Another
Sacred Penis for your Mother-in-law moment
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Another
Sacred Penis for your Mother-in-law moment |
| The ancient world was incomprehensibly different from ours. It's hard to remember how different. This helps: |
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The Romans
would go to the mixed- sex public baths completely naked. |
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For women
followers of the Goddess Cybele, having sex with a stranger at
the temple was a religious act—a sacrament! |
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And, get
this, you read in the ancient texts about a
man, a follower of Dionysus, dedicating a sacred penis to his mother-in-law!
Go figure. |
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You can't figure. I doesn't make sense—to us. It did make sense to the ancients. That's the point. Ancient culture was different from ours in ways we would never predict and can't understand. Keep that in mind while we talk about ancient religion. But you should also understand that not only was ancient culture different from ours, the way it was different was different from what your modern ideas make you think. For example, you're maybe thinking all this sex stuff I just listed was that way because the ancients were wild uninhibited filthy minded dirty people. They weren't. In marriage chastity was not just a virtue, it was the expectation. Many Roman baths separated men from women. Non-believing Roman writers found the Cybele sex business repulsive. The sex stuff on the list wasn't about sex, it was about the sacred miracle of new life. |
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| Boner-Gods ("ithy-phallic" Gods, if you're supping with the Queen. Or maybe just chat about the weather. Also, remember not to pick your nose.) |
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The ancients made statues of boner-Gods as a way of worshiping the sacred miracle of new life.
Diodorus of Sicily explains >>
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They
[the Egyptians] have deified the goat, just as the Greeks
are said to have honored Priapus, because of the generative
member; for this animal has a very great propensity for copulation, and
it is fitting that honor be shown to that member of the body which is
the cause of generation, being, as it were, the primal
author of all animal life. And, in general, not only the Egyptians but
not a few other peoples as well have
in the rites they observe treated the male member as sacred, on the ground
that it is the cause of the generation of all creatures; and the
priests in Egypt who have inherited their priestly offices from their
fathers are initiated first into the mysteries of this god. And both the
Pans and the Satyrs, they say, are worshipped by men for the same reason;
and this is why most peoples set up in their sacred places statues of
them showing the phallus erect and resembling a goat's in nature, since
according to tradition this animal is most efficient in copulation; consequently,
by representing these creatures in such fashion, the dedicants are returning
thanks to them for their own numerous offspring.
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A
few ways ancient culture was different from ours:
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