Phallic processions are public celebrations featuring a phallus, a representation of an erect penis. Called phallika in ancient Greece, these processions...

Phallic architecture consciously or unconsciously creates a symbolic representation of the human penis. Buildings intentionally or unintentionally resembling...

Dionysus and the Phallic processions, and later formed an essential part of the celebration of the great religious festivals (e.g. the processions of the Thesmophoria...

Lenaia festivals in Athens were dedicated to Dionysus, as well as the phallic processions. Initiates worshipped him in the Dionysian Mysteries, which were...

and Lenaia (local Athens audience only) festivals Cult of Dionysus Phallic processions Theatre of Dionysus Prolegomena de comoedia Aristotle, Poetics, line...

Kukeri in Begunovți during Survaki in 2012 Kuker in Burgas Acta Dasii Phallic processions Capra (goat dance) Mari Lwyd Kourbania Careto The Kukeri Nunataks...

Festival), whose main features include a 2.5 meter-long wooden phallus Phallic processions Tyrnavos, a city in Greece that holds an annual phallus festival...

Essay on Comedy. Comedy, according to Aristotle, originated from the Phallic Processions of the Dionysian festival during which men would celebrate by dressing...

blessing the fields and promoting fertility. During the same period, phallic processions and other sexual rites were common. Christianity, which had a different...

phallic processions and fertility festivals or gatherings. Around 335 BCE, Aristotle, in his work Poetics, stated that comedy originated in phallic processions...

the leaders of the dithyramb, and comedy from the leaders of the phallic processions which even now continue as a custom in many of our cities)...: 6:1449a10–13 ...

the leaders of the dithyramb, and comedy from the leaders of the phallic processions which even now continue as a custom in many of our cities), [tragedy]...

form of phallic worship". Central to fertility rites in classical Greece was "Demeter, goddess of fertility... Her rites celebrated the procession of the...

the leaders of the dithyramb, and comedy from the leaders of the phallic processions which even now continue as a custom in many of our cities), [tragedy]...

like a vulva, which complement the phallic-shaped mikoshi used in the festival. Kanamara Matsuri Phallic processions "Honen Festival (Tagata Jinja Shrine)"...

Station on the Meitetsu Komaki Line . Ōagata Shrine Kanamara Matsuri Phallic processions Tagata-jinja-mae Station Picken, Stuart D. B. (2010-12-28). Historical...

noteworthy for its description of the Via Egnatia and information on Phallic processions, the main controversy concerns the interpretation of the word CHOIROS...

theological works of Marcus Terentius Varro, notes that a phallic image was carried in procession annually at the festival of Father Liber, the Roman god...

mourning costume, many of them cross-dressing men who carry bouquets of phallic vegetables. In the funeral house, the body of the King is surrounded by...

Freyr was associated with peace and pleasure, and was represented with a phallic statue in the Temple at Uppsala. According to Snorri Sturluson, Freyr was...

historical accuracy. De Dea Syria describes the worship as being of a phallic character, with votaries offering little male figures of wood and bronze...

bulla, a neckchain and round pouch containing protective amulets (usually phallic symbols), and the bulla of an upper-class boy would be made of gold. Other...

ISBN 978-0-691-01930-7. Devdutt Pattanaik (2006). Shiva to Shankara: Decoding the Phallic Symbol. Indus Source. p. 29. ISBN 978-81-88569-04-5. Ramakrishnananda,...

Epaphroditus, "Aphrodite's own", before he became a dictator. The fascinum, a phallic charm, was ubiquitous in Roman culture, appearing on everything from jewelry...

included processions, offerings, and such acts of religious devotion as the ceremonial raising of a djed, the base or sacrum of a bovine spine, a phallic symbol...

expectant mothers and children from malevolent forces, and were adorned with processions of apotropaic solar deities. Likewise, protective amulets bearing the...

alternatively call Dionysus "god of the Orient". Similarly, the use of phallic symbol as an icon for Shiva is also found for Irish, Nordic, Greek (Dionysus)...

costumed character that features in some traditional seasonal customs, processions and similar observances around the world. In England, they are particularly...

repeated on the walls. In the upper registers, feast and honor of the phallic deity Min, god of fertility. On the opposite side of the court the few...

festivities typically include music and dance performances, competitive processions of floats, dancers, and musicians on the second day, and the competitive...