sign by which the
animals convey and that it's ritualized and looks to assume the significance,
"I 'm the Master."29
The importance of primate studies in anthropology has been regularly stressed.30 Erections of human penises beyond the sexual activity may occur in