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Happy Spring day
Worshipping A God With An Enormous Member
If you were a Roman or Greek, you likely associated spring fertility rites with the worship of a god with a particularly problematic member. Priapus (yes, the medical term of "priapism," which refers to the problem of having a constant erection, comes from him) was one of the most notable fertility gods in history, because of his tendency to be depicted with a penis almost as big as himself. Understandably, he was associated with fecundity, good crops and bountiful harvests.
Priapus wasn't entirely a god of good associations, though. The rejected son of Aphrodite, poets wrote that virgins should be "afraid to look at him directly," and he was viewed as a constant figure of troublesome erotic fun, unable to ever fully consummate his lust and prone to getting into fights with animals about whose penis was larger. Plus, there was the disturbing assertion in 2015 that a picture of Priapus in the ruins of Pompeii actually revealed the painful condition of phimosis, where the foreskin can't be fully retracted from the head. Worshipping a dangerously fun-loving god with a serious medical problem sounds like a slightly troubling way to start your spring.
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