In the festivals of Bacchus high phalli were carried, the male organ being represented about the size of the rest of the body.
The number of the dead is calculated from that of the hands and phalli brought in by the soldiers after the victory, the heaps of which are represented at Medinet-Habu.
The conquering troops returned to the camp laden with booty, and driving before them asses carrying, as bloody tokens of victory, quantities of hands and phalli cut from the dead bodies of the slain.
Moreover, we find that many of these smallphalli were worn for personal decoration; and here we come to a still lower decadence in sex worship,--the period of superstition.
It is said that there are thirty million phalli in India and that a phallus is found in nearly every Hindu household.
A distinct mention of phalli as connected with religious worship occurs in Pseudo-Lucian's description of the temple of a certain goddess at Hierapolis.
Phalli as amulets occur in all parts of the world; as symbols and perhaps as abodes of deities, they have been held potent to ward off all evils.
It was made up, in fact, of four gigantic phalli carved out of the solid granite, similar to the form in which it is found in the island of Gozyo, and on some of the Etruscan and Pompeian monuments.
Phalli and ktenes of stone are worshipped by the country-folks in many places as the shintai of their ujigami.
Phalli are coloured a bright red, or, what comes to the same thing, gilt.
Below these shime-naha there are placed skilfully carved wooden phalli fronting the road.
Similar Phalli were to be found at Poligny, Vendre in the Bourbonnais, and at Auxerre.
The games and phalli consecrated to Bacchus, not only corrupt manners, but are considered shameful and disgraceful by all the world.
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